Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
To be fair to Swift it probably was necessary for her tour to avoid crashing Ticketmaster and it was obvious she’d sell out 3 or 4 nights despite Croke Park
Thats its purpose exactly, its not fan friendly.
I'd say it'll sell decent, they pulled a big crowd at ATN last year. Great pop act.
It can't realistically be a way to measure demand, its absolutely useless. Most people I know who signed up used multiple e-mail addresses (some used four or five). That's not measuring demand at all because Ticketmaster can't determine how many people want to attend, just how many e-mail addresses have applied.
So they get 350,000 e-mail requests for tickets. How many people are behind those 350,000 requests? It's impossible to tell.
I'm sure they take that into account. No data point on its own is foolproof but it's another strong indicator.
If 10,000 v 100,000 register then I'm sure that helps them plan.
I see where you're coming from but I still don't think it's used as an indicator of demand in any way. For super-popular gigs you're going to have people registering like crazy with multiple accounts and friends accounts but 'their demand' might only be two tickets. Add to that that you've no idea if a punter is looking for 1, 2 or 8 tickets.
It's just a randomizer to manage their servers is my only guess. Which frankly is outrageous.
What I don't understand is how Ticketmaster used to be able to sell hundreds of thousands of tickets for a tour in 30 minutes 10 years ago.
Now they have people in queues for half the day to sell 80k tickets.
It makes no sense.
As Ive said before you dont even need an account to apply for the Verified fan bollix.
Its complete nonsense, you can win on an account that doesn't even exist, thats how stupid it is.
Any publicity is good publicity? Suppose it creates more of a rush to try get them.
With Taylor Swift it was justified in sense that you would have had millions upon of IP addresses on same loading page trying to pick, select tickets and process them. It would have crashed the ticketmaster servers in my opinion as all tickets went on sale at same time.
as for others probably wasn’t justified in most places, could see Olivia Rodrigo demand being crazy in America especially.
There may a justification in throttling traffic but there is no justification for randomly barring fans from having even the ability to get tickets. It's lazy.
quite simply there was no miracle cure to allow millions upon millions of people try to access the same website to buy a few million tickets in a short window of a morning.
as for barring people from a chance, they wouldn’t had a chance if open to everyone.
TVAM in Workmans Club, Thursday 9th May: https://selectivememory.ie/tvam-2024/
Thats true for Swift, it isn't remotely true for Rodrigo/Pearl Jam
Yeah, I'm in there too. Mad stuff. Could be a really special gig, I think.
I'm not surprised by your standard shoulder shrugging at ticketmasters approach to things, it's par for the course.
Of course there's no miracle cure but they could try. Barring sign ups from accounts that have never purchased tickets before would be an easy start. How anyone can be a "verified fan" using an account that's never bought tickets is beyond me. Or only allow one name/one address in the entries. And if they're going to peddle a random selection approach, at least call it that and quit the misleading title.
Is a Pearl Jam, Coldplay or Olivia Rodrigo sale going to crash their servers? Of course not. And even if it is, maybe they should spend the insane money they take on "service charges" to fix their infrastructure.
Ah, am so tempted. I think you’re right.
That poster really adds nothing to the music gig forums. Just sticks up for promoters, tries to guess upcoming gigs but gets most wrong, as well of getting lots of other venue related information wrong.
First announcement for 2025 and of course no irish date
Someone mind firing on a presale code for Johnny Marr? I’d be a big Smiths fan. Saw him last year at EP and Dublin a few years back, mans still got it. Looking at setlist I really hope he plays boy with the thorn in his side and cemetery gates
edit; seen the presale thread, my bad.
What about barring accounts that don't even exist ? 😂
The usual suffixes will work I believe!
Coldplay did cause a crash to be fair
They had ticketmaster outlets then, which might have taken some of the strain.
That site has crashed a few times during big sales and has the odd glitch anyway... the app is buggy too.
This method might just be cheaper/easier for them than sorting out their infrastructure
I think they add a lot to this thread.
What venue related info do they get wrong?
And what exactly do you add?
I'm a cool motherfucker.
Time to start a 2025 thread if there isn't one already?! :P
Body and soul, guess the break is official
'to soon re-emerge'
#bodysoulintermission
Got my ticket. €18, no Ticketmaster, no registration, no gold circle. I do love small gigs 😋
Done
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