grimm2005 wrote: » As everyone else has said, that's a pretty insane idea. Roll out of bed 15 minutes before they go on sale, keep hitting F5 on your keyboard 2/3 minutes before sale time and you've got your tickets. This has never failed for me, including for huge bands playing the O2 for a single date which is a fraction of the capacity. This is 2 dates in pretty much our largest capacity venue. Just get them online in the morning and save yourself and your brother a lot of hassle and discomfort!
scudzilla wrote: » Stupid idea, constantly hitting F5 will almost certainly earn your IP a 10min time out from the ticketbastard server
grimm2005 wrote: » Has never ever failed me, even for gigs that have sold out in less then a minute, have never had a time out and been doing this for years.
HardLuckWoman wrote: » Not really the most anticipated gig. He was in retirement until last week. No one knew he was going to come back.
scudzilla wrote: » hitting it once or twice a few seconds before may work, but you said hitting it constantly for a few minutes, thats just asking for trouble. No point in refreshing at all until 9 on the dot as hitting F5 will not miraculously make the tickets go on sale early
burgermasters wrote: » And would you trust this? Please don't be offended by the way, this has been the most anticipated gig for almost two decades?
burgermasters wrote: » A couple of people in work have been telling me horror stories about tickets being sold out after eleven or twelve people get to the counter, maybe I'm just being over anxious?
GarIT wrote: » Queueing is a bad idea, Ticketmaster don't stock tickets for gigs, they just have loads of blank tickets and the tickets are printed as ordered, until sold the tickets remain on Ticketmasters central server. By the time person number 2 in the queue gets to the desk all the tickets could have sold out online. However I don't think it will even sell out, most of his fans would be either dead or beyond concert going age. On top of that his voice can hardly be ok after 20 years.
RiverOfLove wrote: » Or emirgrated. I dreamt a few weeks ago, the before he came to dublin that I went to a garth brooks concert and he did more yapping than singing. Sometimes I can be a bit physic in my dreams. I'll be going about something and then stop and pause and think 'hang on, I've been here before but where' and it would come back to me - in a dream. I watched his vagas concert during the wkend and that's exactly what he does - more yapping than talking.
Toast wrote: » If I had the time I'd create a little animation showing what a bad idea buying from the kiosk is. It would have the seating chart with a big 100% over it in green. The clock is at 8.59. We see a big queue of people outside the Ticketmaster kiosk stinky from sleeping rough. We see some sort of representation of 10,000 people in their underpants in front of their PCs hungover with a mug of coffee. The clock strikes 9..... 10,000 people press refresh and the available ticket pool would plunge to 50% in 30 seconds. A big red washes over half of the seating chart. Meanwhile in ticketmaster kiosk land the guy calls the first person from the queue... the exchange pleasantries and we do a little DING and Customer #10,001 appears beside the guy. By the time he has completed his transaction (probably 5 mins).. the next guy comes up.. 10,000 other people have pressed refresh in cyberworld.... Ding Customer #20,002. Etc. It would be an elaborate production, killer soundtrack, very flash.. but you'll have to imagine it because I think I've wasted far too much time already trying to figure a way that might possibly change a bunch of minds of people who don't seem to be listening to what everyone is saying but keep asking.. basically hoping someone will tell them what they are planning on doing is not a terrible idea. Unfortunately reality is working against you there. The only situation where queuing MIGHT give an advantage is if there are physical tickets preprinted from before the pool opens to the general public online but there is no evidence this will be the case and unless a representative or an employee or otherwise of Ticketmaster says so I think you're taking a major risk with regards getting tickets if you queue. Even at places that have done some sort of preallocation in the past you are counting on the pattern to be repeated and there to be no unforeseen situation like a hardware failure at the outlet or an employee being sick or late (just when is flu season anyway?). I reckon some people will do it anyway.. some might come back and tell us how they had a great time and got their tickets ( I've said before I reckon there will be SOME tickets left for at least an hour) but ultimately it will have been unnecessary at best and cost you tickets at worst.
raven136 wrote: » I used to think the same,till 3 of us sitting online could not get tickets for Tiesto in the 02 and sold out almost immediately Online is not a guarantee of tickets either
B_Rabbit wrote: » The whole "ticket allocation" thing people are spouting is pure shite. Everyone has access to the same pool of ~160k tickets, and it's first come first served. The TM agents buy tickets faster than people at pc's though.
rubadub wrote: » Do you work in TM or something? or how do you know this? From previous threads there were stories of staff coming out and counting people in queues before they went on sale and saying that up to a point they were going to get them. Someone else knew a person working in a TM outlet who talked of some sort of allocation. Soundcellar get actual tickets printed beforehand so are not going through any computer system on the day.
B_Rabbit wrote: » I work in a TM agent. We print tickets directly, but still have to go through the computer system, and have access to the same pool as everyone else. I don't understand how Soundcellar are getting hard tickets beforehand.
B_Rabbit wrote: » I don't understand how Soundcellar are getting hard tickets beforehand.
schemingbohemia wrote: » I'm not sure where this was stated previously, but I was in Soundcellar on Saturday and he said they wouldn't be selling them at all
