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Garth Brooks Comeback Special ALL 5 SHOWS CANCELLED READ FIRST POST

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So Garth Brooks has finally confirmed he is going on tour in 2014. Will there be an ireland date and if so which venue would you like to see him play?

Link http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/garth-brooks-announces-2014-world-664188

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TheIrishGrover

You know what? I bought 6 tickets for family as I'm generally pretty lucky getting tickets (By which I mean I have 2 or 3 PCs going and dialing and using phone data on one PC and prepping details etc). Now it looks like the family members can't go. Fair enough.

So what am I thinking of doing? I put them online for face value and, according to here, I'm a scam artist. Don't trust someone selling at face value is a direct quote from this very thread. I put them for more money and I'm scum of the earth tout who they wouldn't brake for if I was crossing the road and who want to go online and artificially drive tickets higher in order to piss me and other bidders off.

You didn't get through? Fair enough. Sorry to hear that. You don't like touts? Fair enough, I understand. Who does? But let others pay what they want for their tickets. What f*cking business is that of yours? None. Touts aren't driving the ticket prices up, Touts don't have some magical access to tickets we don't have. You don't want to pay that price? Guess what? You DON'T HAVE TO BUY THE TICKETS!!! Leave those who DO want to buy the tickets buy them instead of driving the price up for them too. All I'm hearing is tout tout tout tout tout. I can't go to the concert and I have spare tickets. If I can make a few bob on the tickets and maybe pay a few bills like electricity or gas or a bit of this month's mortgage then why not? I didn't BUY the tickets to tout them but now I have them and I cannot use them. I'm sure there are many in the same boat who are selling them. But all I hear here is "Scum of the Earth" or "Scam Artist".

bennyl10

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Saw an add on done deal with a picture of all 6 tickets for sale. Buy the maximum allowed and then sell the lot after. Why?

Mrs Garth Brooks

Saw an add on done deal with a picture of all 6 tickets for sale. Buy the maximum allowed and then sell the lot after. Why?

The_Morrigan

Mr.S wrote: »

No, they are touting their tickets. They want profit on the tickets they are selling. Why else would they buy tickets and then put them on eBay a day later?

If they wanted to be genuine, they could have put it up as a buy now auction for cost price, or stuck them on Toutless etc.

(you don't need to follow through and buy it, nothings making you click pay after you win, unless the seller has requested instant payment)

Not everyone is aware of toutless you know and some people ended up with extras because multiple people were trying different avenues of purchase.

Plus ebay is an international platform unlike adverts and donedeal...it may not be Irish people who are selling them.

rubadub

RiverOfLove wrote: »

Do you have to follow through and buy?

You're supposed to, and if you don't they can possibly ban you.

Its in ebays interest to allow unrestriced ticket selling as they get a % of the selling price.

The only ones you see them banning previously are the likes of people selling live aid tickets at high prices, or other charity events. Probably pains them to do that too, but they have to do something to appear to give a damn.

Ticketmaster could do loads more too, but couldn't be arsed.

I was trying to think of some way of them going to "genuine fans", now this would have drawbacks and was just a crazy thought, but imagine instead of a captcha they gave you a question or questions about the artist, which must be answered in 1-2seconds to stop googling the answer. Or mulitple choice like "which of these is not a garth brooks song".

U2 & ticketmaster have touted tickets before in a sneaky way. A few other bands have too. The trick is to set up a crappy fanclub which gives priority access to tickets. I know several people who paid €40 to sign up to some crap U2 fanclub just to be sure to get tickets.

The_Morrigan

RiverOfLove wrote: »

That's great idea. I don't use ebay much, rarely in fact. What would happen if you were to make a bid and actually get it then. Do you have to follow through and buy?

Yes of course you have to follow through and buy it.
I noticed yesterday that some of the ads on eBay had the face value of tickets as the asking price but people got into bidding wars to get them then. It's not all touts there are some genuine sellers they can't be held accountable for panic bidders if they put up the face value.

RiverOfLove

Mr.S wrote: »

Just make a new account that you don't intent to use properly and bid away, you aren't forced to pay, you'll just receive non payment strikes against your account.

Sweet.

RiverOfLove

I'm devastasted and still a bit down and depressed I didn't get tickets yesterday. I need some whiskey and beer to chase my blues away.

RiverOfLove

Mr.S wrote: »

If you've 10 mins to kill, putting insane max bids on all the eBay auctions will piss all the people looking to make a profit on tickets off quite a bit

That's great idea. I don't use ebay much, rarely in fact. What would happen if you were to make a bid and actually get it then. Do you have to follow through and buy?

cython

I'm not particularly interested in this myself, but was lucky enough to secure three tickets on the Sunday night for my mother and her friends. She was also online and got a few others (was a group of them looking, and they'll be used!), but the whole thing brightened her day up quite a bit since she was meant to be in South America on a walking holiday when the tickets went on sale, until she fell and fractured her kneecap about 10 days before she was meant to leave, which obviously put paid to that....

lucky333

I'm sitting on adverts since yesterday. It's sickening looking at the touts popping up. I've reported that many I'd say adverts are sick of me now lol

A V A

also touts will always be there , i have the same attitude towards them as i would have for benefit cheats

dirt of the earth and they are more than likely getting benefits aswell!!!

A V A

aswell people should check adverts.ie too, for tickets . all you need is a bit of patients and you will get a ticket , there are genuine fans out there that will want to sell tickets

just keep an eye over adverts and you are bound to find tickets at cost price

im like a hawke with touts on adverts ticket section :P the mods keep it clean and tout free , absolutely brilliant , like oldgoat said ,reporting is the best solution and has proven to work

lucky333

Swanner wrote: »

That's really easy to say when you have a ticket.

Everyone should start mailing the touts and agree to meet up to buy the tickets. This weekend is perfect for it, it'll be cold and wet. Obviously don't turn up. At least make it difficult for them to sell and cost them a few bob in petrol

Love it. Great idea..
There putting up adds selling them at 70 each, I rang loads of them, they asking for 500 each then on the phone. They make me sick. It's an absolute discrace. How can they sleep at night...

lordgoat

The main thing to do here is remain calm, 240000 tickets have gone on sale. Coming up to the event there will be alot of these available. Ticketmaster will put more tickets back on sale, this won't be advertised, so keep checking TM.

There will be genuine fans looking to sell and buy tickets for all 3 shows. If you are diligent and keep checking TM, toutless and #ticketfairy you will get a ticket.

Good luck to all hoping to go to this.

Shedite27

LaVail wrote: »

I can't seem to find his 1997 concert on youtube. Does anyone know if its on there or even any songs from the concert with footage?

It was released on DVD a few years ago. It's named "The Entertainer". Not sure if it's on youtube but there are torrents available.

Saw this clip on facebook (apoligies if the link doesn't work)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153768578740206

The Bishop Basher

dobman88 wrote: »

I don't know why people are panicking. He will definitely do a UK gig on his word tour in 2015/2016 so there will be loads of opportunities.

That's really easy to say when you have a ticket.

Everyone should start mailing the touts and agree to meet up to buy the tickets. This weekend is perfect for it, it'll be cold and wet. Obviously don't turn up. At least make it difficult for them to sell and cost them a few bob in petrol

Paulegend

dobman88 wrote: »

No. That is one of the last free weekends before the GAA season gets serious and Croke Park have a deal with local residents. No more than 3 concerts in 14 days. Garth and 1D could sell out a week no problem but 3 nights is max.

Tbh I think Belfast would be a more likely host than anywhere down south. Nowhere in Ireland has a venue big enough outside Croker really. And people are forgetting. This is a comeback special and his world tour won't be in full swing until 2015 and I think after this sell out we might just get another Dublin date. I don't know why people are panicking. He will definitely do a UK gig on his word tour in 2015/2016 so there will be loads of opportunities.

where in belfast is bigger than

thomond park 28'000
RDS 18'000
Aviva 50'000
Gaelic Grounds 49'000 (havent seen anything to suggest its an mcd venue by the way)

as far as i know the biggest in belfast is
winsor 24'000
oval 15'000
and then the odyessy

OldGoat

Ticket touting is NOT allowed in this forum or any forum on the Music category. People are being banned from the forums for doing so. Please REPORT any breaches of the charter and the mods will sort it out ASAP.

However some user are quoting the breach of charter. The problem with this is that the quoted post is still in breach of charter but is not being removed as the Mods may not have seen it.
Please don't quote posts that you report. That is simply breathing life into the spam. Report it and trust to the mods to deal with it when they can.

Thanks all for reporting ticket trading posts, we do appreciate it and it really does help.

bennyl10

Jofspring wrote: »

They could be pushing it by trying to get another gig on with 3 one direction concerts and 3 Garth Brooks ones.

Come down to Limerick and play the Gaelic Grounds I say. The capacity should be in around the 45,000-50,000 mark I would imagine. Thomond Park would be excellent too but not sure if 30,000 would be enough.

Spent two hours online this morning with no success. I really hope another one is added. It might devalue the touts tickets a little bit at least.

TIME THE GAELIC GROUNDS AN MCD VENUE. Garth is Aiken. WILL NOT BE THERE

For Thomond has to be week after Croke, won't be August.

DesertMoon

I'm so depressed - my only hope is that they release more tickets!

I am sickened by touts and the prices they are selling at. GB himself wanted to keep prices down to make his show accessible for all his fans, now many fans have no tickets and I for one cannot afford the prices on ebay.

2 should be the max....end of..!!!

LaVail

I can't seem to find his 1997 concert on youtube. Does anyone know if its on there or even any songs from the concert with footage?

Mellor

RoyalCelt wrote: »

And wow 250k tickets sold in an hour. It's scary how much the Irish like him...

It wasn't an hour. About 2 hours.
People selecting 6 tickets would have gotten "unavailable" messages long before they actually sold out.

dobman88

RoyalCelt wrote: »

Would he be allowed to put on another 1 or 2 concerts on say the weds, thurs or monday? Would croke park be allowed to do that?

And wow 250k tickets sold in an hour. It's scary how much the Irish like him...

No. That is one of the last free weekends before the GAA season gets serious and Croke Park have a deal with local residents. No more than 3 concerts in 14 days. Garth and 1D could sell out a week no problem but 3 nights is max.

Tbh I think Belfast would be a more likely host than anywhere down south. Nowhere in Ireland has a venue big enough outside Croker really. And people are forgetting. This is a comeback special and his world tour won't be in full swing until 2015 and I think after this sell out we might just get another Dublin date. I don't know why people are panicking. He will definitely do a UK gig on his word tour in 2015/2016 so there will be loads of opportunities.

Spanish Johnny

RoyalCelt wrote: »

Would he be allowed to put on another 1 or 2 concerts on say the weds, thurs or monday? Would croke park be allowed to do that?

And wow 250k tickets sold in an hour. It's scary how much the Irish like him...

It is but its also should be noted the probable amount of buyers from all other countries. These are his only international dates in 2014 announced for the first time in over 15 years. In a way it's kind of unfair on some Irish fans!

Imagine if the Stones, U2, Springsteen, Prince, Madonna etc hadnt toured in 17 years and announced an initial 2 dates in a year!!

10/12 nights in Croker with all nationalities in??

Bell1990

Kaizersoze81 wrote: »

Seems to be plenty going for asking or slightly above asking on DD.
I think a lot of people got caught up in the panic and purchased 6 when they actually only needed 2 or 3. I don't think anyone who wants to go to this will have to pay much over face value.

A lot of them are fake adds. Friend has been calling around all day and 6 different adds were fake and no tickets available

RoyalCelt

Kaizersoze81 wrote: »

Seems to be plenty going for asking or slightly above asking on DD.
I think a lot of people got caught up in the panic and purchased 6 when they actually only needed 2 or 3. I don't think anyone who wants to go to this will have to pay much over face value.

Well if you get them now then yeah but the longer you leave it the higher the price will be i'd imagine.

Kaizersoze81

Seems to be plenty going for asking or slightly above asking on DD.
I think a lot of people got caught up in the panic and purchased 6 when they actually only needed 2 or 3. I don't think anyone who wants to go to this will have to pay much over face value.

RoyalCelt

Jofspring wrote: »

They could be pushing it by trying to get another gig on with 3 one direction concerts and 3 Garth Brooks ones.

Come down to Limerick and play the Gaelic Grounds I say. The capacity should be in around the 45,000-50,000 mark I would imagine. Thomond Park would be excellent too but not sure if 30,000 would be enough.

Spent two hours online this morning with no success. I really hope another one is added. It might devalue the touts tickets a little bit at least.

That's a genius idea and hope they do it. No interest myself but it would be great if Limerick/Cork/Kerry got a gig. Great for the towns and great for the local economy. Hope they do it!

SG8

fussyonion wrote: »

This story's doing the rounds but it's too similar to another...I smell a tout:

http://www.donedeal.ie/musictickets-for-sale/garth-brooks-tickets/6357165

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