weadick wrote: » Stupidly left it until now to look for accommodation. Looks like I'll have to pay an absolute fortune. Just wondering if it would be possible to drive up and down on the night or if anyone else is doing it? Would the Luas still be running when the concert finishes?
PTH2009 wrote: » if you have 3plus rewards you can get a code for roomex.com and get 40% off your booking. Id say the show will start at about 8pm and end at about 10-10.15pm so they would be plenty of time to the get the luas or drive home
weadick wrote: » Thanks v much. I actually have 3 plus and didn't know that code was on it! Any recommendations for hotels close to the three?
Nicole Refined Pasture wrote: » Is there any second hand market for these at all for face value, as in the seated tickets? Toutless aren't allowing it, doesn't look like adverts do either. Pity as all that will do is drive more people towards the tout sites.
poundhound wrote: » Incredible that ticketmaster introduce a paperless ticket system to cut down on touting, but have a direct link to seatwave "a ticketmaster company" who sell "resale tickets" at extortionate prices, therefore touting the tickets themselves?! How have people not blown up about this.
The Nal wrote: » Sshhh, don't mention it, you're a moaner etc. Its ****ing scandalous and U2 are right in the mixer for it. Purely interested in making money. People going to the shows are going to see a business playing music, not a band.
total former wrote: » I don't agree with it myself, but you have to accept that touting is going to happen, using Seatwave at least guarantees that the buyer gets a genuine ticket.
SoundOfSilence wrote: » No disrespect but I think that's horsesh*t. By genuine ticket are you referring to people selling fake tickets? Toutless was the best possibility for anyone to get a ticket at face value for the gig but ticketmaster have essentially blocked any potential cost-price sell-on by selling at extortionate prices through a sister website. There's literally no other option but to pay 300+ quid through this site. It's shocking carry-on.
iSeano90 wrote: » You sound a little jelly Not going yourself, no? Wouldn't give them the time of day, no? Yet, here you are on a U2 related forum. They are a money making machine, that is true. But what would you have them do? Be good at music (and they are) and be bad at business? That sounds rather silly. Almost like someone coming on to a U2 related post when they don't even like U2.
total former wrote: » I'm not advocating Seatwave at all, but you've got a few facts wrong there so I'll explain a bit more before you start berating me again. Seatwave hasn't blocked the possibility of Toutless at all; the tickets on Seatwave are for seats, for which actual tickets are being distributed in the normal way, which can equally be sold via Toutless. The paperless "anti-tout" standing tickets are not on Seatwave. So again, buying through Seatwave is essentially touting, but with the knowledge that some guy isn't selling the same PDF to 20 different people, or that if the event is cancelled you will get a refund. Remember Garth Brooks? That's not horsesh*t, it's the just the way of things in the real world.
horseburger wrote: » If seated tickets are sold on toutless.com, the issue of needing to bring the ID of the person who bought the ticket through ticketmaster, might be an issue? In the Ticketmaster FAQs, listed prior to the tickets going on sale, it stated: "Regular ticket holders must also present a valid govt issued photo ID for the purchaser only".http://ticketmasterie.inbenta.com/?f=651
Nicole Refined Pasture wrote: » Which won't happen, which is why TM are touting them themselves and allowing re-sale via seatwave.
NIMAN wrote: » The likelihood, like all big concerts, is that a large number of people will have bought tickets for the shows off someone else who was touting the tickets. So say for the 3Arena of 14000. Conservatively say 2000 tickets are touted ones. Do you really think these 2000 people aren't going to be let in to the concert? How long will it take to check the name on the ticket against a valid id? Too long. It won't happen. Its a scare tactic to try to stop touting. People will still buy touted tickets. I would have no hesitation in buying a ticket off someone else, if I wanted to see them that is. I don't.
BullBlackNova wrote: » Sunday morning gripe - (and question actually) I got two seated tickets and selected the postal option. Will they be sent to my billing address? I spent a while on my TM account this morning and I don't see a delivery address listed anywhere, and any of the ticket receipts don't list any addresses which is a little annoying. I'll call TM tomorrow when their customer service is back in action but just wondering does anyone have any experience of this? I have changed address in the last few weeks and can't remember if I updated my TM account before buying U2 tickets, but the billing address listed is still showing my old one so is it likely they'll be sent there?
Manufactured Miracle wrote: » I don't think there is an address entry on Ticketmaster that's not the billing address when you're purchasing tickets so it'll be your billing address that they're sent to.
Ticketmaster have essentially blocked any potential cost-price sell-on by selling at extortionate prices through a sister website. There's literally no other option but to pay 300+ quid through this site. It's shocking carry-on.
okidoki987 wrote: » According to that website, someone paid €800 (plus charges) for a single ticket in Block N Row 34 on the Saturday :eek: and the previous person paid €950 each for 2 tickets in Block D Row 2 :eek:. For that kind of money, you could fly to somewhere else in Europe and see them on a few days break?
