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MadYaker wrote: »

Did anyone here hear of people getting tickets through ticketmaster 2 weeks before the festival last year? I sure didn't and I knew plenty of people who were looking. They either didn't go or got one from a third party at close to face value.

Why is it so hard for people to accept that sold out means sold out. About a week before it sold out someone posted in this thread saying they had inside info from ticketmaster that there was only a few hundred tickets left, nobody believed them but it turned out to be accurate.

The moral of the story here is buy your ticket for the early bird price in September if you think there's any chance you'll go. Then if you don't like the lineup or you don't want to go when summer rolls around you can sell your ticket, probably for a profit. In the case of Electric Picnic waiting for lineup announcements makes no sense at all. Like someone said earlier EP is going the way of Glastonbury where it'll sell out before any acts are announced.

A small number of tickets did become available at the last minute last year, presumably because people on the instalment plan didn't pony up.

But you're right, I don't see the logic in holding off. The lineup is always broad enough to keep most music fans happy and early bird/loyalty discounts make it a no-brainer to buy early.

mimimcmc wrote: »

Weren't both Bruce Springsteen gigs announced as "sold out" only to be told yesterday that more tickets are going on sale this Thursday.

I've heard of people get tickets on TM just a few days before picnic last year, and the year before, so this kind of thing does happen..
Sold out doesn't always mean sold out, unfortunately

The Springsteen tickets are being released because the fire marshal has done full safety checks at the site with detailed stage specifications and given an accurate number for the total allowed on site. Promoters always slightly under-estimate the total number of tickets that can be sold until these checks are done - imagine if they didn't and had to recall some tickets? Just common sense.

The Springsteen ones got an announcement because it's Springsteen, but it happens for damn near every gig in the country.

Festivals are usually the exception here because site specifications are set in stone before anything is announced. It's not like Lana Del Ray gets to bring an expansive stage set up with her.

That said, will more tickets be available closer to the time from TM? Almost definitely. It will be a combination of unused commercial tickets, deposit schemes/bookings that were unfulfilled, card failures, etc. It likely wont be a very significant amount of tickets.

I remember reading before that for gigs in Ireland, 'sold out' tends to mean about 97% of tickets. Just like 'full employment' doesn't mean full, sold out doesn't really mean sold out.

But, and this is the important bit, the likelihood is that the number of tickets that will become available will be so minor that it won't make much difference to the vast majority of those who held off buying only to be disappointed when it sold out.