U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 3

Mabel! Are you trying for Boston or MSG?

That post you had made me sick. *shakes head* I'm glad I didn't get the membership though. You can only buy 1 show, 2 tickets per membership code, and there's only a small percentage of seats sectioned off for members. Good in theory, crappy for those who really would do anything for tickets.

I'm wondering what would be better - camping out at Ticketmaster/B.O., trying over the phone or online. What do you think?

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I am going to try to get tickets for one of the Boston shows this Saturday. Any suggestions on the best way to get tickets?

I would like to avoid going to a Ticketmaster outlet since my experience has always been a large number of people waiting in an unorganized line not to mention the person running the ticket machine really doesn't move that fast and could care less if you get tickets or not.

Would ordering online or on the phone be my best bet?

Thanks everyone for your help!

I'm just going to go with online. It's faster, and (hopefully), easier to get tickets by. I mean, say if tickets sell out in 20 mins, and there's a 25 minute line! That would just not do. Online allows you to jump the line, so that's what'll be doing! Of course, you'll probably all end up with tickets, while I'll be crying into my Guinness.

I think I'm going to go to the ticketmaster outlet around 9:30 and if there's a huge line, go back to my dorm and try that. Though, I'm leery of getting the tix online after reading some of the members sob stories yesterday (people that were on ticketmaster at 10:00 sharp, had the tickets selected, and then they just disappeared as they put their credit card info. in...seemed to happen to several people). Basically, it sounded like by 10:05 or so, all the GA's were gone (what, did they just set aside a couple hundred? I would think that the floor section would hold at least a thousand people, wouldn't it?) I don't really know what the best ticket route is. I honestly don't go to concerts all that often (because they're so damnned expensive) and I certainly never end up trying for the best seats that everyone is scrambling for.

ETA: I love how all the ads on eBay say "Impossible to fine tickets" or "Best deal out there." Yeah, they're impossible to get because jerks like you are scoffing 80% of the tix up before they even go on presale, and I hardly call $500 for a pair of tix that cost $100 (that I'd still have to camp out in line all day to get a decent spot) the "best deal"...it's a raw deal! That's what it is!!!

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Updated On: 1/26/05 at 09:01 AM

I have yet to see anything about additional dates being added, but I'd be willing to bet they are pretty much inevitable. I would think they'll probably announce them sometime after the other tix go on sale this weekend/early next week (aka, after the masses go crazy scrambling for tix). I've also been reading theories that most of the people selling tix on eBay/craigslist don't actually have tix in hand...that they're just testing out the demand waters and assuming that they'll be able to pick them up when the gen. public sales start this weekend. I'm not sure if I really believe that, but I read (somewhere) on u2log.com that a member had been talking to a scalper (a low end scalper, mind you, who pretty much scalps to pay for his own tix...something like that, I don't remember) but the jist of it was that he didn't physically have tix yet, but he's been advertizing GA's on eBay. Sounds really screwy to me. I feel terrible to say this, but I'm kind of glad they didn't let the members have free reign. I read there were something like 90,000 members (many who likely joined the night before) and they were each able to get two tix. I would think that would put a HUGE dent in the tix available. Sorry to be selfish, but I've never been to a full on U2 concert (just the hour or so in Bkln, which only whetted by appetite!) and I frankly can't afford $40 for the sole purpose of getting first dibs on tix. Granted I'm not a diehard fan, but I sure as hell love them more than (likely) thousands of scalpers who paid $40, which would prove to be a drop in the bucket for tix that they can sell for thousands. It's a stretch for me to spend $50 on a ticket. Add $40 to that, and the ticketbastard fees, I'm up over $100 for my GA ticket...not an option! It's either going to be impossible to get tix, because 80% of them have indeed already been shipped off to brokers (not to mention the inevitable system overload come 10am). Then again, maybe I'm just freaking out for nothing. Maybe there'll be GA's available (or at least some quasi-decent nosebleeds...seriously, if they're sort of close to the stage and high up, I could deal w/ that...I guess). I just really hate the fact that these scalpers are totally taking advantage, and I REALLY hate that people are stupid enough to buy them. Come on folks, if you'd just NOT buy them, they wouldn't keep selling them and hiking up the price. I wish there'd be some mass decison to boycott scalpers! We must band together!!! I'd seriously never buy a scalped ticket...now, procuring the concert I missed, well, I wouldn't put that past me...that's another matter altogether!

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Updated On: 1/27/05 at 05:52 PM

I want my tickets NOW. Just for peace of mind. It's not every day you get to see Bono thrust his crotch wildly in person!

Well, so much for my genius idea of goign to the Ticketmaster down the street to get tix for Boston. They only had MSG and NJ tix (that go onsale Monday!) Pity, because there was no one there! (I guess that's probably why though) Oh well, it was good fun basically be told I'm a jackass for wanting to blow money on U2 anyway, while the TM guy made fun of all the masses that will inevitably turn up on Monday to see "Bone-o" (mustn't forget the humorous little dance he did along w/ it!) Oh well, I'm off...manning a couple of computers in the lab in the dorms (learned the other day that if you open more than one browser they just get timed out...at least that's what happened the time I tried). Best of luck y'all!

UPDATE: I got two REALLY bad seats, but hell at least I'll be there! They're in Sec 310...nosebleeds and WAY in the back of the arena. Whatever! At least I'll be there! I can pretend I can see Bono! It was insane! In processing my order (after waiting 10 minutes or so for it to process!) it said there was an error and to return to the event page...I almost cried right here in the computer lab (see, I guess I really will enjoy my crappy seats...they are indeed better than not having them, because I was seriously about to freak out!). So, I went to the my accounts page and put in all of the billing info again, and got a printout saying "Your tickets have been purchased and are in the process of being printed." so that's good! Other dates are popping up on ticketmaster, so keep you eyes peeled!

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Updated On: 1/29/05 at 09:47 AM

#1Elphie, Tiff, Ellie, good luck with Tix!!!!

Mabel, I sent you a VERY long PM back re: tix and seat opinions You will have an amzing time, nosebleed or no!!

Elphie, I got tix this morning for San Diego and I had better luck with online than the phone--never got through on the phone a single time and I was hitting redial the entire time I was online.

So guys, what do you think: closer behind the stage, or further up on the side? (We got VERY VERY lucky to have the choice and have to decide what to keep and what to sell.)

Thanks for the thoughts Tiff....we haven't decided which ones to use yet, but we'll either sell the other ones to friends or sell them on craigslist....for what we paid, I think, because I can't have that evil vulture karma of those brokers who are selling them for like, $955!!! Evil!!

Mabel, the Fleet Center official site has a floorplan where you can enter your section and see how the concert view is. It doesn't look all that bad! (How much did you get the tickets for?)

http://www.fleetcenter.com/seatviewfinder.asp?CHART=endstage&SECTION=1

Namo, I remember you had a U2 avatar a while back. Are you trying to get tickets?

Groupie, for your amusement, I bring you the current eBay list for U2 tickets. I'm glad to see most of them haven't been bidded on, but I'm sure closer to the concert date, the prices will be much higher than this!

http://search.ebay.com/u2-concert-tickets_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

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If it was me, I wouldn't pick the behind the stage seats. But that's me.

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What a nightmare trying to get tickets. Forget the phone. I never got through-just a lot of busy signals. Online wasn't that much better but I was able to get two tickets for the show that was added on Saturday night. The seats are not that great, section 322, row 13. I figured that even though they are behind stage, they are better than nothing.

Best of luck tomorrow morning to everyone trying to get U2 tickets for the MSG show. As previously suggested, make sure and watch for them to add more shows. That's how I got my FleetCenter tickets, they added a third show.