U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 4

Tiff...the ticketswap thing on Interference is under the Vertigo Tour section, at the very bottom there's a Want section, where you can post what tix you're looking for...there's also a Have section (which I'd imagine is mostly to share w/ people the tix people bought and are using, but) there might be people in that forum posting extra tix they have. I know I've already seen one or two people selling tix for the Boston show at face value (not looking for a trade, just a flat out sale).

Ellie, I'm sorry to hear you didn't get tix either. It's crazy that they only had one date for NYC when the demand's obviously astronomical! That, and you've got to figure that a good percentage of the tix went straight to brokers/scalpers. The average fan really doesn't stand a chance!!!

I think the only advice I can give (unless you find something for FV or just a smidge above) is to wait until the date of the show draws nearer and hope that the scalpers have to lower their crazy high prices. I can see where it's tempting to want tix in hand ASAP, but I can't imagine being desperate enough to pay thousands of dollars w/in the first week that tix went on sale. They've gotta come down in price...then again, I was sure they'd add a date at MSG, so what do I know?!?!

There was something else I was going to post, but I forget. Oh well!...sorry guys. I'll keep my eyes peeled on U2tours and interference, and I'll let you know if I see anything.

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I'm seriously crushed for you El. If I'm taking your guys's losses so hard, I can't imagine what a wreck I'LL be if I don't get tickets on Saturday!

(BTW, Ellie and #1, really, keep your eyes peeled on the interference list.)

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I take it you tried today?

Where you there at the beginning?

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So sorry MadeofGold...As mentioned before, I have heard they are expected back at MSG for the next North American leg of the tour in the fall(I know I'll be trying for tix too!). I just hope they have the sense to put more than one date up for that run (I've read there are supposed to be many, to make up for only having one this leg, but who knows!) I hope you guys can find something out there, w/out having to pay an arm and a leg! Some of these brokers and scalpers on eBay are NUTS! "Best deal" my ass! Then the other brokers who have their own sites...CRAZY! I saw some for the Fleet in a section near where I am going for $250 each! Those are pretty shoddy seats being sold at 5x the price (don't get me wrong, I'm tickled pink to have them, but that's at FV plus all of ticketbastard's "convenience" gouging!) Yikes! I even saw one place selling decent seats (like the first level from the stage) for over $1000 each! Can you imagine?!?!?!? I know it's been mentioned before on this thread, but the more I see it, the more I just can't wrap my mind around how GREEDY people are!!!

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My last post for the day since I'm detoxing myself from BWW until 3amEST.

That stage set up looks f*cking awesome. I imagine Bono will be using the run a lot, so the people in the back will still get a good view.

Mabel, what was your trick to scoring tickets quickly? Did you try for the first show and then move onto the second, third, etc. show when it was sold out?

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Wow, I'm sucking at this detox today. But if I'm only going onthe U2 thread, and not lurking on anything else, then I'm not really cheating, am I?

Anyway mabel, check your emails.

I didn't initially want GA because I didn't want to camp out 2 days in advance to get close to the stage, but now that I see there's a run and the B stage, any floor seats will probably have an awesome view, right?

Do you know what the hierarchy for "best available" is? Is first one GA, second one lower tier next to the stage, then upper tier next to the stage, and then moving farther back?

Off to class too!

ETA: Jesus christ, the options are $49.40, $95 and $165?? My GOD!

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Updated On: 2/1/05 at 01:25 PM

Just a quickie, because I have another class in 45 min and I still need to do a quick little review thingy before...but, I just wanted to throw this in there for you Tiff. I read that people started lining up for Elevation GA's around 6am. To me, if it's a nice day and you're camping out w/ friends, that doesn't seem SO bad. I guess you won't really know until the tour starts just how early people are going to be lining up for this particular tour. Maybe earlier because everyone's raving out how great a deal it is etc. Maybe less, because the VAST majority of the GA tix seem to be sold on eBay and through brokers, and do you really think that the majority of those people spending $500/ticket are diehard U2 fans? I'm sure there will indeed be some in there, but my guess is that most of them are yuppies who have the $$ to blow on tix, and won't be willing to sit in line all day. Just a thought. Not trying to sway you either way.

Oh, and I'm not really sure what the "Best available" flow chart (if you will) is. I'd imagine GAs top it though. I read somewhere (from people who were trying for presale) that you're better off picking a specific price/seating area, as opposed to Best Available (I'm not sure if that's because BA takes longer to search and sift through, or what, but that's what I read...I don't think I ever picked BA in my searches, always chose a specific section/price range). Dunno...I'm far from a concert going/ticket buying expert. I've only been to a half a dozen concerts or so, so I'm pretty much just going by what I've read from others' suggestions!

Gotta run...

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"The best thing I can say about Bono is that he was an ABBA fan."

And with THAT, Jimbo, coupled with you proclamation that Shania Twain is the queen of pop, your opinion is automatically discredited. But thank you for the spam, sir. Can you not contain it within your other 20 shill threads?

I'm so stressed over this. Vancouver pre-sale seemed to have went off without a hitch, and several interference members wound up getting tickets, even GA ones! I'm worried that if I decide to go to my practice exam on Saturday morning and entrusting this enormous responsibility to a few of my friends, I'll wind up disappointed. I'm open to buying Seattle tickets as well. I'll probably wind up hitting "best available", just in case. I'm just worried that .ca will be tied up and I should have gone to .com instead to beat the congestion for Vancouver.

What type of seats were people buying for $165? I love U2, but that seems quite steep for ****ty seats, doesn't it?

Oh, and Mabel posted this link but I thought I'd post the actual diagram of the stage set up out of general interest. (BTW, rumor has it that the part that "STAGE" is written on is actually a section that fans will stand in!!)





Wow, I'm not doing a very good job with this BWW detox today, am I?

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