"Leave no single seat" policy when booking

Fair, or not?

What is the reasoning behind it?

I find it disrespectful.

It is harder to sell a single seat than two, so they would rather take the chance of denying the sale to the solo.  I go solo to Broadway so I would not like this if I saw this.  Yankee Stadium has this rule I think.

Sometimes you can call and get them to sell you a single seat over the phone. I've gotten lucky doing that. 

I go single most times and can’t remember ever having a problem

Maybe actual Broadway is exempt.

Telecharge don't seem to do it. Ticketmaster most certainly do. 

 

Huss417 said: "I usually buy singles and have yet to run into this issue. What site is not letting you purchase a single?"

Ticketmaster does this. When you have a monopoly you can get away with it. 

For what, concerts? Because plenty of people bought singles to The Last 5 Years and that was on Ticketmaster. 

Sutton Ross said: "Ticketmaster or Telecharge used to have this policy which never came back after Covid, so this problem doen't exist anymore. And private businesses don't care about you feeling "disrespected", you can buy your tickets elsewhere if that's the real issue."

Damn, babe. You managed to get my last comment to you deleted in record time. Which administrator are you married to?

I still run into that issue on Ticketmaster but thankfully they're not an official theatre source anymore.

Genius, mlledir!

Thank you.

EDIT Wait… if there's three seats together and I want one, I wouldn't be leaving a single seat anyway…?

Updated On: 4/21/26 at 09:01 PM

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Genius, mlledir!

Thank you.

EDIT Wait… if there's three seats together and I want one, I wouldn't be leaving a single seat anyway…?"

It works if you want a one of a pair or perhaps 3 seats when there are four. Just open a separate browser and click on the unwanted seat  Ticketmaster holds that seat for about 10 minutes so you can go and buy the ones you want  

 

I don't think some of you understand what the OP is saying.  They are not stating you can't buy a single seat if you are solo.  Of course that is allowed.  What they are saying is it won't allow you to LEAVE a one seat gap between you and the next patron.  So if Seat 1 and 2 are sold, and seats 3,4,5,6 are unsold.  You can't purchase seats 4 and 5 and let set 3 by itself on an island.  You MUST buy seats 3 and 4 so that 5 and 6 are together as a pair, or buy seats 5 and 6 so that 3 and 4 remain as a pair.  If you were purchasing as a solo patron, you could be allowed to buy seat 3 or 6 in that scenario above.