The Official TDF Thread — Page 32

So now, not only are the producerssaying that you have to hunt for discount codes in order to get the best price on any given seat, they're also trying to get people to "trust" thatseats fiverows further back are just as good as the seats they're selling at full price for more money closer to the stage. That's not a guarantee: it's a scam.

I'm still confused. So there are discount codes for row C. And the prices for row H are similar to the prices for row C without discount codes? Were they offering to match the price from the discount site for row C or row H?

Here are the actual numbers. Seat C 402 is $159.50 if you  click through from the show’s website, and do not enter any discount code. That same seat, C 402, is $109.50 if you enter the discount code ISLANDTC. When I wrote to customer service to ask them to honor the best price guarantee, what I was asking was for them to sell me seat C 402 at $109.50 minus 10% as the bonus discount for having found a price lower than their advertised price for that seat. My understanding was that the best price guarantee meant that I was entitled to a 10% discount off of the discounted price I found, because that price was lower than the price listed on their website.

What I was told instead, is that I was not entitled to a 10% bonus discount. The reason given was that a seat in the same section in row H is selling for $109.50 if purchased via the link from the show’s website, without any discount codes. When I pointed out that row H is five rows behind row C, and is therefore not the same seat, and is it does not actually honor their guarantee, I was told that they consider row H and row C to be the same category of seats, and that therefore selling me a seat in row H for $109.50, was in their minds, sufficient to make up for the fact that seat C 402 is $50 more expensive from their website then it is with the discount code, which is exactly what the price guarantee promised wouldn’t happen. They claim that as the seat in row C is in the same class as the seat in row H, despite the fact that on their website they sell those two seats for two different prices, which indicates to me that they consider them to be materially different in quality.

 

So yeah, I think the guarantee is a scam in which they’re hoping people won’t bother to hunt down discounts. And so they’ll be able to price discriminate based on customer laziness, for how trusting the customer is of the producers. It feels really shady to me, and I don’t understand why they have to guarantee if they don’t intend to lower the prices on the website to actually match the discount, or to honor the guarantee when someone points out to them that the price on the website are higher.It feels really shady to me, and I don’t understand why they have to guarantee if they don’t intend to lower the prices on the website to actually match the discount, or to honor the guarantee when someone points out to them that the price on the website are higher.

 

Wanted to share our very first experience using TDF - coming in from 3 hours away yesterday with my 11 year old daughter.  First, the tickets were not ready early (we checked).  They said to come back an hour before the show as they waited until then to figure out what seats to give out to "fill out the house".  Tickets were ready in an envelope with our name on them an hour before show.

Our seats for 2:00 matinee of War Paint were Left Mezzanine Row E last 2 seats on the left hand side.  A little on the left was blocked, like the start of Christine coming down the staircase, but certainly not bad seats at all.

Our seats for 7:00 show of Cats were Right Orchestra Row U last 2 seats on the right.  Again, a small section of the right hand stage was blocked, but didn't miss anything really important.  And being on the aisle made up for it as one of the Cats sang to my daughter and fist-bumped her.  We loved the opportunity to go up on stage at intermission.

Overall, great seats for the price and we would absolutely do it again.  We got to see 2 shows in 1 day for less than what I would normally spend on 1 show.  Long night - got home at 2:30 am after catching the train, but had a great day!

 

Famebroadway2 said: "HiTDF friends, my schedule just changed andI now have 2 TDF tickets for SpongeBob on Tuesday 11/7 that I can no longer use.

Other than try and get past date tix for a future date, is there anything else I can do with them?"

Call tdf and since Spongebob has a variety of available dates ask for a change of date. I've always found them accommodating.

My Hello, Dolly ticket last night was side orchestra, row J

Any word on where tdf seat locations are for SpongeBob?

Home for the Holidays is now on TDF. I guess their $99.50 for back-row prices just aren't selling.