Missing the boat...(rant)

Discussion in 'The Rant Section' started by Taxloss, May 27, 2007.

  1. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    ...it's just annoying when you miss out gigs because it's already been sold out but the site of the ticketsellers keep stating there are still tix available? >.<

    IAMX, Editors, The Fray and now The Bravery! I've checked the availabilty just the evening before I went to the store to buy a ticket for The Bravery (saves me administration and postage fee) and they tell me it's already sold out.

    I'm often too early too buy a ticket ('sorry, it's not on sale yet', it's next month..) and I sometimes forget the on sale date and 2 days later everything is gone.


    AAAARGHH!! AAAAAAAHHH. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. -pirate

    (I happen to know that sometimes it's a music magazine or radio station buying the majority of the tix to give it away in a competition.)
     
  2. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    lol u gotta be right on the ball to get tickets for big concerts. if they are sold out u can always try to get some tix from scalpers... comes at a bit of a premium but it might still be worth it. some of my dad's friends got tickets to a Lakers game from a scalper for 400 dollars and ended up with seats right at floor level behind Bruce Willis hahaha.
     
  3. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    ^ Yeah I know I can buy it from scalpers off the internet or outside the venue where they make a big profit on it but I don't want those people earning my money. :(

    But if those seats were at floor level right behind where the celebs are having their seats, doesn't it mean those tix are rightly valued? :)

    On a side note: Once I was queiung to get in the venue for The Mars Volta -a sold out gig- and some really desperate guys were willing to offer me 100 euros for my ticket (worth about 15 euros) , was really tempting but I'm glad I kept my ticket as it was a superb show. -cool
     
  4. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    thats why its sometimes worth picking up an extra ticket or two if they are cheap lol, better chance ul make some money then buying a lottery ticket hahaha
     
  5. brown_bear

    brown_bear ☆‧° ☆﹒﹒‧ ☆ ﹒﹒‧☆‧° ☆

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    yes ive experienced that before as well.....i really really wanted to see 'the killers' so i checked ticketmasters like nearly everyday till the actual sellingof the ticket day and like a few days later i realised ticketmaster werent selling them but you had to get the tickets from the actual venue...so i missed out on 'the killers' i was so gutted -doh
     
  6. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    But that's if you know there will be desperate fans trying to get a ticket and or if you don't mind yelling: "I have extra tix, who wants them??!" -sweat

    @ brown_bear: He, I know it's even more difficult for peeps in the UK for getting tix for the more popular bands like The Killers yeah! You sometimes have to be 18+ and if you want to be sure to get hold of a ticket you have to book it online, hence you need a creditcard.
     
  7. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    ^ all my friends do this lol, they end up with pocketfuls of cash hahaha
     
  8. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    ^mwaoh, I prefer going straight into the warm venue instead of lingering outside waiting for desperate fans...-sweat
     
  9. BabyRain

    BabyRain Doppelgänger of da E.Twin

    Lol, Tax.
    At first I thought you were talking about missing out the boat as in you missed a chance with someone you fancied... lol

    Speaking of concerts, I think it's a good idea to get the tickets early so you can book the seating. But then, sometimes they do this last minute gimmick of giving discount if those tickets are not sold and u feel like u got cheated. lol
     
  10. brown_bear

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    yeh though you cant always book it online until the tickets are actual available for sale...and when they are availiable the tickets go so fast....so makes it doubley difficult to book in advance....well thats what its like in uk danno about other places
     
  11. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    ^-lol

    Well, luckily enough the concerts I want to go have no such things as booking/reserving a seat as they're all rock concerts so everyone can fight a way to the front stage if you wanted to. :D

    But I already often feel cheated if I hear lots of other gig visitors they went in for free because they joined a competition of a magazine who gave 100 free tix away for the first 100 persons to contact them. (I was one of them once, The Bravery in 2005 huhuh) -sweat


    Sometimes you really need try to book tix with a couple of friends at the same moment! (helped a friend once with Radiohead touring in the UK, site was overloaded but if everyone kept trying there wa a bigger chance one will succeed)
     
  12. dim8sum

    dim8sum ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪....

    never waste a moment if your getting tickets for popular tickets, half a day is a long time in between checking availabilty

    Glastonbury sold out in 90 minutes and there were 137,500 available....

    that makes 1527 sold every minute
     
  13. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    taxloss..time for u go to a rap concert
     
  14. Hitman636

    Hitman636 New Member

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    I almost mmissed out on glastonbury but i was able to get one ticket when they gave extra time to get some:D
     
  15. Taxloss

    Taxloss Stripper Vicar

    So you have tix for Glasto? If yes, which bands/artists would you like to see?

    Neh thanks, don't fancy to walk and inhale in clouds of weed. -sick2

    What's on your 'want to see' list?
     
  16. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    i bet rock concert hvae more weed smell than rap concets..FREALS YO
     
  17. Hitman636

    Hitman636 New Member

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    Hmm these would be my line up

    Linkin park
    Foo fighters
    Muse
    System of the down
    Bullet for my valntine

    Ownage:D
     
  18. je t'adore

    je t'adore Well-Known Member

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    lucky u. ;)
     
  19. nyckeion

    nyckeion ....Boo....

    well if you you really wanted to go its not a big deal for them to earn the extra money its like they did all the walking and waiting for you give it to them as a tip its like how they sold ps3's it sold for alot of money mainly because it was sold out and secondly its not fun sitting in front of a game store for 2 nights
     
  20. dim8sum

    dim8sum ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪....

    nah, had a few mates who all tried to call up as soon as tix went on sale but never got thro