Just Announced

I was in the first couple of rows at MPP. Didn't ask for an ID.

Space wrote:

gavroche wrote:

Vas wrote:
So how much of the tickets wil end up on stubhub?

I'm sure there will be plenty, but my guess is that it will be less than for most shows like this.  There are costs associated with selling hard tickets (fed-ex, etc..), and the limit of four per person means that the return to sitting in line can't be that great.

They could have done the ID check thing and made it harder for resale, but of course that means the lines to get in would be brutal.

I'm ok with this as a distribution system, though I think it would have been better if they limited it to two tickets per person in line.

Why is two ok but not four?
Seems kind of random.
Are you  against families or throuples going to concerts?

Seems pretty simple to me, if you want less tickets to make it to stubhub than you make more people actually wait in line for their own tickets.  Decreasing the number of tickets that each individual can get does that. 

No question that there is a little bit of collatoral damage.  Less kids, or both members of a family of 4 have to wait in line.  I'm not to aggrieved by either of those outcomes.

There are impacts no matter what method of distribution you have.  That's just the reality when you have a commodity that they are selling at less than "market" rate in limited numbers.

gavroche wrote:

Space wrote:

gavroche wrote:

Vas wrote:
So how much of the tickets wil end up on stubhub?

I'm sure there will be plenty, but my guess is that it will be less than for most shows like this.  There are costs associated with selling hard tickets (fed-ex, etc..), and the limit of four per person means that the return to sitting in line can't be that great.

They could have done the ID check thing and made it harder for resale, but of course that means the lines to get in would be brutal.

I'm ok with this as a distribution system, though I think it would have been better if they limited it to two tickets per person in line.

Why is two ok but not four?
Seems kind of random.
Are you  against families or throuples going to concerts?

Seems pretty simple to me, if you want less tickets to make it to stubhub than you make more people actually wait in line for their own tickets.  Decreasing the number of tickets that each individual can get does that. 

No question that there is a little bit of collatoral damage.  Less kids, or both members of a family of 4 have to wait in line.  I'm not to aggrieved by either of those outcomes.

There are impacts no matter what method of distribution you have.  That's just the reality when you have a commodity that they are selling at less than "market" rate in limited numbers.

Thanks for the well stated explanation. The thought of Julian waiting nine hours in line for two tickets  (instead of 4.5 hours for four tickets) makes me giddy. Bring on the two ticket limit!

Space wrote:
The thought of Julian waiting nine hours in line for two tickets  (instead of 4.5 hours for four tickets) makes me giddy. Bring on the two ticket limit!

(1) There is zero chance I would miss a royal wedding to queue most anything, much less for tickets.
(2) I would never support such an absurd, regressive ticketing system with my money.

Julian, wrote:

Space wrote:
The thought of Julian waiting nine hours in line for two tickets  (instead of 4.5 hours for four tickets) makes me giddy. Bring on the two ticket limit!

(1) There is zero chance I would miss a royal wedding to queue most anything, much less for tickets.
(2) I would never support such an absurd, regressive ticketing system with my money.

Or like any true upper crust, you have someone wait in line for you.

White Denim
U Hall
Oct 14

Drake
Migos
Capital One
Sept 12
Sept 13

Dashboard Confessional
Pier Six (or whatever they're calling it this week)
Aug 18

Van Morrison
JLL
Sept 16

Wheeler Walker Jr
Union Stage
Sept 13

TheREALHunter wrote:
Van Morrison
JLL
Sept 16

ugh.

Decemberists, Lyric Baltimore, Wednesday September 12

Yada wrote:

TheREALHunter wrote:
Van Morrison
JLL
Sept 16

ugh.

Gross.
But I really want to see Van once.  Do I go to this, or to hersheyPA, or CamdenNJ?

challenged wrote:

Yada wrote:

TheREALHunter wrote:
Van Morrison
JLL
Sept 16

ugh.

Gross.
But I really want to see Van once.  Do I go to this, or to hersheyPA, or CamdenNJ?

I'm going to Hershey… However, I'm expecting an abbreviated set.

Yada wrote:

challenged wrote:

Yada wrote:

TheREALHunter wrote:
Van Morrison
JLL
Sept 16

ugh.

Gross.
But I really want to see Van once.  Do I go to this, or to hersheyPA, or CamdenNJ?

I'm going to Hershey… However, I'm expecting an abbreviated set.

Maybe I'll just go to Vegas in January.

George Clinton
930
Aug 2

The Joy Formidable
Black Cat
Nov 10

The Motherfuckin' D
Anthem
Nov 7

Liz Phair
10/3

TheREALHunter wrote:
The Motherfuckin' D
Anthem
Nov 7

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