OFFICIAL Virgin Mobile FREEFEST 2009 Q/A - Hype Thread! REVISED

thanks for the heads up!  will do.   8)

Charlie wrote:
Excellent.
Thanks for letting us know!

sayltantso wrote:
Hi all!  I am as stocked about this event as the rest of you.

When I ordered my WILL CALL tickets with $10 (2x$5) donation, I too was charged an "ORDER PROCESSING FEE". >:(

I promptly called Ticketmaster and within a half hour received a call saying it was a programming error, I would be refunded the $5 and the situation has been corrected in the system.

Like most of you, if the extra $5 went to charity, I am cool with it….but this event was "not for profit" and I would be DAMNED if Ticketmaster would profit from this.

Anyhoo, check your accounts if you were "overcharged". ;)

And MUCH THANKS to all involved for putting this FREE event together. ;D

patrickneil wrote:
 I hope one of the places I already volunteer counts as a "designated youth shelter."

How about helping freshmen move into their dorms the week of the show  ;D ? Arthwys?

I'm not going anyway. I only have so much time for concerts; The Flaming Lips are the night before and I'd rather see them than anybody on the fest lineup.

andyrichter wrote:

walkonby wrote:
the rest of the world - "a free concert with those bands?  five dollars for processing?  wow.  thank you very much!!"

here - "a free concert?  five dollars for processing?  fucking rip off artists.  fuck them!!"

not whining here.  i got my tickets for (almost) free, i'm going, i'm happy.  but this has nothing to do with the  value of the show, i think it's fantastic that they're putting this on for free.  if tickets were $20, i would've paid.  it's about a not so small computer glitch from a company with a long history of consistently being inconsistent and charging only a certain amount of people and made them a nice little profit.  donate it to charity i say!  

i agree with this sentiment and as I said earlier, had I known about the $5 fee up front I would have gone ahead and added the additional donation today…

now lets move on to having a great day of music and hope Seth can book other festivals along these lines at MPP in the future, free or not…

So, did anyone order the tickets to be mailed, and get them without being charged at all?

Just curious if this glitch went the other way too.

wml7 wrote:
Guys who didn't get tickets I think it's now sold out I went back for shits and giggles to get some tickets and now none are coming up.

Yes I know, I've been trying for the past 10 minutes and cant get any.

FUCK. if anyone picked up some extra tickets and would be willing to help a fellow forumer out, please let me know!

Doesn't that just mean the presale is sold out?

Try again on Saturday?

Well how many tickets do the offer in the presale? anyone know?

I always thought pre-sales were just a portion of the total tickets.  Meaning that allotment has sold out, but the festival itself has not.

Needing more than two, I used my wife's account to get a second pair, and chose mail for her order (she's rarely in DC). I was thinking it was $5 per order, but iwas actually $5 per ticket.

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
So, did anyone order the tickets to be mailed, and get them without being charged at all?

Just curious if this glitch went the other way too.

My friend and I both got through half an hour ago.  We each ordered 2 will call tickets and there was no charge.  They didn't even ask for a credit card, just basic info and we got order confirmation email.

Charlie wrote:
Needing more than two, I used my wife's account to get a second pair, and chose mail for her order (she's rarely in DC). I was thinking it was $5 per order, but iwas actually $5 per ticket.

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
So, did anyone order the tickets to be mailed, and get them without being charged at all?

Just curious if this glitch went the other way too.

Ah, well, I had read somewhere yesterday that it would be $5 per ticket, so I was prepared for that.

so does anyone have any idea how many tix were used for the presale? guess i have to try regular onsale this saturday.

I didn't get to participate this morning so I hope I won't have any problems Saturday morning.  Cannot fathom that the presale had more than 20% of the total tix but then again I'm trying to be optimistic.

Glad things went well for everybody that got in on this.  Sounds like things went mostly without a hitch so thanks are due to the folks who put this together.

Just noticed that there are tickets on eBay already.  No surprise there.

and craigslist


2 tickets to the Virgin Festival - August 30th - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD - 11am start

$55.00 per ticket - GA/Lawn - will go up when everyone finds out there are no more tickets

Blink-182
Weezer
Franz Ferdinand
Girl Talk
Public Enemy
The Bravery
The National
Taking Back Sunday
Jet
The Hold Steady

…and more to be announced.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Just noticed that there are tickets on eBay already.  No surprise there.

Orionpkmyz wrote:
My friend and I both got through half an hour ago.  We each ordered 2 will call tickets and there was no charge.  They didn't even ask for a credit card, just basic info and we got order confirmation email.

I was able to get 2 will call tickets as well — they did not take my credit card info – will this be a problem? Everything I read says that the credit card used will be needed at will call…… anyone know?

yay for scalpers.

Come on, did anyone not expect to see these tickets scalped for $50+?

Can someone please give me the pre-sale code for this Virgin Mobile Fest please?  :)

Thanks

Megan

Pre-sale's over.

MeganB wrote:
Can someone please give me the pre-sale code for this Virgin Mobile Fest please?  :)

Thanks

Megan