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

Charlie wrote:
Since when is a major music festival in the mid-Atlantic free?

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

Charlie wrote:
I was under the impression that all tickets were up for grabs today, and Saturday was just whatever was leftover.

That's why I made a big push today instad of waiting.

But I'm probably totally wrong, right?

Since when the hell does "pre-sale" mean all the tickets are for sale…?

So you really think that they would give a password for only those who have gone in previous yearsm call it a pre-sale and then put all the tickets up for grabs during that pre-sale WHILE advertising the on 'free' date as Saturday.

I see how that is confusing…

I'm guessin' in this time of twitter, facebook, etc it was be a PR disaster to not have a very sizable chunk of tickets available to the general public.  Hoppus of Blink 182 alone has 716K of followers on twitter and it wouldn't  take much to get them mobilized.

Also a lot of people were posting the password on FB. Douchers.

Presales are often 10% of all available tickets, some serious noobs around here

nobody will be charged anything for Will Call, as promised…if there was a mistake it will be corrected

you do have to pick up your tickets 8/21-27…this is to prevent tickets from floating around to be scalped…tickets will not mailed out by TicketMaster until then either

unclaimed tickets will be released to the public after that

I've got no idea how many tickets were released today but I do know that Taylor Swift's Merriweather visit 'sold-out' during the pre-sale events that began that Thursday. The general public sale was at 10AM that Saturday but I kept getting the 'can't find any tickets' screen during my attempts on Saturday at 10AM on…..

Crusaders43 wrote:
I've got no idea how many tickets were released today but I do know that Taylor Swift's Merriweather visit 'sold-out' during the pre-sale events that began that Thursday. The general public sale was at 10AM that Saturday but I kept getting the 'can't find any tickets' screen during my attempts on Saturday at 10AM on…..

Thats because Taylor Swift does very well on the secondary market so scalpers are all over her shows.  Are you people serious or am I just not in on the joke?

You don't think scalpers like the looks of free tickets that they can turn around and sell?

I'm not saying it happened, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Seth wrote:
nobody will be charged anything for Will Call, as promised…if there was a mistake it will be corrected

you do have to pick up your tickets 8/21-27…this is to prevent tickets from floating around to be scalped…tickets will not mailed out by TicketMaster until then either

unclaimed tickets will be released to the public after that

Seth can you tell us roughly how many tickets (maybe the %) were given away in the presale?

Or at least tell us that there will be tickets on saturday available?

Seth wrote:
nobody will be charged anything for Will Call, as promised…if there was a mistake it will be corrected

you do have to pick up your tickets 8/21-27…this is to prevent tickets from floating around to be scalped…tickets will not mailed out by TicketMaster until then either

unclaimed tickets will be released to the public after that

I was charged a $5 processing fee.

Seat location: section GAX5
Total Charge: US $ 5.00

i am going to try to get a ticket on sat.  if i do, i will give it away for free (no postage or processing fee either) to a regular 930 forumer who doesn't have luck.

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
You don't think scalpers like the looks of free tickets that they can turn around and sell?

I'm not saying it happened, but it wouldn't surprise me.

What I meant was that with so many scalpers trying, people that try for tickets every day, they were faster than the average buyer so it would appear that a show like Taylor Swift had no tickets for sale during the regular sale when in fact, there were plenty, just bought up quickly.

As Seth said, that will be corected.

Driveway wrote:

Seth wrote:
nobody will be charged anything for Will Call, as promised…if there was a mistake it will be corrected

you do have to pick up your tickets 8/21-27…this is to prevent tickets from floating around to be scalped…tickets will not mailed out by TicketMaster until then either

unclaimed tickets will be released to the public after that

I was charged a $5 processing fee.

Seat location: section GAX5
Total Charge: US $ 5.00

fatskippy wrote:

Crusaders43 wrote:
I've got no idea how many tickets were released today but I do know that Taylor Swift's Merriweather visit 'sold-out' during the pre-sale events that began that Thursday. The general public sale was at 10AM that Saturday but I kept getting the 'can't find any tickets' screen during my attempts on Saturday at 10AM on…..

Thats because Taylor Swift does very well on the secondary market so scalpers are all over her shows.  Are you people serious or am I just not in on the joke?

point being that there were no tickets left for the general public sale that Saturday….

Crusaders43 wrote:

fatskippy wrote:

Crusaders43 wrote:
I've got no idea how many tickets were released today but I do know that Taylor Swift's Merriweather visit 'sold-out' during the pre-sale events that began that Thursday. The general public sale was at 10AM that Saturday but I kept getting the 'can't find any tickets' screen during my attempts on Saturday at 10AM on…..

Thats because Taylor Swift does very well on the secondary market so scalpers are all over her shows.  Are you people serious or am I just not in on the joke?

point being that there were no tickets left for the general public sale that Saturday….

LOL NO!  Jesus Christ.  The point being that all of these scalpers were a lot faster than you!

there will be tickets available saturday

I don't want to get into how many were released for presale vs public because neither side will be happy

Crusaders43 wrote:

fatskippy wrote:

Crusaders43 wrote:
I've got no idea how many tickets were released today but I do know that Taylor Swift's Merriweather visit 'sold-out' during the pre-sale events that began that Thursday. The general public sale was at 10AM that Saturday but I kept getting the 'can't find any tickets' screen during my attempts on Saturday at 10AM on…..

Thats because Taylor Swift does very well on the secondary market so scalpers are all over her shows.  Are you people serious or am I just not in on the joke?

point being that there were no tickets left for the general public sale that Saturday….

Did you go to an outlet (do they even have those anymore…lol)?  I will tell you that when I worked in White FLint as a TM Agent (Cust Svc Desk for the mall) I could pull  and print about 50-100 tickets in a minute if everyone was paying cash.  Believe me if you were online the tix easily could be gone before you finish putting in teh code.

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

Charlie wrote:
and craigslist

i think it's pretty safe to blame joe.

Did he ask you to get him some tickets too?  ;D

sweetcell wrote:

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

Charlie wrote:
and craigslist

i think it's pretty safe to blame joe.

i got my tickets at 10:10 this morning.  pretty painless.

sonick, can't say that i share your excitement about wale.  saw him once, and he was awful.  i'm fairly confident he's gotten better, tho, since he's starting from such a low point…

Charlie wrote:
Did he ask you to get him some tickets too?  ;D

no, but now i'm kinda insulted that he didn't.  a scalper AND puts me on his B list?!?  what a fink!