wilco's new material sux.
Wilco
public sale has begun!
After a couple very scary minutes, I got my tickets.
I only had to hit refresh a couple hundred times.
I only had to hit refresh a couple hundred times.
Got my 2!
that presale was complete bogus - unless you had to actually be at the club to purchase or something? i couldn't do it online and said something about having to be a special member or some BS. only hope the same doesn't happen for The Decemberists show… :mad:
The site kept saying that it couldn't sell me two. So I put in 1 twice and it allowed that.
The Decemberists shows have been on sale for a while now on tickets.com ..maybe for the last 4 weeks? :)
Originally posted by Cougar:
that presale was complete bogus - unless you had to actually be at the club to purchase or something? i couldn't do it online and said something about having to be a special member or some BS. only hope the same doesn't happen for The Decemberists show… :mad:
Done and done. Sold out.
Jerks.
Jerks.
That's how ticket.com can stick you twice instead of once on the extra charges, right?
Originally posted by floyd:
The site kept saying that it couldn't sell me two. So I put in 1 twice and it allowed that.
Yes, something is definitely fishy here. This show wasn't even on the 9:30 Club schedule until this morning. It reminds me of something that happened at Iota once. I can't recall the band, but they advertised a show that was essentially just for biz folks – other club owners, shyster ticket sellers like tickets.com, p.r. people, record biz people from NYC, etc. Fans who showed up to get in were essentially locked out. People were so mad the Iota mgt. they agreed not to do it again.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:which show are you talking about - wilco or decemberists? info for both bands has been posted in the "Just Announced" thread, and the Volume newsletter, for some time now.
Yes, something is definitely fishy here. This show wasn't even on the 9:30 Club schedule until this morning.
BoomBoom is suggesting that tickets.com is some sort of shyster ticket site…i dunno what to think about that…why doesn't 930 list the show on their schedule?
Originally posted by sweetcell:I think the fact that the Wilco show didn't even show up on the front page until several minutes *after* the 10am public onsale began is what BoomBoom's getting at. In fact, I don't think it even popped up on the front page until after Servo posted that it had sold out.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:which show are you talking about - wilco or decemberists? info for both bands was posted in the "Just Announced" thread, and the Volume newsletter, for some time now.
Yes, something is definitely fishy here. This show wasn't even on the 9:30 Club schedule until this morning.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The show was not listed on the tickets.com site under the Wilco or the 9:30 Club threads, either. For all of Wilco's posturing about how it's doing everything for the fans, this sure looks odd. It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.
It's not like you have to be "elite" to get on the freaking mailing list. All you have to do is sign up, free of charge. They even let a doofus like me on the list.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The show was not listed on the tickets.com site under the Wilco or the 9:30 Club threads, either. For all of Wilco's posturing about how it's doing everything for the fans, this sure looks odd. It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.
I didn't get a bagel today, even though a kind office-mate brought them in this morning. Typical lunchroom elitism.
YAWN.
YAWN.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The show was not listed on the tickets.com site under the Wilco or the 9:30 Club threads, either. For all of Wilco's posturing about how it's doing everything for the fans, this sure looks odd. It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:Presales generally only involve a very small fraction of the available tickets.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The show was not listed on the tickets.com site under the Wilco or the 9:30 Club threads, either. For all of Wilco's posturing about how it's doing everything for the fans, this sure looks odd. It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.
The basic problem is too much demand, I suspect driven by people in other cities scooping up the tickets to scalp them later.
- the september Volume newsletter described Wilco's date as a "secret subscriber show". so there is some chance that it was kept secret on purpose. 930 is good that way - rewarding regulars with certain shows. sorry you missed out.
- softsales: go to tickets.com, search for "930", and you can see all shows on sale, both soft and hard. check in regularly or sign up for e-mail list on 930 homepage.
- tickets.com are hucksters? i don't think so. my complaints are that they're generally as expensive as ticketmaster, and they just can't handle peak traffic. I kept getting the "We're sorry, we were unable to process your request due to high transaction volumes. Please try to submit your request again" message… so it's not that there weren't tickets, it's the the system was maxed out and couldn't sell me any. lame.
- softsales: go to tickets.com, search for "930", and you can see all shows on sale, both soft and hard. check in regularly or sign up for e-mail list on 930 homepage.
- tickets.com are hucksters? i don't think so. my complaints are that they're generally as expensive as ticketmaster, and they just can't handle peak traffic. I kept getting the "We're sorry, we were unable to process your request due to high transaction volumes. Please try to submit your request again" message… so it's not that there weren't tickets, it's the the system was maxed out and couldn't sell me any. lame.
Blame yourself for not being on top of things.
There are a lot of Wilco threads on this board during the 2 presales.
There are a lot of Wilco threads on this board during the 2 presales.
Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The show was not listed on the tickets.com site under the Wilco or the 9:30 Club threads, either. For all of Wilco's posturing about how it's doing everything for the fans, this sure looks odd. It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand.
Can someone clarify the "pre-sale" of Wilco tickets at the club and some sort of special mailing list you had to be on to get notice of that. If that's true, it's typical 9:30 Club elitism. It's sad how much credibility the club has lost since becoming "successful." Bands that helped the 9:30 Club make a name for itself in the old days – X, etc. – would never have tolerated such bull.