Wilco

I rarely even pay attention to the main page anymore. If you want to know what's coming, just go to tickets.com. You can see all the shows that are on soft-sale, cancellations, what's going on sale Thursday…pretty much everything you need regarding tickets.

Or sign up for the weekly email. It's one lousy email per week and you hear about everything that's going on, including upcoming sales and the occasional presale password.

Getting tickets for big shows can be difficult. Getting info on big shows is incredibly easy.

I am on the mailing list. I don't recall seeing any mention of Wilco in any recent club mailings. I admit I may have missed it. That's all I'm asking.

Despite 9:30's so-called "elitism", and my lack of connection with the club, I have always gotten tickets to the shows I want. I repeat, not once have I missed getting tickets.

The 9:30 Club is not trying to screw anyone over. They simply reward people who regularly read their mailings and website (aka music fans).

If there is any flaw in the system it is tickets.com inability to deal with high traffic. It is a shame getting tickets isn't first come-first serve and that you have to resort to hitting the refresh button. However, anyone with a bit of dedication would have gotten tickets to the show. I got two at 10:02 and two more at 10:12.

Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Despite 9:30's so-called "elitism", and my lack of connection with the club, I have always gotten tickets to the shows I want. I repeat, not once have I missed getting tickets.

The 9:30 Club is not trying to screw anyone over. They simply reward people who regularly read their mailings and website (aka music fans).

If there is any flaw in the system it is tickets.com inability to deal with high traffic. It is a shame getting tickets isn't first come-first serve and that you have to resort to hitting the refresh button. However, anyone with a bit of dedication would have gotten tickets to the show. I got two at 10:02 and two more at 10:12.

That's cuz you have 9:30 in your handle. It gives you special advantages. I was refreshing from 10:01 until sellout and couldn't even get one. Thems the breaks though.

"It was easier to get Pogues tickets, and Wilco, while good, is hardly as legendary or in demand."

Well they did sell out in minuetes :roll:

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
I am on the mailing list. I don't recall seeing any mention of Wilco in any recent club mailings. I admit I may have missed it. That's all I'm asking.

Wasn't it in last night's email? I could be wrong about that. I just scanned through it and already deleted it.

Thank you, oh erudite music fan. But there was nothing on the 9:30 Club Web site about the Wilco show until the tickets went on sale. It's a poor way to treat customers in any case. In the good ol' days you didn't have to worry about surprise shows or wait for club owners to pet you on the head like a good doggie for reading their ads. I can't believe how masochistic some self-described music fans are. It's like you love to be kicked.

Information about the Wilco show was in e-mails and snail mails from the 9:30 club. It was on Wilco's site. It was on the Tickets.com site also. There were two pre-sales before the general sale. Some people need personal invitations with detailed instructions I guess.

And for all the bitching about tickets.com (some of it justified), they do get bonus points for refunding the both the ticket price and the service charge on the cancelled/postponed Sleater-Kinney gig.

From last nights email…

Just Announced shows at the 9:30 Club

Th 10/19 Wilco 4 Ticket Limit

You're complaining because people who 1) pay attention to the club's ads, 2) do their homework online regarding when a band is coming around and when ticket go on sale, and 3) are regular posters on a message board where presales, ticket sale dates and tour dates are regularly discussed got tickets?

Don't be a sourpuss that people that put time into finding this out were able to get tickets. They put time into finding the details, they should be rewarded.

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Thank you, oh erudite music fan. But there was nothing on the 9:30 Club Web site about the Wilco show until the tickets went on sale. It's a poor way to treat customers in any case. In the good ol' days you didn't have to worry about surprise shows or wait for club owners to pet you on the head like a good doggie for reading their ads. I can't believe how masochistic some self-described music fans are. It's like you love to be kicked.

The Wilco show was absolutely not advertised on the tickets.com site. Bottom line: pre-sales suck. Just sell the damn tickets all at once so people with real lives – i.e., not checking the 9:30 Club or Wilco Web site obsessively – can get tickets.

Bye-bye from BoomBoom.

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
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.

Probably. They got an extra $4 out of me.

Seriously the club has been running soft sales for months now, if your not paying attention to the weekly email thats your lost. Shows are always posted on the website when they go on sale, unless its being done via soft sale. On rare occasions there are shows announced before they go on sale in Volume, but the club rarely says weeks in advane such on such goes on sale today. Obviously soft sales are a different story but they are practice which have only been going on for about a year now….

Back on…can't let go. Emails, soft sales, pre-sales, passwords. What a hassle. What's the point? Is going to a show supposed to be like a getting a cheap airline ticket? You have to be frequent flyer or something? That's lame.

Soft sales are a good thing…it rewards us for being pathetic nerds that hang out on a venue's message board every day.

Serioulsy, keep them coming and keep rewarding the really devoted fans.

In the old days people had to rely on reading about a show when it was advertised in a print ad, flyer or mentioned on the radio, it's not like the club or bands were making personally phone calls to every fan that might be interested in seeing the show.

Prior to introduction of soft sales, all new 9:30 shows were annouced on the website to the general public the day tickets went on sale. Which by the way occurs 9 times out of 10 on a Thrusday. A weekly email is now sent out Weds annoucing any new shows. Bands provide tour dates to fans via web, email, etc. Pollstar and other websites have concert information available.

Devoted fan or slavish sycophant?

Plenty of other venues with good shows that don't do it. Give your business to them.

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Back on…can't let go. Emails, soft sales, pre-sales, passwords. What a hassle. What's the point? Is going to a show supposed to be like a getting a cheap airline ticket? You have to be frequent flyer or something? That's lame.

What would've been your excuse if you had slept outside of a Ticketmaster outlet and still got shut out? What about trying on the phone lines? Just curious…

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
Back on…can't let go. Emails, soft sales, pre-sales, passwords. What a hassle. What's the point? Is going to a show supposed to be like a getting a cheap airline ticket? You have to be frequent flyer or something? That's lame.