early ticket sales with no box office; a terrible policy

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
did a little research…

I much prefer this system to the barrage of pre-pre-pre-sales. At least this way, if you know about the show and get online as the tickets are released you have a good chance of getting tickets.

With a lot of the pre-sales it felt like there were so few tickets that the chance of getting a ticket was slim. Then there would be another pre-sale……. It was just a big waste of time.

Try $8 when you throw in the fact that you're being charged a fee to pick them up will call.

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
If it's that big of a deal to spend an extra $5 perhaps you should stay home and save even more money.

Fair enough.

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
did a little research…

we used to bring people in early to open the box office for onsales and apparently 2 things happened:

1. very few, if any, people showed up to buy
2. the people that did, if it was a hot show, got beat out by the people online anyway

so, we could pull tix off early to sell to people in line, but now we're talking about giving them an advantage, and paying people to come in early and work

the question is…for what?

so they can save the ticket charges? we should really go thru all of this trouble & expense so that a few people can pride themselves on getting out of paying ticket fees?

I think not

if tickets go on sale online first, and they ultimately cost $XX including ticket fees, then that's the deal. if they don't sell out immediately, then they will be available at the box office when we open at noon, and thereafter.

We have changed a lot of policies and procedures to accomodate our regular patrons, but this one is too much for too little people.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
throw in the fact that you're being charged a fee to pick them up will call.

That's really my only complaint about the current setup.

I'm starting to think of service charges as an insurance policy. I can pay the extra fees and be guaranteed a ticket right now, or I can waive the fees and hope there are tickets available later. Sometimes it's worth the risk. Sometimes it isn't. It depends on how much I want to see the band and how likely I think it's going to sellout.
If I'm not willing to pay the extra $8 to be guaranteed a ticket, I probably didn't want to go that bad in the first place. I won't be too upset if it sells out.

Pretty soon, they'll think up a way to charge you extra on your Metro ride. An insurance policy, if you will. And maybe restaurants can charge "insurance" on their meals, ensuring that you don't get sick!

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
throw in the fact that you're being charged a fee to pick them up will call.

That's really my only complaint about the current setup.

I'm starting to think of service charges as an insurance policy. I can pay the extra fees and be guaranteed a ticket right now, or I can waive the fees and hope there are tickets available later. Sometimes it's worth the risk. Sometimes it isn't. It depends on how much I want to see the band and how likely I think it's going to sellout.
If I'm not willing to pay the extra $8 to be guaranteed a ticket, I probably didn't want to go that bad in the first place. I won't be too upset if it sells out.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Pretty soon, they'll think up a way to charge you extra on your Metro ride. An insurance policy, if you will. And maybe restaurants can charge "insurance" on their meals, ensuring that you don't get sick!

I think all of us regulars would pay an $8 insurance policy for the board to assure you shut the hell up for once and stop with your tired drivel.

thats a good way of looking at it… exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere if all the fees it's almost $25 per ticket would rather just wait and try to buy at the boxoffice or go see robert pollard instead. i have always found the fees more resonable at the black cat.

and while it's not probably recommed for use during hotly contest tickets sales, there is a shopping cart feature for 9:30 shows where you can get multiple shows for the same shipping fee.

If you can raise $1000 and give it to me, I will! That's only 125 $8 contributions.

Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Pretty soon, they'll think up a way to charge you extra on your Metro ride. An insurance policy, if you will. And maybe restaurants can charge "insurance" on their meals, ensuring that you don't get sick!

I think all of us regulars would pay an $8 insurance policy for the board to assure you shut the hell up for once and stop with your tired drivel.

Speaking of which, does anyone want to pick me up a copy of the tour EP? I'll be out of town and will miss him again.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
If you can raise $1000 and give it to me, I will! That's only 125 $8 contributions.

Someone start the Rhett Miller pledge drive. I'm in for $50.

This is how I treat service charges too. It's not hassle for me to get to the club so if I'm paying a service charge it's because I think the show will sellout before I can get there. Or, in cases where I KNOW it will sell out, I just consider it a part of the ticket price (i.e. a premium on big shows).

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

I'm starting to think of service charges as an insurance policy. I can pay the extra fees and be guaranteed a ticket right now, or I can waive the fees and hope there are tickets available later. Sometimes it's worth the risk. Sometimes it isn't. It depends on how much I want to see the band and how likely I think it's going to sellout.
If I'm not willing to pay the extra $8 to be guaranteed a ticket, I probably didn't want to go that bad in the first place. I won't be too upset if it sells out.

Originally posted by Tom Servo:
This is how I treat service charges too. It's not hassle for me to get to the club so if I'm paying a service charge it's because I think the show will sellout before I can get there. Or, in cases where I KNOW it will sell out, I just consider it a part of the ticket price (i.e. a premium on big shows).

Ditto. I waited on Clap Your Hands to go by the box office that day, and didn't get tickets, but I knew it was a gamble – I had decided it wasn't worth the extra $25-30 on four tickets. It's too bad, but no biggie.

I did NOT wait on New Pornos/B&S, even though with TWO shows I didn't think it would sell out as fast as it did. Still, I would have been very bummed to miss it, so we went online at 10:00. Ditto for the Pogues, and it's worth every penny having tickets for those shows.

Originally posted by nkotBaba:
Speaking of which, does anyone want to pick me up a copy of the tour EP? I'll be out of town and will miss him again.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere

Me too?

this string is what is known in the biz as a "rehash."

Originally posted by nkotBaba:
Speaking of which, does anyone want to pick me up a copy of the tour EP? I'll be out of town and will miss him again.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere

Is it gonna be a new one?

Yes, an ep of old English folk tunes.

Next up: Colin does bluegrass.

Originally posted by amnesiac:

Originally posted by nkotBaba:
Speaking of which, does anyone want to pick me up a copy of the tour EP? I'll be out of town and will miss him again.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere

Is it gonna be a new one?

Originally posted by amnesiac:
Is it gonna be a new one?

i hope so, or else the $90 ebay value of the last one will surely go down … i'll pick one up at the show and rip the MP3s for whoever wants it …

Originally posted by nkotBaba:
Speaking of which, does anyone want to pick me up a copy of the tour EP? I'll be out of town and will miss him again.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
exactly how i'm approaching the colin meloy show at the birchmere

An mp3 of one of Meloy's new tour-only EP tracks can be found here.

It's an ep of English folk standards.

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by amnesiac:
Is it gonna be a new one?

i hope so, or else the $90 ebay value of the last one will surely go down … i'll pick one up at the show and rip the MP3s for whoever wants it …

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
It's an ep of English folk standards.

ahh, i thought you were joking … i wonder what a 2CD bundle of this EP and the last one will go for on ebay?