briremo Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 so for twenty minutes I'm trying to get tickets to the Tampa show. shoot me in the head because I'm dying to pay $175 a seat but cant find anything. Nothing but lower bowl, can;t even buy VIP seats. all gone...but wait! They're available on StubHub already for $3,500. F***K You! 11
Syrinx Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I agree 100%. The ticket business is one of the biggest criminal organizations on the planet. 13
Aikenrooster Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Keep trying. I just scored row 12 on the public onsale in Atlanta. Just keep trying. 3
Godeater2112 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) I feel your pain believe me, I am looking at this same show. Don't forget though, only a very small number of pre-sale went out today, the vast majority of tickets go on sale in one week (Feb 6th) Edited January 30, 2015 by Godeater2112 2
capoetc Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Honestly, I preferred the VIP format from previous tours, where you had to attend the show (could not resell tickets from VIP) and pick up the tickets at Will Call. That format shook out the ticket resellers and the guys in their underwear in Haweaii buying tickets for ATL just to resell on eBay. The real fans got the tickets. I now consider myself very, very fortunate to have gotten good seats in the VIP sale for ATL. I think the word got out that VIP for Rush this time (via TM) could be resold, so a TON more folks showed up to buy in the pre-sales this round. 3
Lost In Xanadu Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I've seen them live a lot, and this is the first time I really don't give a shit if I get seats or not. I am not paying anything over face, and if that means no tickets, then I'll save some money for the DVD. As much as I like Rush, I am getting frustrated by the whole deal. 8
toddf74 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 yes, I like your theory capoetc. I was able to get tickets easily last tour. Not the case this time around. The whole system is messed up.
capoetc Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Disappointing to see the VIP tickets go up for resale almost immediately at 5-10 times the face price on broker sites. 2
briremo Posted January 30, 2015 Author Posted January 30, 2015 seriously, I'm done. Ive seen RUSH every tour but one over 35 years and am so pissed right now I cant even begin to describe it. $175 (incl fees) is ridiculous. I can afford VIP too, but some things just aren't worth it. Eff it 4
cygnify Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Tampa presale - started at 10 am sharp, kept trying for 50 minutes.... only message:At this moment there are not enough tickets available to fulfill your request. Please try again using a lower quantity of tickets or choosing a different ticket type.Currently there are not enough Floor Price One tickets to fulfill your request.It sucks.
briremo Posted January 30, 2015 Author Posted January 30, 2015 I can't even BUY VIP seats if I wanted , they're not even available...at $400 bucks a seat.
Alph Seeker Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I was fortunate to get good seats on the pre-sale date. Almost immediately after I got mine, I was searching for a seating chart and found a resale site selling seats a few rows behind mine for $1600 each - sickening. Out of curiosity I decided to see what was available today on the general sale. I did not start right at 10 - about 5 or 6 minutes later. Nothing decent was coming up and even what was available was taking minutes to show - however, I noticed that TicketBastard now has resold tickets available ON THEIR SITE - and even mediocre seats were going for 3x-10x more than face. THAT IS JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS. I wonder if it is worse this time because of the limited number of dates and that it is presumed to be the last "major" Rush tour. Quite sad.
cygnify Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I did score 7th row in the presale for Philly last week; no such luck for Tampa.
30kwpa Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Keep trying. I just scored row 12 on the public onsale in Atlanta. Just keep trying. Same here. The countdown page went blank... had a technical difficulty message, then took me to VIP tickets and they were unavailable. Eventually had to go back to the performer alert email link and start over. Got in and no tickets match message. Searched twice more and got ORCH 2 row M / Atlanta/Alpharetta. 1
shabadoo25 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 For Tampa, that was the VIP presale. The VIP sales starts Tuesday. After half an hour of searching, I got a ticket on Alex's side in the first 30 rows at the $120 price. It pays to be patient.
Cygnus The God Of Balance Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I think the presale is hampered by the fact that there are so few shows this time. I thought I was gonna get f'd out of tickets, but finally scored some good ones in the lower bowl for the Detroit show. No way can I afford VIP, but I'll be happy with what I got this time. 1
briremo Posted January 30, 2015 Author Posted January 30, 2015 IVe been trying for over an hour and still nothing. No VIP, NO best available nothing.
briremo Posted January 30, 2015 Author Posted January 30, 2015 Tampa presale - started at 10 am sharp, kept trying for 50 minutes.... only message:At this moment there are not enough tickets available to fulfill your request. Please try again using a lower quantity of tickets or choosing a different ticket type.Currently there are not enough Floor Price One tickets to fulfill your request.It sucks. I just an email to SRO Management. What a crock. I feel like an idiot for caring so much. I feel like a Pavlovian automoton.
sun dog Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 This will probably happen regardless, but to the extent that it's possible, if we can all just be patient and let all of this resale product languish, it will eventually go down. Right now the resale prices are an unmitigated gangbang and way out of line with what's been available historically. I'm sure that most of you are experienced and pragmatic, and the more that we ignore the product in the coming weeks, the better off we'll all be. It'll be tough, what with the history and the import of the tour, but these three, four, five thousand dollar pairs are amazingly far out of whack and completely unsupportable I think. So it'll probably fix itself anyway. 2
zac2112 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 You blokes need a little patience, just scored 2 floor seats for Tampa on the presale row 18 center. Memorial weekend show!!! They are going to open with Anthem!!!!
fraroc Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) I am SO glad I was able to get tickets in section 227 at MSG.....I just looked now and the only seats available are the ones in the 340s, the absolute nosebleeds. And that was AFTER my mom told them to give her three of the best tickets in the house. Edited January 30, 2015 by fraroc
bobo32 Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 so for twenty minutes I'm trying to get tickets to the Tampa show. shoot me in the head because I'm dying to pay $175 a seat but cant find anything. Nothing but lower bowl, can;t even buy VIP seats. all gone...but wait! They're available on StubHub already for $3,500. F***K You! Just had. Similar experience for St. Louis show. Sad corporate world. 2
fraroc Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 You blokes need a little patience, just scored 2 floor seats for Tampa on the presale row 18 center. Memorial weekend show!!! They are going to open with Anthem!!!! I'll gladly lend Geddy my vise so he can use it on stage.
Pound of Obscure Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 so for twenty minutes I'm trying to get tickets to the Tampa show. shoot me in the head because I'm dying to pay $175 a seat but cant find anything. Nothing but lower bowl, can;t even buy VIP seats. all gone...but wait! They're available on StubHub already for $3,500. F***K You! I feel you man. Same thing here. Nothing available from the microsecond they go on PRE-sale. Freakish luck day of pre-sale or wait a month and take whatever crap seat is there. Or Stubhub where you can by some clown a smallish car for the 4 tickets that fell out of the sky for him at face value, that he didn't even want. Probably never heard of Rush. Been this way for years, isn't going to change.
Pound of Obscure Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 Keep trying. I just scored row 12 on the public onsale in Atlanta. Just keep trying. It happens. I did draw 14th row at Columbus on presale. My kids actually expressed interest in going. So I didn't want to pay 300 for a ticket for my wife and 13 year old to stare at someone's back the whole show, being only about 5'4". So I turned them back and tried for lower bowl. I knew better. 14th row is pretty good but not for them. If it were an amphitheater with step seating I'd have done it.
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