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Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici
Reply #175 - Oct 16^th, 2012 at 5:19pm

Patrick wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 5:05pm:

Gazza wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 12:55pm:

Patrick wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 9:49am:

Gazza wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 9:31am:

Probably similar arrangemen to the Amex one, ie the cream of the worst value seats for the price category.

You'll rarely get much quality and value for money wise in a free pre sale.

So you reckon there'll still be band 1 / band 2 tickets (definitely my limit, anyway) left by the general sale on Friday? Even after the wave of pre-sales is through?

There will always be tickets in every category on public sale. No presale gets a monopoly on an allocation for a particular 'area'.

The only thing is that there were some prices on the Amex sale which arent on the general sale (I think it was $250 or something). Whether the seats are necessarily any better I doubt. Its sort of like saying its announced a free presale, but youre actually paying a bit more for the ticket in that block than you will in the public sale

So from that derives that if you pay X amount for a certain block through Amex / o2 / Archive presale, and that gets you a seat in, say, block 102, someone else (who has waited until Friday's general sale) could also pay X amount but get a better seat later on, because that seat was not part of the pre-sale? Maybe even for cheaper?

From this it follows that the people who buy up presale tickets, in general, pay more for limited (therefore more likely to be worse) seats, depending on what blocks are included. So what drives people to buy tickets through a pre-sale? The mere sense of exclusivity?

This is making me lose my faith in any pre-sale. I'm trying to analyse whether it's better to secure a 106/166 ticket tomorrow at 9am (through the o2 presale - if i can) or take the risk of waiting until the floodgates open on Friday.

The question for me is which wave of sales (o2 or general) is going to take me further for my money... literally, towards the stage

Amex offers it's a customers something they consider to be a privalege... for many events they offer very eleite deals, much like the VIP packages... Amex has taken this into their advertising... these are people who work long, long hours and make a lot of money... it's completely lame IMO, but it is what it is...

RSRTG Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 133 Adelaide, Australia Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #184 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 2:59am The Archive pre sale is complete rip off.....i might have considered buying 1 ticket and getting a box set but being forced to buy 2 tickets per show...well, they can jam it.....will try my luck Friday....grrrr
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Deathgod Rocks Off Regular Offline The Artist Formerly Known as Daethgod Posts: 676 Ocean Grove Australia Earth Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #188 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 3:58am I thought 'fan club' peeps had access to standing tix ? What a shambles.
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #189 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 7:07am Deathgod wrote on Oct 17^th, 2012 at 3:58am: I thought 'fan club' peeps had access to standing tix ? What a shambles. You have access to the Brussels Affair package that everyone else could buy since Monday lunchtime. Be grateful! TBC = To Be Confirmed
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Patrick Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 140 Northern Ireland Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #190 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 7:32am it seems that, through ticketmaster, no combination can return results for unreserved standing... am i missing something?
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SweetVirginia Rocks Off Regular Offline I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it Posts: 1,428 NY Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #191 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 8:08am The "standing inside the tongue" tickets at the 02 were all part of a fan package at approx $1500USD each. We'll see on Friday, I guess what the situation at Prudential is.
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Saint Sway Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2,356	Re: The Rolling Stones in London & Newark - Offici Reply #192 - Oct 17^th, 2012 at 8:31am Deathgod wrote on Oct 17^th, 2012 at 3:27am: what the hell is TBC ? Dude.
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