Adele Tour Announcement, Are you kidding me?

[johnsontrio]

So the big announcement is made today and the young gals in my extended family so want to go. The rumor is they go on sale the 17th which is this Thursday for dates Sept 6 and 7th. I haven't gotten any emails or pre-sale codes, which I normally get for all the "big" concerts, and can't find any info on the web. However, scalpers have tickets listed already on vividseats starting at $415 for Detroit and topping out at $10,825 in Chicago for dates in July. I'm thinking everyone should just watch her concert on tv tonight for free. With Adele only playing 25 shows nationwide, there is not much hope for the little guy.

Also, I'm a little disgusted at these artists that sell their shows so early and hang on to our money, making interest, for months. Kenny Chesney plays Ford Field the 3rd weekend in August every year and puts his tickets on sale in November. When you add all that money up, for every show that is sold almost a year in advance, they are making bank on the fans.

 

[asta]

Concert tickets are such a scam. I think we need a law where concert promoters or event locations must disclose how many tickets are actually going to be available to the public on the on sale date. I know someone who works for one of the record labels here in Nashville. For one of their popular acts over half the tickets and all of the floor seats were gone to insiders before the tickets ever went on sale. Before the public gets a shot the artists, their label, arena management employees, box seat holders, etc gobble up many of the seats. And then the public is left to wonder how everything sells out in five or ten minutes. And then there are those presale buyers who are just there to make a profit and are reselling before the on sale date.

 

[antmaril]

So the big announcement is made today and the young gals in my extended family so want to go. The rumor is they go on sale the 17th which is this Thursday for dates Sept 6 and 7th. I haven't gotten any emails or pre-sale codes, which I normally get for all the "big" concerts, and can't find any info on the web. However, scalpers have tickets listed already on vividseats starting at $415 for Detroit and topping out at $10,825 in Chicago for dates in July. I'm thinking everyone should just watch her concert on tv tonight for free. With Adele only playing 25 shows nationwide, there is not much hope for the little guy.

Also, I'm a little disgusted at these artists that sell their shows so early and hang on to our money, making interest, for months. Kenny Chesney plays Ford Field the 3rd weekend in August every year and puts his tickets on sale in November. When you add all that money up, for every show that is sold almost a year in advance, they are making bank on the fans.

According to WDIV (saw on my FB page) tickets for Adele at the Palace on Sept. 6th and 7th go on sale Thursday at 10:00 a.m. It looks like the most expensive ticket is $149. Now, will you be able to get tickets? I don't know. It is always hard (too hard, really) with popular artists. Good luck!

 

[Micca]

The concert business is one of the least consumer friendly businesses on earth. It sucks from top to bottom. Can you imagine how many businesses could sustain operations turning away people ready to spend hundreds of dollars in one transaction?

 

[luvsJack]

not sure about that site, but some of those sites are allowing people to put tickets they don't even have on there "for sale". We buy a lot of WWE tickets and are able to buy event tickets before the general public sale date. A few of those sites will have tickets listed months before the presale tickets even go on sale. Go to Tickemaster and see when it says they go on sale. Same thing with Broadway in New Orleans, I was about to pay quite a bit for tickets to Wicked until I went to the actual theater site and realized they aren't even on sale yet. They promise to have the tickets to you by a date very close to the event.

 

[asta]

not sure about that site, but some of those sites are allowing people to put tickets they don't even have on there "for sale". We buy a lot of WWE tickets and are able to buy event tickets before the general public sale date. A few of those sites will have tickets listed months before the presale tickets even go on sale. Go to Tickemaster and see when it says they go on sale. Same thing with Broadway in New Orleans, I was about to pay quite a bit for tickets to Wicked until I went to the actual theater site and realized they aren't even on sale yet. They promise to have the tickets to you by a date very close to the event.

Are you buying resells before the on sale date or are you able to get special privileges to buy before the actual date?

 

[mnrose]

Don't get me started on concert tickets, and especially crapmaster (oops, ticket master). I tried to get tickets to the Springsteen shows last Friday...on sale time 10 am. I was on line, with my screen ready to go at 9:45. The page counted down to the big hour and then (on it's own) started to refresh for the purchase screen. The little round ball went round and round and round for maybe 45 seconds and then it said "sorry for the delay, try again." Which I did. This time, I got through to hit my desired number of tickets and "best available" and it said "3 minute wait," then 2 minutes, then one where it STAYED for the next 97 minutes, at which point, I got tired and quit. LOL.

At about the 5 minute mark, I tried with another computer, and got a big fat nothing except "sorry we are busy" until I FINALLY (at around 30 minutes after tickets went on sale) it gave me some side stage tickets, lower level. Side is not ideal, but hey, better than getting shut out. So, I hit "buy", it goes to the screen offering me dinner (at a restaurant on site in the arena) and parking. Nope. I need neither. Hit continue, and then get the dreaded "error message, please try again." You MUST BE FRICKEN KIDDING ME!!!!. I do, of course, and by the time I get through the next time, it is sold out.

But, good news fans, while I was waiting, I noticed that there are 11 seats available on a reseller site (specific row and seat numbers) for only $3000 a piece. Wow! Excellent. Real fans can't get through, but the idjit resellers some how can get all the good seats. And 11 of them altogether. I call BS on that since (a) there was a 4 seat maximum in that section, and (b) allegedly there are NO tickets as only the credit card used to purchase the seats will be used as tickets. So, how is it that some reseller gets 11 together?!?! When real people can't even get through, and somehow out of a 27000 seat arena the reseller gets 11 in a prime section?!?!

Sure, the system isn't rigged at all.

I will just say this. DO NOT buy from a reseller, ever, at anything other than face value. All you are doing is feeding the beast.

 

[yoopermom]

I better get the "best wife" award this Christmas. DH is VERY hard to buy for, so when he mentioned in passing that he'd "love" to go see Iron Maiden in 2016, I jumped on the computer, saw that they would be in Chicago on our 25th anniversary, hurray! However, fan club presale had already been active for six hours . So I had to join the fanclub (which is located in England, had to jump through a few hoops there), order the tickets (not the best seats, but seats nonetheless) and as long as I was breaking the bank, went on the fanclub website and ordered him some merch to open that is fanclub exclusive. By the time the seats went on sale to the general public, there was NOTHING except single seats left (and those even sold out quickly).

And this for a band who's average fan age is probably AARP eligible!

Terri

 

[Julie's Haircut]

This is NO artist or band that I'd be willing go thru such nonsense to see. And nope to sites like StubHub either, unless they drop their prices drastically on the day of the event when the sellers are panicking.

 

[bsblady01]

join the fan club so you can buy tickets early. when I was a teen back in the late 90's early 00's we always joined the fan clubs so we could get good seats and not have to stand in line for hours to get tickets. bsb and nsync concerts always sold out mins after they went on sale

 

[LinderInWonderland]

not sure about that site, but some of those sites are allowing people to put tickets they don't even have on there "for sale". We buy a lot of WWE tickets and are able to buy event tickets before the general public sale date. A few of those sites will have tickets listed months before the presale tickets even go on sale. Go to Tickemaster and see when it says they go on sale. Same thing with Broadway in New Orleans, I was about to pay quite a bit for tickets to Wicked until I went to the actual theater site and realized they aren't even on sale yet. They promise to have the tickets to you by a date very close to the event.

This is so true, and was the bane of my existence when I worked in Box Office. Totally random sites would list my theater as showing a big Broadway show like Wicked only for it to actually be playing in a theater of the same name in another state. So I get all the angry calls, "It says online that you are showing Wicked..."

As for the bait and switch, we had a very popular comedian performing on our main stage. Every seat in our house was the same price, $39 plus handling fees. A fake site was 'selling tickets' to our show for crazy amounts of money. A woman (one of many such customers) screamed at me for selling 'unreasonably priced tickets gouging the general public'. I explained over and over that we weren't, that our tickets were $44 max after handling fees and that the seat numbers she was describing didn't even exist in our theater. She wouldn't believe me, which was the craziest part.

Be very, very careful when buying show tickets.

 

[pryncess527]

This is NO artist or band that I'd be willing go thru such nonsense to see. And nope to sites like StubHub either, unless they drop their prices drastically on the day of the event when the sellers are panicking.

This. I've had great luck on Stubhub within days or hours of the show, when travel isn't an issue.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Same thing happened when they announced Maroon 5 was coming to our city next year. Radio stations were giving out tickets before they even announced who was coming. Once they announced the band people were buying presale tickets like crazy. I found a free presale code but when I went on all but the top balcony (four levels of seating) where $134 before taxes and fees. The top balcony was $80 before taxes and fees and there were no more pairs available, just single seats. I highly doubt there was anything left when they officially went on sale.

 

[goofy4prez]

I stopped going to concerts years ago. There is no way I'm paying $150-$200 for a seat in nose bleed section and behind the stage (such as Springsteen in Chicago) so that I can watch someone lip sync the words to their songs on a jumbo screen. And I can't even begin to think of paying several hundred dollars for a decent seat. I'm sure there are many who will find it a great value and well worth it to do so; I'll pass.

 

[bsblady01]

Same thing happened when they announced Maroon 5 was coming to our city next year. Radio stations were giving out tickets before they even announced who was coming. Once they announced the band people were buying presale tickets like crazy. I found a free presale code but when I went on all but the top balcony (four levels of seating) where $134 before taxes and fees. The top balcony was $80 before taxes and fees and there were no more pairs available, just single seats. I highly doubt there was anything left when they officially went on sale.

that always made me mad as a fan is the ticket brokers would buy all the good tickets before the real fans could buy them. I wish they would do something about this

 

[bsblady01]

I stopped going to concerts years ago. There is no way I'm paying $150-$200 for a seat in nose bleed section and behind the stage (such as Springsteen in Chicago) so that I can watch someone lip sync the words to their songs on a jumbo screen. And I can't even begin to think of paying several hundred dollars for a decent seat. I'm sure there are many who will find it a great value and well worth it to do so; I'll pass.

nick Jonas is coming to our area this summer and seats in the top of the arena are $150.00. I told my daughter no. these concert prices for teen shows are getting out of hand. the most I ever paid for a concert was $100.00 a ticket to sit in the front row at the backstreet boys black and blue tour in 2001 and my parents thought that was a little nuts back then.

 

[ZachnElli]

I'm pretty sure it was Good Morning America that talked about this last week before Springsteen tickets were on sale. They said that there were ticket resellers listing Springsteen tickets for like $4000 but the tickets weren't on sale yet, so they websites selling them didn't have the tickets!! It's a scam. Good tip on Stubhub day of for local events though, I'll try that!

 

[smokeyblue]

Funny, I was just thinking about how ridiculous going to a concert is, especially since it's a 6-8 hour drive for us to see anyone decent. This also means we have to pay for hotels, meals, gas and arrange time off of work and a pet sitter. Yes, it's fun and we make a "trip" out of it with shopping and sometimes we even plan multiple things around the concert, like sporting events, medical appointments and other concerts. What isn't fun when the concert gets cancelled an you're left with a bunch of things you probably wouldn't have done or paid for otherwise.

 

[mandy200587]

I've gotten to where I don't go to concerts anymore, I use to love them but prices are just higher then I want to pay for one act I want to see. If it's a good lineup from start to finish then yes I'll spend that money. I'm lucky I live where there are good free concerts, I can go to if I'm willingly to fight the crowds, and you can dang bet I will be next month.

I will give a hint, don't use the actual ticketmaster website, use their app. I've had much better luck getting tickets through the app then I have with the website for big name concerts.

Also if you buy resale only use Ticketmaster resale or stubhub, be wary of other sites.

Presale codes if I had to bet would probably go out tomorrow for Adele if she does a presale, I know some artists skip them.

 

[bcla]

I suppose it's possible that the "sellers" don't have them in hand and are looking to buy them once they do become available. I remember seeing a piece on TV about a ticket broker who actually did sell tickets to the Super Bowl even without actual tickets. They showed him at the end where he was on the street looking for tickets to meet his last obligation to a buyer. He indicate that he was actually taking a loss on those tickets, but he needed to in order to secure his reputation.

And there are numerous presales and set-asides.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/6-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-buy-concert-tickets

Here's a breakdown of 14,000 tickets for sale for a Justin Bieber concert in Nashville:

I suppose the most interesting is "miscellaneous". I've gotten event tickets that were pretty good but had no face value. One I bought from a scalper, but another time it was because a sponsor was giving them away to outside sales agents selling their product.