![]() ![]() Of course you could always just buy them through theTicketmaster auction. Now, you need a gold Amex card or a presale password. It used to be, your best shot at tickets was a dedicated effort, a few little hints and a little luck. It worked for various friends for The Police, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, The Beastie Boys and the White Stripes. If you don’t mind sweating it out and putting a small bit of trust in a stranger, it’s not a bad way to go. I know a ton of people here in NYC that adopted this strategy. ![]() It seems now, between the process and the cost, your best bet to get a good value on a show is to wait till day before or day of and hit up Craigslist for a discounted ticket from a desperate seller. ![]() and Music Today’s ticketing arm were saviors for about 11 seconds until their “service fees” and other made-up sounding charges just about caught up with those of ticketmaster. Pearl Jam took on Ticketmaster years ago and failed. I expect Van Morrison and Robert Plant will both be long retired before I hear back from Ticketmaster. I asked how and why tickets are sold out one minute and there the next. I asked how they could sellout a show in four seconds. I asked what their logic is on the presales. How does that happen? Why does it happen? Sold out for days and then randomly, four good seats are mine. Row H for Van Morrison at the United Palace Theater. Ironically, four hours after the Plant/Krauss debacle, and after two days of nothing but that “There are no tickets available” screen, I magically, mysteriously and miraculously pulled up a pair in the orchestra. It all seemed very fishy to me and the anger began to rise quickly. Those of us with pre-existing Ticketmaster accounts, another key to past successes, would not be able to enter our usernames and passwords in four seconds. People wouldn’t even have had time to enter their name, address, etc. No matter how popular an act, you can’t tell me it is possible to sell thousands of tickets in four seconds. WHAT? Tickets had been on sale for four seconds. Then, like a slap in the face, there was the “We couldn’t find tickets to match your request” page. Not necessarily good tickets, but something. And at 11:00:04, I expected two tickets to pop up. I successfully read and entered in the gibberish words “chronic upon” to prove I was not a computer program. I breezed through the always challenging “enter the number of tickets” scroll. Despite all that, when I clicked refresh at exactly 11 am, I still expected to score tickets no problem. ![]()
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