Hello all and good evening to you. With the "not so ear candy" sound that we have at our disposal for Adele, the wife and I were extremely interested in getting tickets for her upcoming tour. We had decided on three cities (in case one or more city was sold out or had nose bleed seating) and all of them were well out of town. By well out of town, I mean more than 5 hours away and up to 10 hours away. We figured that this would give us some flexibility to get the best seats we could find. With that decision made, at 10:00 on the dot she was online trying to purchase the tickets.
To not bore you on the details, 15 minutes later she was informed that the concert had sold out. We never even got a chance to look at a seat, let alone get a ticket. Now we see plenty of folks who could care less about the concert itself selling their tickets for anywhere between 5 times the price they paid to upwards of $14,000.00 for a package deal. LOTS of offers to sell the tickets, some within the time frame many people across America were still stuck in the "queue" awaiting the chance to purchase tickets. The tweets ranged from extreme anger to those thinking that the concert sales were an actual prank to the public...that they were not actually for sale at all. Some sources state that all of the concerts were sold out in 3 seconds. Not really buying that statement but the tour was basically sold out extremely quick.
This leaves the wife and I to put up with the "not so ear candy" sound we have from the albums. Bummer.
To not make this a long and boring post, I will just say that this and other issues present themselves when purchasing tickets to venues. Many times within a short time to an extremely short amount of time after the concert tickets go on sale, only the nosebleed sections are available. This gets frustrating after a while. I will just leave it at that.
My question is this - What are the real secrets to getting tickets, especially the preferred tickets to a concert?
Tom
To not bore you on the details, 15 minutes later she was informed that the concert had sold out. We never even got a chance to look at a seat, let alone get a ticket. Now we see plenty of folks who could care less about the concert itself selling their tickets for anywhere between 5 times the price they paid to upwards of $14,000.00 for a package deal. LOTS of offers to sell the tickets, some within the time frame many people across America were still stuck in the "queue" awaiting the chance to purchase tickets. The tweets ranged from extreme anger to those thinking that the concert sales were an actual prank to the public...that they were not actually for sale at all. Some sources state that all of the concerts were sold out in 3 seconds. Not really buying that statement but the tour was basically sold out extremely quick.
This leaves the wife and I to put up with the "not so ear candy" sound we have from the albums. Bummer.
To not make this a long and boring post, I will just say that this and other issues present themselves when purchasing tickets to venues. Many times within a short time to an extremely short amount of time after the concert tickets go on sale, only the nosebleed sections are available. This gets frustrating after a while. I will just leave it at that.
My question is this - What are the real secrets to getting tickets, especially the preferred tickets to a concert?
Tom
