August 2, 200917 yr Martinfan (Tracy) if you post your tickets for sale on Stubhub or Tickets now you are not obligated to sell them until you confirm the sale. So, if someone want to buy them, they will send you an e-mail asking if you still have the tickets; at that time you can check if there are still PIT tickets available. Then, you can confirm or decline the sale. No risk at all, no money to pay if the tickets don't sell. Also,you can post them for free on Craig's list at face price. If you never try you'll never know... Anyway, sec 8 is not bad at all. I just want all Coldplayers make some noice all together :) :) I bought two PIT tickets and so far I haven't find anyone willing to travel with me :( So I think I will sell my other Pit ticket if anyone is interested.
August 2, 200917 yr http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-COLDPLAY-TOTE-BAG-HANDBAG-ROLLING-STONE-1YR-FREE_W0QQitemZ310159243526QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WH_Handbags?hash=item4836ee7906&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 :lol:here's the bag:D
August 2, 200917 yr http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-COLDPLAY-TOTE-BAG-HANDBAG-ROLLING-STONE-1YR-FREE_W0QQitemZ310159243526QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WH_Handbags?hash=item4836ee7906&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 :lol:here's the bag:D Nice, thanks. :) I was thinking...where do you leave your bag while you are jumping and dancing on the Pit? .
August 2, 200917 yr The Angie, this is for you! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L22aIH4qgY&NR=1]YouTube - Jonny Buckland of Coldplay "42" on 11-03-08, Detroit[/ame] I thought of you when I saw this!
August 2, 200917 yr http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-COLDPLAY-TOTE-BAG-HANDBAG-ROLLING-STONE-1YR-FREE_W0QQitemZ310159243526QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WH_Handbags?hash=item4836ee7906&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 :lol:here's the bag:D I love the caption on the bag from the cover of the Rolling Stone: Conquering the World Very Gently: Coldplay. It's so true! Starfish42 Coldplay = Love
August 2, 200917 yr YouTube - Jonny Buckland of Coldplay "42" on 11-03-08, Detroit[/url] I thought of you when I saw this!That's Lori's video. :D JB :whip:
August 2, 200917 yr Me three :cry: :cry: Like Starfish42 mentioned, there is something called "Post Coldplay concert depression". oh gosh, i totally felt that last year...not looking forward to it again :P but at least we have everything during the concert to enjoy beforehand, which btw, is exactly ONE WEEK from now!!! :dance::dance: Nice, thanks. :) I was thinking...where do you leave your bag while you are jumping and dancing on the Pit? i would probably just set it in front of you or just hold onto it? :thinking: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-COLDPLAY-TOTE-BAG-HANDBAG-ROLLING-STONE-1YR-FREE_W0QQitemZ310159243526QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WH_Handbags?hash=item4836ee7906&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 :lol:here's the bag:D ooh nice :D
August 2, 200917 yr That is an even better idea!!!! My problem with the pit is I have to go to subhub or some other selling place and sell them first, then I could go to buy pit, and my luck, the pit would be gone by then, and I would be stuck with even worse than sec. 8. I check livenation everyday just to see if the place is getting close to selling out, but hasn't yet. There are sooooo many tickets up for sale on Subhub and ebay too, so I don't wanna chance trying to sell, then pay too much for the sec. I am already in or worse, and that the pit would be gone.:( I'm surprised Tampa hasn't sold out yet, with only 1 week left until the show, and I'm even more surprised that 1/3 of the pit is still available (as of a couple days ago, anyway.) It could reflect the economic times. Shoreline, near San Francisco sold out completely, including the lawn, but Wheatland, which is 2 hours from SF, still had quite a few seats available in the upper section, and Live Nation ended up giving many promotions to sell tickets for that show. By the date of the show, the amphitheatre looked at least 90% full, and there was even quite a large crowd on the lawn, which looked at least half full. First, they added two lower cost reserved seat ticket levels at $40 and $50 (prior there had only been $97 and $79 tickets, not including $27 worth of fees.) Second, they began offering various 2-for-1 sales and family bundles, which helped me afford the tickets. LiveNation graciously split the the "fees" on these 2-1 tix. So, you could essentially get an upper level reserved seat for a total price of only $37. The weekend 10 days before the 7/14/09 show, they offered an unrestricted 2-for-1 sale the whole weekend, and they still had quite a few pit and fantastic seats in the 100s. I essentially got seats whose views were equivalent to front and center box seats at a total cost of $62 each ($124 total, fees included!) Plus I got a free upgrade to VIP parking for filling out an online survey. I looked at other bands' shows and Coldplay's tickets are among the highest priced, of course because the demand supports it. Coldplay's $97 and $79 tix are expensive compared with other acts' lower priced tickets: Depeche Mode @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $93 and $73 (among the closest to Coldplay's price, still $4 less!) Jonas Bros. @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $86, $66 and $47 The Killers @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $81, $56, and $41; Dave Mathews @ Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa): $75 and $67, Greenday's highest priced tix @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $46.5 and $23.50. Of course, it depends on the venue as well. When I invited a co-worker to the Wheatland concert, he angrily responded that he thought that "Coldplay must be pretty full of themselves to charge the prices that they do for concert tickets." I reminded him that they had completely sold out the Shoreline, and that they deserved whatever price people were willing to pay. The fact is that Coldplay now has a very rich repertoire of music that makes their concerts richer than most (4 official albums and many EPs like Prospekt's March.) Coldpaly has now won 7 Grammy awards. Depeche Mode is a close second (in my opinion, though they generally have a "dark" sound, while Coldplay's music is light.) I then told my co-worker about the 2-for-1 sale at the Wheatland show, inviting him to accompany me and another co-worker who were already going. He foolishly shut himself off from experiencing what turned out to be a magical evening, because of his prejudiced view of Coldplay. What I learned from my first concert-going experience is that it doesn't pay to have one's "finger on the mouse" the day the tickets first go on sale. For Wheatland, it paid off handsomely to wait as LiveNation didn't even open up the lower level seats to the public until May, which was 2 months before the concert, and 3 months after the tix first went on sale. I wish I had known of these forums beforehand, and probably would have not wasted $124 on the lousy seats I had at the Shoreline 7/13 show. LiveNation opened up many 100s section seats in the in the first week of May for that show as well. Starfish42 Coldplay = Love
August 2, 200917 yr I'm surprised Tampa hasn't sold out yet, with only 1 week left until the show, and I'm even more surprised that 1/3 of the pit is still available (as of a couple days ago, anyway.) It could reflect the economic times. Shoreline, near San Francisco sold out completely, including the lawn, but Wheatland, which is 2 hours from SF, still had quite a few seats available in the upper section, and Live Nation ended up giving many promotions to sell tickets for that show. By the date of the show, the amphitheatre looked at least 90% full, and there was even quite a large crowd on the lawn, which looked at least half full. First, they added two lower cost reserved seat ticket levels at $40 and $50 (prior there had only been $97 and $79 tickets, not including $27 worth of fees.) Second, they began offering various 2-for-1 sales and family bundles, which helped me afford the tickets. LiveNation graciously split the the "fees" on these 2-1 tix. So, you could essentially get an upper level reserved seat for a total price of only $37. The weekend 10 days before the 7/14/09 show, they offered an unrestricted 2-for-1 sale the whole weekend, and they still had quite a few pit and fantastic seats in the 100s. I essentially got seats whose views were equivalent to front and center box seats at a total cost of $62, fees included! Plus I got a free upgrade to VIP parking for filling out an online survey. I looked at other bands' shows and Coldplay's tickets are among the highest priced, of course because the demand supports it. Coldplay's $97 and $79 tix are expensive compared with other acts' lower priced tickets: Depeche Mode @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $93 and $73 (among the closest to Coldplay's price, still $4 less!) Jonas Bros. @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $86, $66 and $47 The Killers @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $81, $56, and $41; Dave Mathews @ Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa): $75 and $67, Greenday's highest priced tix @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $46.5 and $23.50. Of course, it depends on the venue as well. When I invited a co-worker to the Wheatland concert, he angrily responded that he thought that "Coldplay must be pretty full of themselves to charge the prices that they do for concert tickets." I reminded him that they had completely sold out the Shoreline, and that they deserved whatever price people were willing to pay. The fact is that Coldplay now has a very rich repertoire of music now that makes their concerts richer than most (4 official albums and many EPs, which have won 7 Grammy awards). Depeche Mode is a close second (in my opinion, though they generally have a "dark" sound, while Coldplay's music is light.) I then told my co-worker about the 2-for-1 sale at the Wheatland show, inviting him to accompany me and another co-worker who were already going. He foolishly shut himself off from experiencing what turned out to be a magical evening, because of his prejudiced view of Coldplay. What I learned from my first concert-going experience is that it doesn't pay to have one's "finger on the mouse" the day the tickets first go on sale. For Wheatland, it paid off handsomely to wait as LiveNation didn't even open up the lower level seats to the public until May, which was 2 months before the concert, and 3 months after the tix first went on sale. I wish I had known of these forums beforehand, and probably would have not wasted $124 on the lousy seats I had at the Shoreline 7/13 show. LiveNation opened up many seats in the 100s in the first week fo May for that show as well. Starfish42 Coldplay = Love The Economy is bad now. It's not the way it used to be. I hope the same is true for the U2 tickets. I'm still waiting to buy mine.
August 2, 200917 yr I can't believe it is so effing hot in Central Florida today!!! I just floated in our pool most of the day, Ugggggggggggggggggggg!!! Hey I forgot, 7 MORE DAY"S!!!!! This time next week I shall be in the car!!!!
August 3, 200917 yr Nice, thanks. :) I was thinking...where do you leave your bag while you are jumping and dancing on the Pit? . OHHH I WANT that bag!! :wink3: I normally have my bag on the floor right in front of me, where I can feel it with my foot. It comes out and I open it up when all the butterflies come down. :D
August 3, 200917 yr I'm surprised Tampa hasn't sold out yet, with only 1 week left until the show, and I'm even more surprised that 1/3 of the pit is still available (as of a couple days ago, anyway.) It could reflect the economic times. Shoreline, near San Francisco sold out completely, including the lawn, but Wheatland, which is 2 hours from SF, still had quite a few seats available in the upper section, and Live Nation ended up giving many promotions to sell tickets for that show. By the date of the show, the amphitheatre looked at least 90% full, and there was even quite a large crowd on the lawn, which looked at least half full. First, they added two lower cost reserved seat ticket levels at $40 and $50 (prior there had only been $97 and $79 tickets, not including $27 worth of fees.) Second, they began offering various 2-for-1 sales and family bundles, which helped me afford the tickets. LiveNation graciously split the the "fees" on these 2-1 tix. So, you could essentially get an upper level reserved seat for a total price of only $37. The weekend 10 days before the 7/14/09 show, they offered an unrestricted 2-for-1 sale the whole weekend, and they still had quite a few pit and fantastic seats in the 100s. I essentially got seats whose views were equivalent to front and center box seats at a total cost of $62, fees included! Plus I got a free upgrade to VIP parking for filling out an online survey. I looked at other bands' shows and Coldplay's tickets are among the highest priced, of course because the demand supports it. Coldplay's $97 and $79 tix are expensive compared with other acts' lower priced tickets: Depeche Mode @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $93 and $73 (among the closest to Coldplay's price, still $4 less!) Jonas Bros. @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $86, $66 and $47 The Killers @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $81, $56, and $41; Dave Mathews @ Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa): $75 and $67, Greenday's highest priced tix @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $46.5 and $23.50. Of course, it depends on the venue as well. When I invited a co-worker to the Wheatland concert, he angrily responded that he thought that "Coldplay must be pretty full of themselves to charge the prices that they do for concert tickets." I reminded him that they had completely sold out the Shoreline, and that they deserved whatever price people were willing to pay. The fact is that Coldplay now has a very rich repertoire of music now that makes their concerts richer than most (4 official albums and many EPs, which have won 7 Grammy awards). Depeche Mode is a close second (in my opinion, though they generally have a "dark" sound, while Coldplay's music is light.) I then told my co-worker about the 2-for-1 sale at the Wheatland show, inviting him to accompany me and another co-worker who were already going. He foolishly shut himself off from experiencing what turned out to be a magical evening, because of his prejudiced view of Coldplay. What I learned from my first concert-going experience is that it doesn't pay to have one's "finger on the mouse" the day the tickets first go on sale. For Wheatland, it paid off handsomely to wait as LiveNation didn't even open up the lower level seats to the public until May, which was 2 months before the concert, and 3 months after the tix first went on sale. I wish I had known of these forums beforehand, and probably would have not wasted $124 on the lousy seats I had at the Shoreline 7/13 show. LiveNation opened up many 100s section seats in the in the first week of May for that show as well. Starfish42 Coldplay = Love My husband and I saw Jimmy Buffett in May at Verizon in Irvine - the same venue we just saw Coldplay at. For 2 tickets in the same section as the Coldplay tickets I bought (2 for $247 inc fees), Jimmy Buffett was $317 including fees. And um, I'm taking my ten year old daughter to see Miley Cyrus (yes, I am a GREAT mom) in September, tix for that are $79.95 + fees, bringing the grand total to see a 16 year old sing, to $197.
August 3, 200917 yr I can't believe it is so effing hot in Central Florida today!!! I just floated in our pool most of the day, Ugggggggggggggggggggg!!! Hey I forgot, 7 MORE DAY"S!!!!! This time next week I shall be in the car!!!! It's been hot here, but without all your humidity - our pool temp is up to 89! We have solar heat for it, but it's only supposed to heat it to 85. And in a week from now, we'll be standing front row in the pit. I want to be on Jonny's side with a clear view of Will. :heart: I am so annoyed. While we were on vacation last week, I put my camera on the bench I was sitting on, and it fell off! The metal sloped down and I didn't notice it. It broke my regular lens, so I had to order a new one and pay for express shipping to make sure it gets here before I leave next Saturday. At least it wasn't my zoom lens.
August 3, 200917 yr I'm surprised Tampa hasn't sold out yet, with only 1 week left until the show, and I'm even more surprised that 1/3 of the pit is still available (as of a couple days ago, anyway.) It could reflect the economic times. Shoreline, near San Francisco sold out completely, including the lawn, but Wheatland, which is 2 hours from SF, still had quite a few seats available in the upper section, and Live Nation ended up giving many promotions to sell tickets for that show. By the date of the show, the amphitheatre looked at least 90% full, and there was even quite a large crowd on the lawn, which looked at least half full. First, they added two lower cost reserved seat ticket levels at $40 and $50 (prior there had only been $97 and $79 tickets, not including $27 worth of fees.) Second, they began offering various 2-for-1 sales and family bundles, which helped me afford the tickets. LiveNation graciously split the the "fees" on these 2-1 tix. So, you could essentially get an upper level reserved seat for a total price of only $37. The weekend 10 days before the 7/14/09 show, they offered an unrestricted 2-for-1 sale the whole weekend, and they still had quite a few pit and fantastic seats in the 100s. I essentially got seats whose views were equivalent to front and center box seats at a total cost of $62, fees included! Plus I got a free upgrade to VIP parking for filling out an online survey. I looked at other bands' shows and Coldplay's tickets are among the highest priced, of course because the demand supports it. Coldplay's $97 and $79 tix are expensive compared with other acts' lower priced tickets: Depeche Mode @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $93 and $73 (among the closest to Coldplay's price, still $4 less!) Jonas Bros. @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $86, $66 and $47 The Killers @ Shoreline Amphitheatre: $81, $56, and $41; Dave Mathews @ Ford Amphitheatre (Tampa): $75 and $67, Greenday's highest priced tix @ San Jose HP Pavilion and Sacramento Arco Arena: $46.5 and $23.50. Of course, it depends on the venue as well. When I invited a co-worker to the Wheatland concert, he angrily responded that he thought that "Coldplay must be pretty full of themselves to charge the prices that they do for concert tickets." I reminded him that they had completely sold out the Shoreline, and that they deserved whatever price people were willing to pay. The fact is that Coldplay now has a very rich repertoire of music now that makes their concerts richer than most (4 official albums and many EPs, which have won 7 Grammy awards). Depeche Mode is a close second (in my opinion, though they generally have a "dark" sound, while Coldplay's music is light.) I then told my co-worker about the 2-for-1 sale at the Wheatland show, inviting him to accompany me and another co-worker who were already going. He foolishly shut himself off from experiencing what turned out to be a magical evening, because of his prejudiced view of Coldplay. What I learned from my first concert-going experience is that it doesn't pay to have one's "finger on the mouse" the day the tickets first go on sale. For Wheatland, it paid off handsomely to wait as LiveNation didn't even open up the lower level seats to the public until May, which was 2 months before the concert, and 3 months after the tix first went on sale. I wish I had known of these forums beforehand, and probably would have not wasted $124 on the lousy seats I had at the Shoreline 7/13 show. LiveNation opened up many 100s section seats in the in the first week of May for that show as well. Starfish42 Coldplay = Love You are missing several things in here: 1. The show in Shoreline Amphitheater was not in San Francisco, it was in Mountain View. Cause, the concert was in the Silicon Valley area, tons of billionaires in that area; hence, the concert was sold out. (Everyone in that area has an income over $60K) 2. Please don't worry too much about the shows being sold out! ;) Coldplay members are millionaires and they don't really care if their shows get sold out or not, they just want to cover the show's expenses and get paid what they expect to earn in that show's location. 3. And it's true that they are charging too much for the tickets, I do agree with that. Hopefully they will not become even more and more expensive in the future. Oh, and almost all of U2 shows both in Europe and North America were sold out within minutes. They had made over $120 million in just 10 shows in Europe, and more than 1 million have attended. :smug:
August 3, 200916 yr Oh, and almost all of U2 shows both in Europe and North America were sold out within minutes. They had made over $120 million in just 10 shows in Europe, and more than 1 million have attended. :smug: First off U2's shows are not sold out in the US. There are good seats available. They're almost $300 each but they are there. Most of what's going on at this show is all Live Nation's fault. First they release shit seats and everyone buys those. Then a month or so later, they release better seats and everyone has to put their shit seats up for sale on ebay or Stubhub to buy a better seat. Then even later still, they release PIT tickets after everyone has already bought not one, but two tickets and then they wonder why they aren't selling. Well maybe if you offered all the seats from the begining dipshits, you could sell them! :angry:
August 3, 200916 yr First off U2's shows are not sold out in the US. There are good seats available. They're almost $300 each but they are there. Most of what's going on at this show is all Live Nation's fault. First they release shit seats and everyone buys those. Then a month or so later, they release better seats and everyone has to put their shit seats up for sale on ebay or Stubhub to buy a better seat. Then even later still, they release PIT tickets after everyone has already bought not one, but two tickets and then they wonder why they aren't selling. Well maybe if you offered all the seats from the begining dipshits, you could sell them! :angry: And livenation doesn't always have an accurate seating chart when tix go on sale. That happened at Home Depot Center. They had a standard concert seating chart up when tix went on sale, but when I was online at 10am, I kept getting GA tickets. But we didn't know where GA was - there is a grass berm at the very opposite end of the stadium, which I thought was GA. So when I ended up with floor seats, I grabbed them. Two hours later, livenation had updated the seating chart to indicate that GA was pit right in front of the stage. For the fees they charge, it would be nice if they were better prepared for big concerts like this!
August 3, 200916 yr "If ya Love me.... Won't ya let me know..................... Thank-You, I'll be here all week, tip jar by the door.:D
August 3, 200916 yr ^^haha nice! i just dropped a dollar into the jar :lol: but can't wait to hear that on SUNDAY!! :dance::dance:
August 4, 200916 yr And livenation doesn't always have an accurate seating chart when tix go on sale. That happened at Home Depot Center. They had a standard concert seating chart up when tix went on sale, but when I was online at 10am, I kept getting GA tickets. But we didn't know where GA was - there is a grass berm at the very opposite end of the stadium, which I thought was GA. So when I ended up with floor seats, I grabbed them. Two hours later, livenation had updated the seating chart to indicate that GA was pit right in front of the stage. For the fees they charge, it would be nice if they were better prepared for big concerts like this! Live Nation = :dunce:
August 4, 200916 yr Hey for those of you who are going to be in the pit, follow me on this piece of advice: Do not waste that precious time in just taking pictures and recording videos of the band while you are in there, try to balance it... (I am telling you this from experience) Take pictures and record videos, but remember to enjoy yourselves during the concert. The concert goes so fast and at the end of the show you will be like, huh? It's over...? :( So yeah... follow me on that pit-goers :smiley: thanks!!! hopefully I won't get caught up taking pictures, but I hope to get some amazing close ups!! so the list of pit people as of right now is: Laura, Amy, Mel, Lori and Angie, and me (Kaleigh) am I missing anyone?? soo excited!!! 5 more days ( if my counting isn't off!)
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