kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 looking at that, there is no wall :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaftell Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Yes... but is that where you're sitting? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 no, look at the side, there is no wall where we are sittng on oppisite sides of gm place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm-Edge Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Stop worrying! Its gonna be an amazing weekend! You'll have a view of their asses more or less. No wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 more proof of no wall YAY lolol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaftell Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Oh, I get what you mean. Yes, we should stop worrying. We're going to see Coldplay. That's all that matters! Hahaha, no wall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Side view isnt bad at all. I was side view for Foo Fighters. Afterwards, go down and hound the Rodies for Setlists and other swag! Yeah they'll go to a b-stage for piano solo, then an acoustic c-stage that can be anywhere. Usually between section 108-115 Ahahaha yes that is true and yea WE ARE SEEING COLDPLAY, i dont care where i sit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 I'm playing a very evil game with myself right now... it's called "lets see if any better seats are available now even though theres no way to give up the ones I already purchased." Now youve said that 106 is near the b-stage so thats awesome and Im super excited if thats true. But now Im coming up with row 11 in 119! ACK sitting there would be amazing too!! I was also offered a bunch of pairs on the side... and theres still seats together in 103 available! Im thinking maybe I should have taken them now that Im seeing the pictures!! I was just worried that the view would be horrible and thered be no view of the screens. ack, silly me rushing to get tickets when its almost easier to wait a few hours and be able to see what people have given up after the mad rush at 10am. >_> Id better not keep playing this game though or else Im gonna end up with 5 tickets for both shows and will have to struggle to sell the ones I dont end up wanting along with the ones Im now selling for Portland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Ill see you there! Im section 106 row 4! Just so you know, I think we are very close to the B-stage, the acoustic piano one that is! This made my weekend! I dont remember GM place being so huge, but how many seats are there per row in the sections? Im seat 1, but youre 100 something? :stunned: I wish there was a more detailed seating chart so I could understand better where Im sitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaftell Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Haha, Krystyna! I'm trying not to go back to ticketmaster and see what tickets they have left. Seeing a seat better than mine will tempt me to buy more tickets :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Its an evil game for sure and I dont recommend it... it takes all the excitement out of actually getting to see Coldplay finally! I should just focus on that...not what seats I wont end up sitting in haha. Unfortunately this is a game Im addicted to. Somewhere in the back of my head I keep imaging that first row floor seats magically become available, I nab them and am able to resell my ticket to someone. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 i wonder who the support acts are gonna be :) Kanye west had an amazing line up for the Glow in the Dark tour. Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D, Rihanna. Lets see if coldplay can top that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 i wonder who the support acts are gonna be :) Kanye west had an amazing line up for the Glow in the Dark tour. Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D, Rihanna. Lets see if coldplay can top that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Coldplay tickets not impossible to snag Tickets to see Coldplay's much-anticipated Vancouver shows were not impossible to buy online this morning. You just might be sitting alone. Despite concerns that the tickets could sell out in minutes, snagged by online hackers, a Vancouver Sun reporter was able to get single tickets to the June 20 and 21 show within minutes of online availability at 10 am. Although multiple tickets were more difficult to find, at 10:15 it was still possible to reserve at least two seats for the June 21 show. The Vancouver Sun reported today that hackers are able to program a computer to circumvent Ticketmaster's website security and automatically buy tickets. There are concerns many tickets are not being sold to real fans, but rather to scalpers who post them to on-line ticket auctions. Just before 10 am, there were 163 tickets available at TicketsNow for Coldplay's Vancouver show, ranging in price from $106 to $1284 each. Within 15 minutes of the tickets going on sale on Ticketmaster.com, 40 additional tickets were posted to TicketsNow. http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Coldplay+tickets+impossible+snag/1390449/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Hackers complicate online ticket purchases Software gets past Ticketmaster security, making it difficult for ordinary buyers to get through If you're hoping to score tickets to Coldplay's Vancouver concerts when they go on sale Saturday, you could find yourself up against computer hackers who can order up hundreds and even thousands of tickets in the time it would take you to punch in a single order. Scalpers looking to jump the online queue can program a computer to circumvent Ticketmaster's website security and automatically order tickets at speeds far beyond ones the ordinary buyer could hope to match. But even if the hackers don't get there before you, regular ticket buyers could flood the online ordering site in such numbers that all the tickets could be sold out in minutes, or even in less than a minute depending on how tickets are being released. "Maybe it takes you a minute and a half to click through to buy a ticket, in that minute and a half the hacker could have made 100,000 ticket requests," said Ryan Purita, a forensic examiner and security specialist with Sherlock Forensics. "You cannot beat a hacker script. "Nobody can type that fast and that's where the advantage comes from." Despite the ticket giant's success in getting an injunction against a U.S. company, RMG Technologies, that was selling software to automate ticket purchases through the Ticketmaster site, Purita said the practice is still wide open to any hacker who wants to follow instructions freely available online. "You get rid of one company, so what?" he said. "It doesn't mean the scripts don't exist. "It doesn't mean anyone with a few hours to burn won't be able to do it. While Ticketmaster says it is in a constant "cat and mouse" game trying to keep one step ahead of hackers, chief technology officer Brian Pike said ticket buyers for the June 20 and 21 Coldplay concerts are more likely to find themselves competing against other fans than against a bot (a robot computer) operated by a hacker. "I would like to think there are no bots there, but I know a few get through," he said. "If Coldplay is coming to Vancouver and there are 5,000 or 10,000 people hopping on the website to get tickets, they are outweighing anything the bot might try to do." The effect might be the same for wannabe concert-goers who could find all the tickets sold within minutes, if not seconds of the online sales opening. "When it is put on sale, we could be servicing 1,000 consumers form the very beginning and if 1,000 people get two or three tickets each, that could be thousands of seats handed out in the first few seconds or half-a-minute," Pike said. The first step for hackers wanting to bypass the limitations on ticket sales is defeating the "captcha," which stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart." That's the little box on websites where you have to type in a phrase that supposedly can be recognized only by humans and so is meant to block computer-generated responses. However, captchas can be defeated, and Purita said that allows hackers to automate ticket purchases, masquerading as many buyers with different credit card numbers and mailing addresses. "You want a ticket for the show, you are at the website within five minutes of it opening, and you'd expect to get a ticket," he said. "But they have found a way to blow through it and get as many tickets as they want, and there are none left for anyone else." One computer can deliver multiple requests, each one ordering the maximum number of tickets available for individuals. The hackers also easily block or spoof the IP (Internet protocol) address of the computer making the requests. Purita said hackers are adept at disguising their identity and other distinguishing information such as postal addresses. "They use different addresses, different credit cards and different identities, but it is one person manipulating it." Pike said while he doesn't want to tip off hackers to all the measures the company takes to try to thwart their methods, the company has taken both legal measures and other strategies that have slowed the hackers down. "We increase their costs and decrease their ability to get any real edge against anybody else," he said. "It is definitely a cat-and-mouse game. There's a lot of money in tickets, so we do attract some ingenious people." Pike said the captcha is the first line of defence, and if that succeeds, hackers are reduced to hiring people in Third World countries to type in the captcha. Or they can hire people in a phone room here to make the calls, which raises their cost of doing business. "If they are hiring 20 people, they will be able to get 20 people's worth, but shouldn't be able to get 1,000 people's worth." http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Hackers+complicate+online+ticket+purchases/1388990/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 WOW WTF ticketmaster should really go back like 10 years when we lined up for tickets, instead of this shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 I am so pissed about this and now understand why I was getting so many errors with Ticketmaster this morning. it also explains why the really amazing tickets (front row and the like) never seem to end up in the hands of us real fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 I am so pissed about this and now understand why I was getting so many errors with Ticketmaster this morning. it also explains why the really amazing tickets (front row and the like) never seem to end up in the hands of us real fans. if you really want lololol ticketsnow.com is selling row 6 for 1200 PER:shocked2: i hate ticketmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 if you really want lololol ticketsnow.com is selling row 6 for 1200 PER:shocked2: i hate ticketmaster UGH yeah thats fucking disgusting. I hate that they try to justify it as well. I'd love artists to try to take a bit more control over ticket sales... the fanclub presales worked great back in the day. Id much rather cough up 40-50 extra dollars than 1100!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 UGH yeah thats fucking disgusting. I hate that they try to justify it as well. I'd love artists to try to take a bit more control over ticket sales... the fanclub presales worked great back in the day. Id much rather cough up 40-50 extra dollars than 1100!! This is what ticketmaster should REALLY do. Tickets can only be picked up on the day of the concert. This will cut back on scalping by a huge amount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m81 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 For the x&y tour I was lucky enough to get presale tickets from the coldplay fanclub...I ended up row 22 on the floor! I don't know what happened to the floor seats this morning, but at 10 they were all gone! Quick question...I was able to get section 104 row 22, and was wondering how good these seats are. Coldplay in concert is amazing, but I'm a bit concerned about the seats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystyna Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 judging by the seating chart the seat you have will be absolutely amazing, m81. Just as good as being row 22 on the floor id say except with a better view since youll be elevated a bit above the people infront of you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaybeee Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 i have section 120 row 9, says behind stage, but im not worried. Im going to see coldplay!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm-Edge Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Well to re-assure all of you, Row 1 goes to real fans. Coldplay make sure of that. They buy them for every concert, then give them to rodies to go around and upgrade people, real fans. Based on trivia questions. Next someone said I hade seats in the 100s, GM Place has their seats labled like that. Acer arena is slightly larger then GM Place as well. Any lower bowl seat is better then my Saturday seats. Against the back wall! Nearly as far as you can get! Im also to parinoid about my seats as well. Section 106 is good right? Also I think the B-Stage is shorter then I thought...still Im happy with them, as I should be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an_gelee Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 oh wow looks like a lot of people got section 106 seats. i'm in 106 too. row 10 i heard that black eyed peas are opening up for them. can't wait! it'll be my first concert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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