^I told her to create a thread for it after seeing her post in 3 threads ;)

"Question for you all.....Why is it that you all think that Coldplay doesnt have a fan club fo its true and genuine fans. We are the folks that would go crazy for them and really deserve the BEST seats and the opportunities for meet and greets...not just the schmucks with alot of money. We really need a true fan club with announcements for true coldplay fans! We shouldnt have had such a difficult time getting Pit tickets being we did all the research and drove ourselves crazy with ticketrush and livenation.....presale means nothing these days with the wasy scalpers work. They run the show. I got decent seats....sec 100 row s....not terrible but I feel I should have done better. What do you guys think??"

 

The problem with that is that with a band as popular as Coldplay, even having a fanclub doesn't preclude the logistical problems swamping modern ticket sales. I remember when U2 first launched pre-sale preferred ticketing to fans during the Vertigo tour. Many thousands more "fans" signed up (and paid the fee" than most venues had seating, so huge numbers of fans still got shut out. Additionally, the general public was upset as virtually the whole first leg of the North American tour sold out before even the regular pre-sale. Unfourtunately, Coldplay is so popular at the moment, that no matter what they do, there will still be difficulties with ticketing.

 

"the problem is the scalpers who have 20 seats in a row 12 rows back front and center. how does that happen?"

 

Based on what I've heard that does seem to be the case for many east coast shows, but appearently not so much so for the shows in the midwest, as I know many people who managed to snag great seats for these shows at face value, without many of the frustrations experienced by prospective buyers in other regions.

These days it's common practice for the best tickets in the house to be kept aside from the general sale, either to be sold via a scalping site or put up for auction. Sometimes the band gets some good seats kept aside for competition winners or for people on the guest-list.

 

And there is nothing you can really do about it, the ticket companies are bastards who will do anything for a fast buck.

 

For example the recent case of Bruce Springsteen against Ticketmaster, where ticketmaster was automatically re-routing people who wanted tickets for a show to their secondary ticket site where tickets were available at 3x value.

And alot of these amphitheater venues have season ticketholders, so they already are locked into seats. Some of them will put their tickets on StubHub if they don't go to all the shows. I got one of them for an RH show and when the ticket came, it was a season holder ticket and also came w. a VIP parking pass. Live Nation is always contacting me to buy a season ticket for the two Amp's around here. It is some high price in the thousands, so I could never buy. But if I add up all the tickets I have purchased in one year to get good seats, it is amazing how much money I have spent! :/

Ahhh as you can see from my profile I am very new to this whole forum thing...didnt htink posting a simple question a couple times would offend anyone. I was just asking what people thought. Excuseee Moi. ;P. But thanks for the forum etiquette update

"And alot of these amphitheater venues have season ticketholders, so they already are locked into seats. Some of them will put their tickets on StubHub if they don't go to all the shows. I got one of them for an RH show and when the ticket came, it was a season holder ticket and also came w. a VIP parking pass. Live Nation is always contacting me to buy a season ticket for the two Amp's around here. It is some high price in the thousands, so I could never buy. But if I add up all the tickets I have purchased in one year to get good seats, it is amazing how much money I have spent! :/"

 

Add to that that most amphiteater venues only have around 9,000-10,000 reserved seats (with the balance being lawn seating) and you end up with a lot less reserved ticket seats available than in comprable sized indoor arenas.

 

EDIT: Looking on the Live nation website, it seems that for most of their amphitheater venues the entire lower front center section of the reserved seating is reserved for season/VIP ticketholders, so this probably explains why the only place these seats seem to be for sale is on re-sale sites.

I'm still a little bitter about this whole deal. :cry: I bought presale tickets a month ago now, and I just checked and there are still WAY better seats available than I was offered. Totally stinks! My credit card still hasn't posted the charges even though I've confirmed with Livenation/Ticketmaster that the tix are mine (I printed them at home so I have them in hand). I wonder if I could exchange or something since I haven't technically paid for them? My seats are decent, but like someone else said, I just want to see them once really close up!

And I'd love to hear about the roadies asking trivia questions...how would one find them?! Should I make a tee shirt that says, "I have crap seats but I'm a huge fan...ask me anything!"?