Secrets to getting good concert tickets ?

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  • Brujah
    Beer Money Baron
    • Jan 2001
    • 22157

    #1

    Secrets to getting good concert tickets ?

    Tickets go on sale Monday for a concert. Anyone have tips or strategies on getting good tickets quickly ?
  • quiet
    we'll miss you our friend. RIP
    • Sep 2001
    • 25115

    #2
    i've always used sweetseats.com - but they seemed to be fucked up right now (the database).
    we'll miss you our friend. RIP

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    • Krille
      Confirmed User
      • Mar 2002
      • 2436

      #3
      be the first one at the ticket office?

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      • Nat
        Confirmed User
        • Sep 2001
        • 553

        #4
        booking throw the net perhaps?

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        • eroswebmaster
          March 1st, 2003
          • Jul 2001
          • 20295

          #5
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          • beemk
            CLICK HERE
            • Jan 2002
            • 20829

            #6
            buy them scalped for more $. generally they reserve all the good seats for the whoever is performing's comp tickets and whoever works there or whatever. i've gone to sold out shows at the last minute and got 2nd or third row because they still had comp tickets left over.
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            • bopha
              Confirmed User
              • Sep 2002
              • 1882

              #7
              I hate the surcharge that the ticket outlets make you pay per ticket.

              In our area, unless you go down to the venue, you will pay it.

              Sometimes the performer has the good tickets for sale on their website. If you join their club you can buy the preferred seating.

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              • emmanuelle
                Confirmed User
                • Mar 2003
                • 3662

                #8
                I went to a hockey game the other night (GO HABS GO) ; bought the tix online through their site, picked them up at the box office, and still baid two different handling fees.

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                • stevo
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 2051

                  #9
                  I just bought some Aerosmith tickets for a friend. I went to ticketmaster a day after tickets were released and they were allready at the nose bleed sections. I found a couple of decent expensive floor seats auctioning online, but ebay definitely had the cheapest and best seats available!

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                  • JunkyardDog
                    Confirmed User
                    • May 2001
                    • 788

                    #10
                    It used to be online, but now everyone does it.

                    It was great the first year of ticketmaster as you could scoop front tickets easily

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                    • IPK
                      Confirmed User
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 4209

                      #11
                      tickets for what show / band?
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                      • Sosa
                        In Tushy Land
                        • Oct 2002
                        • 40149

                        #12
                        go stand in line at the ticket office the night before

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                        • Ross
                          Ik ben een aap
                          • Sep 2002
                          • 18874

                          #13
                          My tip is this:

                          Get to know the manager of the box office. My friends, girlfriends uncle is best friends with the manager of the box office at the biggest concert arena in Scotland

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                          • Brujah
                            Beer Money Baron
                            • Jan 2001
                            • 22157

                            #14
                            Originally posted by IPK
                            tickets for what show / band?
                            Boy George and Wham. Wanna go ?

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                            • Ash@phpFX
                              Confirmed User
                              • Nov 2003
                              • 4292

                              #15
                              Originally posted by bopha
                              I hate the surcharge that the ticket outlets make you pay per ticket.

                              In our area, unless you go down to the venue, you will pay it.

                              Sometimes the performer has the good tickets for sale on their website. If you join their club you can buy the preferred seating.
                              yeah, got tickets to metallica one week before the public did because i was a member of their fan club. the fucking things sold out in 45 minutes after they were released to the public

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                              • davidd
                                Confirmed User
                                • Jul 2003
                                • 1076

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Brujah
                                Tickets go on sale Monday for a concert. Anyone have tips or strategies on getting good tickets quickly ?
                                If TicketMaster is doing the sale, then do this:

                                On the day and minute the tickets go on sale, call a Ticketmaster 4 states away in the same time zone. All of the people light up the phones on their local (in state) Ticketmaster, but no one calls any of the ones in other states. The logic is, no one in Virginia is rushing to go to a show in Florida.

                                Works all the time, you will get 2nd and 3rd row seats using the above method.

                                Or, find out who the promoter is. If you have a pedigree of coolness, the promoter will hook you up.

                                -dd
                                Last edited by davidd; 02-27-2004, 08:15 AM.

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                                • reynold
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Oct 2002
                                  • 51271

                                  #17
                                  i used to be online or i go to the ticket booth

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                                  • Mr. Marks
                                    Confirmed User
                                    • Jun 2001
                                    • 7517

                                    #18
                                    Go get them early. Buy by bulk, they might give you discounts when you but 10 or more tickets.

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                                    • Paul Waters
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Mar 2003
                                      • 4402

                                      #19
                                      Blow the morning man of the radio station promoting the concert.



                                      Paul

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