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Old 12-15-2018, 09:47 AM
 
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So my mom would literally cut off her legs to see her. What a great Christmas present! The day it was announced, I registered as a "fan" to get access to presale tickets. I was wait-listed. Never got off the wait list, so no presale for me.

Tickets officially went on sale this morning at 10:00. I logged on at 9:30 and was put in a virtual waiting room. I was granted access at 10:01. Tickets already sold out. Oh, but Vivid Tickets had hundreds available for sale at 10:05, starting at 10 times the face value.

This pisses me off so much. No way for regular people to get tickets to these events.
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Old 12-15-2018, 09:51 AM
 
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Yeah. The bots and ticket farms out there snatch all these things.

Prices will adjust slightly, but if you know anyone in the hospitality industry you might be able to weasel something at 2x face.

ETA:

You can get them for $175 off stubhub for Monday the 17th in Dallas...

Parking passes alone are going for $75 in Portland.
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Old 12-15-2018, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Interesting! One of the VERY first threads I came across when we were moving here over a decade ago:

Hanna Montana tickets were SOLD OUT in minutes!!!!!! People were livid!!! I had no idea who she was.

The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Old 12-15-2018, 10:07 AM
 
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Interesting! One of the VERY first threads I came across when we were moving here over a decade ago:

Hanna Montana tickets were SOLD OUT in minutes!!!!!! People were livid!!! I had no idea who she was.

The more things change, the more they stay the same
This tour sold out nationwide within minutes.
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Old 12-15-2018, 10:08 AM
 
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My brother and I are still wanting to get tickets for her for Christmas. Cheapest resale I can find is $206. And those are tickets with an original face value of $29. One resale site is boasting, "Only 589 tickets left!" So, yeah, basically every ticket was bought by scalpers using bots to buy them up. Even the presale, which was designed to prevent this. We're going to wait to see how much they start showing up on Stub Hub for (none available there yet). Dallas and Houston would be kind of hard for her to get to. She may be able to do Houston, but those prices are about the same. BTW, I heard the Houston show sold out in 3 minutes. There's got to be a way to stop the bots from buying up all the tickets.
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Old 12-15-2018, 01:31 PM
 
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My brother and I are still wanting to get tickets for her for Christmas. Cheapest resale I can find is $206. And those are tickets with an original face value of $29. One resale site is boasting, "Only 589 tickets left!" So, yeah, basically every ticket was bought by scalpers using bots to buy them up. Even the presale, which was designed to prevent this. We're going to wait to see how much they start showing up on Stub Hub for (none available there yet). Dallas and Houston would be kind of hard for her to get to. She may be able to do Houston, but those prices are about the same. BTW, I heard the Houston show sold out in 3 minutes. There's got to be a way to stop the bots from buying up all the tickets.
A lot of them are ticket farms. Every step taken to require human interaction in the event can be overridden by prospectors.

The only way to do it is go old school and require in person ticket sales.
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Old 12-15-2018, 03:21 PM
 
Location: SW Austin & Wimberley
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A lot of them are ticket farms. Every step taken to require human interaction in the event can be overridden by prospectors.

The only way to do it is go old school and require in person ticket sales.
Even then, back in the 1970s/80s and probably before, my friends and I would stand in lines to buy concert tickets for a reseller. Seems like technology would have a solution to this that can't be defeated by bots.
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Old 12-15-2018, 03:29 PM
 
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Even then, back in the 1970s/80s and probably before, my friends and I would stand in lines to buy concert tickets for a reseller. Seems like technology would have a solution to this that can't be defeated by bots.
Maybe Aaron has it right. No pre-sales, gotta get in line, no guarantees.

Think of the line parties! It’d be like ancient days of album releases.
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Old 12-16-2018, 08:51 AM
 
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I remember sleeping overnight outside waiting to by U2 tickets back in the late 80's. There were people who were paid by scalpers to wait in line, but not thousands of them. Just wouldn't be cost effective. I lived in Pennsylvania back then, and ticket scalping was also illegal. And the internet didn't exist. So reselling tickets wasn't as easy. Now brokers set up bots to literally buy thousands of tickets at once and then freely sell them online.
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Old 12-16-2018, 10:50 AM
 
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I remember sleeping overnight outside waiting to by U2 tickets back in the late 80's. There were people who were paid by scalpers to wait in line, but not thousands of them. Just wouldn't be cost effective. I lived in Pennsylvania back then, and ticket scalping was also illegal. And the internet didn't exist. So reselling tickets wasn't as easy. Now brokers set up bots to literally buy thousands of tickets at once and then freely sell them online.
Exactly. Even with the internet, they wouldn’t be able to do what they can do today.
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