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Any Parrotheads out there? We tried to get tix this morning for the Buffett concert at Volvo Car Stadium. They went on sale at exactly 10:00 am. I was into the ticket selection webpage 5 seconds later, and ALL reserved seating was gone. All general admission seats were gone after about 2.5 minutes. We've been to 40+ Buffett concerts, a number of them at small venues. We know full well tickets can be hard to come by, but never were reserved seats not available within the first minute.
Does anyone know whether large blocks were offered to the local Parrothead clubs? We noticed there were plenty of tix being offered on StubHub and Craigslist by 8am this morning. That sux.
The only concert or event ticket pre-sale at the Volvo Stadium that Im aware of .. is to Daniel Island residents... 24-48 hours before tickets go on sale to the general public ....by using a special resident code for online and telephone purchases and usually limited to 4 tickets.
Not related to Buffet but I wanted tickets to Dave Chapelle. Charleston's two shows sold out in five minutes. (They then added two more)...but I was able to get in and had great seats for the show in Columbia 10 minutes into sales.
Jimmy Buffett's concerts are consistently good and consistently sell out quickly.
You think? Maybe that's why we've bought them at least once a year for the past 30+ years. We're experienced in the Ticketmaster drill, and never before have we ever encountered exactly 0 reserved seat tix available in less than a minute after online sales opened. And yet today, they are plastered all over the Internet for sale at 5-10 times their face value. Last nite, WCSC-TV promised to look into viewer's complaints about the ticket sales. Their report? "Be careful when you buy tickets from scalpers."
So nothing was rigged/unfair. It all came down to who could click the fastest/internet speed/refresh rate/CPU processor.
The only mistake was allowing 6000 tickets to be sold. Maybe next time they should move it to the North Charleston Colosseum (13,000+ capacity).
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That sux.
Maybe that's why we've bought them at least once a year for the past 30+ years. We're experienced in the Ticketmaster drill, and never before have we ever encountered exactly 0 reserved seat tix available in less than a minute after online sales opened. And yet today, they are plastered all over the Internet for sale at 5-10 times their face value. Last nite, WCSC-TV promised to look into viewer's complaints about the ticket sales. Their report? "Be careful when you buy tickets from scalpers." 
