martha
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Wish they would play other hot tourist destinations...say, like Boise, Idaho.
Make things easier for me; probably others too.
I loved Boise. And if it were in summer, I would go to Boise to see U2 so damn fast.
Wish they would play other hot tourist destinations...say, like Boise, Idaho.
Make things easier for me; probably others too.
Tulsa only has 40 tickets left for sale, theve gone really quick the past couple of days. Must be promoting it there
St. Louis has space in the 4 lower tier corners. Some of these seats are still really expensive, probably get dropped to sell the arena out completely
San Jose 2 has maybe 100-150 seats left to sell. Again they will probably come down and go over the next few days
Still plenty of tickets left in the upper tier at la 2. Prices have been dropped and they are selling.
Omaha still has a fair way to go but you can tell tickets are selling, stil GA left here though
Washington has availability in all 4 corners
New York 3 has a lot of upper tier spaces
Chicago 2 only has 100-200 seats left I'd say, sold really well over the past week or so
Looking at how tickets sell after the price drop and closer to gig day nearly all of these will be sell outs. If it isn't sold out your not going to be able to tell as it's going to be nearly full
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360 was 9 years ago and on the heals of one of the band's most successful albums.
Hardly a valid comparison.
When I say 360 came in the heals of one of U2's most successful albums i mean that it was the first tour after the Bomb/Leave Behind era - meaning they were only one album and 4 years removed from a mega smash hit.Ok, you are right that comparing with a tour 9 years ago is less valid. (but 360 was after NLOTH, definately not one of their most succesful albums.) Let's compare it with the tour 3 years ago. In 2015, 660.000 tickets were sold within a day! Of course, many of those for European shows. But including 4 times MSG, 2 times Boston. The amount of shows in those 2 cities got doubled later. The demand was quite big there, and the band was promoting a new album.
I don't buy it that people don't wanna go, because they don't wanna hear the new songs and only the classics. There are always plenty of classics, and people who have been to a U2 show before know they always get a fantastic show.
But after 2015, U2 toured the Joshua Tree and now again the IE-tour. 3 tours in the US within 4 years! And then the huge pricing of tickets, sold in a complicated verified fan system. I think those are the reasons that many people skip this time. Many don't wanna pay 350 dollars for a ticket while they already saw U2 2 times in the last 3 years...
We have to remember that there were several Elevation shows where the demand was low enough that they blocked off the rear stage seating. Including 2 shows I went to (Columbus and Indianapolis). .
1500 tickets ,thats alot considering that most of the tickets are over 300 bucks.
Those scumbag scalpers will never give up ,they will keep buying tickets .
Is there even a method to their mass buying ,they seem to be selling the 40 bucks seats for below face value in a good few venues.
Those scumbags seem to just buy up tickets so as to take them off the open market even if they wont make any money on them.
If something sells out immediately, that's means lots of money was left on the table, and into the pockets of scalpers.
Live nation is taking the "can't beat em join em" approach. You don't see resellers selling out of tickets... They have inventory right up to and even after the show. It's just how it's done to maximize profit.
Say you have a garage sale, and it's down to the last hour and you have a few unsold items. At that point, you're willing to lower your prices and bargain with people just so you can get rid of those last few items and at least get SOME money out of it, even if it's less than you hoped. That's what U2/LN are doing here. They'll get butts in those seats, even if they have to lower the rear stage upper to $10.
It still surprises how many fans don't think LN/TM and scalper sites are all in bed with one another. The O2 arena has a Stubhub office on their property. SH and TM computers are tied together(anything on SH will be removed once the bar code is scanned). In 2015 I bought a pairof row 4 tickets behind Edge's kids a week before the Vancouver opening on TM, that were previously on a major resale site for months at $1,200 each.
Madonna has also thrown unsold scalper stock beack into TM for sale at face value the days before the show.
The Paradise Papers leak revealed that "high volume ticket sellers" don't pay anywhere near the same commissions as "regular scalpers".
Canadian scalper's multimillion-dollar StubHub scheme exposed in Paradise Papers | CBC News
The problem is it trains fans to think the habit of waiting to buy tickets will be rewarded with the best deals.
https://www.pollstar.com/article/a-case-study-in-pricing-taylor-swift-134137
Pollstar did a good piece about "long-tail" ticket marketing on big tours like Swift's current tour.
I think part of the problem with the ticket sales for Omaha was that that date was announced so much later than the others and most people already had tickets for other cities like Chicagoo. I got tickets for Chicago when they went on sale for presale. I didn’t t want to get Omaha tickets when they first went on sale due to it being so close to the Chicago date and my friend and I are too short to GA. Both cities are about 4.5 -5 hrs away from me, just in different directions. Another problem with the Omaha ticket sales is that Ticketmaster waited too long to reduce the platinum/Vip tickets and had WAY too many of them.
Probably only about 100 tickets, there or there abouts left for Omaha, so it will go down as a sell out definitely.
Lower levels are a mixed price $170 and $325
I'm seeing over 600.
But they should move most with the new prices, especially on a Saturday night.