Originally posted by Happy24:[..]
I see, good to know that sometimes it actually still works. I know it didn't work this year (yeasterday) with Gilmour (I actually managed to grab really great tickets for both nights in Vienna), and I was surprised it didn't work for The Rolling Stones in 2014. In those cases (and surely many other) the ticket alarm mail only contained the information about the start of the regular sale. Or well, for The Stones in Berlin there was a special pre-sale for those who have ordered the German Bild for 0,99 E beforehand, which was the only way how to get good or even decent tickets (or maybe the gig was even sold-out in the Bild pre-sale, if not, then almost). After that one un-subscribed the Bild and it really only cost those 0,99 E. How crazy is that? There was no pre-sale for Vienna.
And I would not call those U2 pre-sales Eventim fan-presales, those had nothing to do with the ticketalarm, it was rally the U2.com stuff, eventhough it was run via eventim of course... But wait, now I remember, that it was actually at some point possible to buy a ticket + a membership on eventim, right? That was strange :-)
But again, it is good to know those ticket alarms still might get me an early access to tickets, I have to check my mailbox for ticket alarms more often now when we can expect some Springsteen news :-) - I have actually bought tickets to several Springsteen shows in those Eventim fan pre-sales before.