Also I'm not THRILLED about blowing $230 on a festival that we know 0 bands on the lineup yet.
And I'd kill to get ten rows back at a ticket sale. I refresh refresh at the minute before ticket sales and generally end up with pretty terrible seats anyway. The scalping industry in the US is obscene and disgusting.
Scalping industry is huge and equally despicable here. Fucking bastards. ALL tickets must be signed-for like Glastonbury and similars (only one ticket for person, two maximum, and with the buyer's details written on them so nobody but him/her can access the venue with that ticket)
I know. Ten rows back doesn't worry me usually but when you have sock puppets in front of you that constantly bang into you (I'm all for getting into it, but really), it becomes terribly irritating and frustrating (and only there for Poison - urgh). Same with Duran Duran last week - bloody arms in the way of you. You know no bands there yet? Surely by now if you're selling tickets you should confirm before you do it, you know. Useless ticket companies as per usual.
The worst scalping incident from memory - some idiot decided AC/DC would be fantastic to allow people on one credit card to buy 16 tickets at once. Oh yes. Result - I miss out. Scalpers' heaven but really.
Thats why the early ones are discounted, cause you take a chance with them. But once they sell out, the regulars automatically go on sale. Im not taking a chance of those selling out, even though they routinely take a month or two to completely go.
sorry to hear that, dude 