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  1. You didn't know that happened? Happens on the UK version of Ticketmaster.
  2. It had never happened this blatantly here in Spain.
  3. Ticket scalping is at an all time worst it's almost impossible to get any seats at all to popular acts , let alone good seats. It seems it's completely unregulated and only getting worse. Something needs to be done. It's like if I bought all the milk from the store, and then charged all my neighbors 10x the amount. I'm sure id get in trouble really quick. Yet these scumbags do it freely.
  4. AMEN. It just drives me mad and makes me feel powerless. Bastards.
  5. Powerless is a great way to describe the feeling. It's awful.
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong:No luck for the moment, this has been the craciest and dirtiest sale I've taken part of in my life... Ticketmaster associates and other ticket sale stores employees have got plenty (hundreds) of tickets a few minutes in advance to the general sale. Disgusting.




    Translation: El Corte Inglés (one of the biggest commercial chains in Spain, which has a ticket sale service of their own, independant from Ticketmaster) employees queing to get U2 tickets before doors were opened to the rest of us to buy tickets.


  7. That really sucks. I was feeling the same way, helpless, for the London & Paris shows. Until I discovered AXS & had a bit of luck.

    Only good I can see coming out of these higher ticket prices & the lower demand, is that some scalpers are going to get screwed. Well, in the US anyway, where demand seems lower. Unfortunately, for Europe, I guess the scalpers will make a killing in some markets.

    It's just infuriating that it is no longer just individual scumbags scalping, but the corporations are in on it too. With TM & others having their own secondary market sites, & while blocks of tickets gone before the sales even begin.

    I already had such little respect for these companies, before this tour began to be sold. Who knew it could of actually gotten worse.
  8. It's a corrupt world we live in.
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:No luck for the moment, this has been the craciest and dirtiest sale I've taken part of in my life... Ticketmaster associates and other ticket sale stores employees have got plenty (hundreds) of tickets a few minutes in advance to the general sale. Disgusting.




    Translation: El Corte Inglés (one of the biggest commercial chains in Spain, which has a ticket sale service of their own, independant from Ticketmaster) employees queing to get U2 tickets before doors were opened to the rest of us to buy tickets.


    but if no one buys their tickets ... this problem will delate itself


  10. Too bad this isn't going to be an issue. Smaller venue means less tickets means smaller chance of free tickets.
  11. Problem is that desperate fans WILL eventually buy them, whatever $€£ amount the scalpers ask for. That is the problem.

    When tickets for the first shows went on sale, I started a campaign to inform not-so-experienced fans that scalper tickets, specially with print@home tix, are NOT safe. People might not listen to your "scalping is shit because bla bla" stuff and get tix from scalpers anyway, but if you warn them that tickets may be false, their alarms go out and they start listening to you.

    I just wish scalpers would die altogether.
  12. Unfortunately I have supported scalpers through the TM resale for the US dates because for some of the shows, I've had no other choice. I'm flying all the way to Chicago, Boston and NYC to see the band and missed a ticket in the general sales because of the insane demand (public and scalpers, whatever it was, the NYC shows were unlike anything I have ever seen). So I bought ones at hugely inflated prices on the TM resale site because I had no other choice. I wish there was another way but there just wasn't for me this time around. The first time in my entire life that I've ever had to buy a scalped ticket.
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