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  1. Originally posted by Pipo:So since U2 is prettig prettictable in their setlists, i get you want to see then like two maybe three times a tour. But there are folks who want to see the exact sqme show multiple times and even travel the world for it. Why? There are bands whi do realy rotate their setlist and have normale ticket prices.
    Yeah but they didn't write Where The Streets Have No Name.

  2. In regards to the ticket pricing it’s very hard to argue with the prices they’ve went for. Yes the highest price seats are expensive and yes there is quite a lot of them. However, look at some of the shows selling out, and on the resale sites it looks like it’s the lower price seats that the scalpers are selling for well over the odds. There isn’t too many of the expensive seats on resale sites so people are willing to pay the money. My dad wants to go to the Amsterdam show and even all the vip stuff seems to be gone so if you’re products worth something and a lot of people are willing to pay it you’d be foolish not to charge the amounts they are. Plus if they did have cheaper tickets it would just lead to some of the shows that haven’t sold out, (ie London where you can still buy the expensive seats) being sold out and with scalpers being able to charge even more on the resale sites. The one thing I do take issue with is livenation who have admitted now selling tickets directly to resale sites, that is wrong but that’s nothing to do with pricing.

  3. So they have basically lumped Innocence in with the Retail and O2 priority presales by having them all at the same time.
    I know they will have separate allocations but whats the logic in scheduling them all at the same time ?
    Another sly strategy to get people to buy the expensive seats as they will be txixt and between with the different presales ?
    These guys really are the pits .

    Whats the logic of even having these presales start at 10am ,so they can disrupt peoples work days ,these presales should be on in the evening ,the best tickets will be gone in minutes anyway.

    And U2.com say in their email that there will be announcements on the Irish dates in the coming days ,they had better not try and spring them on us with a few days notice of presales .
  4. Retailers communicate about that, not U2.com. U2.com also doesn’t communicate about O2/LiveNation presales, yet they happen.

    Retail presale is at 10 local time on Wednesday.
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong:I have been buying tickets online since I was 15 years old (2005), including very very high demand shows like Muse 2015, U2 Dublin 2015 and U2 Dublin 2017. Not bragging, but I consider myself to be pretty skilled when it comes to buying tickets. I have my tricks, some of them widely known and some a bit more obscure. I always get the tickets I'm looking for, with no exceptions. Sometimes it's rather easy, and sometimes it requires a bit more efforts like trying with several devices, a web script, etc.

    And in 13 years buying tix online I hadn't seen such a rigged, impossible-to-get-through sale as I saw yesterday. Shows being declared sold out while most of the fans were still in the virtual queues? Thousands of clearly overpriced 218€ seats being sold in 2 minutes in markets where 218€ mean more than a 25% of a monthly wage? Dozens of fans from at least 12 countries all trying and all of them getting NOTHING AT ALL? I get that GAs fly away rather quickly and if you don't get through the virtual queue in the first seconds of the sale, then you're pretty much not being able to get them. Also, presales take up an ever-increasing percentage of the tickets, and the quota available for general sale is smaller and smaller each tour. But what I saw yesterday exceeds all logic.

    All this ticket business is rigged and cooked from the ground to the top, and I'm not surprised that a good few of experienced, long-term fans (some of them attending shows from 1992 and 1987) have told me they're stepping out of the train and are not keen on being trampled and fooled anymore, and are determined to stop seeing U2 live. It's really sad. I wish I had the strength to follow their steps and give a big middle finger to Livenation, Ticketmaster and the U2 Corporation. I wish.



    I waited 6 minutes in the virtual queue for Hamburg and all GA were gone; I was greeted with a massive banner advertising GA for 400€ on a Ticketmaster-owned resale site...
  7. Retail presale is at 10 local time on Wednesday.


    Hi Remy, where have you seen it is 10am for album presale? I can't see anything on TM UK even using links from last presale. I've got an unused album code and not seen any mails.

    O2 presale in UK looks to be 31st at 12pm, so 2 hrs after innocence.
    Live nation is 9 am on 1st Feb.

    Hopefully album one is staggered, say 11am.

    Looks like a morning off work, again!
  8. Originally posted by Remy:[..]
    Retailers communicate about that, not U2.com. U2.com also doesn’t communicate about O2/LiveNation presales, yet they happen.

    Retail presale is at 10 local time on Wednesday.
    Ahhh cheers Remy
  9. Originally posted by Fano:[..]

    So they have basically lumped Innocence in with the Retail and O2 priority presales by having them all at the same time.
    I know they will have separate allocations but whats the logic in scheduling them all at the same time ?
    Another sly strategy to get people to buy the expensive seats as they will be txixt and between with the different presales ?
    These guys really are the pits .

    Whats the logic of even having these presales start at 10am ,so they can disrupt peoples work days ,these presales should be on in the evening ,the best tickets will be gone in minutes anyway.

    And U2.com say in their email that there will be announcements on the Irish dates in the coming days ,they had better not try and spring them on us with a few days notice of presales .
    Re the Irish dates - a few days' advance warning for the presales seems to be the way of things so, unfortunately, why would these shows be any different? For these shows, I'm guessing this could be the pattern:

    Belfast: subscriber presales (Experience, Innocence) / possible SSE customer presale prior to general sale.
    Dublin: subscriber presales (Experience, Innocence) / 3 customer presale prior to general sale.

    Did I miss any potential retail presales there?! Don't think there'll be any O2 ones in Ireland.
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:I have been buying tickets online since I was 15 years old (2005), including very very high demand shows like Muse 2015, U2 Dublin 2015 and U2 Dublin 2017. Not bragging, but I consider myself to be pretty skilled when it comes to buying tickets. I have my tricks, some of them widely known and some a bit more obscure. I always get the tickets I'm looking for, with no exceptions. Sometimes it's rather easy, and sometimes it requires a bit more efforts like trying with several devices, a web script, etc.

    And in 13 years buying tix online I hadn't seen such a rigged, impossible-to-get-through sale as I saw yesterday. Shows being declared sold out while most of the fans were still in the virtual queues? Thousands of clearly overpriced 218€ seats being sold in 2 minutes in markets where 218€ mean more than a 25% of a monthly wage? Dozens of fans from at least 12 countries all trying and all of them getting NOTHING AT ALL? I get that GAs fly away rather quickly and if you don't get through the virtual queue in the first seconds of the sale, then you're pretty much not being able to get them. Also, presales take up an ever-increasing percentage of the tickets, and the quota available for general sale is smaller and smaller each tour. But what I saw yesterday exceeds all logic.

    All this ticket business is rigged and cooked from the ground to the top, and I'm not surprised that a good few of experienced, long-term fans (some of them attending shows from 1992 and 1987) have told me they're stepping out of the train and are not keen on being trampled and fooled anymore, and are determined to stop seeing U2 live. It's really sad. I wish I had the strength to follow their steps and give a big middle finger to Livenation, Ticketmaster and the U2 Corporation. I wish.

    I bought my first U2 ticket in 1997´, my last in 2010´.
    There wont be another one ever, these days they are obviously just out to make the biggest amount of money they can get. They are so packed, it's not even funny anymore, but they still have to milk the fans as much as it gets. i can't support this anymore. I wished their new albums were any good, but even that's not the case(At least to me.). So, why should i support them anymore?
  11. YES. They have changed the times once again. I will be asking the promoter personally on Monday just to make sure, there's been 2 changes already (first it was at 9 AM, then at 10 AM, now at noon. Surreal).
  12. Originally posted by BonoVox05:[..]
    I bought my first U2 ticket in 1997´, my last in 2010´.
    There wont be another one ever, these days they are obviously just out to make the biggest amount of money they can get. They are so packed, it's not even funny anymore, but they still have to milk the fans as much as it gets. i can't support this anymore. I wished their new albums were any good, but even that's not the case(At least to me.). So, why should i support them anymore?
    Yeah. I even wonder why you're a member of U2 fansites, it's all messed up.
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