i just bought two GA tickets for the u2 concert may 1st at the target center in Minneapolis. I can’t believe it.
I am in absolute awe of the amount of manpower put into attempting to buy and correctly selling more than 200,000 tickets in one morning (14 shows).. I got incredibly lucky and ended up with the first random draw number at the ticketmaster outlet i was at.. even that didn’t guarantee GA tickets (!). I suppse sales of this sort have been going on for some time now.. but i’ve never had to deal with trying to get tickets for a show of this magnitude and popularity before. unreal.
I bought my tickets and drove home approx. 15 minutes away and immediately checked ticketmaster.com to see how the sale was going. First incredible event: the website worked. I would love to see a usage graph for ticketmaster.com on mornings like this.. i cannot believe it was working, and even relatively quickly. Second incredible event: basically everything was gone! Sure, you could get a few remaining seat pairs at the opposite end of the arena (more than a half mile away i believe).. or you could get a few single seats.. but these will all be sold momentarily as well. I figure tickets were being sold at somewhere around 500-700+ tickets per minute.. possibly more. Third incredible event: this show sold *slowly*. Since this was pretty cool to watch I read about a few other dates/venues where people had done everything within their power to get *any* ticket with no luck.
and finally. the prices. $46 ($50 something after ticketmaster) for my floor without chair ticket, already listed on ticketsplus (some sort of organized scalping?) at $199. Thats the cheap one. Almost the entire lower circle in the arena is $130 per seat!.. ! Almost the entire upper circle (we’re talking a long ways away here..) excluding seats behind the stage ($46) is $85! They are making bank.
Karma did me good today.. thank you thank you thank you.
and by the way.. liquid grand opening was great fun ;).
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