Team blink-182, where ya'll at?

Hopefully that's the same password for June 3rd presales. For those that bought with presale what's the most tickets you can buy? I'm probablygonna need 5 tickets and I don't want to deal with the regular sale date since I'll be out of town.
 
So presale is pretty much going to be available to the entire world/anyone with limited knowledge of finding something on Google? That kind of defeats thepurpose of a limited presale.
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And you can buy up to 8 tickets with the presale. This is awesomely pointless
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June 3rd sucks though I'll still be in Montauk. I'll have to have my mom do it for me I guess.
 
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mark posted it on his twitter, and it's on himynameismark.com

IF you aren't copping tickets on their first presale date, you're screwed
 
If you socal people, or resellers are looking for additional tickets for IRVINE (not sure if it's limited to this event only)

TOMORROW: at 10am PST, PRESALE CODE KROQBONEVILLE
 
SUPER cheap. But I didn't know you could go back and add tickets one after another instead of buying the desired QTY at the same time, so I bought actualseats.
 
So Mark is at the HOB on Sunset out here at 10am. I wanted more tickets so I rolled through from Long Beach at about 6am. Got there at about 620am, line had tobe 100 heads deep. F that, I got my tickets, i'm good
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I just wanted an octopus drive
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Originally Posted by CincoSeisDos

Damn
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Looks like for people waiting for regular on sale, they're out of LUCK. NO seats are available
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presale does not get rid of all seats...only a select amount are available for presale and the rest for public onsale...

and i've gotta say, No Doubt and Blink are just straight $$@%!@@# on everyone else in the SoCal area...look at the amount of shows those two bands will endup selling out this summer...
 
Got my tickets through presale for Jones Beach just now. A bit upset that even though I did it as soon as I was able that all the floor seats were gone. I washoping this would have gone as smoothly as the NIN presale where I got seats that were damn near at the stage but sadly it didn't. Annoys me a little butit should be fun none the less.


In fact, if anybody else had this problem, I'm willing to bet money that this is why : (The bolded part mainly, but the post as a whole is a great read.)

As we approach on-sale dates for the upcoming tour, I've noticed lots of you are curious / concerned / outraged at the plethora of tickets that somehow appear on all these reseller sites at inflated prices - even before the pre-sale dates. I'll do my best to explain the situation as I see it, as well as clarify my organization's stance in the matter.

NIN decides to tour this summer. We arrive at the conclusion outdoor amphitheaters are the right venue for this outing, for a variety of reasons we've throughly considered*. In the past, NIN would sell the shows in each market to local promoters, who then "buy" the show from us to sell to you. Live Nation happens to own all the amphitheaters and bought most of the local promoters - so if you want to play those venues, you're being promoted by Live Nation. Live Nation has had an exclusive deal with TicketMaster that has just expired, so Live Nation launched their own ticketing service. Most of the dates on this tour are through Live Nation, some are through TicketMaster - this is determined by the promoter (Live Nation), not us.
Now we get into the issue of secondary markets for tickets, which is the hot issue here. The ticketing marketplace for rock concerts shows a real lack of sophistication, meaning this: the true market value of some tickets for some concerts is much higher than what the act wants to be perceived as charging. For example, there are some people who would be willing to pay $1,000 and up to be in the best seats for various shows, but MOST acts in the rock / pop world don't want to come off as greedy pricks asking that much, even though the market says its value is that high. The acts know this, the venue knows this, the promoters know this, the ticketing company knows this and the scalpers really know this. So...

The venue, the promoter, the ticketing agency and often the artist camp (artist, management and agent) take tickets from the pool of available seats and feed them directly to the re-seller (which from this point on will be referred to by their true name: SCALPER). I am not saying every one of the above entities all do this, nor am I saying they do it for all shows but this is a very common practice that happens more often than not. There is money to be made and they feel they should participate in it. There are a number of scams they employ to pull this off which is beyond the scope of this note.

StubHub.com is an example of a re-seller / scalper. So is TicketsNow.com.

Here's the rub: TicketMaster has essentially been a monopoly for many years - certainly up until Live Nation's exclusive deal ran out. They could have (and can right now) stop the secondary market dead in its tracks by doing the following: limit the amount of sales per customer, print names on the tickets and require ID / ticket matches at the venue. We know this works because we do it for our pre-sales. Why don't THEY do it? It's obvious - they make a lot of money fueling the secondary market. TicketMaster even bought a re-seller site and often bounces you over to that site to buy tickets (TicketsNow.com)!

NIN gets 10% of the available seats for our own pre-sale. We won a tough (and I mean TOUGH) battle to get the best seats. We require you to sign up at our site (for free) to get tickets. We limit the amount you can buy, we print your name on the tickets and we have our own person let you in a separate entrance where we check your ID to match the ticket. We charge you a surcharge that has been less than TicketMaster's or Live Nation's in all cases so far to pay for the costs of doing this - it's not a profit center for us. We have essentially stopped scalping by doing these things - because we want true fans to be able to get great seats and not get ripped off by these parasites.

I assure you nobody in the NIN camp supplies or supports the practice of supplying tickets to these re-sellers because it's not something we morally feel is the right thing to do. We are leaving money on the table here but it's not always about money.
Being completely honest, it IS something I've had to consider. If people are willing to pay a lot of money to sit up front AND ARE GOING TO ANYWAY thanks to the rigged system, why let that money go into the hands of the scalpers? I'm the one busting my !!# up there every night. The conclusion really came down to it not feeling like the right thing to do - simple as that.

My guess as to what will eventually happen if / when Live Nation and TicketMaster merges is that they'll move to an auction or market-based pricing scheme - which will simply mean it will cost a lot more to get a good seat for a hot show. They will simply BECOME the scalper, eliminating them from the mix.

Nothing's going to change until the ticketing entity gets serious about stopping the problem - which of course they don't see as a problem. The ultimate way to hurt scalpers is to not support them. Leave them holding the merchandise. If this subject interests you, check out the following links. Don't buy from scalpers, and be suspect of artists singing the praises of the Live Nation / TicketMaster merger. What's in it for them?

...and that is why Trent Reznor is the man.
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got my seats for jones beach.. im sooooooooooooooo hyped.. been waiting 10 years to see them live
 
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