bostonmike4444 said:
You can't gloss over the FACTS:
U2 said we'd have access to some of "the best tickets in the house"
I got third deck seats, opposite end of the arena from the stage and paid $100 each for them.
U2 put some of the WORST seats in the house for sale knowing the fanclub suckers would snatch them up if that was the only chance they were given.
It's not a mini-scandal or a technology glitch or anything else that the management's public relations department is describing it as. It is simply a BLATANT lie to steal money from a client base that they felt they could count on to purchase the seats they needed to get rid of.
I have never allowed a company to rip me off so blatantly and then been a return customer. I burned my U2 CDs and sold them to the local used CD shop yesterday - you should all do the same - when a used CD is purchased none of the money goes to the band. I'll always be a fan of their music, but will never purchase another product they try to shill onto me.
What I am most angry about is how I got a copy of How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb off the Internet before it was released (like most die-hard fans) and yet still went out and purchased the CD because I felt it was wrong to steal the band's music without paying for it. I feel quite different today. I am putting all my U2 mp3s on-line for free download - and encourage everyone to do the same thing.
You can be a fan of the band's music and still refuse to give them your money. Their music lives on, but as a band they are dead to me.
"Best seats in the house" - a despicable, dirty lie. Do not let this company treat you this way – you are a customer, take your business elsewhere.
I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks like this
The money my Dad was going to spend on our U2 tickets (and I'm sure a lot of other students parents help out with buying tickets and probably fork out a lot getting transport, accomodation etc for some of these shows) is writing a cheque and putting it all towards a diabetes charity/ tsunami appeal. Bono can't practise what he preaches, he sits in his pretty cars telling us all to give moeny to the poor while on the other hand he rips off his most loyal customers and gives them nothing in return really.
I still love U2's music, but U2 will never ever ever get another penny from me. Ever.
As someone here said last week "U2 don't care who buys their tickets so that's why I'm still buying them" is the exact reason why I won't be buying tickets for these shows. U2 knows they will sell all those tickets within a matter of minutes, they don't care if it's someone who hasn't bought their albums or follwoed them for 20 years but they know the people they can REALLY rip off is those loyal fans so that's who they sell those subscriptions to.
My uncle stopped supporting U2 a few years ago because he said they were selling out. I was talking to him a few weeks ago and he told me U2 aren't really that interested in their Irish fans and play so many shows in America for one reason: money. I think he was exactly right.
If you go into the Clarence in Dublin you will find you can purchase copies of HTDAAB. If that isn't an example of U2 trying to squeeze every last penny out of their fans, I don't know what is. In future, any U2 album I get will not be bought in a shop, that's for sure.
I have my principles and I am going to stick by them, people who complain so much and are so angry with U2 shouldn't continue supporting them, I don't understand that. Wouldn't it have been a lot better if all those people who felt ripped off donated even half of their subscription money to charity. That's money going to a good cause.