CK, thanks for the details. That was exactly what I was thinking I'd have to do on Monday. Only, I'm going to there LONG before 15 before
Good to know not to ask for sections, that would just waste precious seconds which I won't have. I thought it would be along the lines of Give act, city and date, price range, and then just tell them "give me whatever pops up first." I wasn't picky before this, and I'm *really* glad I was so realistic now.
I remember the last time I lined up for tix, was for Springsteen, 2 tours of his ago. My mentality was that "the first 10 people in line will get something, the rest, SOL." Now even for Bruce I'd say the odds are the first two, and only if they aren't picky. IF they went old school, which I don't know if any do. I didn't see him last tour. Bruce's biggest fansite has a ticket exchange subsite, Backstreets, that was second to none, it had a great rep. But it sounds like TM is targeting Bruce fans the way it targets U2 ones, so I wonder if the kind of trading that fans did for Brice tix is still possible. If there are any Bruce fans on here who have seen him last tour, I'd love to know.
I know the first time I saw U2 live, it was ZooTV in March of '92, at our brand new arena. Camping out for tix was a lot of fun, if nerve-racking. I shoed up at a record store that was next to a Barnes and Noble and across the street from a huge mall. (Today that record shop has become a Bed, Bath and Beyond, the Barnes and Noble it shared the building with has migrated across the street into the mall, and the mall itself has nearly doubled in size.) I remember it was a freezing Friday night in February, there was a snowstorm going on and temps were very cold, around the 0-degree mark, and I remember it was during the Winter Olympics b/c everyone was watching it or listening to it on their portable TV's and radios as camped in our cars overnight. I showed up around 9 PM and was the 11th or 12th person in line. They took names and put them on a list. We sat around and listened to bootlegs and ate pizza until midnight or so, then the cold drove us into our cars. In the wee hours a police car pulled up and asked what we were doing there. The keeper of the list, who was the record shop's manager, crawled out of her frost-limned, battered-looking vechicle and informed the fuzz what we were about. He offered to buy us all coffee and doughnuts if she'd put him on the list! <g> Those were the days. *sigh*. The tix I got were pretty good, 2 rows up from the floor, at the corner stage left. Again, those were the days.
Wendy, you and I seem to be kindred spirits. We both share a healthy distrust in TM and an IMO entirely justifiable paranoia regarding their limitless capacity to wreak havoc with the general public's dreams (not to mention their pocketbooks.) Whatever they can do, they will do, and they'll try to do whatever they CAN'T do too. After all, it's not Eliott Spitzer is around anymore to investigate their practices? the current governor of NY State is probably going to be one of the ones sending his kid to a show with an ill-gotten ticket. heck, even NY Mayor Bill deBlasio, liberal though he professes to be, might too!
I mean to emulate CK's experience Monday, however, unlike CK I am going for what is perhaps the hottest NA market of all. The reason I was asking for such details from her was that I perfectly well know that I might have a shot even at a retail counter only once, only one single question. I'm going to do everything she did, but still have qualms. I don't think I'll waste my breath trying for a nosebleed, what worked in Chicago for CK will NOT work here...I have a nasty feeling that even if there are 8 NY shows the same crap will be pulled at every single one of them, even these middle ones. Depending on how much money I come into Friday, I can go anywhere between $100-200 (counting fees), but above that, no. I'm only getting a single ticket, so if I name a mid-level amount maybe, I'll have a chance? What do you think?
I don't have a lot of time to surf around, so what are the ticket prices for the NY shows? And another thing. I had a kind friend try for Chicago tix on his app on Monday, but same thing, the $300 nosebleed crap. CK, maybe you can do me a favor. Do some research. Are the tix you got in the store, find out what they were offered for on the app and the TM site. I'd be interested to know if your tix sold for a lot more online. the reason I am asking this is that I might ask my friend if he can try again for me Monday too. I don't know if he might be able to line up at a retail outlet. he is being really nice with this, he had already used up all his presale code but was prepared to let me be a +1 for another if he scored general sale tix too. But he told me that he didn't have the money for 2 $300's. I prefer NY but could do Chicago if NY failed.
If it were possible for him to go to a retail TM, might he be able to get a pair of mid-level tix at face value? That way he might get me a Chicago show if NY fails.
If by chance Monday fails for me, it actually would be a good thing if further sales were delayed until after the holidays. If it was anytime after Jan 5, I *would* have $300+ dollars. I hate the thought of having to wait that long in order to march back to the TM outlet in January, but then I could shock the lady at the counter by asking for a $300 ticket, and besides, I might end up going to the last night after all. <g>. At least it would be at a legitimate TM counter and not at a resell site!
With different ticket vending laws and companies and all that bullshite, so it doesn't work the same way as the US.
I've been trying to get onto the ZooMods, but was getting nowhere.
Or is it just US shows only?
...but we're in the middle of an epic ice storm/snowstorm here, there's been a State of Emergency since yesterday afternoon. 2 day snowstorms are no big deal for us, but 2 1/2 to 3-day -long storms that alternate between snow and icy rain, are. Luckily this is one of my days off! The research trip has been delayed until tomorrow morning. 
