I really feel for anyone who wanted tickets and didn’t have their numbers come around. I got lucky, and got 2 $500 P1s to a Saturday night show for my girlfriend and I, and it’ll be her first U2 show, so I’m grateful.
Needed a huge miracle this morning to get my brother 2 tickets for the same show, but was able to through the verified fan craziness. Both he and my girlfriend were verified waitlisted. Ticketmaster didn’t recognize my email address at first, so after toggling back and forth for 5 minutes between a mobile browser and their mobile app, and signing out of both and re-signing in, even though I’d been following every technical instruction accurately, I was able to log in. My 10/21 show appeared totally sold out, but I kept refreshing for another ten minutes anyway, and finally a fresh batch of tickets dropped and I snagged a pair.
I’ve said this many times over the years during these periods where fans are upset when shows sell out, and I hope it doesn’t touch a nerve, but I actually like that U2 doesn’t give me much “extra credit” for being a diehard fan since the 80s. Keeping out the scalpers (or at least trying to) is admirable, but it’s another to tell a brand new fan who just got into the band from SOS, “hey sorry missy, go to the back of the line, I’ve been a fan for decades.” Vaguely reminds me of anti-immigrant sentiment, if I can say that without being melodramatic, what’s the line? There’s no them, there’s only us.