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I can't believe I agree with Sting on something.
Just joking, Sting2.
Just joking, Sting2.
nbcrusader said:I haven't looked at my tickets, but I have the fan club membership card. Will the card get me in the fan club line, or is it a special code on the ticket?
bono=genius said:im so worried cuz 3 of us are goin....
bonosgirl84 said:it was all bullshit.
i fucking slept in my van outside the arena the night before the show. we all lined up, it was very organized, with numbers on our hands. mine was 90. so at ten pm the night before the show there were already nearly a hundred people waiting outside.
in the morning, they announced that they would respect our line, and not randomly give wristbands. we cheered and hugged. it was going to be fair.
by nine am the sleepers are starting to show up. people who smelled nice, and were wearing clean clothes.
security lines us up in order, and herds us to the back. as we passed security, they checked our tickets. two lines form. one for u2.com, and one for the others. and this is when the problem starts. it was announced that the two lines would be entering at the same time. leaving me, basically screwed. but i sat there, in the pouring rain, hanging onto the hope that i could still get into the circle.
until they announced that getting into the circle was going to be a matter of chance.
the unfairness of this system is staggering. people who showed up whenever the hell they got around to it were in the circle. and people who had been in that parking lot before i was, were not. i ended up trying to see the show from behind a girl with the number 175 on her hand.
and to add insult to injury, sold a ticket that got someone else into the circle.
think about that for a minute.
lancerla said:That really does suck. And it also illustrates my main complaint. If you're going to make this a lottery, tell us beforehand.
I don't think U2.com members should have priority over anyone else in the arena. We got tickets (at least for the third leg), and that was our reward. But we would have made a different decision if we knew what was going to happen to our chances of being in the ellipse.
What about the first 300 people in line get into ellipse and a lottery for the last hundred? Or split it evenly? It doesn't matter -- the people who make the sacrifice should be rewarded.
My wife and I took vacation days for this, and dropped five hundy to scalpers (because we got screwed in the first pre-sale), knowing that it would be worth it to be in the circle.
I feel for all the campers, I really do.
bonosgirl84 said:and someone mentioned in this thread the difficulty in choosing who to take in with you if you get in. groups of three have a real dilemma. it makes me wonder how many friendships will be tested by this system...
bonosgirl84 said:it was all bullshit.
i fucking slept in my van outside the arena the night before the show. we all lined up, it was very organized, with numbers on our hands. mine was 90. so at ten pm the night before the show there were already nearly a hundred people waiting outside.
in the morning, they announced that they would respect our line, and not randomly give wristbands. we cheered and hugged. it was going to be fair.
by nine am the sleepers are starting to show up. people who smelled nice, and were wearing clean clothes.
security lines us up in order, and herds us to the back. as we passed security, they checked our tickets. two lines form. one for u2.com, and one for the others. and this is when the problem starts. it was announced that the two lines would be entering at the same time. leaving me, basically screwed. but i sat there, in the pouring rain, hanging onto the hope that i could still get into the circle.
until they announced that getting into the circle was going to be a matter of chance.
the unfairness of this system is staggering. people who showed up whenever the hell they got around to it were in the circle. and people who had been in that parking lot before i was, were not. i ended up trying to see the show from behind a girl with the number 175 on her hand.
and to add insult to injury, sold a ticket that got someone else into the circle.
think about that for a minute.
rizon said:By the time the boys were due to start the incredible crush behind squeezed me and my friends (3 women) off to the side and eventually where we couldn't see anything. We ended up way in the back about 60 yards from the stage eating shit....For me - I'm only 5'8" 160lb, if you're not at the rail or a row behind, you're toast.
stonethrowerj said:How dare they let someone into the ellipse without a "true" fans permission.
Sicy said:I'm scared
tkramer said:The concensus is easy to see. No one who was actually at the show likes it. The only folks who do haven't been to it yet. The PR machine at U2.com pulled a quote from someone who showed up at show time and got in the elipse. Well of course that guy likes it, why wouldn't he? This system is not only inferior to the last tour, it's not even a good lottery.
oceane said:
While there is no 'consensus' because many people have different opinions (and that's inevitable), it's very clear from reading the boards that he vast majority of people don't agree with the system.
Hallelujah Here She Comes said:Me too.
stonethrowerj said:
I think that's the issue - the majority of people who will post on a U2 fan board or pay $40 and post on the U2.com fan board are not your typical fans.
A very large majority of U2 fans do not post on forums and therefore a concensus can never be made based upon responses from a forum.
We hate it because we're the freakos who will wait in line all day and are most negativly affected by this policy.