Ticket drops Experience/Help

[AndrewRnR]

Before anyone jumps on me for not doing a search and reading other posts... I did. I spent alot of time reading older posts and stuff but still have a few questions... I've never seen U2 so I'm new to all of this... I appericate all the help!

Ok, I'm clueless about ticket drops. I called the box office and the lady laughed at me for asking if it was ok to wait all day for tickets. I can only afford a GA ticket(I'm a college student so......) so all of the online ticket drops so far have down me no good. I only need one ticket.

1) What time should I arrive? I read about VertiGo tour junkies that get there super early and get in line for drops. The line for GA isn't allowed to form till 10am, but the box office opens at 9:30. Would getting at the box office at 8:30 be good? Its going to be cold so that might turn some people away. Since the box office is inside... do you get to wait inside?

2) How does it work? Do you line up and they'll announce "hey we got X amount of these kind of seats" or do I have to keep going up to the counter and ask? Like I said the box office thought I was stupid for wanting to do this so I doubt the have any official policys.

3) Any chance I can get some a single GA online at TM? I read someone got some online on show day, I've been seeing some lower bowl tickets come up on TM. Would checking online on TM all morning and afternoon and then heading to the box office around 3pmish be stupid?

4) Finally... what are my chances? It costs me 3 bucks to take the train into Cleveland so its like "why not try!". Its Cleveland(a city that I doubt has a lot of VIPs and its going to be mighty mighty cold).

Any help, experiences, tips, whatever would be helpful!

 

[Liesje]

Probably speaking to someone at the TM outlet at the venue would get you the best answers to these questions, since no one hear can speak for the probability of it happening and I'm sure the procedure varies with each venue.

 

[AndrewRnR]

I called the box office and the lady laughed at me "its not a for sure thing, but why would you want stand in line and try to get tickets?" I just kinda want to know what happened in other cities so I have an idea on what to expect.

 

[Eliv8]

Before anyone jumps on me for not doing a search and reading other posts... I did. I spent alot of time reading older posts and stuff but still have a few questions... I've never seen U2 so I'm new to all of this... I appericate all the help!

Ok, I'm clueless about ticket drops. I called the box office and the lady laughed at me for asking if it was ok to wait all day for tickets. I can only afford a GA ticket(I'm a college student so......) so all of the online ticket drops so far have down me no good. I only need one ticket.

1) What time should I arrive? I read about VertiGo tour junkies that get there super early and get in line for drops. The line for GA isn't allowed to form till 10am, but the box office opens at 9:30. Would getting at the box office at 8:30 be good? Its going to be cold so that might turn some people away. Since the box office is inside... do you get to wait inside?

2) How does it work? Do you line up and they'll announce "hey we got X amount of these kind of seats" or do I have to keep going up to the counter and ask? Like I said the box office thought I was stupid for wanting to do this so I doubt the have any official policys.

3) Any chance I can get some a single GA online at TM? I read someone got some online on show day, I've been seeing some lower bowl tickets come up on TM. Would checking online on TM all morning and afternoon and then heading to the box office around 3pmish be stupid?

4) Finally... what are my chances? It costs me 3 bucks to take the train into Cleveland so its like "why not try!". Its Cleveland(a city that I doubt has a lot of VIPs and its going to be mighty mighty cold).

Any help, experiences, tips, whatever would be helpful!

Get there in the AM. Dress warm. Check T.Master before you leave though. They have released GA's on the day of the show in the past. Tickets get released in 'batches' throughout the day. Sometimes seats, sometimes GA's. The Box office is a good place to hang out as people will often offer you tickets because friends couldn’t make it. I have been to plenty of shows without a ticket and always got lucky. Good Luck

 

[AndrewRnR]

Thanks for your help. Do I just keep going up to the ticket window and ask them every 5 mins if they got tickets, or will they "announce" that they got some?

 

[Travellin' Slim]

Buffalo GA's have been dropping since last night. They come and go. Probably the same thing will happen for Cleveland tonite. I got mine last night at 11pm. This morning, there were more, though they are gone now. I have lots and lots of general concert ticket experience, and though there are peculiarities to the U2 experience, I thikn you are better off trying at home online or by phone until they yank the order page from the site. That's just my $.02, especially given the cold.

 

[Eliv8]

Thanks for your help. Do I just keep going up to the ticket window and ask them every 5 mins if they got tickets, or will they "announce" that they got some?

Just get in the line.

 

[twochordcool]

They ALWAYS have tickets the day of the show at the box office.

I waited in line the ENTIRE day in Hartford - from 8AM until U2 played "The City of Blinding Lights" - *NOT ONE* GA became available.

Wait on line and pray - and hope - and have a few extra bucks to go for the higher priced seats -

or spend your $50 on rear of stage seats that may come available -

DO NOT wait too long for GA's - I nearly screwed myself doing this Wednesday night in Hartford -

 

[AndrewRnR]

Were there alot of people waiting?

 

[twochordcool]

Dude, weren't you going to go to Hartford?

YES, there were a lot of people waiting - eventually.

The trick is putting in the time.

Be there 4 hours before the box office opens, be polite, but aggressive, stand your ground, and odds are you will come away with something.

But acknowledge that it is a slight gamble and there are variables -

How many tickets? How many people are waiting? Where in line are you? Are you willing to wait ALL DAY LONG if that's what it takes?

 

[AndrewRnR]

I only need one ticket so hopefully that helps... but the box office opens at 9:30am... I was only planning on getting there around 8:30ish. They arn't allowing people to line up for GA till 10am though so I'm thinking the box office won't be super crowded at first... hopefully!

Thanks for the help!

 

[AndrewRnR]

So its crunch time... the weather totally sucks, its been a long week(finals suck) so the general idea for the most part is being in line and not online is the best idea? So tempeting to check online and shoot down there later(like a few suggested).

Any other final experiences/thoughts? Less than 12 hours till the box office opens...!

 

[junebuglaura]

I had a similar question about "online" versus "in line". The best answer I got was to have someone else looking online for you, if you can get someone to do it (and trust them to keep trying like a maniac).

 

[bigwali]

Buffalo GA's have been dropping since last night. They come and go. Probably the same thing will happen for Cleveland tonite. I got mine last night at 11pm. This morning, there were more, though they are gone now. I have lots and lots of general concert ticket experience, and though there are peculiarities to the U2 experience, I thikn you are better off trying at home online or by phone until they yank the order page from the site. That's just my $.02, especially given the cold.

True, online is the only way to go. Then, if you don't snare one go to the arena and pick up one up from a fan or scalper who has them 1 hour before the show starts. Just set your price and live it it. Remember, your experience you will have at the concert will long be remembered but you will forget about the money. So, sack up and pay to watch the show!

 

[twochordcool]

True, online is the only way to go. Then, if you don't snare one go to the arena and pick up one up from a fan or scalper who has them 1 hour before the show starts. Just set your price and live it it. Remember, your experience you will have at the concert will long be remembered but you will forget about the money. So, sack up and pay to watch the show!

I TOTALLY DISAGREE -

there will be tickets available at the box office that WON'T necessarily be made available online at Ticketmaster.

 

[AndrewRnR]

Well... for the last half hour mighty fine seats have come up online for tonight including 2-5 row in the section next to(and in front of) the stage. Too much money for me...

I talked to someone from ticketmaster a few days back and said on the day until they turn the show over to the venue all tickets go through TM(phone, online, box office) but when they turn it over the the venue(3 hoursish before showtime the venue can do what these please). Don't know how true it is, but seems to be the case.

 

[banjo6]

I TOTALLY DISAGREE -

there will be tickets available at the box office that WON'T necessarily be made available online at Ticketmaster.

I don't know for a fact, but it seems like the ticket system they use at the box office and the one you get online should be the same. It's all a general pool of tickets, why would the box office have "special" tickets available that you couldn't get online??

 

[banjo6]

True, online is the only way to go. Then, if you don't snare one go to the arena and pick up one up from a fan or scalper who has them 1 hour before the show starts. Just set your price and live it it. Remember, your experience you will have at the concert will long be remembered but you will forget about the money. So, sack up and pay to watch the show!

Online is nice.......but while searching for tickets before I have searched so much that I got blocked out of ticketmaster for an entire day. You have to search alot, but if you go a half hour straight looking it'll block you out cuz it thinks your a scalper. At least that happened to me a few times in the past.

 

[U2BROTHR]

Yesterday....starting at 8AM on a dialup computer.....I managed to pull single tickets and double tickets.......NO GAs....just expensive seats and upper level ones.

This continued until 11AM.

I also had friends who were at the Cleveland box office who later phoned me to enform us that there was going to be a box office drop. Thus.....GAs were released that afternoon.

No scalpers
No expensive but reliable ETS tickets

Face value!

Keep checking......

 

[AndrewRnR]

I got GAs for Cleveland! I too pulled up really nice tickets all morning. When I got there around 3pm there was about 4 people in line. They said they dropped 40 GAs around 7am. At 4pmish they said they were going to release more, and one of the guys in front of me had all his scalper friends get in line with him. They released 16 GA tickets... aka let 8 people in, I was number 10. I only needed a single ticket and the one of the scapler, person number 9 heard me say that and tried to pay me to get him a ticket. 15 mins later they let 4 people in... you had to be escorted by security! And I walked up to the window and got the last GA... there was only one left! I was so excited and so was the lady at the box offce because she said I was one of the only real U2 fans buying ticket as it was mainly scalpers.

It was sad that one guy stood in line, waved his friends over who got in line with him and made me almost not get a ticket.

 

[twochordcool]

CONGRATULATIONS!

Was it AMAZING or what?

 

[AndrewRnR]

Yes!!! I was literally showing excitment at the box office...! It was well worth checking Ticketmaster a million times and waiting in the cold!