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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on November 04, 2009, 08:49:37 pm
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according to the e-mail blast, links for tickets for shows in the new year point to ticketfly.com (ex: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/2131)
the club isn't listed on the site's front page... yet.
t'is all news to me.
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I was just searching to see if there's been any mention of ticketfly before now, and there hasn't. Wonder what messed up the deal with tickets.com?
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I was just searching to see if there's been any mention of ticketfly before now, and there hasn't. Wonder what messed up the deal with tickets.com?
Excessive surcharges?
Let's hope this is a good move for all. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Seth is a smart business man and while he works for 'profits', he also knows that he depends on a whole lot of others, along with one totally fucked up economically depressed country. Now let's hope this plays out in everyone's favor.
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I did a test: 1 ticket to Talib Kweli and Friends at Brooklyn Bowl. Ticket is $10, no charge for standard mail, no order processing fee, a $3 service fee. I didn't put in my c/c info, so I can't confirm there are add'l charges after that (as there is w/ tickets.com after entering c/c).
I'm guessing (hoping!) there are not since the three basic fees are already listed.
Standard mail was the only option.
Two tickets to the above added another $3 service fee, totaling $26.
When I put in for a ticket to Johnny Brenda's: service fee is $2.50, no processing fee, and no charge for will call. (will call only)
If 9:30 has the one service fee and it's below $4 - I will be celebrating Christmas early this year.
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Yeah, has to be a service charge issue.
Tickets.com got just as absurd as TM.
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Tried Raveonettes @ Bimbo's SF
General Admission Service Fee
$25.00 x 1 $4.88 x 1 = $29.88
that's only slightly better than tickets.com. I bet $30 tickets have higher service fees.
I did a test: 1 ticket to Talib Kweli and Friends at Brooklyn Bowl. Ticket is $10, no charge for standard mail, no order processing fee, a $3 service fee. I didn't put in my c/c info, so I can't confirm there are add'l charges after that (as there is w/ tickets.com after entering c/c).
I'm guessing (hoping!) there are not since the three basic fees are already listed.
Standard mail was the only option.
Two tickets to the above added another $3 service fee, totaling $26.
When I put in for a ticket to Johnny Brenda's: service fee is $2.50, no processing fee, and no charge for will call. (will call only)
If 9:30 has the one service fee and it's below $4 - I will be celebrating Christmas early this year.
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Tried Raveonettes @ Bimbo's SF
General Admission Service Fee
$25.00 x 1 $4.88 x 1 = $29.88
that's only slightly better than tickets.com. I bet $30 tickets have higher service fees.
I did a test: 1 ticket to Talib Kweli and Friends at Brooklyn Bowl. Ticket is $10, no charge for standard mail, no order processing fee, a $3 service fee. I didn't put in my c/c info, so I can't confirm there are add'l charges after that (as there is w/ tickets.com after entering c/c).
I'm guessing (hoping!) there are not since the three basic fees are already listed.
Standard mail was the only option.
Two tickets to the above added another $3 service fee, totaling $26.
When I put in for a ticket to Johnny Brenda's: service fee is $2.50, no processing fee, and no charge for will call. (will call only)
If 9:30 has the one service fee and it's below $4 - I will be celebrating Christmas early this year.
But don't forget that after the service fee, you still had to pay an additional $4 for mailing your ticket or for even having them held at will call. So this definitely looks better thank tickets.com so far
PLUS this site lets you know BEFORE tix go on sale how much they will cost, which is also an improvement over tickets.com
I was wondering why there'd been a delay in announcing shows for 2010. We had the first announcement for 2009 shows in Sept of 2008. I guess they were finalizing the ticketfly deal or something or maybe weren't allowed to announce before a certain date.
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A $30 Gogol Bordello ticket comes with a $6 service fee and a $4 order processing fee. Standard shipping is "generously" listed as "no charge." So, in the end, a 33% markup over face value - at least for one ticket.
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I recently bought a $12 ticket to a show at the Knitting Factory (which is apparently in Brooklyn now).
There was a $3 fee, $0 for processing and free will call.
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A $30 Gogol Bordello ticket comes with a $6 service fee and a $4 order processing fee. Standard shipping is "generously" listed as "no charge." So, in the end, a 33% markup over face value - at least for one ticket.
That's basically the same as it would be with tickets.com
LAME
ah well. Had my hopes up there for a minute. Guess I'll keep buying most tickets at the box office, assuming they continue to offer them there with no or low ($1) fees.
In other news, DC9 has gone to ticketalternative starting with shows in December :)
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There are two things I really don't like about this so far:
1) There's no place to register your information. Everytime you want to buy a ticket via Ticketfly.com you'll have to enter all of your information manually.
2) There's no shopping cart feature. I can't add a second event to an order. This also ties in with the first complaint. If I want to buy tickets for two shows, I have to manually enter my information twice.
I'm sure there's more to flesh out here. But these are two of the first things I've noticed that I dislike.
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There are two things I really don't like about this so far:
1) There's no place to register your information. Everytime you want to buy a ticket via Ticketfly.com you'll have to enter all of your information manually.
2) There's no shopping cart feature. I can't add a second event to an order. This also ties in with the first complaint. If I want to buy tickets for two shows, I have to manually enter my information twice.
I'm sure there's more to flesh out here. But these are two of the first things I've noticed that I dislike.
Oh boo to those things, too! TicketAlternative has both of these things. So far, so not good. :P
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Weak.
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There are two things I really don't like about this so far:
1) There's no place to register your information. Everytime you want to buy a ticket via Ticketfly.com you'll have to enter all of your information manually.
2) There's no shopping cart feature. I can't add a second event to an order. This also ties in with the first complaint. If I want to buy tickets for two shows, I have to manually enter my information twice.
I wondered if there was account registration - I didn't see it on first glance. Makes trying to get tickets when the window opens for an in-demand show, even harder.
Regarding no shopping cart: I guess this means you can't make a bulk order (of different show tickets) and thus, have to pay processing/service fees for each?
I will be patient for announcements, but truly, things are so expensive already, I was hoping for some relief. People will come and buy online more often if things are cheaper. I'm pretty jealous of other venues that have no processing fees. (see my test)
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>:(
Apologies for starting another thread. This was originally about the switch...mine was more about the outrageous charge I was almost stuck with this morning:
I was purchasing a ticket this morning to an upcoming 9:30 show on ticketfly. All was well until I got to the payment screen. Did a doubletake @ the fees. Service fee + order processing fee = additional 43% of the ticket price.
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Mind you, this is a WILL CALL TICKET!
Is it me or this ticketing FAIL? Anyone? Bueller?
(Ticket was $20, surcharges were almost $9, FYI)
I'd LOVE to give them a chance...without an additional 43% tacked onto the ticket. Mind you, I would be paying for the ticket, PLUS an additional 43% of the ticket.
I was trying to purchase one ticket to La Roux. In fact, I was getting all my friends to buy tickets. Huge HUGE fan. But when I saw this, I actually stopped and emailed/facebooked my friends telling them that I was no longer going to buy a ticket.
43%!!! Will call!
Can you imagine yourself going to a movie or a play or a sporting event & being required to pay an additional 43% for event? How is this okay?
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It's the same with ticketmaster and tickets.com. It's not just a ticketfly problem.
You've always been able to buy tickets at the 9:30 box office with a mere $1 fee, so hopefully this will not change.
Still sucks that this change does not appear to be for the better...
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$25 tickets have been $35 on tickets.com for years now. That's between 30 & 40% I think.
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43% though? I would dare say this is a record.
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I dunno about all that.
Try to pull up tickets from LiveNation lately? They have everybody else beat.
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Livenation is utterly ridiculous. They're hands down the worst.
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See this is the beauty of hookers. A $200 suck-and-tuck is $200 unless you tip and you only tip if you choose
(http://www.ecojoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/eagle_flag.jpg)
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Relaxer for the win!
See this is the beauty of hookers. A $200 suck-and-tuck is $200 unless you tip and you only tip if you choose
(http://www.ecojoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/eagle_flag.jpg)
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Wait for me! The popcorn's not even done yet....
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You've always been able to buy tickets at the 9:30 box office with a mere $1 fee, so hopefully this will not change
Hopefully, it won't. But as district said in the other thread, it is hard for some of us to get down there. When a show is about to sell out, or predicts to be one when tickets go on sale, online is the easiest and sometimes only way to get a ticket.
I can't afford a lot of shows right now due to the fees. I've stopped purchasing parking online. Paying fees for that or will call is silly.
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$25 tickets have been $35 on tickets.com for years now. That's between 30 & 40% I think.
1 gogol ticket: $30 face, $40 total = 33% markup.
just sayin'.
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So it's par for the course as far as service charges go and the change must have been for a completely unrelated reason.
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I was just searching to see if there's been any mention of ticketfly before now, and there hasn't. Wonder what messed up the deal with tickets.com?
Excessive surcharges?
Let's hope this is a good move for all. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Seth is a smart business man and while he works for 'profits', he also knows that he depends on a whole lot of others, along with one totally fucked up economically depressed country. Now let's hope this plays out in everyone's favor.
Well, I guess it's time for me to eat my words.
For shame on all of this gauging! No one really minds some sort of surcharge but there is no way in the world I will ever believe that these excesses are justified! The 'will call' expecially kills me. I'm sure some computer does its instantaneous tagging and ordering of the accounts while the venues are the ones who end up doing all of the real work.
I, for one, have definitely opted out of many, many shows because of the bottom line removed from my wallet when I have to consider the total cost.
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i, for one, welcome our new surcharge-gouging overlords.
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i, for one, welcome our new surcharge-gouging overlords.
Elitist prick!
Only Julian can get away with saying something like that.
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Elitist prick!
Only Julian can get away with saying something like that.
And I thought only I was allowed to decide who is an elitist prick or not?!!?
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Elitist prick!
Only Julian can get away with saying something like that.
And I thought only I was allowed to decide who is an elitist prick or not?!!?
As an independent individualist, I have no qualms about calling them as I see them. Sheperds are for sheep and I'm certainly not one of the flock. With all due respect, you call in your manner and I'll call in mine and may the few truly open minded hear without all that wool stuffed in their ears.
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My God, I cannot believe we are having this discussion AGAIN. You must be the kind of people who go home at night and watch the same movie every day of your life. Fawning sycophant imbeciles.
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You've always been able to buy tickets at the 9:30 box office with a mere $1 fee, so hopefully this will not change
Hopefully, it won't. But as district said in the other thread, it is hard for some of us to get down there.
This is one of my favorite arguments.
One affordable option is available to concert goers, but it's difficult for them.
So Seth provides another, more convenient option option for them, and folks attack HIM for it because it costs more. Well of course there is going to be a charge for a convenience. They even go as far as to call it a "convenience charge" but remember who THEY are - third party providers, a market where there are not a lot of options. Plenty of people have tried business models that charge less than 30-40% for the convenience but none have survived over the years. Sure DC9 uses ticketalternative, but their capacity is 200 - I would be interested to see both (a) how long they'll be around and (b) if they could handle the volume of a venue with the capacity of the 9:30.
As for parking, without getting into the semantics of not encouraging driving with such fabulous public transportation options, simple supply and demand dictate that price. There's not a spot for everyone...
Folks, this comes up all the time and it's really not worth complaining about. Vote with your wallet like this district2020 fella suggests - if the service charge is too high, don't buy the ticket. I have passed on numerous shows because I felt the surcharge made the price of the ticket not worth the price of admission. You should do the same.
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As an independent individualist, I have no qualms about calling them as I see them. Sheperds are for sheep and I'm certainly not one of the flock. With all due respect, you call in your manner and I'll call in mine and may the few truly open minded hear without all that wool stuffed in their ears.
I have no idea what this means, but I do still love you.
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let's go ahead and get this part over with:
this was NOT done to lower service charges...it was done to start working with a company that has a lot of cool ideas
it should not, however, be any more expensive, even by a little...so, yes, please point out if you are experiencing that
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As an independent individualist, I have no qualms about calling them as I see them. Sheperds are for sheep and I'm certainly not one of the flock. With all due respect, you call in your manner and I'll call in mine and may the few truly open minded hear without all that wool stuffed in their ears.
I have no idea what this means, but I do still love you.
Never mind. Not worth elaborating. I was just pissed off at Sweetcell's typical sheep shit. I still love you too and always respect what you have to say even if I sometimes disagree. Not interested in bullying anyone to make them think 'only one way'.
Seth, I sure hope you are right and that this is a good move; again, for everyone involved.
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Sure DC9 uses ticketalternative, but their capacity is 200 - I would be interested to see both (a) how long they'll be around and (b) if they could handle the volume of a venue with the capacity of the 9:30.
And the Black Cat, and the Rock and Roll Hotel, and a few venues in Atlanta. All smaller than 9:30, yes. And a pretty young company, yes.
No new opinion, just wanted to get all the facts on the table.
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As an independent individualist, I have no qualms about calling them as I see them. Sheperds are for sheep and I'm certainly not one of the flock. With all due respect, you call in your manner and I'll call in mine and may the few truly open minded hear without all that wool stuffed in their ears.
I have no idea what this means, but I do still love you.
Never mind. Not worth elaborating. I was just pissed off at Sweetcell's typical sheep shit. I still love you too and always respect what you have to say even if I sometimes disagree. Not interested in bullying anyone to make them think 'only one way'.
Seth, I sure hope you are right and that this is a good move; again, for everyone involved.
for the love of god, sweetcell was just making a simpsons reference. shame on all of you who didn't get it. (http://boiltheocean.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/hail-ants.jpg)
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for the love of god, sweetcell was just making a simpsons reference. shame on all of you who didn't get it.
Oh I got it, and was even kidding myself (although I would love to be granted "Decider of Elitist Prickism"). But it's been a while since I've seen Jag get worked up and it's good for her sometimes...
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I have absolutely no idea what that reference is. For one, I almost never watch tv. Secondly, when I do, I never watch The Simpsons.
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I started to post the very same picture...but then I got lazy.
for the love of god, sweetcell was just making a simpsons reference. shame on all of you who didn't get it. (http://boiltheocean.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/hail-ants.jpg)
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Jag, I certainly can't fault you for not knowing a Simpsons reference or an internet meme. I do, however, LOL at you for thinking that my post was in any way an acceptance of this situation. I think your rabid individualism is interfering with your perceptions and/or cognitive abilities.
As an independent individualist, I have no qualms about calling them as I see them. Sheperds are for sheep and I'm certainly not one of the flock. With all due respect, you call in your manner and I'll call in mine and may the few truly open minded hear without all that wool stuffed in their ears
Do you have any idea how self-agrandizing that sounds? Congrats, you've managed to make independence and individualism sound like douchbaggery.
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(Apologies for the poor formating on the above post... Damn mobile browser)
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Baaahaaashit!
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You've always been able to buy tickets at the 9:30 box office with a mere $1 fee, so hopefully this will not change
Hopefully, it won't. But as district said in the other thread, it is hard for some of us to get down there.
This is one of my favorite arguments.
One affordable option is available to concert goers, but it's difficult for them.
So Seth provides another, more convenient option option for them, and folks attack HIM for it because it costs more.
As for parking, without getting into the semantics of not encouraging driving with such fabulous public transportation options,
Metro is far from me and the time is doubled and it still ends up costing me the same. Let's take this one off the table though, my experience is different and I shouldn't have made it a part of the discussion.
Regarding the fees, I wasn't speaking directly to Seth, but it's all the same, I guess. Nothing wrong a healthy discussion about this, especially when the club does read our opinions. I already said I do avoid buying tickets when I cannot afford them or the fees. I have picked up tickets at the window if I could or had someone pick them up for me. I appreciate this option and have often expressed the same appreciation for Seth and the club.
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My God, I cannot believe we are having this discussion AGAIN. You must be the kind of people who go home at night and watch the same movie every day of your life. Fawning sycophant imbeciles.
Groundhog Day ;D
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let's go ahead and get this part over with:
this was NOT done to lower service charges...it was done to start working with a company that has a lot of cool ideas
Seriously? I hope they have more than "cool ideas." The lack of a shopping cart feature and the lack of ability to save your information if you want to seem like bad ideas. let's hope at least that their servers are good at bouncing mass orders from scalpers, and handling big ticket sale days so we'll have no more BS like that Smashing Pumpkins ticket sale in 2007.
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What are said good ideas?
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Seriously? I hope they have more than "cool ideas." The lack of a shopping cart feature and the lack of ability to save your information if you want to seem like bad ideas. let's hope at least that their servers are good at bouncing mass orders from scalpers, and handling big ticket sale days so we'll have no more BS like that Smashing Pumpkins ticket sale in 2007.
I don't know about you guys, but I view not having a pre-populated account as an anti-scalping measure. Yes it's a bit more difficult for you, but imagine how hard it is for a computer to fill out these boxes everytime if they move the input information around for each ticket, or change the title of the input to something that the auto-fill computer won't recognize.
Of course the scalpers will find a way eventually, but at least ticketfly is making an effort to thwart scalping and costing the scalpers more money to figure out how to beat the system.
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Or they're simply low-quality and fly-by-night?
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Or they're simply low-quality and fly-by-night?
Yes, you're spot on with this one. Seth is willing to risk his business on a low-quality and fly-by-night operation.
Or, he's taking advantage of ticketfly's strategy to push tickets via web 2.0 and social media outlets like twitter and facebook to both (1) sell more tickets and (2) get tickets into the hands of fans.
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good points, vansmack, but not sure anti-scalping is really the reason of the switch...i'm curious to hear these "cool ideas".
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good points, vansmack, but not sure anti-scalping is really the reason of the switch...i'm curious to hear these "cool ideas".
I didn't say that it was. I was telling folks why I think that they don't have pre-populated accounts.
As for the cool ideas, start with the easy stuff (http://www.jjtoothman.net/2009/06/23/more-on-that-ticketfly-thing/).
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well, 930 has a facebook page and someone tweets for the club already...also i think the club does not have a problem selling tickets...
i really love brown paper tickets.... http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
the last two Andrew Bird presales have been sold through there, $30 face, under $3 fees I believe.
well, maybe next year, Seth....
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Or they're simply low-quality and fly-by-night?
Yes, you're spot on with this one. Seth is willing to risk his business on a low-quality and fly-by-night operation.
Ha HA.
I do not believe for one second that not having pre-populated user accounts has as much to do with scalper prevention as it does the ticketing agent not wanting to additional database management costs associated with storing said records.
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I've heard good things about brownpapertickets.
I bought my Swell Season (pre-sale) tickets via etix.com and the fees were $3 per ticket that's it - will call only.
Musictoday is cheaper as well for their pre-sales.
Hey Seth - any comments regarding a shopping cart? In the past we can put different show tickets in a cart and I believe, avoid multiple fees by conducting one bulk order. Will we be able to do this w/ ticketfly?
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well, 930 has a facebook page and someone tweets for the club already
If only it were that easy....
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i like how julian has been using HA HA's lately. it's . . . waif model who can't stop looking in the mirror cute.
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Im a big fan of brownpaper tickets. Friends have used them for various things with meetup groups. Le Poisson Rouge is using inticketing and the service charges are minimal. 1.50 service charge on a $10 ticket isnt bad at all. Plus they have also added this: Yes, please add $2.95 USD to my order to help green my experience.
This equates to 1 green ticket(s) @ $2.95 each which offsets approximately 348 lbs. of CO2. (details)
This will appear as a separate charge from In Ticketing
On the other hand - a ticket at the Littlefield for $10 is $12.25 using ticketfly plus they have no option for hard tickets. :( Not sure I like that in case I cant make the show for some reason :(
well, 930 has a facebook page and someone tweets for the club already...also i think the club does not have a problem selling tickets...
i really love brown paper tickets.... http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
the last two Andrew Bird presales have been sold through there, $30 face, under $3 fees I believe.
well, maybe next year, Seth....
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What is a 'green ticket'? Are you actually getting something or is this some mind game which throws extra bucks Al Gore's way?
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Jag wouldnt even know :) I always go to the box office to buy a ticket for LPR. Prob $$ to go to Al Gore - or maybe goes back to the company to keep charges cheap. Upon realizing that the service charge is only $1 or so - I might just buy them online next time if Im not in the vicinty.
Does anyone know if ticketfly issues hard tickets anywhere or is it will-call only? I didnt pay enough attention to the other thread, but I really hate will-call only tix. It might be a venue thing and Littlefield is new.
What is a 'green ticket'? Are you actually getting something or is this some mind game which throws extra bucks Al Gore's way?
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Press on this:
http://www.ticketnews.com/IMP-nine-thirty-Club-select-Ticketfly-to-sell-tickets
PRESS RELEASE: "I.M.P. SELECTS NEW TICKET PROVIDER, TICKETFLY, FOR THE 9:30 CLUB"
WASHINGTON, D.C. (I.M.P.; Ticketfly) November 9, 2009 ? The 9:30 Club, which once again just won Billboard?s coveted national honor of Club of the Year Award, announced today that it will use a new online ticketing and marketing provider. I.M.P., one of the nation?s preeminent independent concert promoters has selected Ticketfly to sell tickets for 9:30 Club shows scheduled to take place after January 1, 2010.
Ticketfly is exclusively focused on live music promotion, and plans to create an online community where customers not only buy tickets efficiently, but also discover new artists and events and share event-related experiences. In addition to show information, Ticketfly?s Event page will feature artist images, bios, streaming audio and video links and artist website and social media links. The pages integrate with Facebook and Twitter, allowing consumers to seamlessly invite their friends to concerts through their social networks. Ticketfly is headed by former senior management of TicketWeb, the Internet?s first ticketing company.
?The guys at Ticketfly have proven to be innovators and they?re on to something here,? said Seth Hurwitz, chairman of I.M.P. and owner of the 9:30 Club. ?The bottom line is we think it will be more fun for our customers. For years it has just been more of the same in the ticketing space, but this is different. They are creating unique tools and a better experience for our ticket buyers,?
"Although they are obviously a newer company with less volume and they?re investing huge sums on technology, Ticketfly made the commitment to not raise charges,? said Hurwitz. ?But as usual customers have options. There are never any service fees when you buy at the door on show night, and only $1 per ticket when you buy in advance at the box office.?
Ticketfly is the brainchild of Andrew Dreskin and Dan Teree, respectively the co-founder/former CEO and former President of TicketWeb, the first company to sell event tickets via the Internet. ?We?ve worked with Andrew over many years and he?s clearly a visionary and a businessperson who shares our standards of integrity,? said Hurwitz. In addition to the 9:30 Club, Ticketfly is now serving popular venues in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and other US markets, and is expanding quickly across the country.
?It?s remarkable how little online ticketing has changed in the past decade, ? said Dreskin. ?Our integrated ticketing, website and marketing platform streamlines daily life for concert promoters. We address their repetitive and time-consuming daily tasks so that they are now able to focus their energies on more important initiatives.? Teree went on to say, ?Ticketfly aims to give promoters and fans relevant technologies that will enhance the already social aspect of seeing a live show. We?re really listening to our clients and the fans to determine how best to use the latest web and mobile goodies and to have a lot more fun.?
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?Our integrated ticketing, website and marketing platform streamlines daily life for concert promoters. We address their repetitive and time-consuming daily tasks so that they are now able to focus their energies on more important initiatives.?
filling in a form every time you order tickets = repetitive and time-consuming for the customer. you can make it as streamlined as you like for the promoter, but if the consumer is burdened instead...
this emphasis on facebook has me thinking that ordering might somehow be linked to your FB account. order tickets, sign in to FB through the TFly site, and your info is populated? would require the user to have all this info in the FB account (i don't have my address in my FB account). would also require the user to have a FB account. not everyone is interested in social networks.
We?re really listening to our clients and the fans to determine how best to use the latest web and mobile goodies and to have a lot more fun.?
hey, if you're listening: we'd like two of the latest web technologies, called "shopping cart" and "accounts" (sometimes referred to as "profiles"). party like it's 1999!
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I did invite the Ticketfly people to this forum to discuss, but not surprisingly they didn't take me up on it (yet). Of course, why would they come here and be diluged with the questions about the service fees...
Anyhow, since they created and ran ticketweb, and you guys are so damn hung up on the "account" and "shopping cart" features, we know they know how to do both and have intentionally decided not to add those features. It's now up to this group to decide why they aren't doing it - I've given you my theory.
The fees are too high, too many scalpers get the best tickets, not enough tickets for real fans - I'm not sure I would put this lots interests first either.
And sweetcell, you can't be burndened to type it in everytime (even if it helped cut down on scalping?) yet if the requirement was to type it once in facebook (which I don't think is their plan) you wouldn't do it? Somehow I doubt this.
Anyhow, I view FB and twitter as the marketing vehicles, not the sales vehicles.
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Little hard to say too much at this stage without knowing all that much so probably lots of retractions will be required. I'll admit that upfront. Also, a bit limited in that I do not use Facebook and, at best, can only assume that it's somewhat similiar to MySpace.
Yes, I agree Smackie that it will probably be one of several marketing tools as opposed to the actual sales vehicle. At least, I sure hope so! Had thoughts about that with their mention of Wordpress but know even less about that so I'm still a little lost on that one. It did sound to me though that they were depending on some other site and server to do their cyber business but that just can't be right for a bigger company. Maybe I just misunderstood what I read. Wondered if it was a way to cut expenses or working out some deal with them to cut costs, etc.. Again, that all just doesn't seem right so I've got to have that aspect all wrong.
Regarding using Facebook, etc., and not wanting to include real life data (I am fully with you Sweetcell on that one!), you could always start another profile to use solely for ticket purchases. Not trusting major social networking sites like that, I sure wouldn't! Too big of a potential major hack attack target! No way would I ever allow my credit card numbers anywhere near something like that!!! But, I know others will, so I guess that's all good for them and the companies. Hopefully, it will all just link over to a specific site/server run by the ticket agency.
As one who does not live in DC, I would GREATLY appreciate being able to get my tickets elsewhere, even for a fee. A small fee; otherwise, I may as well stick to paying too much online... which, more often than not, I'll end up opting OUT of.
So far, based on what I've read, I'm not too impressed. That's 'so far'. Let them WOW us! Only time will tell.
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I did invite the Ticketfly people to this forum to discuss, but not surprisingly they didn't take me up on it (yet). Of course, why would they come here and be diluged with the questions about the service fees...
So I stand corrected....
Damon , Nov 09 06:56 pm (PST):
Hi [Vansmack],
Thank you for writing in. The short answer is this, we are a new company and there are features still to come. I can definitely say Shopping Carts and Customer Accounts are on their way! We will see them in the next couple of months, among other additions to the site.
I would like to invite you and anyone else who has questions or suggestions for us to visit our Feedback forum, http://ticketfly.zendesk.com/forums/65055/entries.
Please do let us know if you have any other thoughts for questions for us.
Thank You
Damon @ Ticketfly
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As one who does not live in DC, I would GREATLY appreciate being able to get my tickets elsewhere, even for a fee. A small fee; otherwise, I may as well stick to paying too much online... which, more often than not, I'll end up opting OUT of.
It's been so long I've almost forgotten what it's like to buy tickets at in person at an outlet. Seth, any comments on this? Or, to the forum if you know: one example is CD Cellar - they sell TM tickets - can they sell more than one ticket brand? Or, do they have a contract? I'd love it if there were a store (record, lifestyle) that sold tickets to 9:30. Or, maybe it's just too "1999"...
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I can definitely say Shopping Carts and Customer Accounts are on their way! We will see them in the next couple of months, among other additions to the site.
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Maybe by 2010? What's so hard about adding these pretty basic features?
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Maybe by 2010? What's so hard about adding these pretty basic features?
don't confuse basic as in standard with basic as in simple. adding these to a customer-facing website takes significant customization and testing (esp. with regards to security). then there are the issues of prioritization and resource availability - they may want to do it, but be unable to do so right now.
personally, i find it surprising that a ticketing site would launch without these standard features, but apparently i complain too much.
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personally, i find it surprising that a ticketing site would launch without these standard features, but apparently i complain too much.
This was basically my point. Why launch without these standard features, and why sign up to work with a company before it has these standard features?
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Granted, in a perfect world, it would have them. Can you still order tickets? Yes. Doesn't seem that surprising to my why they'd launch in phases. Their basic business model (collect money for a ticket, provide that ticket to consumer) works...everything else just makes it easier for us. This way, they can get live, get their business rolling, and implement phase two changes as they're ready and properly tested. Doesn't seem that off to me.
personally, i find it surprising that a ticketing site would launch without these standard features, but apparently i complain too much.
This was basically my point. Why launch without these standard features, and why sign up to work with a company before it has these standard features?
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Would bet that it probably has something to do with contract dates. Why commit to another full year with Tickets.com when Seth knew he wanted to change over to Ticketfly without having to wait another full year? Again, just pure speculation on my part.
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but apparently i complain too much.
For the record, that was a collective and plural "you" based on an incredible sense of entitlement shared by many on the board. It was in no way soley directed at you.
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As long as the servers hold-up during the extra-busy on-sale dates, everything else is gravy.
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I just thought this poll was funny
http://consumerist.com/5407719/update-on-possible-comcastticketmasterlive-nation-abomination-with-poll
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As long as the servers hold-up during the extra-busy on-sale dates, everything else is gravy.
i wouldn't hold my breath on that one. ticketfly's MO is to make things easier and better for the promoter/venue operator. concern for the customer appears to be a secondary concern - not absent, but secondary.
why spend $2M on IT infrastructure to be able to deal with 4 or 5 "big" shows/year, when you can handle the vast majority of the demand with $1M in infrastructure?
in the TC thread, i asked "i wonder if this is how ticketfly will handle big onsales - have the tickets trickle out throughout the day? "if at first sold out, check check again"..."
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Just bought my Dropkick tix. No more prepaid parking passes available with ticketfly?
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Just bought my Dropkick tix. No more prepaid parking passes available with ticketfly?
you could add parking when ordering thievery tix
(hello from 33,000 feet)
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Just bought my Dropkick tix. No more prepaid parking passes available with ticketfly?
you could add parking when ordering thievery tix
(hello from 33,000 feet)
Hmmm...... Did not see that option for the Dropkick.
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Dreskin was the brains behind that Field Day fiasco a few years back when he organized and sold tickets to a two-day festival on Long Island that he forgot to get the right permit for. He made his dough when he sold TicketWeb to TicketMaster for $35mn in 2000. There is also a bit of contention about his calling himself "co-founder" of TicketWeb. He was actually hired the year after the company was founded. But he did successfully get the original founder fired from the company so I guess he can call himself "co-founder".
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Sorry to bring up a dreaded thread. Wanting to buy different show tickets with one click. Is this correct: Ticketfly [still] does not bulk orders together?
Tickets.com one could "continue shopping". Also, wasn't only one transaction fee applied to the bulk?
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As I recall, at Tickets.com, combining tickets from multiple shows into one order resulted in identical "convenience" surcharges, but the shipping surcharge was the same as for one ticket. So, you saved on shipping, but that's it.
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I'm gonna bitch about something, too.
Does anybody else find the way the ticket prices are displayed both on the TF site and the club site a little obnoxious?
$10-$25 for example. Yeah the $10 almost always means parking ticket but does that always have to be shown? It wasn't when the club was using tickets.com.
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agreed. annoying.
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I can't find a past receipt to verify. I do remember asking a question of mgmt. and they reminded me to bulk my order to avoid multiple fees...I just can't remember if it was service / trans. Anyway, Seth, will this be an option in the future to bulk orders together and if so, will it allow us to bulk at least one of the fees?
And, thanks for the free will call / mailing - at least the shows I looked at they were free.
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And, thanks for the free will call / mailing - at least the shows I looked at they were free.
i suppose you could call them "free", but i suspect the truth is that these fees have been rolled in to the Service Fee and Order Processing fee.
tickets haven't gotten any cheaper under ticketfly, so those fees are still lurking in their somewhere, or have been replaced by something equivalent. take your pick.
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I agree...but... Example: $10 in fees on a $20 ticket is a bit much, but close to the old costs, give or take, and without pick-up or shipping fees, is still less than TM/LN.
I'd rather not digress into that discussion unless I can see the exact charges from an old Tickets.com receipt.
I'm appreciative b/c I thought when the switchover first occurred, there were shipping costs? Can't win. The people who criticize some of us who question the fees, eventually end up criticizing the system when they can.
So, yes, thanks to Seth if you did cut out the add'l shipping / pick-up fees. I still would like to know if we can bulk order and if it cuts one of the costs or applies a certain percentage per total order, that would help. Thanks. :)
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Fixed! Thanks.
I'm gonna bitch about something, too.
Does anybody else find the way the ticket prices are displayed both on the TF site and the club site a little obnoxious?
$10-$25 for example. Yeah the $10 almost always means parking ticket but does that always have to be shown? It wasn't when the club was using tickets.com.
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MPP goes with Ticketfly as well:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/02/local_news_merriweather_partne.html (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/02/local_news_merriweather_partne.html)
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MPP goes with Ticketfly as well:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/02/local_news_merriweather_partne.html (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/02/local_news_merriweather_partne.html)
not too surprising, although i worry about the system's ability to handle big surges. the spoon onsale - a lot smaller than a big-demand MPP concert - was a sh*t-show. will it be more cases of tickets being slowly released over time, with lots of timing outs and false "show sold out" messages while you wait? will MMJ be TF's Phish?
the article states "Merriweather Post Pavilion will kick off its 2010 season with a new partnership that promises save local concert-goers some cash." yeah, well, that's hasn't happened for 930 tix - they're just as expensive now as they were with tickets.com. the statement makes for some good marketing, but i'm skeptical. i look forward to be proven wrong.
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Maybe they mean that the fees will so extraordinarily high that concert-goers won't want to buy tickets.
Thus, cash = saved.
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"We're like the Goldman family in the O.J. trial," Hurwitz said. "The government didn't help, so we're taking matters into our own hands."
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As you may recall, I made it clear that the switch at 930 was not going to lower service charges there
this will lower them significantly at MPP
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We understand Seth. We'll pay what we have to for good shows. BTW, congratulations for the pollstar nomination. The club should've won that!
Speaking of good shows, have you seen the Hey Seth thread lately? ;)
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"We're like the Goldman family in the O.J. trial," Hurwitz said. "The government didn't help, so we're taking matters into our own hands."
Is this quote for real? Didn't Hulk Hogan remind everyone - don't compare anything to OJ or his trial - ever.
Wish people would make some more comments directly at The Post blog...
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Who will handle I.M.P.'s DAR shows? Will that continue to be TM?
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I find it funny that you wouldn?t want to lower the service charges in order to help the people that keep your club alive. I also find it sad the charges that are applied.
Example
Was going to buy 2 Tickets to the Never shout never show and purchase parking.
Tickets 2x$15=$30
Parking 1x$10=$10
Service Fee for tickets 2x$4.75= $9.50
Service Fee for Parking 1x $3.50= $3.50
Order Processing $4.00
Totals
$40 dollars to park and 2 tickets
$17 dollars in Service and processing fees
Total= $57
First off this is where the ticket industry is messed up, the service fee should cover the order processing and that extra $4.00 charge should be eliminated. Second why are they charging another service fee for parking, like other events it should be included in ticket price, I understand 9:30 just cant accommodate for that many cars, but at least make sure they don?t charge a service fee for it.
It is because of all these fees that I have probably cut down 90% of my concert going at 930 club, and when I do go to a show I just find off street parking, would rather spend ten minutes walking from my car to the club then spend $13.50 to park in a fenced off parking lot.
If I read the statement right, I also don?t understand the $1 service charge of buying tickets at the club in advance and no service charge night of the show. Every other club I have been too it has been opposite, no service charge at all if bought at the club in advance and extra $2 to $5 the night of the show depending on ticket price. Why would you punish concert goers for buying their tickets in advance?
As you may recall, I made it clear that the switch at 930 was not going to lower service charges there
this will lower them significantly at MPP
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I find it funny that you wouldn?t want to lower the service charges in order to help the people that keep your club alive. I also find it sad the charges that are applied.
Example
Was going to buy 2 Tickets to the Never shout never show and purchase parking.
Tickets 2x$15=$30
Parking 1x$10=$10
Service Fee for tickets 2x$4.75= $9.50
Service Fee for Parking 1x $3.50= $3.50
Order Processing $4.00
Totals
$40 dollars to park and 2 tickets
$17 dollars in Service and processing fees
Total= $57
First off this is where the ticket industry is messed up, the service fee should cover the order processing and that extra $4.00 charge should be eliminated. Second why are they charging another service fee for parking, like other events it should be included in ticket price, I understand 9:30 just cant accommodate for that many cars, but at least make sure they don?t charge a service fee for it.
It is because of all these fees that I have probably cut down 90% of my concert going at 930 club, and when I do go to a show I just find off street parking, would rather spend ten minutes walking from my car to the club then spend $13.50 to park in a fenced off parking lot.
If I read the statement right, I also don?t understand the $1 service charge of buying tickets at the club in advance and no service charge night of the show. Every other club I have been too it has been opposite, no service charge at all if bought at the club in advance and extra $2 to $5 the night of the show depending on ticket price. Why would you punish concert goers for buying their tickets in advance?
As you may recall, I made it clear that the switch at 930 was not going to lower service charges there
this will lower them significantly at MPP
I'll let sweetcell dissect and refute your argument point by point, which he will surely take work time to do. And i'll let azag call you a douchebag, which he will surely do.
As for my response, I will laugh loudly that you are going to see this person:
Never Shout Never is a one-man band featuring Christofer Drew Ingle, a Missouri native whose songs straddle the border between emo and acoustic singer/songwriter fare. A product of the digital age, Ingle originally built a fan base by posting his bright, soul-baring music to the Internet. After averaging over 15,000 online plays a day, he made Never Shout Never legitimate in 2008 by releasing his first recording, the Yippee EP. The Hot Topic clothing chain featured Yippee in its stores, and an appearance on MTV's TRL helped promote it. Several months later, Ingle entered the recording studio with veteran producer Butch Walker to record a full album, What Is Love?, which cracked the Top 40 upon its release in early 2010.
allmusic review:
An emo album with an acoustic twist, What Is Love? marks the debut of 18-year-old songwriter Christofer Ingle. Like Adam Young ? the sole member of Owl City ? Ingle launched his one-man band by promoting the songs on MySpace, where his tales of angst and adolescent love found an appropriately teenaged audience. While Owl City proved to be heavily ? perhaps excessively ? influenced by the Postal Service, though, Ingle does a better job blurring the line between his influences and his own music, coming up with a sound that owes equally to Jason Mraz, the Honorary Title, and the Early November. Producer Butch Walker, no stranger to one-man bands himself, rounds out the mix by adding vocal harmonies, orchestral instruments, and finger snaps. The result is a breezy, commercial record ? indeed, What Is Love? charted at number 24 during its first week of release ? but the bulk of the album is flawed at best, its eight songs rarely venturing outside the unholy trinity of Hot Topic mall culture, LiveJournal blog entries, and the influence of C-list Warped Tour bands. Ingle's ability to write a pop melody is promising, perhaps, yet it's too hampered by nasal vocals to make much of an impression, and the album?s short running time proves to be one of its biggest assets.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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You're a douchebag and your taste sucks.
Next!
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That is the artist, not the tour, I was gonna goto the tour, but even if it was the artist.
I find it funny that you wouldn?t want to lower the service charges in order to help the people that keep your club alive. I also find it sad the charges that are applied.
Example
Was going to buy 2 Tickets to the Never shout never show and purchase parking.
Tickets 2x$15=$30
Parking 1x$10=$10
Service Fee for tickets 2x$4.75= $9.50
Service Fee for Parking 1x $3.50= $3.50
Order Processing $4.00
Totals
$40 dollars to park and 2 tickets
$17 dollars in Service and processing fees
Total= $57
First off this is where the ticket industry is messed up, the service fee should cover the order processing and that extra $4.00 charge should be eliminated. Second why are they charging another service fee for parking, like other events it should be included in ticket price, I understand 9:30 just cant accommodate for that many cars, but at least make sure they don?t charge a service fee for it.
It is because of all these fees that I have probably cut down 90% of my concert going at 930 club, and when I do go to a show I just find off street parking, would rather spend ten minutes walking from my car to the club then spend $13.50 to park in a fenced off parking lot.
If I read the statement right, I also don?t understand the $1 service charge of buying tickets at the club in advance and no service charge night of the show. Every other club I have been too it has been opposite, no service charge at all if bought at the club in advance and extra $2 to $5 the night of the show depending on ticket price. Why would you punish concert goers for buying their tickets in advance?
As you may recall, I made it clear that the switch at 930 was not going to lower service charges there
this will lower them significantly at MPP
I'll let sweetcell dissect and refute your argument point by point, which he will surely take work time to do. And i'll let azag call you a douchebag, which he will surely do.
As for my response, I will laugh loudly that you are going to see this person:
Never Shout Never is a one-man band featuring Christofer Drew Ingle, a Missouri native whose songs straddle the border between emo and acoustic singer/songwriter fare. A product of the digital age, Ingle originally built a fan base by posting his bright, soul-baring music to the Internet. After averaging over 15,000 online plays a day, he made Never Shout Never legitimate in 2008 by releasing his first recording, the Yippee EP. The Hot Topic clothing chain featured Yippee in its stores, and an appearance on MTV's TRL helped promote it. Several months later, Ingle entered the recording studio with veteran producer Butch Walker to record a full album, What Is Love?, which cracked the Top 40 upon its release in early 2010.
allmusic review:
An emo album with an acoustic twist, What Is Love? marks the debut of 18-year-old songwriter Christofer Ingle. Like Adam Young ? the sole member of Owl City ? Ingle launched his one-man band by promoting the songs on MySpace, where his tales of angst and adolescent love found an appropriately teenaged audience. While Owl City proved to be heavily ? perhaps excessively ? influenced by the Postal Service, though, Ingle does a better job blurring the line between his influences and his own music, coming up with a sound that owes equally to Jason Mraz, the Honorary Title, and the Early November. Producer Butch Walker, no stranger to one-man bands himself, rounds out the mix by adding vocal harmonies, orchestral instruments, and finger snaps. The result is a breezy, commercial record ? indeed, What Is Love? charted at number 24 during its first week of release ? but the bulk of the album is flawed at best, its eight songs rarely venturing outside the unholy trinity of Hot Topic mall culture, LiveJournal blog entries, and the influence of C-list Warped Tour bands. Ingle's ability to write a pop melody is promising, perhaps, yet it's too hampered by nasal vocals to make much of an impression, and the album?s short running time proves to be one of its biggest assets.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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I'll let sweetcell dissect and refute your argument point by point
awww, you know me so well.
reading that post i came up with a ton of things to ridicule (90% reduction in attendance? really?), but this kid isn't worth it. logic and reason seem to have little room in this person's outlook. let him/her vent. we can all agree that fees are high, apparently this person hasn't worked out how to avoid them, or can't attach a value to them... or that he/she should vote with their wallet. all things that have been said here a million times before.
(p.s. one insight for you, siggy14: tickets are cheaper at the 930 on day of the show b/c if there are still tickets left right before the show, the club wants to be sure to sell them. some clubs believe in punishing day-of ticket purchasers by charging extra, why not go bitch them out instead?)
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Second why are they charging another service fee for parking, like other events it should be included in ticket price, I understand 9:30 just cant accommodate for that many cars, but at least make sure they don’t charge a service fee for it.
I'm going to avoid pointing out the ridiculous logical fallacies throughout the rest of this person's argument (since I've already ripped to shreds 100 other idiots who want to argue "the fees are too high," and "too high a percentage of the ticket cost") and just focus on this.
What? What venue do you know has on-site parking and doesn't charge you for it? Nissan (er, um, Jiffy Lube Live) and Merriweather have on-site parking and yes, it's "included" in the ticket cost. And by "included" I mean there's the stated ticket face value and you are mandated to pay $8.00 extra or however much whether or not you park there. That is not a better system. 930 Club, instead, offers a lot that you absolutely do not have to park in, but is an option. To the best of my knowledge, the lot has never sold-out in advance. Why not simply show up day-of the show with $10 and get into the lot with absolutely no fees added onto it? Or drive to the venue before the day of the show and buy your parking pass service charge free at the box office? But, yes, if you're too lazy for either of those options, I'm not going to feel bad you're charged a $4.00 convenience charge for the convenience of sitting on your rear.
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the service fee is too keep the locals from smashing your car windows in and stealing your shit to sell at a pawn shop for crack. they even need to have a cop in the lot to keep the locals away. so the fee is a "fuck you, locals" fee.
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just occurred to me: this "never say never" dude will probably not sell out the club. thus, siggy14 could walk up to the club on the night of the show and buy tickets. this would allow him/her to avoid fees, and get cheap day-of tickets (which he/she ironically complained about). BRILLIANT.
and to pile on to james ford's observations... wonder what this "never say never" dude looks like?
(http://www.ticketfly.com/i/00/00/00/73/51-atlg.jpg)
that's right - part emo, all douchebag.
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"that's right - part emo, all douchebag." . . . . doesn't that just about sum up the youth of today. he will sell out. his hair will sell half the tickets itself.
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good point.
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I thought the fees were to keep out the riff raff.
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can't find the My Morning Jacket info page on ticketfly. Maybe they are not ready for Merriweather.....
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More Ticketfly weirdness:
All the Soft Sale shows are gone from the 930 TF page.
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Hey TicketFly--- "Automatically" may be better spelling; your spelling works phonetically though....
Welcome to TicketFly!
Due to high demand you have temporarily been placed into a waiting room. This Page will automaticly refresh.
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Got pit tickets for MMJ
First time ever successfully scoring pit tickets for Merriweather. Yay ticketfly!
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$18 in fees for MMJ for 2 tickets. I thought MPP fees were supposed to be less? I guess not.
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$18 in fees for MMJ for 2 tickets. I thought MPP fees were supposed to be less? I guess not.
sorry to bring math in to this, but $18 fees on $90 face = 20% fees. that's lower than what we've been paying (typically around 30-40%).
did you expect there to be no fees?
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Ticketfly plays the same games as Ticketmaster in that they don't release the best seats right away. I got on-line right at 10:00 was just looking for a single and was directed toward the back of the pavilion. I knew there were better seats available and after an hour of getting no better than Row Q, I finally settled for Row N.
Also Ticket-Fly needs to allow the purchaser to pick between GA's and actual seats. There were tons of GA's available that I kept getting but just ended up throwing back.
Also the pick-ur-seat option was pretty useless.
The one thing I really liked is that you can hold your seats (for at least 10 minutes) while searching for better seats.
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$18 in fees for MMJ for 2 tickets. I thought MPP fees were supposed to be less? I guess not.
sorry to bring math in to this, but $18 fees on $90 face = 20% fees. that's lower than what we've been paying (typically around 30-40%).
did you expect there to be no fees?
What I would like and what I would expect are two different things. Not a problem, I'll just pay my fees to WMATA instead.
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To be honest, it kind of blows my mind that people would shell out $45 for MMJ.
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Ticketfly plays the same games as Ticketmaster in that they don't release the best seats right away.
(...)
Also Ticket-Fly needs to allow the purchaser to pick between GA's and actual seats. There were tons of GA's available that I kept getting but just ended up throwing back.
Also the pick-ur-seat option was pretty useless.
seth, allow me to reiterate points 1 and 2 above - randomly releasing seats, and the inability to pick between GA floor and seated pavilion, were two big problems. it would bug me to no end knowing that someone could saunter on in hours after i bought my tickets, and get a better seat than me. i too was looking for pavilion seats, i spent a lot of time throwing back GAs. very annoying. quick solution: why not price GAs a dollar more or a dollar less, so we can choose between them that way?
jeff: what "pick-ur-seat" option? i didn't see anything like that...
more complaints and compliments here:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2010/02/how_well_did_ticketfly_handle.html
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Ticketfly plays the same games as Ticketmaster in that they don't release the best seats right away.
Is this a ticket company problem or a Merriweather problem? I've had the same problem with MPP tickets since the Ticketron days. You could be first in line for a not-very-popular show and end up back in the double-letters. I used to occasionally have great luck via TM for other venues. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the ticket agencies for how MPP releases tickets.
I got on-line right at 10:00 was just looking for a single and was directed toward the back of the pavilion. I knew there were better seats available and after an hour of getting no better than Row Q, I finally settled for Row N.
Isn't that like the 6-7th row of reserved seats? You could do a lot worse than settling for that.
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Isn't that like the 6-7th row of reserved seats? You could do a lot worse than settling for that.
seventh (http://www.eventprocess.com/BrokerMaps/MerriweatherPostPavillion_all.gif)
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To be honest, it kind of blows my mind that people would shell out $45 for MMJ.
Exactly my though. And I'm a fan and have all nearly all their albums.
I'd pay $25-$30 to see them at a club, but not $45 to see them at an amphitheater. But that's me I guess.
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But that's me I guess.
do let us know if you figure it out.
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Yeah, $25-30 at 930 or DAR sounds about right.
To be honest, it kind of blows my mind that people would shell out $45 for MMJ.
Exactly my though. And I'm a fan and have all nearly all their albums.
I'd pay $25-$30 to see them at a club, but not $45 to see them at an amphitheater. But that's me I guess.
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"jeff: what "pick-ur-seat" option? i didn't see anything like that..."
It was a feature that was available early in the sale that went away. You were supposed to pick what section
of the pavilion you wanted to sit in - center, LC, RC (rather than picking best available). That option wasn't really working and maybe they just pulled it off the site after a while.
I agree that the prices were a little high for MMJ, however for me, Merriweather is 10 minutes from home and
parking is free at the mall, so that is worth somewhat of a premium to me. Might not pay that fee to see them
in DC when you count in travel time, parking fees etc.
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Received my first tickets through TicketFly...didn't realize I would care about what they look like. I guess I do like classic ticket stubs...these are cheesy. Looks like they were made by the new Target branding department. There goes the cool collection I have, especially since the majority of the shows I attend are at 930. And, considering they don't fit in a regular sized sleeve.
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Received my first tickets through TicketFly...didn't realize I would care about what they look like. I guess I do like classic ticket stubs...these are cheesy. Looks like they were made by the new Target branding department. There goes the cool collection I have, especially since the majority of the shows I attend are at 930. And, considering they don't fit in a regular sized sleeve.
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
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Received my first tickets through TicketFly...didn't realize I would care about what they look like. I guess I do like classic ticket stubs...these are cheesy. Looks like they were made by the new Target branding department. There goes the cool collection I have, especially since the majority of the shows I attend are at 930. And, considering they don't fit in a regular sized sleeve.
I was surprised to see my name on my ticket. Is that a will-call thing, or do all of the tickets purchased online have this?
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Received my first tickets through TicketFly...didn't realize I would care about what they look like. I guess I do like classic ticket stubs...these are cheesy. Looks like they were made by the new Target branding department. There goes the cool collection I have, especially since the majority of the shows I attend are at 930.
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
I knew someone would make a comment that this has been said before...Thanks for being constant. ::)
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Received my first tickets through TicketFly...didn't realize I would care about what they look like. I guess I do like classic ticket stubs...these are cheesy. Looks like they were made by the new Target branding department. There goes the cool collection I have, especially since the majority of the shows I attend are at 930.
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
I knew someone would make a comment that this has been said before...Thanks for being constant. ::)
i only made a comment because it was i who said this same thing awhile ago, almost word for word and i found it amusingly strange. i didn't mean to make you use your rolly eyed superpowers.
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just agreeing with you. thanks, I accept your apology, it's weirdly sweet. ;D
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I think TM is doing the same thing as ticketfly with the releasing of tix. tried to get scissor sisters tix today right at noon and was showing sold out. 5 mins later they became available. no clue if people got tix yanked from them or if they didnt start the sale on time, but it seemed i was able to get wed tix for quite awhile.
thurs tix sold out maybe 2 mins after they went on sale. maybe a glitch with tix going on sale for both the wed and thurs shows at the same time. rather sucks as its hard to know when tix are actually sold out, or if site just isnt working.
maybe this is the new way of selling tix for shows expected to sell out quickly.
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Still no return of the Soft Sale shows. Will tickets to those just be sold at the club from now on? I kinda like that idea if so.
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azag - If you promise to pick mine up for me, I'll agree with you. ;)
still being redundant, but dang, those tickets don't even fit in a wallet without bending. I'm done. sorry.
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Deal. ;D
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Soft sales still not showing. What gives, Seth?
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anyone having issueswith ticketfly today? This is my first time using it and I've been stuck in a searching for tickets for about 10 minutes now
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Why can I use an account option and shopping cart for Merriweather events, but not 9:30 Club? Is this to be added to the club events soon?
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Why can I use an account option and shopping cart for Merriweather events, but not 9:30 Club? Is this to be added to the club events soon?
Maybe, but that will cost you an additional convenience charge of only $29.95 per ticket added to the cart.
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Hey There-
We are working on adding cart features to all of our venues.
Stay tuned!
-Amy @ Ticketfly
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Hey all,
If I want to see a show in a few weeks that has a ticket price of $20, the actual cost is $28.75 when all the Ticketfly fees and service charges are added on. How much will it cost if I buy the ticket direct from the box office - $20 + $1, so $21 total? What days/hours is the club open for selling tickets? Sorry if this has been asked before (it must've been).
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Hey all,
If I want to see a show in a few weeks that has a ticket price of $20, the actual cost is $28.75 when all the Ticketfly fees and service charges are added on. How much will it cost if I buy the ticket direct from the box office - $20 + $1, so $21 total? What days/hours is the club open for selling tickets? Sorry if this has been asked before (it must've been).
just call thatguy a bouncer . . . he'll let you know all the needed info. oh yeah, and it's sethy to us ingrates.
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Hey all,
If I want to see a show in a few weeks that has a ticket price of $20, the actual cost is $28.75 when all the Ticketfly fees and service charges are added on. How much will it cost if I buy the ticket direct from the box office - $20 + $1, so $21 total? What days/hours is the club open for selling tickets? Sorry if this has been asked before (it must've been).
http://www.930.com/tickets/
THE 9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE (815 V St. N.W.)
HOURS
12-7pm M-F
12-11pm M-F during show nights only
6-11pm SAT. during show nights only
6-10:30pm SUN. during show nights only
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Hey all,
If I want to see a show in a few weeks that has a ticket price of $20, the actual cost is $28.75 when all the Ticketfly fees and service charges are added on. How much will it cost if I buy the ticket direct from the box office - $20 + $1, so $21 total? What days/hours is the club open for selling tickets? Sorry if this has been asked before (it must've been).
http://www.930.com/tickets/
THE 9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE (815 V St. N.W.)
HOURS
12-7pm M-F
12-11pm M-F during show nights only
6-11pm SAT. during show nights only
6-10:30pm SUN. during show nights only
oh just go ahead and answer his question . . . you're no fun anymore.
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When has he ever been fun?
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Thanks guys
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When has he ever been fun?
Your mom said I was fun.
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Before she was tragically killed in a car accident 20 years ago?
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Before she was tragically killed in a car accident 20 years ago?
I was young, but virile.
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Mom always did like little boys with little girl bodies. Its what killed her.
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Plus the canoe through the chest.
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IMP friendly article:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/ticketfly-could-be-the-ticketing-alternative-youve-been-waiting-for/ (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/ticketfly-could-be-the-ticketing-alternative-youve-been-waiting-for/)
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30% less? I think they really meant to say 30% more.
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Soft Sales are gone, again.
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ticketfly amy.. maybe youre still around and will read this. a friend and i were just saying (its actually on my fb page) that we were very impressed with how efficient ticketfly is when it comes to refunds. about 4 hours ago - we got notice that a band wasnt able to get into the states due to visa issues.
already i was impressed that you gave a low-down on what went wrong visa wise. then 2 hours later i got a confirmation saying my refund had happened. couldnt believe how quickly it all happened.
great job! :)
can you please get more nyc venues to use ticketfly. i guess it means ill be going to glasslands more often :)
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I'm here I'm here!
Thanks so much for the feedback! Yes, recently some of our, erm, competitors have started advertising, as part of a "Fan Guarantee" that they give refunds if shows are canceled. And we were like DUH. The show didn't happen. Why wouldn't people have to pay?
Anyway, I really appreciate the post and I will definitely pass it along!
-Amy
ticketfly amy.. maybe youre still around and will read this. a friend and i were just saying (its actually on my fb page) that we were very impressed with how efficient ticketfly is when it comes to refunds. about 4 hours ago - we got notice that a band wasnt able to get into the states due to visa issues.
already i was impressed that you gave a low-down on what went wrong visa wise. then 2 hours later i got a confirmation saying my refund had happened. couldnt believe how quickly it all happened.
great job! :)
can you please get more nyc venues to use ticketfly. i guess it means ill be going to glasslands more often :)
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LOL - about a year ago I got into a fight with some people who wouldnt issue me a refund till *after* the show happened (which wasnt happening). I told them it was the most ridiculous thing I had heard and it wasnt my fault the band had an emergency. After weeks of fighting I was issued a refund.
You'd think that was common sense 101. Ah well. Definitely pass along the feedback :)
I'm here I'm here!
Thanks so much for the feedback! Yes, recently some of our, erm, competitors have started advertising, as part of a "Fan Guarantee" that they give refunds if shows are canceled. And we were like DUH. The show didn't happen. Why wouldn't people have to pay?
Anyway, I really appreciate the post and I will definitely pass it along!
-Amy
ticketfly amy.. maybe youre still around and will read this. a friend and i were just saying (its actually on my fb page) that we were very impressed with how efficient ticketfly is when it comes to refunds. about 4 hours ago - we got notice that a band wasnt able to get into the states due to visa issues.
already i was impressed that you gave a low-down on what went wrong visa wise. then 2 hours later i got a confirmation saying my refund had happened. couldnt believe how quickly it all happened.
great job! :)
can you please get more nyc venues to use ticketfly. i guess it means ill be going to glasslands more often :)
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Did any more Scissor Sisters tickets actually get sold this morning, as the e-mail blast suggested they would?
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I want my scissor sister tickets......... :'(
this suckssssssssssssssssss
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jUST kidding!!!!!!!!! I got them. :D :D :D
ticketfly ya nearly made me cry
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Lesson learned - go through the club's site.