Enough pre-sales already!

[JGatz]

What happened to just putting the tickets up for sale.  It seems like most of the presale tickets end up on ebay anyways.  If the point of a presale is to make tickets available to your ardent fans first then presales don't work.  But if your job is to scalp tickets then presales work great!

[sonickteam2]

mmmmhhhhhmmmm, riiiiiiight.

[jkeisenh]

oh!  yipee!  great!  i can't wait to have this conversation again!

[mustourdman]

I agree -- even when I have access to a pre-sale my luck doesn't seem to be any better getting tickets to shows I *really* want to see.
 
 How much longer before the pre-sales have pre-sales?

[Bombay Chutney]

Pre-sales rule!

[kosmo vinyl]

actually thats already started of sorts... i.e. Garbage Fan club presale, before the club presale...

[eltee]

Originally posted by JGatz:
 [QB] It seems like most of the presale tickets end up on ebay anyways.  QB]

Pre-sales don't bug me too much, but this I have recently noted. Darn punk'rs.

[Jaguär]

The thing that bothers me more than anything is that tickets almost always seem to go on sale at 10:00AM during a workday, leaving many of us out of the loop.   :mad:

[Seth Hurwitz]

don't like em much myself

[mustourdman]

... and I'm sure it's not too long before the Garbage Fan Club VIP Gold Star Member section will have a presale before the regular fan club gets a chance to buy tickets.

[distance]

presales make you feel special.. kind of like a tattoo... because no one else gets tattoos

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
  don't like em much myself

...says the guy who never struggles to get a ticket.

[Frank Gallagher]

Why not a pre-presale for those who really really promise not to put their tickets up on ebay!  :roll:  
 
 Presales make the uber-groovy-indie-"I'm cooler than thee" feel special, so what's the harm? Bless em.

[rc930]

It doesn't matter if their off from pre-sale or when they go on sale to the general public, tickets will end up on ebay. Pre-sale is just a chance for some people who don't have very good luck, or can't be on the exact minute that tickets go on sale, 2 chances to try to get them. Luckily I was able to get pre-sale tickets for garbage or else I wouldn't have been able to get them at all. No mine are not on ebay.

[distance]

well, if someone wanted to go through ridiculous means such as the san francisco cure promo show in feb 2000, it might not be so bad from that standpoint.  if i remember correctly, one could only buy up to two tickets and you didn't actually get a ticket you got a wristband when you showed up and showed your id, so if you bought a ticket, you went into the show basically.
 
 i mean, i guess that could only work for large-scale acts playing small places.... like if yanni were to play the 930 club.