OFFICIAL Virgin Mobile FREEFEST 2009 Q/A - Hype Thread! REVISED

[chaz]

How can you think of blaming anyone?  It's a free fucking concert with 20 bands, at least half of which could get 20 bucks a ticket on their own tour.  Of course come scalpers got their hands on some, why is that so fucking surprising?  I'm so sick of the same old whine-fest every time a show sells out.

There were only 38,000 tickets people.  And for the most part, they were free.  Of course they were going to be gone in an instant.

Sorry you didn't get your tickets, but enough with the crying already.  Either pony up and get some on the secondary market, take your chances at the venue or hope you get lucky and someone give you their extra.  Otherwise, enough with the crying already.

[Dojokoto]

How can you think of blaming anyone?  It's a free fucking concert with 20 bands, at least half of which could get 20 bucks a ticket on their own tour.  Of course come scalpers got their hands on some, why is that so fucking surprising?  I'm so sick of the same old whine-fest every time a show sells out.

There were only 38,000 tickets people.  And for the most part, they were free.  Of course they were going to be gone in an instant.

Sorry you didn't get your tickets, but enough with the crying already.  Either pony up and get some on the secondary market, take your chances at the venue or hope you get lucky and someone give you their extra.  Otherwise, enough with the crying already.

Chaz, I think you read my post wrong. I said "who's to blame: "no one at all"" I was implying that statement. And my previous post before my last one, I said that this kind of activity always happens since it is the nature of scalpers. And, I'm not whining about anything, I successfully got my tickets in the presale on Thursday, so I don't know what you are talking about. I'm relating my last post to the other people, saying that there are many opportunities to get the tickets before August 30th.

[betao]

1. If there's going to be a price raping, then people should start buying tickets now as they go cheap. And there IS going to be a price raping.

Actually I disagree. Tickets right now are probably at their most expensive. Scalpers are trying to sell tickets; as time progresses and they still have tickets, they'll lower their prices a bit to get rid of them. What you see for like 40 dollars now will be like 20 in august. They wont get more expensive.

Its what happened with Radiohead last year. I purchased scalped tickets the day after they went on sale and paid i think 170 a ticket (for pit). As time progressed, that price lowered, and the week of the event, it was at maybe 80 or 90 a ticket. I should have waited :-/ .

[Dojokoto]

1. If there's going to be a price raping, then people should start buying tickets now as they go cheap. And there IS going to be a price raping.

Actually I disagree. Tickets right now are probably at their most expensive. Scalpers are trying to sell tickets; as time progresses and they still have tickets, they'll lower their prices a bit to get rid of them. What you see for like 40 dollars now will be like 20 in august. They wont get more expensive.

Its what happened with Radiohead last year. I purchased scalped tickets the day after they went on sale and paid i think 170 a ticket (for pit). As time progressed, that price lowered, and the week of the event, it was at maybe 80 or 90 a ticket. I should have waited :-/ .

That's a good point. As time reaches August 30th, scalpers will be desperate to sell tickets at a lower price, or they may go to the festival themselves haha. The reason why was because last years V-mobile festival, the prices were jacked up in Stubhub for VIP/GA tickets. It was about a 100-200 price increase for most tickets, and they were sold at the end.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

So all the tickets are gone? I cant change the number of tickets on any of them except 1 and I tried those and it loaded and said their were none left. I wanted to get some more but eh. I guess not.

[hutch]

Definitely wait to buy tickets..I've seen this repeatedly on Epay.. As the show gets closer the prices go down and by the last day its a buyers market....

Everybody stay cool. There's 35,000 tickets and its not a particularly great lineup. Moreover, we know a lot of the tickets were taken by people that don't even intend to use them!

[Dojokoto]

Definitely wait to buy tickets..I've seen this repeatedly on Epay.. As the show gets closer the prices go down and by the last day its a buyers market....

Everybody stay cool. There's 35,000 tickets and its not a particularly great lineup. Moreover, we know a lot of the tickets were taken by people that don't even intend to use them!

Yes, the tickets are free, so people are only resulting in buying them for cheap prices, so the scalpers will be forced to lower prices by the date of the event. If the tickets were like $100, it would be the only way around, but not all the time.

Everyone, it's okay, there's more opportunities to get your hands on the tickets! I think I've said this a million times. :.

[gaaaaaaaaah]

I really can't believe anyone's shocked that this sold out so quickly, and that they're being scalped.  Even if scalpers have to sell them for less than $20, it's still (mostly) all profit.

That being said, I'm still amazed it sold out that quickly.  I didn't try for any this morning, but the people I know who did got nothing.

Sadly, there really isn't much Seth could have done, short of making sales in person only.  But there would have been complaints either way.

I'm just glad I was able to get two on Thursday.  I'll just exchange the second for a ride home afterwards, and I'm good to go!

[Dojokoto]

I really can't believe anyone's shocked that this sold out so quickly, and that they're being scalped.  Even if scalpers have to sell them for less than $20, it's still (mostly) all profit.

That being said, I'm still amazed it sold out that quickly.  I didn't try for any this morning, but the people I know who did got nothing.

Sadly, there really isn't much Seth could have done, short of making sales in person only.  But there would have been complaints either way.

I'm just glad I was able to get two on Thursday.  I'll just exchange the second for a ride home afterwards, and I'm good to go!

It was pretty damn fast, but people will go crazy over the word "free" than "$175" anyday.

[gaaaaaaaaah]

I was definitely expecting them to be gone within half an hour, but I figured they'd be easily obtainable if you were online right at 10.

Guess not.

[Dojokoto]

I was definitely expecting them to be gone within half an hour, but I figured they'd be easily obtainable if you were online right at 10.

Guess not.

Wait, people couldn't get theirs at exactly 10? That's weird, because I logged in at exactly 10 on thursday to get mine, and i did.

[gaaaaaaaaah]

I was definitely expecting them to be gone within half an hour, but I figured they'd be easily obtainable if you were online right at 10.

Guess not.

Wait, people couldn't get theirs at exactly 10? That's weird, because I logged in at exactly 10 on thursday to get mine, and i did.

Yea, I got mine, as did a few friends, at ten on thursday, but everyone I know that logged on at ten on Saturday was unable to get anything.

[andyrichter]

I was definitely expecting them to be gone within half an hour, but I figured they'd be easily obtainable if you were online right at 10.

Guess not.

Wait, people couldn't get theirs at exactly 10? That's weird, because I logged in at exactly 10 on thursday to get mine, and i did.

no, lots of people got tickets right at 10.  i think it was 10:03 or 10:04 when it sold out.

you guys also have to factor in that blink and weezer were also having pre-sales of their own. so that took a big chunk of tickets from the pot as well. 

[Dojokoto]

I was definitely expecting them to be gone within half an hour, but I figured they'd be easily obtainable if you were online right at 10.

Guess not.

Wait, people couldn't get theirs at exactly 10? That's weird, because I logged in at exactly 10 on thursday to get mine, and i did.

no, lots of people got tickets right at 10.  i think it was 10:03 or 10:04 when it sold out.

you guys also have to factor in that blink and weezer were also having pre-sales of their own. so that took a big chunk of tickets from the pot as well. 

Wait, were Blink 182 and Weezer having a dual set together scheduled for August 30th originally, and had their own presale? And then V mobile freefest incorporated with 182/weezer, and then had that presale on thursday? 

[wml7]

there will be tickets available saturday

I don't want to get into how many were released for presale vs public because neither side will be happy

So was there a lot that was released for presale then there was for the actual sale?  Oh yeah I think people who bought in previous years never got passwords from ticketmaster, well that was in my case.  I think just people who signed up for the alerts on the virgin site got passwords.  Either way I got mine yay