Wilco Presale sold out before presale date ?

[Angorasoul]

I'm a bit confused on this. There is no date on the 930 club website about the wilco date of october 19. But Wilco's offical page does. It states that the pre-sale for the tickets are sept.13, then how did the pre-sale get sold out already ? Can anyone help me on this ?
 
 
 OCT-19     WASHINGTON DC     9:30     SEP-13
      WILCO Pre-Sale begins Wednesday, September 13 @ 10 a.m. via WILCO TICKETS.
 Public On Sale begins Thursday, September 14 @ 10 a.m. via Tickets.com.  :eek:    :eek:

[Vas Deferens]

There was a presale for people who signed up via snail mail newsletter...the Wilco presale via musictoday will be next week. There is a separate allocation for that.
 
 
   

Originally posted by Angorasoul:
  I'm a bit confused on this. There is no date on the 930 club website about the wilco date of october 19. But Wilco's offical page does. It states that the pre-sale for the tickets are sept.13, then how did the pre-sale get sold out already ? Can anyone help me on this ?
 
 
 OCT-19     WASHINGTON DC     9:30     SEP-13
      WILCO Pre-Sale begins Wednesday, September 13 @ 10 a.m. via WILCO TICKETS.
 Public On Sale begins Thursday, September 14 @ 10 a.m. via Tickets.com.    :eek:        :eek:  

[distance]

nice.  would have sucked if i were interested in this.
 my newsletter arrived today (the 7th) with the password for the presale yesterday (the 6th).

[freakoretardo]

It sold out in about 5 seconds anyway. I somehow managed to get a ticket.

[sweetcell]

It sold out in about 5 seconds anyway. I somehow managed to get a ticket.
 

actually it didn't - took about 15 minutes, so pretty much anyone who tried was able to get a ticket (see http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=013745 for more on the topic).  thus your tickets isn't such a miracle  
 
 i wonder if there will be any tickets left for public onsale, or if this show will sell out via presale only?

[freakoretardo]

It felt like five minutes.
 
 I didn't have my stopwatch on me, sorry.

[Vas Deferens]

sweetcell, *sigh*
 
 Not all tickets are sold via presales...why would there even be a public onsale if they'd sell all of tickets on presales??    
 
   

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 
 i wonder if there will be any tickets left for public onsale, or if this show will sell out via presale only?

[shemptiness]

Pretty sure there are only a certain number of tickets that get sold at the presales and that a sellout never occurs prior to the public sale.

[freakoretardo]

The public on sale date is so the scalpers can get in and swoop up all the remaining tickets.
 
 Duh?

[chokeychicken]

because scalpers have special super powers that give them a special advantages over everybody else in high profile public onsales.

[sweetcell]

It felt like five minutes.

ok... you originally wrote "5 seconds", i.e. implying it was pretty much instantaneous  
 
   

Not all tickets are sold via presales...why would there even be a public onsale if they'd sell all of tickets on presales??    

as far as i know (which isn't very far at all) nothing prevents a venue from allocating all tickets to the presale... what lead me to think this might be the case was the wording in the Volume flyer: "secret subscriber show".  my over-active imagination thought this might be like the last foos show, where all tickets were sold via password.  my bad.

[eltee]

You guys are just confusing people.

[sweetcell]

confusing them about what?

[freakoretardo]

Jesus buttfucking christ.
 
 I was just saying that it went by fast.
 
 It's a figure of speech.

[freakoretardo]

because scalpers have special super powers that give them a special advantages over everybody else in high profile public onsales.  

Yeah, if you call multiple computer terminals trying all at the same time to get tix against your one computer, yes its a special power.