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EinBebop
10-19-2003, 12:28 PM
WWE Raw is coming to Bakersfield, and my friends and I have decided that, just once, we want to be in the front row (or damn close). So what's my best bet to get tickets? Get their early in the morning to be at the front of the line, or be sitting on the computer on the Internet at opening time? Do I have an advantage either way? Is it true that I can have someone on the east coast order the tickets for me three hours earlier?
hyprlynx
10-20-2003, 01:26 AM
Go with internet. Our town's civic center has had some semi big names come in lately and there have been lots of complaints by people lining up at the box office. The tickets have been sold out by the time they get up to the window.

For example Cher tickets went on sale and through ticketmaster for our arena. They were available via phone, the net and through the box office. The tickets were not divided up into pools, meaning that the box office does NOt get X amt of tickets, phone sales get X amt, etc. It's one big pool so its first come first serve and those with the fastest means of getting tickets grabbed them. Ticketmaster also didn't limit number of tickets sold online so scalpers were buying by the hundreds on line. Our paper reported on the fact that the tickets were sold out in less then an hour and only the first few people in line at the box office got tickets.

Ticketmaster sucks like that but that's the way they make money, they dont care who buys them (like the local crowd) just as long as they're sold.
Char Aznable
10-20-2003, 03:39 PM
TicketMaster does SUCK! WWE SMACKDOWN! is coming here to Houston on Tuesday, November 18 @ the new Toyota Center and every TicketMaster I went to be get my tickets in the past stated that TicketMaster is not doing any ticket sales on any event from Toyota Center! MY friend and I had to drive to Downtown to get to Toyota Center and buy the tickets in person at their box office. :mad:
rodney
10-20-2003, 05:53 PM
The real reason why Ticketmaster sucks is because they tack a minimum of $8 in fees to every ticket you buy. Therefore, your $20 ticket, is really at least a $28 ticket.

Of course, I'd expect no less from a compay owned by ClearChannel.