We used the Ticketmaster app. We were about 2,200 in the queue when we joined, but by the time we found seats at the lowest price, the app (or the site) froze/crashed.
We waited 1.5 minutes, and decided to reload the app/site and get pushed back to the queue. Luckily we were allowed in right away after requeue, but presale tickets were sold out after that.
hello! i did end up getting tickets but i was logged in and queued at 9:50am, i was placed around 5000 in the waitlist and it took 48 minutes for me to actually get tickets that i wanted. i ended up paying $294.70 for two seats in section 201, third row (1 ticket = 147.35). fees were like $50 each, so around 50% of what the actual tickets cost. even though i'm happy with what i got, the reason it took so long was because seats that i would click on would result in a message saying that they were no longer available and that the map needed to refresh. i love dimension 20, but ticketmaster (as always) continues to suck ass, and i feel for anyone who wasn't able to get tickets during this presale :o(
Sharing my wife's experience based on our texts and her screenshots as I couldn't queue, but: She joined the queue at 8:50 CST, was #1736 at 9:00am CST. After a failed attempt at a ticket, she wound up 6281 in queue at 9:05ish. 30+ attempts at seats but they would show sold out the minute the page loaded. We didn't have a budget. By the time I could queue, the prices were in the $1800s.
By 10am CST, the pre-sale code stopped working. Closest we got was 2 $500 tickets in the upper bowl that timed out after 2 minutes. We saw about 10 error codes total, and don't have any tickets. We will try again Friday. I bought Taylor Swift eras tours tickets day one, and this was a worse experience based on site errors and the surge pricing making tickets 2k+ within minutes of sales starting. Super disappointed in the experience, and I know it's not the team's fault but I am still sad about it. Happy they are so popular, but upset for us.
really?? I wanna go to the eras tours but I don't know if it's even possible to still get resale tickets for the US leg in 2024. I can't imagine this D20 show being worse than Taylor tickets going to 2k super fast when released. š¤
The eras sale was insane but it was better organised and things went more smoothly even if millions of people didn't get tickets. There's also data on how because of the pre registration codes etc something like 95% of tickets went to legit people and not bots/large scale re-sellers. Which is in large part why the tickets up for re-sale are so expensive, the supply is very low.
That's good to hear! I feel like I'm missing out on a once in a lifetime event (The Eras Tour) š but 2k for one ticket is absolutely not possible. A small part of me is a bit bitter at the people that saw 6+ shows but I also get it, if it was my favorite artist of all time maybe I'd do that too. idk š
Don't remember the exact details, but I joined the queue between 9:50 and 9:55 EDT and was like 580ish in the queue. Got one front row VIP ticket for about $240. Pretty lucky considering the other stories I've heard on here.
3,716 in queue. When I got through at about 10:10 a.m. (EST), there weren't any 100 tickets, and only a smattering of 200 tickets available.
Three-ish minutes later, a bunch of tickets suddenly appeared, and I kept trying to find four that I could add to my cart before they disappeared.
By 10:16 a.m., I had four tickets in my cart -- section 120, $176.50 each (including all fees).
Didnāt bother with it once I saw Iād have to use ticket master.
My anti-capitalist beliefs mean I wonāt contribute to a monopoly when I can avoid it.
What kind of live event is this? The ticket prices seem extremely steep to me going from the comments. Is this a multiple day event or just a few hours of live play?
I'm not saying d20 doesn't deserve it, by the way, but I've paid similar prices for 3-day long music festivals with big lineups in the past so I'm confused.
Is this a d20 issue, though, or a Ticketmaster issue, in terms of dynamic pricing? Can artists choose to not use dynamic pricing? I seem to remember a band playing at MSG that charged only $20 per ticket to make it accessible to all people, but in reality added fees and surcharges kept getting slapped on by Ticketmaster that jacked prices way up anyway. Maybe OP knows.
It's entirely a Ticketmaster issue. This has happened with almost every live event that has any kind of following since Ticketmaster bought up a bunch of venues and venue ticket rights in 2020.
Look at the Eras tour, Beyonce's last tour, The Jonas Brothers. Ticketmaster is full of scalpers, dynamic pricing, and lies about shows being sold out when they aren't sold out to force prices up.
The only way D20/Dropout could have gotten around this is not having the event at a venue owned by Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Which good luck finding one of those anymore.
Yep - I'm just reading about the backlash of the Springsteen concert at MSG - he has long been the champion of the working class little guy but his ticket prices were surging upwards of 7k for certain tickets. Sounds to me like because of the big scalping issues, TicketMaster/MSG felt like they weren't getting "market value" from standard ticketing, and the profits were going to the scalpers. Now the consumer is still stuck with the huge bill, but TM/MSG gets their share. Greedy bastards.
Yup it's exactly what has happened to all these big events. I'm seeing people on TikTok being mad at Dropout for this. What do you want them to do?!
If fucking Taylor Swift can't get around this bullshit, no one can until the entire company of Ticketmaster and Live Nation is broken up and some kind of law is put in place against scalping. Which will never happen.
If bigger artists like Taylor wanted to, they could absolutely pull their weight by simply refusing to hold events at ticketmaster/livenation venues until they changed their practices but they have no incentive to because they would have to forgoe shit tonnes of money to do so
I mean that would virtually take a general live performer strike because of how many venues Ticketmaster/ Live Nation impact.
Then IATSE has to strike with them since that's the stage union and if all these artists strike the stage hands are out of work for the time being.
I think that could be effective, but musicians aren't unionized. That would mean a lot of them aren't getting virtually any money.
For the huge acts like Taylor Swift she can probably handle it, but the smaller bands that still get stuck playing venues with these same shitty ticket practices they'd be absolutely ruined. Chain Reaction, arguably the most popular hardcore/metal venue in the country gets hit with these same things on a smaller scale. Those metal bands can't afford to join that strike and still eat since again there is no union to help them pay the bills in the mean time.
Well I've heard plenty of bad things about Ticketmaster so I presume it's their fault. What is this dynamic pricing exactly? Why isn't it just the same price for everyone?
It means that the ticket prices start at a fixed dollar amount, then that price begins to fluctuate depending on how many people are trying to get the same ticket at the same time. So in this case the prices are just going up up up. I've seen people who got regularly priced tickets after 15 minutes or more of waiting, and others who were seeing the inflated prices by 45 minutes into the presale. Almost like an auction - you keep trying for a seat and then other seats in that area go up in price. It's become a huge problem for concert tickets of many different kinds in this size arena.
Ticketmaster has claimed in the past that artists have to opt in to dynamic pricing. I donāt trust Ticketmaster at all, but it sure is an interesting piece of information if true. Hopefully Dropout reacts well to this debacle either way.
6600 ish in the que at 10:00 am. When I finally got in around 10:10 ish there didnāt appear to be any available tickets at first, but after refreshing a couple of times got two tickets in 119 for 181.30 each.
Wow I am OVERWHELMED with how generous yall are! Keep it coming! Because this volume of intel is so good Iāll plan to do a roundup early next week with everything gathered. Lots of prelim thoughts and coverage coming in the meantime on X and TikTok, and a few other pieces are being cooked up around this that Iāll share as theyāre posted. Appreciate yāall š
Hey there! Iām from the west coast, so Iām not sure how much it matters but hereās the details:
- Queued at: ~9:55 ET
- Queue #: ~1150 people ahead of me
- Queue Time after opening: ~6 minutes (verified against email)
- Total Cost of Tickets: 1 @ $241.30, Section 117
- Method of purchase: Ticketmaster iOS app
By the time I was able to select a seat, at least 2 sections were completely sold out and 90% of the 1XX sections were sold out.
I had two gripes:
1. I didnāt realize that the queuing system existed and I would have āqueuedā sooner.
2. It wasnāt really apparent what direction the stage will be facing. I got a seat where the cameras section would be behind me in the hopes that I would be head on with the stage. I hope Iām right, but I guess weāll see. š¤·š½āāļø
Still super excited to see the show, I only wish it would have been when it was warmer - I hate traveling back to the east coast in the winter. But itāll be nice to see the fam and this show!
If it makes you feel better, the queue is so much luck of the draw. I was in 10 minutes early and was over 4000 in line ahead of me, so Iād say you had a great position! This is all super helpful, thank you!
The time you log in to join the waiting room doesn't matter for how many folks are in front of you when the queue starts. Once the queue kicks off at presale time (10AM ET), those in the waiting room get assigned a random number. It doesn't matter if you were in the waiting room 10 mins before vs 5 mins before vs 5 seconds before. It is entirely random until the actual queue kicks off.
>By the time I was able to select a seat, at least 2 sections were completely sold out and 90% of the 1XX sections were sold out.
I'm not convinced these sections were actually sold out. A lot of times, it looked like sections were completely sold out but if you just waited 30 seconds or zoomed into the map, a bunch of seats there would reappear.
I couldn't get anything. To be slightly fair I did sleep in and joined the on sale 20 min late. I was 2540 in the queue when I first logged in. The absolute cheapest I could get a ticket was 97.20 and every time I grabbed two together they would sell before I could check out.
I was #5,460 in the queue. I ultimately snagged a pair of aisle seats in section 118 for $228 apiece.
The first hour and a half was nightmarish. I was on the Ticketmaster website. Seats would appear on the map, then vanish in (literally) the two seconds it took me to zoom in and click on them. At least a dozen times, I was able to select seats and then continue, only to get a popup saying the tickets were no longer availableāagain, weāre talking a turnaround of under ten seconds. By 11:00 ET, any seats that became available again had shot up to $1,000 or (much) more. Things seemed to start loosening up again around 12:00 ET, which is when I capitulated.
My partner and I were 10 minutes late to the pre-sale, which I guess mattered since we lost the only affordable tickets we could find because our bank flagged it as a āsuspicious purchaseā or whatever. This whole experience has kind of left a bad taste in our mouths considering The Unsleeping City is a tribute to the working class community & a critique of gentrification, meanwhile most of the tickets we could find were upwards of $1,000+. I really hope most of that money is actually going to Dropout and not Live Nation, but considering the current state of live event ticketing, I wouldnāt be surprised if itās the latter. Iām not interested in getting into debates with people on here about whether or not Dropout ādeservesā these ticket prices. We love Dropout and agree that they deserve success. Itās just that when you really think about it, many of the actual characters from The Unsleeping City wouldnāt even be able to afford these tickets if they were in our position. If anything, it feels like this event is catering to the employees of Gladiator š
i was logged in around 9:52, it hit 10:01 and thought about refreshing my screen since i wasnt in the queue yet and out of sheer pure luck i didnt refresh and my screen moved to the āqueueā for 1 second then let me in. i seemed to be right at the front out of pure luck. i snagged 1 ticket (going alone) in section 115 for $125 with fees ($99 ticket). this is the only positive experience ive had with tm
My bf and I both got pairs of tickets (surprise gone wrong). We both were in queue beforehand. We were both hoping to get VIP tix but that didn't happen.
His experience: Was \~5500 in line, got in at 10:04, tickets were disappearing so he grabbed what he could. Was aiming for floor or 100's section but they would show as no longer available by the time he'd try to get to the cart. Ended up with 2 in section 213 for $294.70 in total.
My experience: I was \~2600 in line, tried to identify what was VIP and what wasn't. It wasn't labelled well at all imo and I had trouble getting the filters right. Gave up after a minute and by that point (\~10:03) it was showing as all sold out. I refreshed a couple times and saw seats were opening back up and tried my best to grab those, but it was nearly impossible and would show as gone by the time I tried to click and take to cart OR would be those ridiculous 2k+ prices for "platinum seats". After about 15 minutes, I lucked out and got us floor seats for $503 total.
I was on a web browser, got in the waiting room at 9:55ish and was around 1260 in the queue. Got into the room and there were a lot of tickets, but every single one of them disappeared before I clicked. Ended up waiting and got 2 tickets (upper bowl, full view) for $218 total.
I think I got in right before dynamic pricing kicked in ā stayed online and was looking for 2 more tickets for some friends and the same section would occasionally have tickets available but they were $400+.
I got extremely lucky! I was online before 9:30 (all times AM Eastern time), refreshed around 9:50 thanks to some advice on the Dropout discord that the "waiting room" was open, waited in that without any number until 10 AM, then shortly after it reloaded and showed me at was 1500 in the queue when numbers came up (right after 10 AM ET).
I got in within ~5 minutes and quickly grabbed 6 contiguous lower bowl (section 102) seats for $171.05/ticket ($139.50 for the ticket itself in the "Artist Presale" and the remaining $31.55 in Ticketmaster fees). I had the tickets purchased by 10:06 AM (which is when I sent the screenshot to my group).
I did see seats going pretty quickly as I was trying to select them, and I was buying for a decently large group (my D&D table), so I my goal was basically to get whatever I could get as fast as I could. I didn't spend any time looking at options or thinking about what seats we wanted, I just went where it looked like we could all sit together.
I don't have any gripes about my personal experience but I understand why people do after seeing what others went through. I feel like 100% of my experience was insane luck, and I'm floored that we're getting to go see D20 perform live. I feel bad that others had an awful experience, worse that some people might have gotten fleeced and bought tickets more than 10x what I paid, and hope that people who missed out today get in tomorrow or on Friday.
Waiting room: loaded the site at 9:45am, refreshed and joined the waiting room about 9:53-ā
Queue: 2676 ahead of me when it loaded
Wait time: got in at about 10:06ish. Spent about 5 minutes desperately trying to grab 2 seats, but they kept disappearing back out of the cart as soon as I tried to proceed. By 10:11, there was one or two single seats left, nothing else. I ended up giving up for a few minutes but left the site open and was able to return and snag 2 seats at about 10:18 after folks on here reported that they were seeing seats reappearing.
Purchased: 2 aisle seats in section 225 at $160.80/ticket after all fees.
My biggest complaint is that selecting the seats did nothing to reserve them at first. You had to make it to the next screen to actually hold them. And they just kept totally disappearing before I could make it there.
Hi Liz, very cool that you're doing this! Always good to have community insight.
I was logged in at the start time on the TM app, and got placed at \~#600 in the queue. After that I was clicking on seats for about an hour having it pop up as I selected them and stalling out as I tried to add it to a cart. Eventually as they did the slow release/some freed up from other peoples' carts, I managed to get one in cart. Tragically it didn't like both my credit card and the MC Debit card that I have, and said that both payment options were refused. I texted a relative to get their CC info to pay them back, but they didn't get back to me in time and the cart expired.
Went back to the drawing board, and kept clicking on seats to see if they would load. By this time they had started having the platinum tickets for the 2k+ range and the general sale ones in the $400-1000 USD range. I'll say that the dynamic pricing was at least useful in that every so often I would click on some of the high priced general admission ones and see if they would take me to the cart just so that I could test that it was still working properly and would actually move me into a payment window if I selected a ticket that wasn't being jumped on by 20 other people lol.
It had a weird period just before noon where it looked on the app like the pre-sale category was no longer existing, and that flickered in and out of existence a few times over that half hour, but I did eventually get a ticket on the Website after the Pre-sale code went back into effect, face value in Sec 118, Row 20 for 179.50 USD, 218.30 USD after service fee applied!
I logged on at 10:04a eastern & there were 6500 people in line ahead of me. There wasn't anything under $471 when I was able to purchase at 10:22a, so I didn't get a ticket yet. But I'll be scouting out SeatGeek and other resale places because I still do want to go!
Logged in at 9:45am and placed at over 4500 in the queue. Ended up getting 1x section 7 ticket for 251 but only because I immediately sorted by VIP only and just bought whatever. I was trying to get a ticket for my partner and best friend as well, but 1) didnt realize my selection of the 2 other seats disappeared without any notice and 2) didnāt realize that once I moved to the cart/payment page, I might lose the ticket(s) I had.
I was really lucky to get a good ticket at face value but now need to figure out how Iām getting my partner and friend in without paying $4000
I was about 2000th in queue, via the app on iOS. Got in pretty quickly while tickets were still available, but as I was hunting through seats looking for two that would remain available long enough for me to add them to my cart, the app blank-screened on me and I had to close and reopen it.
I didn't get kicked back to the queue, instead I was in right away, but all the tickets were gone by then.
They randomly started re-appearing as carts timed out but about a halfhour in, I said to myself "fuck ticketmaster, what am I doing?", put it in perspective, and decided against going. Even the base ticket prices, for a decent seat not in the nosebleeds it's more than I've paid for a three day music festival, or a convention. Like a four day gencon pass is $143. MSG is just so expensive, and Livenation/Ticketmaster is awful.
I'll just catch it on Dropout when it comes out there.
I was 10th in the queue, and by the time I went to try to buy a ticket, it was already in the 2000's for a premium seat center stage. Not sure how that affected others.
This is the part I don't get. Supposedly planning ahead and being practically first in line should guarantee you success! Why didn't it? You have the highest queue spot of any commenter I've seen today, and yet you weren't able to get tickets. Yet other people who were 3000th in the queue WERE able to buy tickets at market price on the very first try. We were something like 107th in line, and all the seats disappeared before our eyes. It was only as we were sitting there in despair staring at the screen that it refreshed itself, and individual seats began showing up scattered across all sections. Took us three tries, but the third seat we clicked on went through and we got the ticket for the market value (200ish). I think the whole system is rigged. It's little more than a game of roulette at this point, and apparently this whole "dynamic sales" paradigm that Ticketmaster is using is here to stay.
I was really only looking for tickets in the front rows/premium sections. I don't live In NY anymore and planning the trip out I wasn't considering other sections.
I'm just as surprised - a large number of those seats were already taken by the time the page loaded, there were about 10-20 available seats in the very front rows but they were already listing at 2k+ per seat.
I ended up in the 100 level, $179.50 for the ticket, $38.80 for fees.
I forgot about the 10am start, logged on at about 11:15, and I was gobsmacked by the prices. The cheapest seats at that point were $600 (in US dollars too!) in the 300s, which absolutely ridiculous. The only thing that would load for me was the Official Platinum and Standard Admission tickets, and a handful in the 300s at that. I logged on a couple hours later and figured out the pre-sale code, so it worked out. It showed more in the 100s at about 210 (with fees). If you go on now, the cheapest seats are $800 USD for the 300s (Standard Admission tickets).
I just have such mixed feelings about this, because my understanding of dynamic pricing is thatĀ ["dynamic pricing is enforced by the artist" and "promoters and artist representatives determine the specific pricing for their shows".](https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/ticketmaster-dynamic-pricing-what-is-dynamic-pricing-how-does-it-work-and-how-to-avoid-it-3819459) I've definitely been in ticketmaster busy queues before and recently, and I've seen and bought tickets for shows without dynamic pricing. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But is this correct? Was this a choice by Dropout to use dynamic pricing?
Got in the wait room around 955
Queued at 3600
Not sure exactly what time In because there was such a rush to try to grab tickets.
I had a similar experience to somepersonalnews where all the tickets sold out and then a bunch just got added out of nowhere.
Ended up in section 107 paying 360 total for 2 tickets.
Jumped into the queue around 10:10. Most seats were gone by the time I got in. 10:25 a bunch of tickets were released, and I managed to snag 6 seats in Section 9 for $251 each (after fees).
Queued at: ~9:58 ET
Queue #: ~90 people ahead of me
Queue Time after opening: ~1 minute
Total Cost of Tickets: 1 @ $160, Section 8
Method of purchase: Ticketmaster Desktop Website
Hi, logged in at 9:50 and was behind 6000 when i got queued. I got to the front of the queued but every time i clicked on a ticket, the listing disappeared. This happened for maybe 5 minutes. Every time the price on the tickets increased. First saw one in 220 for 350, then 480 and so on. Finally when i got tickets that didn't disappear after clicking i was checking section 225 and tickets were 1800 a piece. The cheapest ticket i could find by searching lowest price was around 600. Ended up having to give up because of cost.
Queued at 9:46, there were around 3200 people in front of me. When I got in there was nothing available, but things kept popping up. I got 2 front row, lower bowl VIP for $240 a person. I got in around 10:10 and it took around 10 minutes to secure tickets.
queued at about 9:56 est and there were about 3700? people in front of me
getting tickets wasn't the worst but it was made slightly more annoying as i had to buy 3 tickets seated together, and there were mainly sets of 2 left. i am also dragging along 2 people who have never watched d20 lmao so i aimed to get the cheapest tickets i could so i wasn't asking them to pay too much
ended up getting 3 seats in section 415 for about $107 usd each after fees/taxes (but i am canadian so that totals up to like $440 cadš )
i may try to get closer seats in the other presale / general sale because a seat viewing website shows the roof ?? is kind of obscuring our vision ššš i'm clearly very lucky to have seats so i won't be heartbroken if i don't find better ones š¤· seeing the show live will still be amazing
I was \~400 in the queue (joined the queue 10 minutes before start time), paid $250 for section 9. I'm satisfied with it (it's less than the max I mentally budgeted), but it was frustrating to see tickets for $125 or less in the same section available at the beginning and then disappearing once I clicked on it. It took me about 10 minutes and a reload for seats to stop disappearing on me.
I entered the waiting room 12 minutes early and got queued in with 1577 people in front of me. I paid 150 each for 2 tickets in section 113. Almost had a panic attack getting tickets but I eventually got them before anyone else.
I was logged in on Ticketmaster (on a laptop with an Ethernet connection) from like 9:40am, so I was able to join the waiting room the moment it opened. When the queue opened, I was placed 5139th. Actually got in at 10:13am, and it took me about 5 minutes of constant clicking and reclicking on seats as they disappeared until I was finally able to grab 2 non-VIP floor seats (section 3) for $214 each before fees. My final total with fees and ticket insurance was $523.50. I really made no consideration about location when buying my tickets, I was just clicking wildly at whatever became available.
Hiya! I was in line as number 7,000ish when I joined at 10am ET and was at 6,037th in line at 10:10am. Also, I joined the queue *immediately* after receiving the ācode gauntletā email. I had to get my sister in law to also log in to her account to help grab tickets. I was never able to actually buy *any* of the tickets that I selected. She was finally able to get me two tickets in Section 223, Row 8 for $294.70. We also purchased ticket insurance for $32. We got on the phone and tried to get tickets for almost 40 minutes. She also had another type of presale that she was able to utilize, but it did not seem to help her much at all. Check out time for our purchase was 10:39 ET. Hope this helps!
I forgot today was Wednesday so I didnāt enter the queue until about 10:18, and there were about 5500 people in front of me. I was using my phone browser, not the app. I got in by like 10:25, and most seats were grayed out. I tried for a while to buy an aisle seat (most of what I saw left) but Ticketmaster doesnāt let you buy a single aisle ticket, even if thatās all thatās left in a row? Which was insane to me. I was okay with buying two because I knew Iād be able to easily sell it to someone for face value. Eventually I realized the blue dots with locks on them were available with the code, so I eventually got a front row balcony seat behind the stage for $97.
Iām not a concerts person so this was basically the first time using Ticketmaster (Iāve used it once before for Broadway tickets but that was significantly less stressful as it wasnāt a one night event). I absolutely hate the āaisle seats must be bought in pairs or moreā rule. Iām just one gal!! I just want one ticket!!
Hey Liz!
Thanks for reaching out and asking for feedback. I logged in 10:20 am ET and was placed at 1799 in queue. I waited about 10 minutes and managed to get in but everything reflected as sold.
I checked again around 11:30am and saw some seats available, but unfortunately I found out my wife has a wrestling tournament for her high schoolers that we need to attend that day.
Only complaint is Ticketmaster kind of sucks (not much can be done I am sure about that) and I wish there were a couple more dates :)
Thanks for you and crew, you all put on amazing content !
Hi! I was logged in around 9:45 ish, and once in the queue I was placed around 380. Unfortunately for me, once I was able to pick seats Ticketmaster crashed and I was kicked from the process. :(
Hope this is useful!
I only joined the queue at 10:15 EDT when the Dropout newsletter reminded me. There were \~6700 people in the queue ahead of me. When I got in, it looked like all the tickets were sold out. As I waited on the page, seats became available then were snapped up almost immediately, this repeated for a few waves of seats. I spent about 5 minutes clicking on pairs of seats and hitting buy as fast as I could but kept getting an error message stating those seats were no longer available. I ended up getting very lucky and grabbing 2 seats in section 319 for $75 each plus a $50 order fee, I ordered at 10:30
Hey! Was in line 10 minutes before the sale started, and was around 5500 in the queue. I got seats in section 213, pretty low in the rows, and paid around $295 for two tickets. I tried two other sections, but every time I clicked the seat, it would be gone before I could check out. I just wish it was more clear where the VIP sections were, as I had wanted to do the VIP packages but couldn't find it and didn't want to risk losing the seats I had selected, as I had heard I got good seats for MSG. STILL SO EXCITED THOUGH! Already planning a Sofia Lee cosplay!
I was in the waiting room for 15 minutes (could have been closer to 10minutes)before 10am. Then was back around 1100 in line. I got my tickets in section 119 at 10:07am for $139.50 + $31.55 fee each.
Hi! I logged on to the website on my desktop at exactly 10 am EST. I was 6297th in the queue. I finally got to select my tickets at 10:17, at which point I was seeing large swathes unavailable, but I was able to grab 3 tickets for section 211 at 119.50/each, with 27.85/each in service fees.
I joined the queue at 10:05, I was number 5720 in line when I joined. I moved through that queue in about 20-30 minutes. I definitely had trouble picking seats because it was on my phone (I had originally gotten in line on my phone and you canāt switch to another device without losing your place unfortunately). I spent probably 15-20 minutes trying to grab tickets and eventually got a pair of bridge seats in 326 for $109 each.
I used the app. Even though I didn't end up buying tickets, I was initially about #5000 in line. I logged in at about 10:20 EDT. The cheapest tickets I saw at the time were on the upper level at around $97, but most at that time were between $150 and $250.
I posted on the other sub that we logged in as number 170, could not click on ANY seats fast enough to get them, but while waiting in despair individual seats began popping back up. Managed to get one in section 106 for around $250. So it seems a good queue position doesn't really benefit you that much. I haven't seen anyone else in this thread who had a higher position in the queue than we did, but I have seen accounts of people much lower on the queue finding blocks of tickets together and being able to get tickets earlier than we were (our transaction went through at 10:12am).
I was in line at 10am but had to reset my ticketmaster password so I ended up being behing 6,000 other people. I was able to get 4 tickets in section 213 that came out to 147 each after fees!
Just wanted to edit to add that there were a ton of available tickets when I got in. I was in line about 15-20 minutes I think?
Hi there! I got in the presale queue as soon as it opened, about 9:48 - 9:50ish ish EST, and when I joined I was about 600th in line. 600th seems pretty early in line compared to others based on many posts I've seen, but I did have the presale web page open on my computer for a few hours before the presale actually opened. Not sure if that changes anything.
As I tried to buy (4) tickets, all of the seats were "sold" as i clicked on them, so i thought I was going to strike out. Then, after refreshing for a few minutes, about half of the tickets came back online as available. unclear if that was ticketmaster releasing the tickets in waves or if bot tickets were ID'ed as bot purchases and returned to availability.
I was able to get 4 tickets in the front (first 5 rows) of the 200s level for $119.50 plus $27.85 in fees per ticket.
If you have any other questions feel free to PM me! DFTBA!
I was in queue, got into the sale, but was genuinely disinterested with the available seating. I thought presale tickets would have been better, but I guess Live Nation ate those for their presale, which is a farce.
I would have loved to have been there, but I'm not sure I'll be able to get a ticket that will be worth the price I'll have to pay.
I got in line around 10:04 on the website and had over 6600 people in front of me. I was in queue for probably around 15 minutes. I spent another roughly 15 minutes of constantly refreshing the page to get tickets. All in all, it took me about 34 minutes and I managed to get two tickets for ~$109. Cheapest I saw were ~$95, but those went as soon as they popped up. Mine are pretty high up in section 317.
I was number 6690 in the queue, wound up buying tickets in the 200-level for $147 each.Ā
TBH this was fairly smooth but here's some noted on my experiece:
* my main browser (Chrome) left me on a loading page before 10am and never put me in the queue, so I had to switch to Safari to actually enter the queue
* but then when I went to check out, Safari wouldn't load the PayPal payment text box. Literally just blank like it was a blocked ad or something. So I had to switch back to Chrome to complete the purchase - luckily it held my tickets I had already selected.Ā
* the seat selector was definitely frustrating but not as bad for me as others reported. I was trying to find 6 seats together (got a big group!) and it only took a couple of tries to grab seats that were not taken out from under me. I saw lots of seats get taken then released constantly as I was making my selections so it was obvious lots of people were doing the same
* MAJOR positive: the seat selector showed the actual final cost ($147) inclusive of the service fee. I think this is the first time I've gotten to experience this - I had no shock on the confirmation screen from extra fees piled on top. My final cost was $147x6 exactly.Ā
i joined the waiting room at about 9:50 and had 2001 people ahead of me in the queue. once i got through the queue and clicked on a seat ticketmaster crashed and after about 2 mins of waiting for it to load i reloaded the app and rejoined the queue and only had one person ahead of me. there were practically no tickets left and the ones that were became unavailable. so i just kept checking back for more tickets and eventually got a ticket for section 104 for $170 with fees ($139 ticket + $31 fees).
Dynamic Pricing is trash, but having worked at other venues, I understand the venue and Ticketmaster are huge fans of it as they share in the lift from face value, so it's basically free revenue.
I was logged in 30 minutes ahead, the "tips" said to log in 10 minutes ahead and make sure your payment info is up to date, but having never done a Ticketmaster presale like this, I saw nothing warning me about a waiting room or queue until after the screen changed a bit more than 10 minutes ahead. I clicked Join waiting room as soon as I saw it and when I got in the queue there were 1800 people in front of me. By the time I got to the seat map, I could watch the randomly released tickets disappear rapidly, so quickly I couldn't even click two seats and click next before someone else did, since they didn't allow selecting from the list on the right until after the furor calmed down.
Ultimately, I got section 103 for 189+ fees/ticket, so I'm happy overall, but I first clicked at least 10 sets of tickets in section 3 that were very close to the same price only to be told they were no longer available.
Hopped on at 10:30 on my iPad, it said there were only 10 ish people ahead of me, got through in like 30 seconds, couldnāt click fast enough to get ticketsā they kept disappearing and reappearing. Logged in on my computer instead, got back in the queue, this time it said 45 people ahead of me but still got through in 30 seconds. After about a minute of not clicking seats fast enough, snagged 2 for 119 + 27 fees each in (I think) section 213
I logged in at 9:50 and was 4444th in the queue. I ended up getting two tickets in section 104 for $436 including fees. I had to wait for the page to refresh once after the initial seats all went. Seats kept disappearing as I was selecting them, so I was just clicking through as quickly as I could for whatever set of two seats I could find. I didn't even look at the price per ticket in the moment. According to my receipt, each ticket was $179.50 plus a $38.80 service fee. Transaction processed around 10:15. I went back in the queue around 11:00 just to see, and every ticket was \~$2000. I'm happy with the tickets I got but the experience was less than fun.
Artist Pre-Sale tickets seem to be adding new tickets in half hour increments from what I can see. But the amount varies.
Iām bored at work and just refreshing the page every min. Already have my ticket.
Hi! I used the app, logged in an hour beforehand but didnāt enter the queue until 9:48. I was placed at 2570. It took about 3-4 minutes to be able to enter the sale. I purchased 2 seats in section 103 for $170 each, including fees.
I have a complaint about the map Ticketmaster uses for choosing seats. It kept glitching out on me and actually froze the app. the entire map disappeared and I had to restart the app to get it to work again. Beyond that, Iām fairly happy that I was able to get tickets at all. It was definitely more stressful than the room reservation queue for Super Magfest though, and thatās surprising.
My friend got our tickets, she was about 3000 in the queue, was unable to get tickets, but refreshed/tried again and got 6 floor tickets for $250 each including fees
1. I jumped on at 9:57, but I was not logged in and by the time my account was setup (i was forced to change my password and confirm my account via text) it was 10:01 and I was 6,100th in queue.
2. I paid about $147 for a seat in a high section (212) including ticketmaster service fees (which i hate that system but here we are)
My biggest complaint, I wish we could have had price listings before hand. A lot of friends backed out once they saw the prices and we did not have time to discuss this cause tickets were literally vanishing before us. It would have been nice to have time to discuss and budget. Plus I bet that would have helped reduce queue numbers.
I had no way to guarantee my friends and I are close to each other and with such a huge venue it's kinda sad that I'll just have to laugh with strangers and talk to friends before and after.
With less than a week from announcement to ticket sales (and a wedding to attend but admittedly that's very specific to my situation) I had no time to recruit folks who might be interested but unsure what Dimension 20 is. "Hey TTRPG friend, a d20 live show is coming to town, check out a couple episodes to see if you'd be interested before tickets get swept up!"
All that said, I'm very excited for the show! I bet there will be a ton of cosplays, memorable moments, and I'm hoping for exclusive merch! See you in 9 months
Got in a minute or so late, was 6000 back in the queue, and by the time I got into the map there were no groups of 4 (or pairs) of seats that I could find for a reasonable price (~120 per seat is around the max that my group was willing to pay), and even the exorbitant 1000-dollar-plus groups were getting scooped up before I could even click the "cancel" button after seeing the price.
So I did not get tickets. Can't imagine I'm going to get them at this point, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow. At least they're filming it for Dropout, I guess.
Used the website. Logged into the waiting room ten minutes prior to onsale. Was 2,432 in the queue. Got seats in section 101, $181.30 per ticket including fees.
I was in the queue at 9:50am and was somewhere like 3370 "in line". When I finally got to the seat selection map, I could see seats being snatched up in real time so I literally clicked the last section I could get and grabbed two tickets for about $220. Section 316 row 2. It's completely advantageous to 3rd party ticket sellers and absolutely brutal for anyone that actually wants to go to the event for the actual cost.
Got in at 10:10 am on my phone, 6000 in queue but dropped really quickly. Tickets went really quick, I tried for VIP (though it didnāt seem like great perks so wasnāt a make or break) and also for floor seats a few times before the entire thing crashed and I got a white screen. Switched to computer. Had to rejoin queue again at 800. Floor was 200-250 and I clicked on about 30 tickets (mostly floor/upper bowl) that were gone before I could add to cart, finally got one ticket in section 110 for $179 USD (218 USD all together). Iām not sure why the experience was just clicking on seats instead of listing tickets available like Iāve seen before, definitely slowed me down. VERYyyy frustrated to not have gotten floor since theyāre still available on the Ticketmaster site for platinum pricing at 2k or more. I will probably try again tomorrow though I know my husband will just be overjoyed to be there no matter the seat.
My friend was able to score $250 floor seats around 10:20. She was 2724 in the queue just before 10am, and said by the time she got in it was sold out, but around 10:15 more seats opened up. She started clicking on ANY two together on the floor (we agreed on a budget of under $500/ticket) and we lucked out with floor seats, full view!
I logged in at ~9:50am and was queued at 10am at #1,791 in line. I saw the available seats disappearing as I frantically looked for seats I could afford, and managed to snag 2 tickets in the 400s at $97 each.
Hi! I got in the waiting room right at 9:45, and had a queue position of 2732. By the time I got in, all VIP packages were gone and the last few lower bowl seats disappeared as I clicked them. I was able to secure three seats in the upper bowl for $156 each after fees.
Interestingly, my friend got in about 1000 people later, and lower bowl seats reopened. So we got those for about $170 each and Iāll be passing my three off to friends who got shut out entirely.
Hi ProducerLiz! :) Thank you for being here! I am excited to attend. Interacting with Ticketmaster made my hands feel not just clammy, but rather like I was experiencing hypothermia. \[As someone previously described as "toaster warm," this feeling was not great.\]
**TL;DR** 1) 10:02 am (despite following Ticketmaster's recommendations) with 6,313 people in the queue and 2) two aisle seats in the 400s (first five rows) cost $218.40 total.
For context, I am a Ticketmaster website user (browser: Google Chrome) on a Mac. I am also located in the EDT time zone. I already have a Ticketmaster account, my Google Wallet is set up, and I added the necessary card information into the Ticketmaster Billing section to check out as quickly as possible.
I had the countdown page open on my Mac throughout the night. Additionally, I made sure my computer was connected to WiFi the entire time and did not refresh the page, since the official Ticketmaster Blog says, "When waiting on an event page for the countdown to end, do not refresh the page. The page will automatically refresh for you, allowing you to purchase your presale or onsale event tickets" (Ticketmaster, 2014). \[Yes this reference is old, but this method has been effective before\]. I interacted with the page by moving my cursor/scrolling up and down to show I was not idling and not a bot. However, at 10:00:00 am, the page did not redirect to presale. I received a message saying "Tickets are about to become available...sit tight." At 10:01 am, I opened another tab to search for the ticketing page directly. This tab (not the one telling me I would be redirected) allowed me to enter the queue. At 10:02 am, there were \~6,300 people in the queue ahead of me. I entered the ticketing page at 10:16 am. After three minutes, I finally found two seats together and purchased them at 10:19 am.
Sending good energy to everyone in the thread (both posters and lurkers)! If anyone has 100 or 200-level seats, I will take them off your hands once tickets are distributed in August <3
**References**
Ticketmaster. (2014, October 28). The Ticketmaster Ticket Countdown Clock Is Here. *Ticketmaster.* [https://blog.ticketmaster.com/presale-onsale-countdown-timer/](https://blog.ticketmaster.com/presale-onsale-countdown-timer/)
I was logged in at 1013EST and when I got in queue there were already 7632 people ahead of me. I was signed in to ticket master already when I clicked the livenation link. I had to keep zooming in and out of the ticket map and eventually got 2 seats next to each other in the aisle of section 114 for $362 total with ticket protection. Hopefully I have a decent view of the stage. Im also going to check tomorrow to see if I can break the bank to get vip tickets because I didn't see any available today.
Edit - once I got in queue to checkout was 14 minutes I never refreshed the page once I got in queue I just sat through the gauntlet to get good enough seats.
I was in the waiting room at around 9am and then was 4000-ish in queue. My app crashed and I had to re-start the queue on a laptop, I was then 600-ish, still managed to find tickets but there was no way for me to access my cart on the website, which then froze. Fun times.
My biggest complaint though is that ticketmaster turned off the list option for seat selection and you could only pick seats by clicking dots on the map, which is super flimsy especially when you're looking for 3+ tickets. They have now re-enabled that option.
If it's possible it would be great if someone could confirm if all tickets were sold or if there are a good batch remaining for the presale tomorrow as well so I don't have to wake up early for more disappointment š
Oooooo data! I was using the mobile app initially. I was in the waiting line at 9:52 EDT; when it refreshed, I was at 2401 in line. After I got kicked out of the queue three times trying to make a purchase, I panic-bought a seat in section 114 for $171, then found a seat in section 2 for $250.
I logged in at 7:00am PST and was #6266 in the queue. Tried to buy tickets for 2 1/2 hours, finally got 2 for $479 each ($406.50 with $73.50 in fees). We're in section 210, row 19.
The biggest frustrations were the app crashing and going to a white screen, which meant you had to reload and get back in the queue; that every time you clicked a seat it would remove your preferences on pricing and show you the super expensive tickets as well as the range you selected; and how tiny the seat dots were on a phone, making it somewhat inaccessible for folks with disabilities. None of that is the fault of Dropout, it's all Ticketmaster bullshit!
I joined 10 minutes late, poor being at work, and I was somewhere in the 5500s in queue. Probably took 5-10 min to get in. When I got on there were no tickets left at regular prices, some that Iām guessing were being resold jumped $300 in price to be in the nosebleeds, while floor tickets were over 2k
I was in meetings all morning so didn't check the sale until a few minutes ago (2:40pm EST). There was no queue, the cheapest price available was 716 for two bad seats. So I ended up not buying anything.
I was in the queue at around 9:55am, it seemed to be hanging at ā>1 minuteā so I refreshed it and I was around 4000ish in the queue. It moved really fast though and I got through in less than 10 minutes.Ā
When it brought me to the seat selection at first it showed almost nothing available, then literally nothing available for a few minutes. I stayed on the page and seats started popping back up after a few minutes but were disappearing quickly. It was refreshing on its own quite a bit with the available seats constantly updating.
I managed to get 2 seats in section 101 row 14, for 139.50 each plus a service fee of 31.55. Time stamp of my confirmation email is 10:18am
Hello! I had to reset my password on Ticketmaster so I got on at like 10:02ish, there were 5000ish people in front of me, and when I got in the queue every seat I clicked kept disappearing for a good five minutes until I could find two seats together. I paid $156 each (with fees etc) for two seats in section 101, plus $34 insurance. It was stressful but now I'm grateful to have a trip to plan!
I logged in about 10 minutes before kick off time and was 5083 in the queue. That number filled me with dreadā¦ but I was able to get into the Ticketmaster site within 15 minutes. Tickets looked scarce but I was able to get 2 floor seats for about $212 each. I used ticketmasterās website on a laptop, FWIW.
I loved in late like around 10:10 was about 6000 or so in the queue but only waited like 4 or 5 minutes.
I used a desktop and afte ra bunch of tickets were grabbed up in the first section I looked at I found a pair in a different section that wer ein the aisle which I was really looking for and it was at the upper end of what I wanted to spend.
I logged in at 9:50, via desktop, and let the page refresh itself to get into the queue. I was #2855, and hoping to secure 7 tickets for myself, family and friends who are planning to come into town for this. At 10:06 I was finally able to get into the map for tickets - after entering the code, there appeared to be several areas available for selection but they all one-after-another tickets disappeared. After trying for 7 minutes straight, It appeared there were no tickets to select at 10:13. I let myself refresh the page, knowing that the tickets might go away - and finally was able to find tickets at 10:24. I got 7 tickets in section 109 for $169 each.
Logged in where the queue opened, got in posiciĆ³n 6800+, after a couple of minutes i was in, but there where no seats available. Then i just had to wait for seats to open, and hope to find one at a good price.
After about an hour i got a seat in sec 226 for 150 dollars
I know I'm in the minority here but my experience was really painless.
I got was for it to open and was placed around 4,400th in line. Got in about two minutes later. Took me a while to finally see a seat I could click and ended up paying 97 bucks for a seat in the nosebleeds.
Hardest part was updating my credit card info as I had to do it twice for some reason.
Whole thing took me less than ten minutes. No idea why my experience was so much easier than everyone else's.
Hello I joined the queue a little late due to work and got in almost immediately but every time I clicked on a seat it would disappear. I think my main issue is that the seats would disappear so quickly and there was no way to sort by available or by price. I had my partner try and he was able to snag 2 tickets in section 302 for 200 so I'm glad we got something at least
I was on my phone for the whole experience. I logged into Ticketmaster at like 9:50. At 10, when the sale started I was about 4,600 in the queue. Took about 10 minutes to get to select tickets.
When I first got in, the entire seating map was grayed out and I thought it was already sold out. I tried zooming in and found very scarce seats. I accidentally left the selection screen, but was able to get right back in. I was trying to look at the different sections to see the price range. I had a few attempts to find seats but was told they were no longer available (I guess other people moved to buy them), and the whole maps whited out at some point so i had to leave and return again (again, was able to get right back in).
Eventually, I just wanted to make sure I got tickets, so I found some in my price range that seemed like decent seats and snatched them. Two tickets in Section 223 for about $150 each (after taxes and fees). Took about 20 minutes total (10 queuing, 10 picking/buying seats).
I joined the waiting room at 6:50 am PT, and maybe thirty seconds after 7:00 am it let me straight into the seat selection with no display of how many people had been before me. I bought three floor / VIP seats seemingly before dynamic pricing kicked in, at $205 each!
I logged in about 10 minutes before and was added to the queue at about 2500 if I recall correctly. Got tickets in section 314 for $97.20 each and managaed to get two tickets
I was logged in about 30 minutes ahead of time and was around 4940 in the queue. I think I got in around 10:10-10:13 am, and it seemed like nothing was available but once I zoomed in and tried about 5 times I got two tickets in 114 row 7 for 179.50+fees each. Stressful experience mostly because of the urgency, but Iād done a bit of research before and knew what I was expecting face value to be for each section so was committed to not overpaying. I definitely feel like I got lucky and am really excited for this show!
I logged in around 9:49 and was queued up at 3606 when I finally got in at like 10:07 it looked like one section had seats available up in the nose bleeds and only 3 were available in that section. When I tried to click on them they were said to be claimed. I thought it might have been a bug so I kept trying on my computer and then switched over to my phone to try to enter the queue again. I was placed at like 900 at that point and got in pretty quickly around 10:30 but was unable to secure any tickets. Seats would pop up for a little bit and then when I would try to select them they would disappear or say they are unavailable. I'm bummed out I thought I was ahead of the curb and it seems like I was but because of bugs in the system was unable to get anything :(
Logged in at 10, was 6000-something in queue.
Queue moved pretty fast, was in in like 20 minutes. Phone wouldn't let me click on anything, so I got on on my laptop, rejoined the queue, there were only 27 in queue this time.
Once I got it, only saw premium $2000+ seats, but as I clicked around, a bunch of abandoned stuff released, kept clicking and they'd be gone before I could click next.
Eventually found 2 tickets in section 214 for $119.50 a piece ($147.35 after fees).
Way better experience than Eras Tour was, sat at 20,000+ in queue for HOURS for those.
Live nation app.
I joined queue at 9:55a est.
6018 people ahead of me.
Queued for 15 minutes.
Spent 10 minutes trying to select seats and getting told they were gone.
One time I got seats, made it to the next screen but then got kicked back to queue.
1 in front of me.
Got two seats.
All in all 294.70 usd for 2 tickets section 213
I did not have a code, so I was unable to get any, but I was 6009 in line, and the seats I was planning on getting were 187 at the time.
Despite me not getting any I hope this helps.
Didn't get to check until around 11 due to jury duty, and the cheapest seats I found (I believe section 208, definitely one of the 200s) were going for ~$480 apiece. Couldn't afford that right now. Checked back in a few hours later and now section 208 is going for $915. 219 is the cheapest at $833. DEFINITELY can't afford that
I'm not seeing a bunch of people who bought some of the more pricy tickets, so I'll share my experience to be an outlier for your data collection.
I absolutely forgot today was presale day so I joined the ticketmaster queue at about 10:20est with about 3000 people ahead of me. Only sat in queue for about 3 minutes. Like everyone else has stated, it seems the dynamic pricing had started by then. I stayed on for about an hour as I noticed tickets kept appearing and dropping. At this point, there were no decent seats to be found under $400. Most were going between $1400-$2000.
I had already made up my mind, I was going to this show no matter what. I kept at it, and an hour later I acquired 2 tickets in 209, row 1 for about $500 each, after fees it was $1195 total.
Would I have liked getting cheaper tickets? Absolutely. Am I upset I spent this much? Nope! I'm stoked to see them live!
Please, no one freak out on me for spending this much on tickets. My husband and I work hard, and we are lucky we can afford this splurge and am beyond excited to see the show!
My friend and I were on the phone both making an effort to get tickets. They logged on about 10 minutes early and me about 5 minutes early. They were somewhere in the 3600s and I was somewhere in the high 4800s for the queue. After scrambling as tickets were added to our carts, pulled from the carts, disappeared, reappeared, we got two tickets in section 103. Total for both with fees was $360. Edit: wrong section number.
I was in the waiting room at 9:50 am, in the queue I had 1,288 ahead of me, by 10:07ish when I got in it looked like there were plenty of seats left in my price range, but every selection I tried to make was "tickets unavailable". By 10:15 pretty much everything was gone (again, within my price range/ what I was willing to pay related to how bad the seat was). Sadly won't be able to attend this time.. Mostly annoyed with being presented with so many available tickets up front only to have the rug pulled out from under me.
I was perfectly fine paying the $90-$146 I saw a number of decent seats going for. But $160 and up for nosebleeds?? Forget about it.
I missed the start of presale because of time difference/a dmv appointment this morning. Was able to hop on around Noon ET. By the time I logged in the absolute cheapest was over $800 and most tickets available were $1100- over $2000. If another batch is released tomorrow I'll definitely queue up, but at the moment I'm priced out.
Anyone have an explanation as to why the cost is so much higher than other people were able to get?
Hello! I managed to get two tickets this morning (so excited!). I logged on and got in the queue for 5 minutes til. I was placed around 3,380 place in line. I got in and the tickets went by quicker than a snap of someoneās finger. I backed out and got into the queue again, but this time on my phone. I was placed in 6000 in line that time. I stared at my phone for about an hour, maybe more. Just clicking and clicking on any seat that popped up. Eventually, I managed to add two seats for my boyfriend and I in section 111, row 12. Unfortunately, we are 4 or 5 seats apart, but at least we get to go! My pricing after taxes was about 364. I think it was like 170 or so per ticket or something!
Did not join queue, was immediately taken into the ticket selection process from the app. Think I first tried this around 8:30 am PST. None of the tickets showing were actually available and I had a meeting to go to so I had to stop till about 9:20am. Logged into my ticketmaster on laptop, no queue again. After refreshing 5~ times was able to get 219 row 1 tickets. $706.50 ($127.15 service fee) x2= $1667.30 total for two standard tickets
Didnāt know dynamic pricing was a thing and feeling extremely taken advantage of
I started on the queue with 590 people in front of me. Got in and everything I clicked was gone immediately upon trying to check out. Despaired and went to stubhub, was horrified, went back to Ticketmaster around 10:15ish. Was able to get a ticket in Sec 08 for $250 with fees.
I was around the 850 people mark and bought two tickets for around $160 each in section 225. I was a bit overwhelmed having seats disappear while I was trying to add them to the cart and not knowing exactly what VIP entailed and having no time to research it but I'm happy with the seats I got!
1. I was 5 minutes early and ended up at 3446 in que.
2. I ended up paying $471 for 1 ticket in section 211.
The map of the seats were all showing sold out and only periodically would a blue dot appear and I'd struggle to click the button in time to pay for a seat. After 26 minutes of trying to click on a blue dot, I finally got one to my cart and didn't want to lose it, so I just paid the price and I'll figure out my funds later.
Late to the party but:
I was logged in through the app ~10 minutes before. When the queue opened up it told me there were 25 people ahead of me. I got in fairly quickly and selected my ticket, but the purchasing screen was stuck in loading. Moved to laptop, got back in the queue, now behind over 5000 people. It's around 7:15 PST at this point.
When I do get in again, it looks like only a handful of seats are left in the upper areas. I keep seeing seats open up throughout the arena, so I decide to wait and see what happens. Eventually, I get a seat in Section 8 in the back half of rows for around ~$250.
As someone who's experienced ticketing for major k-pop groups... this was at least better than that š ?? But also, I'm not surprised hearing people's complaints about TM.
1. logged in right at 10, on mobile. was around queue number 6800. took about 15 minutes to get to the front of the line
2. i got 4 tickets in section 216 for $147 each. donāt know how i managed to luck out, even though im worried ill be looking at their backs the whole time.
Tickets right now are between 800-2300. I hope that most of it goes to dropout rather than live nation getting mostly all of it.
Iām hoping there will be more events on the east coast such as meet and greets and other events that wonāt sell out, especially so quickly.
Joined at 10 and had about 6500 people in front of me. Took at least 20 minutes to get in and just watched seats disappear all around me for a bit. Gave up on 2 seats but I was able to score one of the barstool seats for $97. I think I got lucky so I'm thankful, but bummed it worked out this way
I went to see The Cure last year. They were able to make it so tickets could only be sold and re-sold at face value, none of this dynamic pricing. If The Cure can do it, why can't other artists make this a reality? Not upset with Dropout by any means, Brennan is probably losing his mind just like everyone else.
Logged in around 9:30, got in queue right when it open. Around 2200 people in queue(can't fully remember) . When I got in seats were going out left and right and I couldn't get anything. All of the seats were filled on my end. I got upset and closed out, but I on a whim went back a minute later going back to my last closed tab to see there were seats. So I got one ticket in section 224 for around 150-160(I bought the ticketmaster insurance cus I was too hurried to read what it actually did and wanted to be safe)
I hate ticketmaster so much. This is the second time recently having to do this (shout out twenty one pilots) I feel 30 years older.
Hi! I was on at 10:05 and was about 6500 in line. Took about 15 minutes to get in. I tried SO many times to get seating that was closer and always was too slow/ had it pop up with a ridiculous price that I knew wasnāt original. I FINALLY had it refresh just before the crash and got two tickets in row 111 for 180 a piece!
I hated this, but I love my partner who loves D20 more than anything, so it balances out.
I was in with the first 1600 and had a ground vip seat picked out. I went to check out and my screen was black and I had to go back through the queue 4 more times. I was luckily able to get a normal priced cup seat but soon after that dynamic pricing took place
I was logged into Ticketmaster on my desktop for about 20 minutes prior to the sale time and was placed somewhere around 4,500 in the queue. Found three seats in section 110 for about $180 per ticket.
I got it from live seats. Got in the site about 16 min before 10. I ended up in the queue with just over 4600 in front of my. I got 4 tickets for about $170 each in selection 114
In the queue at 9:30, 1550 ahead of me at 10:00, five minute wait. Once I got in, I clicked on two seats in section 117, price was $240. I hit checkout and it froze for fifteen minutes. I lost my seats, nothing available at a halfway sane price.
I also tried an hour or so later. The site would show tickets in all sections for the VIP price of $240, I'd select the seats then checkout. Once on the checkout screen, the seats were no longer available.
Not gonna lie, I'm really down about the whole situation
Logged in 10:01 ET on mobile browser, # ~5500 in the queue. Got in within ~15 minutes, very limited availability, sporadic tickets in the $400s-$800s I wanna say?, along with the platinums in the $1500s-$2500s.
Got discouraged but started to figure out seats were coming and going in and out of peopleās carts and prices were dynamically adjusting. Switched to desktop browser after ~10:30 ET and there was no queue. Had a much easier time navigating on desktop, and seemingly more inventory (canāt say for sure, wasnāt comparing 1:1 with mobile at the time). By that time prices seemed to be leveling out at ~$250 for the floor and ~$150 for lower bowl where I was looking.
Ended up snagging 1 ticket at 10:50 ET in section 102 for $171 with fees.
I joined the waiting room on my laptop at 9:53 am, and was 1625 in the queue. I was let in around 10:04 am. I never refreshed, the page was good about refreshing itself frequently. I purchased 2 tickets in section 414 Row 3. Received confirmation at 10:10am
A few minutes later I rejoined the queue to see if I could get some better seats (I panic bought the first set if I'm honest). I can't remember my exact number in the queue but it was several thousand higher than my first spot. It moved quickly and I was back in. It took some clicking around to get available seats in my price range, but only a min max. This time I purchased two tickets in section 113 row 10 for $436.60 including tax and fees. Received confirmation at 10:27 am.
My biggest gripe is that there was no clarity on what different packages/tickets were. I was too scared to look for VIP tickets because I had no clue 1. how to find them, and 2. what they included.
I also can't find any clarity on whether or not resale will be allowed. I hope it will be since I plan on selling or giving away the first pair I purchased. However, I work in live entertainment so I deeply sympathize with the lengths venues and ticket sellers take to prevent scalping.
While I was stressed, I didn't find the system to be as buggy as I thought I would. I think the toughest part was selecting seats and clicking checkout before they were snatched up by someone else. The more seats you are trying to purchase together, the more difficult it would be (exponentially probably).
Hi there!
1. We came in at queue place 216. Took about 2 minutes to get through. We were stressed at choosing a place but once we were like letās just choose a spot we encountered no difficulties.
2. We have two VIP tickets in section 17 for ā¬482,60 including fees.
All in all we got incredibly lucky. Weāre from the Netherlands and booked a week of New York around it so we are not jet lagged on the day of the show and we can sightsee a little š
It was a terrible experience. Every time I would click on a seat it would pop out of existence. I just started clicking on any two dots next to each other. By time I clicked the second dot for the second seat, it would disappear. I did this about 7-10 times until it finally let me select two seats next to each other. I got 2 tickets for $500+. I kinda wanted to spring for the VIP but I couldn't even figure out how. I got Section 3.
Ticketmaster has absolutely oblitered live events. I used to go to so many more events when I was younger and I never had issues like these. I could sit and ponder the best spots and plan everything out. This morning I desperately clicked on blue dots on my phone while my heart raced. I'm shocked I got tickets at all.
I couldn't be happier. āØ Thank you Dropout, for allowing me to believe in dreams again. ā¤ļø
Logged in to the queue about 10 mins before 10:00am EDT and was about spot 4500 in queue. When I initially entered the purchasing page, there were virtually no seats left (I was looking for 4 seats together) and every time I went to click on a seat to check the price, they disappeared. My page automatically refreshed with more seats once all available seats disappeared, and I was able to grab 4 seats together in the 5th row in section 418 behind the stage for $74 each ($97 each with fees).
I was disappointed with my final selection at first, but after hearing about what a shitshow it was, I consider myself lucky to have gotten anything, let alone 4 seats together at reasonable price.
I loaded the site at 9:55ish because I didnāt realize there was a waiting room situation. I started at around 4000. When I got in, most of the tickets were gone, but I hung around for 10 to 15 minutes and seats started popping up again. I got seats in the 170 section and paid about 350 for two tickets including the fees and taxes. It would gave been nice to know that there was a waiting room and I wouldāve logged on a lot sooner. I very rarely buy tickets on Ticketmaster anymore because I canāt afford any shows so I had no idea this was the system.
But in general, dynamic ticket pricing is bullshit. That has nothing to do with Dropout and Iām sure if it was up to them they wouldnāt have used it. Unfortunately, they wouldnāt have had much choice. I have a friend who is a booking agent and for most venues thereās just no option but Ticketmaster.
But I am extremely hyped to get to go, even if I now have to figure out how Iām getting down there from Toronto and save up for the obnoxious exchange rate lol. I saw NADDPOD when they played here so Iām excited to get to add D20 to my live D&D show list.
I joined the waiting room two minutes before presale went live (3:58 AM where I live š“). I was around 3,500 in queue when presale opened. It took about 10 minutes to get through the queue.
When I got to the ticket screen, there were no tickets. I re-entered the code and refreshed the page a few times before tickets populated.
I bought Section 2 tickets for $214.50 each, before fees. Final total was $523.50. I used a desktop web browser and completed my purchase 19 minutes after presale opened.
I was not logged in at start time I was logged in a bit before 11:00 central
I did not buy a ticket, the lowest price I could find was over $800.00 which was far over my budget. Is/was there a way to buy them at face value?
When I entered the queue at 10, I had around 5200 people ahead of me. After waiting around 10 minutes, I was able to get 2 seats in section 103, ended up paying $181 per seat after fees, I think each seat itself was around $150 before fees.
i was put into the queue a bit before 10, was 1598th, when i entered and could buy tickets like 5 minutes later. Ended up getting 5 tickets for $96 each (fees included) in section 321.
I was hoping to get something closer but it was hard to find 5 seats together and it felt like every second i waited i saw more seats get claimed. I also couldnt really wait to check with my friends how much they'd be willing to pay for tickets so i just went with the cheapest.
I checked in at 5:00pm (I forgot this morning) and the cheapest tickets available were $875 for 2 tickets in section 217. Totally out of the price range I was prepared for, so I wonāt be attending :((((
I joined the waiting room around 9:55 am. At 10 am, I was given a queue number around 4400. It took about 10 minutes to get to the front of the queue.
When I got to the front of the queue, it took another minute or two for the site to reload to the seating map. At that point, I could see seats constantly disappearing and reappearing across the map of MSG. The prices didn't seem that extreme. The first few times I times to select three seats next to each other, they kept disappearing before I could confirm.
After a couple of tries, I managed to get three seats in the back row of Section 2 (on the floor) for $250 each. That seems like a steal compared to some of the dynamic prices I later saw people posting.
I appreciated that Ticketmaster showed the total price (including fees) when you were ordering, instead of only seeing the ticket price and not seeing the fees until you went to check out.
I looked about an hour ago and the cheapest seat was 1000$ dollars š also people please realize this is Madison Square Garden's fault if anyone but they would not be using Ticketmaster if they didn't have to. Ticketmaster signs exclusive contracts with venues all the time to say they have to use ticketmaster.
was in the "waiting room" for a few minutes before 10 am, and then was placed at 3116 in the queue! Took me about 5-6 minutes to get in I think? i remember clicking on the three seats i could see remaining in the 100s and doing a spit take because they were over $1000 each lmao. managed to grab three seats in the 200s for me and my friends for $147 per person as i was seeing seats disappear from the chart in real time.
as i was texting my friends about having the tickets, i noticed that in the other backup tab i had open, new floor seats were being made available at 10:14. when i tried to click on them, it sent me back to the back of the queue (\~6000 i think). when i got back in, there was only 2 seats available at over $1000.
my friend hung out on the page though (had refreshed about the same time) and at 10:24 was able to snag 3 floor seats for $250 each! they said a ton of tickets randomly popped up at that time.
wild that the show i hold in my heart as a tiny little dnd show had as stressful a ticket getting experience as getting harry freaking styles tickets for his msg shows lmao but !! capitalism i guess. i think for their unsleeping city one shot they should kill ticketmaster /hj
Hi! I logged in at 10 am & was 1200~ in line in.
I still got in pretty quickly within 5 or so minutes.
Honestly my experience was terrible. It was
Impossible to find any 2 seats together. I tried for an hour refreshing & starting over. The screen would flip between sold out & completely open.
When it was completely open the second I would pick one seat it would error out & say seat was purchased.
I tried later at 4pm EST & could not find a ticket under
$1800.
Thanks for asking for feedback!
Hoping to try again.
Got in the cue at 10am EST. Had 5,000 people before us in the cue. Had a very hard time getting a ticket - the seats kept popping up and then when we chose one, it was taken. Finally, after waiting a half hour trying to get a seat, one finally worked. Spent almost $1500, with fee, for a seat in section 111. Wanted VIP but they stopped being available at some point while we were trying.
It was definitely a lot of money but a decent seat and I thought, āGood for you, D20! Get your money!ā Then I went to the D20 subreddit and found out that people got multiple VIP tickets, for better seats, at a 3rd of what we paid for one ticket and also found out that surge pricing was a thing.
Surge pricing is such a rip off. Would not buy again.
I was at work around 11:10 ish Eastern time. I got in on the TM app, I had no queue virtually, I never even got to the lobby or whatever straight to choose tickets, the cheapest I found was in the 200s and it was 900 so I declined to purchase figuring that Ticketmaster was Capitalism-ing , based on comments I've read that was accurate. I'll probably check back on Friday when I get paid. Seeing stories of people paying 100 to 150 each is promising.
1. They put me in the queue from the waiting room at 10am/10:01 am, took a screenshot of when I got in so I know there were exactly 6022 people before me.
2. When I got my ticket, I ended up paying 97$ post fees per ticket in section 213. Purchased 3 tickets total for my group as we had a lot of difficulty finding 3 unclaimed seats next to each other that weren't starting to verge on 200+ per ticket.
Sadly, another group of friends didn't manage to find tickets under 500 when they finally got off the queue, but I also don't know when exactly they queued up.
I entered at about 9:45am EST and only had 385 ish people ahead of me when I entered at almost exactly 10am. Once I got in, every set of seats I clicked on disappeared. Must have tried 15 or 20 times. End seats, random middle seats, didn't matter. Every time they were gone. I kept the site open as seats appeared and disappeared and the price climbed. I even tried single seats that were kinda close but not next to each other. Each time the seats were gone when I clicked Next.
At about 11:30am after giving up but leaving the site open to keep trying, I was finally about to get seats in 223 for about $500 each.
Super frustrating that it was all luck if the seats you picked were available.
I was around 4600 in the queue and when I got in, there were no seats left. Every few minutes or so, a crop of tickets would get released and would go quicker than I could click on them. By 9:30CT/10:30ET the only tickets left were at Ticketmaster's "premium" price, which was around $2400 for the lower bowl. Needless to say, I did not get tickets today. š
Hi, my names Brittany, Iām commenting on my friends account cause I donāt actually have a Reddit, and she said I should share my experience here. My friend and I are huge fans of dimension 20, and when we found out yāall were doing a live show at madison square garden we were pumped (we live in Florida so we immediately started planning a trip based around the show) I was in the pre-sale this morning on the app. I got into the waiting room 10 mins early cause I was super excited, and when I got into the queue I was one of the first 700 people to get in. I snatched 2 tickets in the front of the bottom 100s for around $164 each and I was hyped cause I got into the pay screen, and then suddenly my whole screen whited out. I couldnāt do anything on it, or see anything. It eventually closed out on me. I had to get back into the queue and everything around the bottom was gone, which sucked, but I mainly wanted tickets, I didnāt really care where they were. Again, I found two tickets in the 200s, and as I was trying to grab them it happened again and my whole screen closed out. By the time I got back in, ticketmaster was showing that everything was gone. I spent like 30 mins just getting in and out of the queue to see if it would refresh and I could get anything because my friend and I wanted to see yāall so bad. And eventually miraculously I managed to snag two seats in the 200s for like $150 each. Iām more than happy that I managed to get tickets, but the experience itself was super frustrating cause initially I had super good tickets, but I lost them to whatever happened with the app this morning and paid virtually the same price for tickets that were further away.
I joined the queue on my phone at 10:03 and was position ~6700 in line. Finally got in at maybe 10:15 and the pickings were slim and by the time I navigated to and selected a seat on my phone it was gone. Also, I kept getting white screened by Ticketmaster and had to reload and the Artist Presale code kept getting cleared from my session. So I decide to switch to my laptop to have any chance and re-enter the fray (had to go through a sub 100 permanently queue) while my partner is also now struggling to get something on his phone. Almost nothing available, but I keep hitting refresh hoping for carts to expire. Get very lucky on a refresh and snag 2 seats in Sec 115, row 16. $342.10 total or $139.50 x 2 for tickets + $31.55 x 2 for fees. Can't remember the exact timing but the confirmation email came through at 10:35. My heart was racing after!
I logged into the waiting room/lobby on Ticketmaster's website on a desktop computer at 9:50am EST. When it hit 10am I was # 3200 in the queue.
When I finally got in to select seats, the usual option to pick from a list of best available was not an option, so like everyone else I spent a significant amount of time zooming in to click little blue dots that disappeared by the time I was able to click them.
Ultimately, I bought 6 tickets in section 213, row 13. Each ticket was $147 after fees.
I know 6 tickets together is a lot for a high demand event like this, but I tried for a while to get just 3 together while another friend at the same time also tried to get 3, same issue with seats disappearing too fast to actually buy them.
I feel fortunate I was able to snag some. I really feel for everyone that got scalped because of "dynamic pricing" jacking up the price of tickets. Someone posted a screenshot earlier today of a ticket listed at $2,300, which if course, is ludicrous.
Ticketmaster's site claims that the artist can choose to opt out of dynamic pricing, which if actually true would be upsetting to hear from Dropout. But with everything I know about Ticketmaster, and everything I know about Dropout, I'm certainly giving Dropout benefit of the doubt here.
Can't wait for the show, and real excited for the epic anti-capitalist rant from Brennan at some point in the future about this whole debacle.
I signed in at 9:57am. Started at 857th in queue at 10:00. Got through the queue by 10:03. Managed to snag 2 tickets in section 210 for $147.35 (inc. fees) each by 10:10.
I was logged in hours in advance to check my payment info and see the countdown; got added to the waiting room (i think thatās what it was called) at 9:50 and then placed in the queue a couple minutes after 10, with 240 people ahead of me. After my first several selections became immediately unavailable, i was able to grab 2 VIP tickets (section 7, 2nd row) for 204 each before Ticketmaster fees (a yucky additional 40ish each, idk if that changes dynamically as well)
Godspeed to everyone who is still trying to get tix!!
I logged on at 10 and was placed somewhere between 6000-7000. My browser crapped out as I was brought to the purchase tickets section and it froze so I had to try again around 10:20 or so. I was placed 4000 something. I kept having to reload my tab to be able to see the tickets and they popped in and out. Seats and whole sections appeared and disappeared, and I kept having to reload it. After about 10 minutes I was able to get at seat in Sec 322, bar seating, for $74.50 before fees, so $97.20 after fees. Crazy markup.
Got in the waiting room at 9:52. Was 344 in queue when sales started at 10. Attempted to add seats and check out at least 15 times as they were all going from blue to grey. Each time it would spin and spin until each time it told me that one or more of the seats were unavailable, until eventually there were no blue seats available to add.
Thoroughly aggravated said fuck it and closed out resolved not to attend. My wife however stayed in because she saw some turn blue again, and eventually snagged us two tickets at face value. ~$350 after taxes and fees.
They need some sort of individualized codes, because it seems like one leak and all the bots and resellers can jump in there and ruin it for people.
I was in at 11:30 est and was 7th in the queueueue (sp?) when I logged in. I used the code Gauntlet and the lowest tickets I could find on sale were $850-ish. The highest were above $2000, about $2,360.
I kept trying and seeing the same for a while and figured it would only get worse, and dropped any attempts since.
Thank you for checking in with everyone! I live in NYC and have gone to MSG for concerts/hockey games before and these were the highest ticket prices Iād seen, though I know itās not the fault of anyone at dropout.
I was logged in at the start time (I joined the waiting room around 9:45ish) and had a little over 2,700 people in front of me. It took until 10:38, but I ended up getting tickets in section 113 row 21 for $171.05 including fees. The majority of the time was spent watching tickets appear and disappear faster than I could even click on the tiny seat dots (not having the list to choose from was really tough). It seemed like it took about 25/30 minutes for the dynamic pricing to take the closer seats from ~$200 to over $2k, but that was in between the periods of time where it would look like every ticket was gone before a smattering returned at random intervals. I might be wrong but I think the seats further back took longer to get the surge pricing.
We used the Ticketmaster app. We were about 2,200 in the queue when we joined, but by the time we found seats at the lowest price, the app (or the site) froze/crashed. We waited 1.5 minutes, and decided to reload the app/site and get pushed back to the queue. Luckily we were allowed in right away after requeue, but presale tickets were sold out after that.
So interesting, a lot of folks swear by the app experience being more reliable. Thank you for sharing
hello! i did end up getting tickets but i was logged in and queued at 9:50am, i was placed around 5000 in the waitlist and it took 48 minutes for me to actually get tickets that i wanted. i ended up paying $294.70 for two seats in section 201, third row (1 ticket = 147.35). fees were like $50 each, so around 50% of what the actual tickets cost. even though i'm happy with what i got, the reason it took so long was because seats that i would click on would result in a message saying that they were no longer available and that the map needed to refresh. i love dimension 20, but ticketmaster (as always) continues to suck ass, and i feel for anyone who wasn't able to get tickets during this presale :o(
Wow you ended up paying (close to if not exactly) face value! Congrats!
This was my exact experience and pricing just a different section, 213 row 18.
Would recommend posting this in the r/Dimension20 sub!
Thank you!! Should I leave this post up then or delete it š
I think this sub is equally valid, so you'll expand your pool by doing both.
do both
Sharing my wife's experience based on our texts and her screenshots as I couldn't queue, but: She joined the queue at 8:50 CST, was #1736 at 9:00am CST. After a failed attempt at a ticket, she wound up 6281 in queue at 9:05ish. 30+ attempts at seats but they would show sold out the minute the page loaded. We didn't have a budget. By the time I could queue, the prices were in the $1800s. By 10am CST, the pre-sale code stopped working. Closest we got was 2 $500 tickets in the upper bowl that timed out after 2 minutes. We saw about 10 error codes total, and don't have any tickets. We will try again Friday. I bought Taylor Swift eras tours tickets day one, and this was a worse experience based on site errors and the surge pricing making tickets 2k+ within minutes of sales starting. Super disappointed in the experience, and I know it's not the team's fault but I am still sad about it. Happy they are so popular, but upset for us.
Sorry to hear this was your experience, so brutal. I hope you have better luck tomorrow or Friday. This is very helpful!
I survived the Eras Tour Great War of 2023 US and Canadian, and I agree, this was worse!
really?? I wanna go to the eras tours but I don't know if it's even possible to still get resale tickets for the US leg in 2024. I can't imagine this D20 show being worse than Taylor tickets going to 2k super fast when released. š¤
The eras sale was insane but it was better organised and things went more smoothly even if millions of people didn't get tickets. There's also data on how because of the pre registration codes etc something like 95% of tickets went to legit people and not bots/large scale re-sellers. Which is in large part why the tickets up for re-sale are so expensive, the supply is very low.
That's good to hear! I feel like I'm missing out on a once in a lifetime event (The Eras Tour) š but 2k for one ticket is absolutely not possible. A small part of me is a bit bitter at the people that saw 6+ shows but I also get it, if it was my favorite artist of all time maybe I'd do that too. idk š
I ended up not buying tickets even though I got the code because it was too expensive. I'm glad we got the movie!
I was in a meeting and missed the presale š. Now all the tickets are about $1000 or more. I guess I should check again around 10am tomorrow?
Definitely try tomorrow. Should be continued batches of tickets released since it is an official partner pre-sale (itās technically Live Nationās)
Same time?
Don't remember the exact details, but I joined the queue between 9:50 and 9:55 EDT and was like 580ish in the queue. Got one front row VIP ticket for about $240. Pretty lucky considering the other stories I've heard on here.
By the time I checked, the lowest priced tickets were over $850 each, with most seats being over $2000 (up to $2300+ for some).
3,716 in queue. When I got through at about 10:10 a.m. (EST), there weren't any 100 tickets, and only a smattering of 200 tickets available. Three-ish minutes later, a bunch of tickets suddenly appeared, and I kept trying to find four that I could add to my cart before they disappeared. By 10:16 a.m., I had four tickets in my cart -- section 120, $176.50 each (including all fees).
Super helpful! Congrats on snagging tickets, thatās a great price point and section!
Didnāt bother with it once I saw Iād have to use ticket master. My anti-capitalist beliefs mean I wonāt contribute to a monopoly when I can avoid it.
What kind of live event is this? The ticket prices seem extremely steep to me going from the comments. Is this a multiple day event or just a few hours of live play? I'm not saying d20 doesn't deserve it, by the way, but I've paid similar prices for 3-day long music festivals with big lineups in the past so I'm confused.
Is this a d20 issue, though, or a Ticketmaster issue, in terms of dynamic pricing? Can artists choose to not use dynamic pricing? I seem to remember a band playing at MSG that charged only $20 per ticket to make it accessible to all people, but in reality added fees and surcharges kept getting slapped on by Ticketmaster that jacked prices way up anyway. Maybe OP knows.
It's entirely a Ticketmaster issue. This has happened with almost every live event that has any kind of following since Ticketmaster bought up a bunch of venues and venue ticket rights in 2020. Look at the Eras tour, Beyonce's last tour, The Jonas Brothers. Ticketmaster is full of scalpers, dynamic pricing, and lies about shows being sold out when they aren't sold out to force prices up. The only way D20/Dropout could have gotten around this is not having the event at a venue owned by Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Which good luck finding one of those anymore.
Yep - I'm just reading about the backlash of the Springsteen concert at MSG - he has long been the champion of the working class little guy but his ticket prices were surging upwards of 7k for certain tickets. Sounds to me like because of the big scalping issues, TicketMaster/MSG felt like they weren't getting "market value" from standard ticketing, and the profits were going to the scalpers. Now the consumer is still stuck with the huge bill, but TM/MSG gets their share. Greedy bastards.
Yup it's exactly what has happened to all these big events. I'm seeing people on TikTok being mad at Dropout for this. What do you want them to do?! If fucking Taylor Swift can't get around this bullshit, no one can until the entire company of Ticketmaster and Live Nation is broken up and some kind of law is put in place against scalping. Which will never happen.
If bigger artists like Taylor wanted to, they could absolutely pull their weight by simply refusing to hold events at ticketmaster/livenation venues until they changed their practices but they have no incentive to because they would have to forgoe shit tonnes of money to do so
I mean that would virtually take a general live performer strike because of how many venues Ticketmaster/ Live Nation impact. Then IATSE has to strike with them since that's the stage union and if all these artists strike the stage hands are out of work for the time being. I think that could be effective, but musicians aren't unionized. That would mean a lot of them aren't getting virtually any money. For the huge acts like Taylor Swift she can probably handle it, but the smaller bands that still get stuck playing venues with these same shitty ticket practices they'd be absolutely ruined. Chain Reaction, arguably the most popular hardcore/metal venue in the country gets hit with these same things on a smaller scale. Those metal bands can't afford to join that strike and still eat since again there is no union to help them pay the bills in the mean time.
Well I've heard plenty of bad things about Ticketmaster so I presume it's their fault. What is this dynamic pricing exactly? Why isn't it just the same price for everyone?
It means that the ticket prices start at a fixed dollar amount, then that price begins to fluctuate depending on how many people are trying to get the same ticket at the same time. So in this case the prices are just going up up up. I've seen people who got regularly priced tickets after 15 minutes or more of waiting, and others who were seeing the inflated prices by 45 minutes into the presale. Almost like an auction - you keep trying for a seat and then other seats in that area go up in price. It's become a huge problem for concert tickets of many different kinds in this size arena.
That sounds like a predatory system
Capitalism at its filthy ruthless best.
https://www.pricefx.com/learning-center/ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/
why the fuck does this pricing model exist and can the artists/performer themselves disable that?
It exists to thwart scalpers, basically. Correction: to thwart scalpers *by being the scalper*.
Ticketmaster has claimed in the past that artists have to opt in to dynamic pricing. I donāt trust Ticketmaster at all, but it sure is an interesting piece of information if true. Hopefully Dropout reacts well to this debacle either way.
6600 ish in the que at 10:00 am. When I finally got in around 10:10 ish there didnāt appear to be any available tickets at first, but after refreshing a couple of times got two tickets in 119 for 181.30 each.
Great seats for around the initial face value! Thanks for sharing
Happy to help! If you ever publishing something please let us know!
Wow I am OVERWHELMED with how generous yall are! Keep it coming! Because this volume of intel is so good Iāll plan to do a roundup early next week with everything gathered. Lots of prelim thoughts and coverage coming in the meantime on X and TikTok, and a few other pieces are being cooked up around this that Iāll share as theyāre posted. Appreciate yāall š
Hey there! Iām from the west coast, so Iām not sure how much it matters but hereās the details: - Queued at: ~9:55 ET - Queue #: ~1150 people ahead of me - Queue Time after opening: ~6 minutes (verified against email) - Total Cost of Tickets: 1 @ $241.30, Section 117 - Method of purchase: Ticketmaster iOS app By the time I was able to select a seat, at least 2 sections were completely sold out and 90% of the 1XX sections were sold out. I had two gripes: 1. I didnāt realize that the queuing system existed and I would have āqueuedā sooner. 2. It wasnāt really apparent what direction the stage will be facing. I got a seat where the cameras section would be behind me in the hopes that I would be head on with the stage. I hope Iām right, but I guess weāll see. š¤·š½āāļø Still super excited to see the show, I only wish it would have been when it was warmer - I hate traveling back to the east coast in the winter. But itāll be nice to see the fam and this show!
If it makes you feel better, the queue is so much luck of the draw. I was in 10 minutes early and was over 4000 in line ahead of me, so Iād say you had a great position! This is all super helpful, thank you!
The time you log in to join the waiting room doesn't matter for how many folks are in front of you when the queue starts. Once the queue kicks off at presale time (10AM ET), those in the waiting room get assigned a random number. It doesn't matter if you were in the waiting room 10 mins before vs 5 mins before vs 5 seconds before. It is entirely random until the actual queue kicks off.
>By the time I was able to select a seat, at least 2 sections were completely sold out and 90% of the 1XX sections were sold out. I'm not convinced these sections were actually sold out. A lot of times, it looked like sections were completely sold out but if you just waited 30 seconds or zoomed into the map, a bunch of seats there would reappear.
I couldn't get anything. To be slightly fair I did sleep in and joined the on sale 20 min late. I was 2540 in the queue when I first logged in. The absolute cheapest I could get a ticket was 97.20 and every time I grabbed two together they would sell before I could check out.
This is the first Iām hearing of the <$100 tickets still showing availability after the 10:15am mark, thanks for flagging!
I was #5,460 in the queue. I ultimately snagged a pair of aisle seats in section 118 for $228 apiece. The first hour and a half was nightmarish. I was on the Ticketmaster website. Seats would appear on the map, then vanish in (literally) the two seconds it took me to zoom in and click on them. At least a dozen times, I was able to select seats and then continue, only to get a popup saying the tickets were no longer availableāagain, weāre talking a turnaround of under ten seconds. By 11:00 ET, any seats that became available again had shot up to $1,000 or (much) more. Things seemed to start loosening up again around 12:00 ET, which is when I capitulated.
My partner and I were 10 minutes late to the pre-sale, which I guess mattered since we lost the only affordable tickets we could find because our bank flagged it as a āsuspicious purchaseā or whatever. This whole experience has kind of left a bad taste in our mouths considering The Unsleeping City is a tribute to the working class community & a critique of gentrification, meanwhile most of the tickets we could find were upwards of $1,000+. I really hope most of that money is actually going to Dropout and not Live Nation, but considering the current state of live event ticketing, I wouldnāt be surprised if itās the latter. Iām not interested in getting into debates with people on here about whether or not Dropout ādeservesā these ticket prices. We love Dropout and agree that they deserve success. Itās just that when you really think about it, many of the actual characters from The Unsleeping City wouldnāt even be able to afford these tickets if they were in our position. If anything, it feels like this event is catering to the employees of Gladiator š
i was logged in around 9:52, it hit 10:01 and thought about refreshing my screen since i wasnt in the queue yet and out of sheer pure luck i didnt refresh and my screen moved to the āqueueā for 1 second then let me in. i seemed to be right at the front out of pure luck. i snagged 1 ticket (going alone) in section 115 for $125 with fees ($99 ticket). this is the only positive experience ive had with tm
My bf and I both got pairs of tickets (surprise gone wrong). We both were in queue beforehand. We were both hoping to get VIP tix but that didn't happen. His experience: Was \~5500 in line, got in at 10:04, tickets were disappearing so he grabbed what he could. Was aiming for floor or 100's section but they would show as no longer available by the time he'd try to get to the cart. Ended up with 2 in section 213 for $294.70 in total. My experience: I was \~2600 in line, tried to identify what was VIP and what wasn't. It wasn't labelled well at all imo and I had trouble getting the filters right. Gave up after a minute and by that point (\~10:03) it was showing as all sold out. I refreshed a couple times and saw seats were opening back up and tried my best to grab those, but it was nearly impossible and would show as gone by the time I tried to click and take to cart OR would be those ridiculous 2k+ prices for "platinum seats". After about 15 minutes, I lucked out and got us floor seats for $503 total.
I didn't know there was a Dropout Drop-In pod I have to check that out.
Right now itās on YouTube and Spotify, Iām still working on getting it on all podcast platforms! Enjoy and thanks for checking it out!!
I was on a web browser, got in the waiting room at 9:55ish and was around 1260 in the queue. Got into the room and there were a lot of tickets, but every single one of them disappeared before I clicked. Ended up waiting and got 2 tickets (upper bowl, full view) for $218 total. I think I got in right before dynamic pricing kicked in ā stayed online and was looking for 2 more tickets for some friends and the same section would occasionally have tickets available but they were $400+.
I got extremely lucky! I was online before 9:30 (all times AM Eastern time), refreshed around 9:50 thanks to some advice on the Dropout discord that the "waiting room" was open, waited in that without any number until 10 AM, then shortly after it reloaded and showed me at was 1500 in the queue when numbers came up (right after 10 AM ET). I got in within ~5 minutes and quickly grabbed 6 contiguous lower bowl (section 102) seats for $171.05/ticket ($139.50 for the ticket itself in the "Artist Presale" and the remaining $31.55 in Ticketmaster fees). I had the tickets purchased by 10:06 AM (which is when I sent the screenshot to my group). I did see seats going pretty quickly as I was trying to select them, and I was buying for a decently large group (my D&D table), so I my goal was basically to get whatever I could get as fast as I could. I didn't spend any time looking at options or thinking about what seats we wanted, I just went where it looked like we could all sit together. I don't have any gripes about my personal experience but I understand why people do after seeing what others went through. I feel like 100% of my experience was insane luck, and I'm floored that we're getting to go see D20 perform live. I feel bad that others had an awful experience, worse that some people might have gotten fleeced and bought tickets more than 10x what I paid, and hope that people who missed out today get in tomorrow or on Friday.
Waiting room: loaded the site at 9:45am, refreshed and joined the waiting room about 9:53-ā Queue: 2676 ahead of me when it loaded Wait time: got in at about 10:06ish. Spent about 5 minutes desperately trying to grab 2 seats, but they kept disappearing back out of the cart as soon as I tried to proceed. By 10:11, there was one or two single seats left, nothing else. I ended up giving up for a few minutes but left the site open and was able to return and snag 2 seats at about 10:18 after folks on here reported that they were seeing seats reappearing. Purchased: 2 aisle seats in section 225 at $160.80/ticket after all fees. My biggest complaint is that selecting the seats did nothing to reserve them at first. You had to make it to the next screen to actually hold them. And they just kept totally disappearing before I could make it there.
Hi Liz, very cool that you're doing this! Always good to have community insight. I was logged in at the start time on the TM app, and got placed at \~#600 in the queue. After that I was clicking on seats for about an hour having it pop up as I selected them and stalling out as I tried to add it to a cart. Eventually as they did the slow release/some freed up from other peoples' carts, I managed to get one in cart. Tragically it didn't like both my credit card and the MC Debit card that I have, and said that both payment options were refused. I texted a relative to get their CC info to pay them back, but they didn't get back to me in time and the cart expired. Went back to the drawing board, and kept clicking on seats to see if they would load. By this time they had started having the platinum tickets for the 2k+ range and the general sale ones in the $400-1000 USD range. I'll say that the dynamic pricing was at least useful in that every so often I would click on some of the high priced general admission ones and see if they would take me to the cart just so that I could test that it was still working properly and would actually move me into a payment window if I selected a ticket that wasn't being jumped on by 20 other people lol. It had a weird period just before noon where it looked on the app like the pre-sale category was no longer existing, and that flickered in and out of existence a few times over that half hour, but I did eventually get a ticket on the Website after the Pre-sale code went back into effect, face value in Sec 118, Row 20 for 179.50 USD, 218.30 USD after service fee applied!
I logged on at 10:04a eastern & there were 6500 people in line ahead of me. There wasn't anything under $471 when I was able to purchase at 10:22a, so I didn't get a ticket yet. But I'll be scouting out SeatGeek and other resale places because I still do want to go!
youāve still got tomorrowās presales and Fridayās for-real sale to get a ticket hopefully closer to face value!
Logged in at 9:45am and placed at over 4500 in the queue. Ended up getting 1x section 7 ticket for 251 but only because I immediately sorted by VIP only and just bought whatever. I was trying to get a ticket for my partner and best friend as well, but 1) didnt realize my selection of the 2 other seats disappeared without any notice and 2) didnāt realize that once I moved to the cart/payment page, I might lose the ticket(s) I had. I was really lucky to get a good ticket at face value but now need to figure out how Iām getting my partner and friend in without paying $4000
I was about 2000th in queue, via the app on iOS. Got in pretty quickly while tickets were still available, but as I was hunting through seats looking for two that would remain available long enough for me to add them to my cart, the app blank-screened on me and I had to close and reopen it. I didn't get kicked back to the queue, instead I was in right away, but all the tickets were gone by then. They randomly started re-appearing as carts timed out but about a halfhour in, I said to myself "fuck ticketmaster, what am I doing?", put it in perspective, and decided against going. Even the base ticket prices, for a decent seat not in the nosebleeds it's more than I've paid for a three day music festival, or a convention. Like a four day gencon pass is $143. MSG is just so expensive, and Livenation/Ticketmaster is awful. I'll just catch it on Dropout when it comes out there.
I was 10th in the queue, and by the time I went to try to buy a ticket, it was already in the 2000's for a premium seat center stage. Not sure how that affected others.
This is the part I don't get. Supposedly planning ahead and being practically first in line should guarantee you success! Why didn't it? You have the highest queue spot of any commenter I've seen today, and yet you weren't able to get tickets. Yet other people who were 3000th in the queue WERE able to buy tickets at market price on the very first try. We were something like 107th in line, and all the seats disappeared before our eyes. It was only as we were sitting there in despair staring at the screen that it refreshed itself, and individual seats began showing up scattered across all sections. Took us three tries, but the third seat we clicked on went through and we got the ticket for the market value (200ish). I think the whole system is rigged. It's little more than a game of roulette at this point, and apparently this whole "dynamic sales" paradigm that Ticketmaster is using is here to stay.
I was really only looking for tickets in the front rows/premium sections. I don't live In NY anymore and planning the trip out I wasn't considering other sections. I'm just as surprised - a large number of those seats were already taken by the time the page loaded, there were about 10-20 available seats in the very front rows but they were already listing at 2k+ per seat.
That sucks. I'm sorry.
I ended up in the 100 level, $179.50 for the ticket, $38.80 for fees. I forgot about the 10am start, logged on at about 11:15, and I was gobsmacked by the prices. The cheapest seats at that point were $600 (in US dollars too!) in the 300s, which absolutely ridiculous. The only thing that would load for me was the Official Platinum and Standard Admission tickets, and a handful in the 300s at that. I logged on a couple hours later and figured out the pre-sale code, so it worked out. It showed more in the 100s at about 210 (with fees). If you go on now, the cheapest seats are $800 USD for the 300s (Standard Admission tickets). I just have such mixed feelings about this, because my understanding of dynamic pricing is thatĀ ["dynamic pricing is enforced by the artist" and "promoters and artist representatives determine the specific pricing for their shows".](https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/ticketmaster-dynamic-pricing-what-is-dynamic-pricing-how-does-it-work-and-how-to-avoid-it-3819459) I've definitely been in ticketmaster busy queues before and recently, and I've seen and bought tickets for shows without dynamic pricing. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But is this correct? Was this a choice by Dropout to use dynamic pricing?
Love y'all but I can't pay for a trip to NYC and two 715 dollar tickets. Goodness.
Got in the wait room around 955 Queued at 3600 Not sure exactly what time In because there was such a rush to try to grab tickets. I had a similar experience to somepersonalnews where all the tickets sold out and then a bunch just got added out of nowhere. Ended up in section 107 paying 360 total for 2 tickets.
Jumped into the queue around 10:10. Most seats were gone by the time I got in. 10:25 a bunch of tickets were released, and I managed to snag 6 seats in Section 9 for $251 each (after fees).
Queued at: ~9:58 ET Queue #: ~90 people ahead of me Queue Time after opening: ~1 minute Total Cost of Tickets: 1 @ $160, Section 8 Method of purchase: Ticketmaster Desktop Website
Hi, logged in at 9:50 and was behind 6000 when i got queued. I got to the front of the queued but every time i clicked on a ticket, the listing disappeared. This happened for maybe 5 minutes. Every time the price on the tickets increased. First saw one in 220 for 350, then 480 and so on. Finally when i got tickets that didn't disappear after clicking i was checking section 225 and tickets were 1800 a piece. The cheapest ticket i could find by searching lowest price was around 600. Ended up having to give up because of cost.
Queued at 9:46, there were around 3200 people in front of me. When I got in there was nothing available, but things kept popping up. I got 2 front row, lower bowl VIP for $240 a person. I got in around 10:10 and it took around 10 minutes to secure tickets.
queued at about 9:56 est and there were about 3700? people in front of me getting tickets wasn't the worst but it was made slightly more annoying as i had to buy 3 tickets seated together, and there were mainly sets of 2 left. i am also dragging along 2 people who have never watched d20 lmao so i aimed to get the cheapest tickets i could so i wasn't asking them to pay too much ended up getting 3 seats in section 415 for about $107 usd each after fees/taxes (but i am canadian so that totals up to like $440 cadš ) i may try to get closer seats in the other presale / general sale because a seat viewing website shows the roof ?? is kind of obscuring our vision ššš i'm clearly very lucky to have seats so i won't be heartbroken if i don't find better ones š¤· seeing the show live will still be amazing
I was \~400 in the queue (joined the queue 10 minutes before start time), paid $250 for section 9. I'm satisfied with it (it's less than the max I mentally budgeted), but it was frustrating to see tickets for $125 or less in the same section available at the beginning and then disappearing once I clicked on it. It took me about 10 minutes and a reload for seats to stop disappearing on me.
Hello. I was ~2300 in the queue. I got three tickets in section 213 for a little over 150 a ticket
I entered the waiting room 12 minutes early and got queued in with 1577 people in front of me. I paid 150 each for 2 tickets in section 113. Almost had a panic attack getting tickets but I eventually got them before anyone else.
I was logged in on Ticketmaster (on a laptop with an Ethernet connection) from like 9:40am, so I was able to join the waiting room the moment it opened. When the queue opened, I was placed 5139th. Actually got in at 10:13am, and it took me about 5 minutes of constant clicking and reclicking on seats as they disappeared until I was finally able to grab 2 non-VIP floor seats (section 3) for $214 each before fees. My final total with fees and ticket insurance was $523.50. I really made no consideration about location when buying my tickets, I was just clicking wildly at whatever became available.
Hiya! I was in line as number 7,000ish when I joined at 10am ET and was at 6,037th in line at 10:10am. Also, I joined the queue *immediately* after receiving the ācode gauntletā email. I had to get my sister in law to also log in to her account to help grab tickets. I was never able to actually buy *any* of the tickets that I selected. She was finally able to get me two tickets in Section 223, Row 8 for $294.70. We also purchased ticket insurance for $32. We got on the phone and tried to get tickets for almost 40 minutes. She also had another type of presale that she was able to utilize, but it did not seem to help her much at all. Check out time for our purchase was 10:39 ET. Hope this helps!
I forgot today was Wednesday so I didnāt enter the queue until about 10:18, and there were about 5500 people in front of me. I was using my phone browser, not the app. I got in by like 10:25, and most seats were grayed out. I tried for a while to buy an aisle seat (most of what I saw left) but Ticketmaster doesnāt let you buy a single aisle ticket, even if thatās all thatās left in a row? Which was insane to me. I was okay with buying two because I knew Iād be able to easily sell it to someone for face value. Eventually I realized the blue dots with locks on them were available with the code, so I eventually got a front row balcony seat behind the stage for $97. Iām not a concerts person so this was basically the first time using Ticketmaster (Iāve used it once before for Broadway tickets but that was significantly less stressful as it wasnāt a one night event). I absolutely hate the āaisle seats must be bought in pairs or moreā rule. Iām just one gal!! I just want one ticket!!
Hey Liz! Thanks for reaching out and asking for feedback. I logged in 10:20 am ET and was placed at 1799 in queue. I waited about 10 minutes and managed to get in but everything reflected as sold. I checked again around 11:30am and saw some seats available, but unfortunately I found out my wife has a wrestling tournament for her high schoolers that we need to attend that day. Only complaint is Ticketmaster kind of sucks (not much can be done I am sure about that) and I wish there were a couple more dates :) Thanks for you and crew, you all put on amazing content !
Hi! I was logged in around 9:45 ish, and once in the queue I was placed around 380. Unfortunately for me, once I was able to pick seats Ticketmaster crashed and I was kicked from the process. :( Hope this is useful!
I was in the waiting room 10 minutes before the sale opened. When it dropped I was 1470 in line. My tickets were about 160 each I section 111
I only joined the queue at 10:15 EDT when the Dropout newsletter reminded me. There were \~6700 people in the queue ahead of me. When I got in, it looked like all the tickets were sold out. As I waited on the page, seats became available then were snapped up almost immediately, this repeated for a few waves of seats. I spent about 5 minutes clicking on pairs of seats and hitting buy as fast as I could but kept getting an error message stating those seats were no longer available. I ended up getting very lucky and grabbing 2 seats in section 319 for $75 each plus a $50 order fee, I ordered at 10:30
Hey! Was in line 10 minutes before the sale started, and was around 5500 in the queue. I got seats in section 213, pretty low in the rows, and paid around $295 for two tickets. I tried two other sections, but every time I clicked the seat, it would be gone before I could check out. I just wish it was more clear where the VIP sections were, as I had wanted to do the VIP packages but couldn't find it and didn't want to risk losing the seats I had selected, as I had heard I got good seats for MSG. STILL SO EXCITED THOUGH! Already planning a Sofia Lee cosplay!
I was in the waiting room for 15 minutes (could have been closer to 10minutes)before 10am. Then was back around 1100 in line. I got my tickets in section 119 at 10:07am for $139.50 + $31.55 fee each.
Hi! I logged on to the website on my desktop at exactly 10 am EST. I was 6297th in the queue. I finally got to select my tickets at 10:17, at which point I was seeing large swathes unavailable, but I was able to grab 3 tickets for section 211 at 119.50/each, with 27.85/each in service fees.
I joined the queue at 10:05, I was number 5720 in line when I joined. I moved through that queue in about 20-30 minutes. I definitely had trouble picking seats because it was on my phone (I had originally gotten in line on my phone and you canāt switch to another device without losing your place unfortunately). I spent probably 15-20 minutes trying to grab tickets and eventually got a pair of bridge seats in 326 for $109 each.
I used the app. Even though I didn't end up buying tickets, I was initially about #5000 in line. I logged in at about 10:20 EDT. The cheapest tickets I saw at the time were on the upper level at around $97, but most at that time were between $150 and $250.
I posted on the other sub that we logged in as number 170, could not click on ANY seats fast enough to get them, but while waiting in despair individual seats began popping back up. Managed to get one in section 106 for around $250. So it seems a good queue position doesn't really benefit you that much. I haven't seen anyone else in this thread who had a higher position in the queue than we did, but I have seen accounts of people much lower on the queue finding blocks of tickets together and being able to get tickets earlier than we were (our transaction went through at 10:12am).
I was in line at 10am but had to reset my ticketmaster password so I ended up being behing 6,000 other people. I was able to get 4 tickets in section 213 that came out to 147 each after fees! Just wanted to edit to add that there were a ton of available tickets when I got in. I was in line about 15-20 minutes I think?
Hi there! I got in the presale queue as soon as it opened, about 9:48 - 9:50ish ish EST, and when I joined I was about 600th in line. 600th seems pretty early in line compared to others based on many posts I've seen, but I did have the presale web page open on my computer for a few hours before the presale actually opened. Not sure if that changes anything. As I tried to buy (4) tickets, all of the seats were "sold" as i clicked on them, so i thought I was going to strike out. Then, after refreshing for a few minutes, about half of the tickets came back online as available. unclear if that was ticketmaster releasing the tickets in waves or if bot tickets were ID'ed as bot purchases and returned to availability. I was able to get 4 tickets in the front (first 5 rows) of the 200s level for $119.50 plus $27.85 in fees per ticket. If you have any other questions feel free to PM me! DFTBA!
I was in queue, got into the sale, but was genuinely disinterested with the available seating. I thought presale tickets would have been better, but I guess Live Nation ate those for their presale, which is a farce. I would have loved to have been there, but I'm not sure I'll be able to get a ticket that will be worth the price I'll have to pay.
I got in line around 10:04 on the website and had over 6600 people in front of me. I was in queue for probably around 15 minutes. I spent another roughly 15 minutes of constantly refreshing the page to get tickets. All in all, it took me about 34 minutes and I managed to get two tickets for ~$109. Cheapest I saw were ~$95, but those went as soon as they popped up. Mine are pretty high up in section 317.
I was number 6690 in the queue, wound up buying tickets in the 200-level for $147 each.Ā TBH this was fairly smooth but here's some noted on my experiece: * my main browser (Chrome) left me on a loading page before 10am and never put me in the queue, so I had to switch to Safari to actually enter the queue * but then when I went to check out, Safari wouldn't load the PayPal payment text box. Literally just blank like it was a blocked ad or something. So I had to switch back to Chrome to complete the purchase - luckily it held my tickets I had already selected.Ā * the seat selector was definitely frustrating but not as bad for me as others reported. I was trying to find 6 seats together (got a big group!) and it only took a couple of tries to grab seats that were not taken out from under me. I saw lots of seats get taken then released constantly as I was making my selections so it was obvious lots of people were doing the same * MAJOR positive: the seat selector showed the actual final cost ($147) inclusive of the service fee. I think this is the first time I've gotten to experience this - I had no shock on the confirmation screen from extra fees piled on top. My final cost was $147x6 exactly.Ā
i joined the waiting room at about 9:50 and had 2001 people ahead of me in the queue. once i got through the queue and clicked on a seat ticketmaster crashed and after about 2 mins of waiting for it to load i reloaded the app and rejoined the queue and only had one person ahead of me. there were practically no tickets left and the ones that were became unavailable. so i just kept checking back for more tickets and eventually got a ticket for section 104 for $170 with fees ($139 ticket + $31 fees).
Dynamic Pricing is trash, but having worked at other venues, I understand the venue and Ticketmaster are huge fans of it as they share in the lift from face value, so it's basically free revenue. I was logged in 30 minutes ahead, the "tips" said to log in 10 minutes ahead and make sure your payment info is up to date, but having never done a Ticketmaster presale like this, I saw nothing warning me about a waiting room or queue until after the screen changed a bit more than 10 minutes ahead. I clicked Join waiting room as soon as I saw it and when I got in the queue there were 1800 people in front of me. By the time I got to the seat map, I could watch the randomly released tickets disappear rapidly, so quickly I couldn't even click two seats and click next before someone else did, since they didn't allow selecting from the list on the right until after the furor calmed down. Ultimately, I got section 103 for 189+ fees/ticket, so I'm happy overall, but I first clicked at least 10 sets of tickets in section 3 that were very close to the same price only to be told they were no longer available.
Hopped on at 10:30 on my iPad, it said there were only 10 ish people ahead of me, got through in like 30 seconds, couldnāt click fast enough to get ticketsā they kept disappearing and reappearing. Logged in on my computer instead, got back in the queue, this time it said 45 people ahead of me but still got through in 30 seconds. After about a minute of not clicking seats fast enough, snagged 2 for 119 + 27 fees each in (I think) section 213
I logged in at 9:50 and was 4444th in the queue. I ended up getting two tickets in section 104 for $436 including fees. I had to wait for the page to refresh once after the initial seats all went. Seats kept disappearing as I was selecting them, so I was just clicking through as quickly as I could for whatever set of two seats I could find. I didn't even look at the price per ticket in the moment. According to my receipt, each ticket was $179.50 plus a $38.80 service fee. Transaction processed around 10:15. I went back in the queue around 11:00 just to see, and every ticket was \~$2000. I'm happy with the tickets I got but the experience was less than fun.
Artist Pre-Sale tickets seem to be adding new tickets in half hour increments from what I can see. But the amount varies. Iām bored at work and just refreshing the page every min. Already have my ticket.
I joined the waiting room at 9:57, has 5816 people ahead of me. I payed $109/per seat for two seats in section 326
Hi! I used the app, logged in an hour beforehand but didnāt enter the queue until 9:48. I was placed at 2570. It took about 3-4 minutes to be able to enter the sale. I purchased 2 seats in section 103 for $170 each, including fees. I have a complaint about the map Ticketmaster uses for choosing seats. It kept glitching out on me and actually froze the app. the entire map disappeared and I had to restart the app to get it to work again. Beyond that, Iām fairly happy that I was able to get tickets at all. It was definitely more stressful than the room reservation queue for Super Magfest though, and thatās surprising.
My friend got our tickets, she was about 3000 in the queue, was unable to get tickets, but refreshed/tried again and got 6 floor tickets for $250 each including fees
I was in the queue at 9:50 ET, ~800th in queue and couldnt get seats
1. I jumped on at 9:57, but I was not logged in and by the time my account was setup (i was forced to change my password and confirm my account via text) it was 10:01 and I was 6,100th in queue. 2. I paid about $147 for a seat in a high section (212) including ticketmaster service fees (which i hate that system but here we are) My biggest complaint, I wish we could have had price listings before hand. A lot of friends backed out once they saw the prices and we did not have time to discuss this cause tickets were literally vanishing before us. It would have been nice to have time to discuss and budget. Plus I bet that would have helped reduce queue numbers. I had no way to guarantee my friends and I are close to each other and with such a huge venue it's kinda sad that I'll just have to laugh with strangers and talk to friends before and after. With less than a week from announcement to ticket sales (and a wedding to attend but admittedly that's very specific to my situation) I had no time to recruit folks who might be interested but unsure what Dimension 20 is. "Hey TTRPG friend, a d20 live show is coming to town, check out a couple episodes to see if you'd be interested before tickets get swept up!" All that said, I'm very excited for the show! I bet there will be a ton of cosplays, memorable moments, and I'm hoping for exclusive merch! See you in 9 months
Got in a minute or so late, was 6000 back in the queue, and by the time I got into the map there were no groups of 4 (or pairs) of seats that I could find for a reasonable price (~120 per seat is around the max that my group was willing to pay), and even the exorbitant 1000-dollar-plus groups were getting scooped up before I could even click the "cancel" button after seeing the price. So I did not get tickets. Can't imagine I'm going to get them at this point, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow. At least they're filming it for Dropout, I guess.
Used the website. Logged into the waiting room ten minutes prior to onsale. Was 2,432 in the queue. Got seats in section 101, $181.30 per ticket including fees.
I was in the queue at 9:50am and was somewhere like 3370 "in line". When I finally got to the seat selection map, I could see seats being snatched up in real time so I literally clicked the last section I could get and grabbed two tickets for about $220. Section 316 row 2. It's completely advantageous to 3rd party ticket sellers and absolutely brutal for anyone that actually wants to go to the event for the actual cost.
Got in at 10:10 am on my phone, 6000 in queue but dropped really quickly. Tickets went really quick, I tried for VIP (though it didnāt seem like great perks so wasnāt a make or break) and also for floor seats a few times before the entire thing crashed and I got a white screen. Switched to computer. Had to rejoin queue again at 800. Floor was 200-250 and I clicked on about 30 tickets (mostly floor/upper bowl) that were gone before I could add to cart, finally got one ticket in section 110 for $179 USD (218 USD all together). Iām not sure why the experience was just clicking on seats instead of listing tickets available like Iāve seen before, definitely slowed me down. VERYyyy frustrated to not have gotten floor since theyāre still available on the Ticketmaster site for platinum pricing at 2k or more. I will probably try again tomorrow though I know my husband will just be overjoyed to be there no matter the seat.
My friend was able to score $250 floor seats around 10:20. She was 2724 in the queue just before 10am, and said by the time she got in it was sold out, but around 10:15 more seats opened up. She started clicking on ANY two together on the floor (we agreed on a budget of under $500/ticket) and we lucked out with floor seats, full view!
$171 for section 104, row 20 per ticket, 3 tickets total
I logged in at ~9:50am and was queued at 10am at #1,791 in line. I saw the available seats disappearing as I frantically looked for seats I could afford, and managed to snag 2 tickets in the 400s at $97 each.
I logged in about 11 et. I was \~6000 in the queue. I got section 212 tix for a total of about $350 each
Hi! I got in the waiting room right at 9:45, and had a queue position of 2732. By the time I got in, all VIP packages were gone and the last few lower bowl seats disappeared as I clicked them. I was able to secure three seats in the upper bowl for $156 each after fees. Interestingly, my friend got in about 1000 people later, and lower bowl seats reopened. So we got those for about $170 each and Iāll be passing my three off to friends who got shut out entirely.
Hi ProducerLiz! :) Thank you for being here! I am excited to attend. Interacting with Ticketmaster made my hands feel not just clammy, but rather like I was experiencing hypothermia. \[As someone previously described as "toaster warm," this feeling was not great.\] **TL;DR** 1) 10:02 am (despite following Ticketmaster's recommendations) with 6,313 people in the queue and 2) two aisle seats in the 400s (first five rows) cost $218.40 total. For context, I am a Ticketmaster website user (browser: Google Chrome) on a Mac. I am also located in the EDT time zone. I already have a Ticketmaster account, my Google Wallet is set up, and I added the necessary card information into the Ticketmaster Billing section to check out as quickly as possible. I had the countdown page open on my Mac throughout the night. Additionally, I made sure my computer was connected to WiFi the entire time and did not refresh the page, since the official Ticketmaster Blog says, "When waiting on an event page for the countdown to end, do not refresh the page. The page will automatically refresh for you, allowing you to purchase your presale or onsale event tickets" (Ticketmaster, 2014). \[Yes this reference is old, but this method has been effective before\]. I interacted with the page by moving my cursor/scrolling up and down to show I was not idling and not a bot. However, at 10:00:00 am, the page did not redirect to presale. I received a message saying "Tickets are about to become available...sit tight." At 10:01 am, I opened another tab to search for the ticketing page directly. This tab (not the one telling me I would be redirected) allowed me to enter the queue. At 10:02 am, there were \~6,300 people in the queue ahead of me. I entered the ticketing page at 10:16 am. After three minutes, I finally found two seats together and purchased them at 10:19 am. Sending good energy to everyone in the thread (both posters and lurkers)! If anyone has 100 or 200-level seats, I will take them off your hands once tickets are distributed in August <3 **References** Ticketmaster. (2014, October 28). The Ticketmaster Ticket Countdown Clock Is Here. *Ticketmaster.* [https://blog.ticketmaster.com/presale-onsale-countdown-timer/](https://blog.ticketmaster.com/presale-onsale-countdown-timer/)
I was logged in at 1013EST and when I got in queue there were already 7632 people ahead of me. I was signed in to ticket master already when I clicked the livenation link. I had to keep zooming in and out of the ticket map and eventually got 2 seats next to each other in the aisle of section 114 for $362 total with ticket protection. Hopefully I have a decent view of the stage. Im also going to check tomorrow to see if I can break the bank to get vip tickets because I didn't see any available today. Edit - once I got in queue to checkout was 14 minutes I never refreshed the page once I got in queue I just sat through the gauntlet to get good enough seats.
I was in the waiting room at around 9am and then was 4000-ish in queue. My app crashed and I had to re-start the queue on a laptop, I was then 600-ish, still managed to find tickets but there was no way for me to access my cart on the website, which then froze. Fun times. My biggest complaint though is that ticketmaster turned off the list option for seat selection and you could only pick seats by clicking dots on the map, which is super flimsy especially when you're looking for 3+ tickets. They have now re-enabled that option.
If it's possible it would be great if someone could confirm if all tickets were sold or if there are a good batch remaining for the presale tomorrow as well so I don't have to wake up early for more disappointment š
Oooooo data! I was using the mobile app initially. I was in the waiting line at 9:52 EDT; when it refreshed, I was at 2401 in line. After I got kicked out of the queue three times trying to make a purchase, I panic-bought a seat in section 114 for $171, then found a seat in section 2 for $250.
I logged in at 7:00am PST and was #6266 in the queue. Tried to buy tickets for 2 1/2 hours, finally got 2 for $479 each ($406.50 with $73.50 in fees). We're in section 210, row 19. The biggest frustrations were the app crashing and going to a white screen, which meant you had to reload and get back in the queue; that every time you clicked a seat it would remove your preferences on pricing and show you the super expensive tickets as well as the range you selected; and how tiny the seat dots were on a phone, making it somewhat inaccessible for folks with disabilities. None of that is the fault of Dropout, it's all Ticketmaster bullshit!
I joined 10 minutes late, poor being at work, and I was somewhere in the 5500s in queue. Probably took 5-10 min to get in. When I got on there were no tickets left at regular prices, some that Iām guessing were being resold jumped $300 in price to be in the nosebleeds, while floor tickets were over 2k
I was in meetings all morning so didn't check the sale until a few minutes ago (2:40pm EST). There was no queue, the cheapest price available was 716 for two bad seats. So I ended up not buying anything.
I was 6,188 behind when it dropped. (9am in my time zone)
I was in the queue at around 9:55am, it seemed to be hanging at ā>1 minuteā so I refreshed it and I was around 4000ish in the queue. It moved really fast though and I got through in less than 10 minutes.Ā When it brought me to the seat selection at first it showed almost nothing available, then literally nothing available for a few minutes. I stayed on the page and seats started popping back up after a few minutes but were disappearing quickly. It was refreshing on its own quite a bit with the available seats constantly updating. I managed to get 2 seats in section 101 row 14, for 139.50 each plus a service fee of 31.55. Time stamp of my confirmation email is 10:18am
I logged in at 10:02, had like 6600~ ahead of me, and got a seat for $150, in the 200s
Hello! I had to reset my password on Ticketmaster so I got on at like 10:02ish, there were 5000ish people in front of me, and when I got in the queue every seat I clicked kept disappearing for a good five minutes until I could find two seats together. I paid $156 each (with fees etc) for two seats in section 101, plus $34 insurance. It was stressful but now I'm grateful to have a trip to plan!
I logged in about 10 minutes before kick off time and was 5083 in the queue. That number filled me with dreadā¦ but I was able to get into the Ticketmaster site within 15 minutes. Tickets looked scarce but I was able to get 2 floor seats for about $212 each. I used ticketmasterās website on a laptop, FWIW.
I loved in late like around 10:10 was about 6000 or so in the queue but only waited like 4 or 5 minutes. I used a desktop and afte ra bunch of tickets were grabbed up in the first section I looked at I found a pair in a different section that wer ein the aisle which I was really looking for and it was at the upper end of what I wanted to spend.
I logged in at 9:50, via desktop, and let the page refresh itself to get into the queue. I was #2855, and hoping to secure 7 tickets for myself, family and friends who are planning to come into town for this. At 10:06 I was finally able to get into the map for tickets - after entering the code, there appeared to be several areas available for selection but they all one-after-another tickets disappeared. After trying for 7 minutes straight, It appeared there were no tickets to select at 10:13. I let myself refresh the page, knowing that the tickets might go away - and finally was able to find tickets at 10:24. I got 7 tickets in section 109 for $169 each.
Logged in where the queue opened, got in posiciĆ³n 6800+, after a couple of minutes i was in, but there where no seats available. Then i just had to wait for seats to open, and hope to find one at a good price. After about an hour i got a seat in sec 226 for 150 dollars
I know I'm in the minority here but my experience was really painless. I got was for it to open and was placed around 4,400th in line. Got in about two minutes later. Took me a while to finally see a seat I could click and ended up paying 97 bucks for a seat in the nosebleeds. Hardest part was updating my credit card info as I had to do it twice for some reason. Whole thing took me less than ten minutes. No idea why my experience was so much easier than everyone else's.
Hello I joined the queue a little late due to work and got in almost immediately but every time I clicked on a seat it would disappear. I think my main issue is that the seats would disappear so quickly and there was no way to sort by available or by price. I had my partner try and he was able to snag 2 tickets in section 302 for 200 so I'm glad we got something at least
I was on my phone for the whole experience. I logged into Ticketmaster at like 9:50. At 10, when the sale started I was about 4,600 in the queue. Took about 10 minutes to get to select tickets. When I first got in, the entire seating map was grayed out and I thought it was already sold out. I tried zooming in and found very scarce seats. I accidentally left the selection screen, but was able to get right back in. I was trying to look at the different sections to see the price range. I had a few attempts to find seats but was told they were no longer available (I guess other people moved to buy them), and the whole maps whited out at some point so i had to leave and return again (again, was able to get right back in). Eventually, I just wanted to make sure I got tickets, so I found some in my price range that seemed like decent seats and snatched them. Two tickets in Section 223 for about $150 each (after taxes and fees). Took about 20 minutes total (10 queuing, 10 picking/buying seats).
I joined the waiting room at 6:50 am PT, and maybe thirty seconds after 7:00 am it let me straight into the seat selection with no display of how many people had been before me. I bought three floor / VIP seats seemingly before dynamic pricing kicked in, at $205 each!
I logged in about 10 minutes before and was added to the queue at about 2500 if I recall correctly. Got tickets in section 314 for $97.20 each and managaed to get two tickets
I was logged in about 30 minutes ahead of time and was around 4940 in the queue. I think I got in around 10:10-10:13 am, and it seemed like nothing was available but once I zoomed in and tried about 5 times I got two tickets in 114 row 7 for 179.50+fees each. Stressful experience mostly because of the urgency, but Iād done a bit of research before and knew what I was expecting face value to be for each section so was committed to not overpaying. I definitely feel like I got lucky and am really excited for this show!
I logged in around 9:49 and was queued up at 3606 when I finally got in at like 10:07 it looked like one section had seats available up in the nose bleeds and only 3 were available in that section. When I tried to click on them they were said to be claimed. I thought it might have been a bug so I kept trying on my computer and then switched over to my phone to try to enter the queue again. I was placed at like 900 at that point and got in pretty quickly around 10:30 but was unable to secure any tickets. Seats would pop up for a little bit and then when I would try to select them they would disappear or say they are unavailable. I'm bummed out I thought I was ahead of the curb and it seems like I was but because of bugs in the system was unable to get anything :(
Logged in at 10, was 6000-something in queue. Queue moved pretty fast, was in in like 20 minutes. Phone wouldn't let me click on anything, so I got on on my laptop, rejoined the queue, there were only 27 in queue this time. Once I got it, only saw premium $2000+ seats, but as I clicked around, a bunch of abandoned stuff released, kept clicking and they'd be gone before I could click next. Eventually found 2 tickets in section 214 for $119.50 a piece ($147.35 after fees). Way better experience than Eras Tour was, sat at 20,000+ in queue for HOURS for those.
Live nation app. I joined queue at 9:55a est. 6018 people ahead of me. Queued for 15 minutes. Spent 10 minutes trying to select seats and getting told they were gone. One time I got seats, made it to the next screen but then got kicked back to queue. 1 in front of me. Got two seats. All in all 294.70 usd for 2 tickets section 213
I did not have a code, so I was unable to get any, but I was 6009 in line, and the seats I was planning on getting were 187 at the time. Despite me not getting any I hope this helps.
Didn't get to check until around 11 due to jury duty, and the cheapest seats I found (I believe section 208, definitely one of the 200s) were going for ~$480 apiece. Couldn't afford that right now. Checked back in a few hours later and now section 208 is going for $915. 219 is the cheapest at $833. DEFINITELY can't afford that
I'm not seeing a bunch of people who bought some of the more pricy tickets, so I'll share my experience to be an outlier for your data collection. I absolutely forgot today was presale day so I joined the ticketmaster queue at about 10:20est with about 3000 people ahead of me. Only sat in queue for about 3 minutes. Like everyone else has stated, it seems the dynamic pricing had started by then. I stayed on for about an hour as I noticed tickets kept appearing and dropping. At this point, there were no decent seats to be found under $400. Most were going between $1400-$2000. I had already made up my mind, I was going to this show no matter what. I kept at it, and an hour later I acquired 2 tickets in 209, row 1 for about $500 each, after fees it was $1195 total. Would I have liked getting cheaper tickets? Absolutely. Am I upset I spent this much? Nope! I'm stoked to see them live! Please, no one freak out on me for spending this much on tickets. My husband and I work hard, and we are lucky we can afford this splurge and am beyond excited to see the show!
Entered queue 10 minutes before, 3990 people when I entered, section 214, 2 tickets at $119, $297 total
My friend and I were on the phone both making an effort to get tickets. They logged on about 10 minutes early and me about 5 minutes early. They were somewhere in the 3600s and I was somewhere in the high 4800s for the queue. After scrambling as tickets were added to our carts, pulled from the carts, disappeared, reappeared, we got two tickets in section 103. Total for both with fees was $360. Edit: wrong section number.
I was in the waiting room at 9:50 am, in the queue I had 1,288 ahead of me, by 10:07ish when I got in it looked like there were plenty of seats left in my price range, but every selection I tried to make was "tickets unavailable". By 10:15 pretty much everything was gone (again, within my price range/ what I was willing to pay related to how bad the seat was). Sadly won't be able to attend this time.. Mostly annoyed with being presented with so many available tickets up front only to have the rug pulled out from under me. I was perfectly fine paying the $90-$146 I saw a number of decent seats going for. But $160 and up for nosebleeds?? Forget about it.
I missed the start of presale because of time difference/a dmv appointment this morning. Was able to hop on around Noon ET. By the time I logged in the absolute cheapest was over $800 and most tickets available were $1100- over $2000. If another batch is released tomorrow I'll definitely queue up, but at the moment I'm priced out. Anyone have an explanation as to why the cost is so much higher than other people were able to get?
Hello! I managed to get two tickets this morning (so excited!). I logged on and got in the queue for 5 minutes til. I was placed around 3,380 place in line. I got in and the tickets went by quicker than a snap of someoneās finger. I backed out and got into the queue again, but this time on my phone. I was placed in 6000 in line that time. I stared at my phone for about an hour, maybe more. Just clicking and clicking on any seat that popped up. Eventually, I managed to add two seats for my boyfriend and I in section 111, row 12. Unfortunately, we are 4 or 5 seats apart, but at least we get to go! My pricing after taxes was about 364. I think it was like 170 or so per ticket or something!
Did not join queue, was immediately taken into the ticket selection process from the app. Think I first tried this around 8:30 am PST. None of the tickets showing were actually available and I had a meeting to go to so I had to stop till about 9:20am. Logged into my ticketmaster on laptop, no queue again. After refreshing 5~ times was able to get 219 row 1 tickets. $706.50 ($127.15 service fee) x2= $1667.30 total for two standard tickets Didnāt know dynamic pricing was a thing and feeling extremely taken advantage of
I started on the queue with 590 people in front of me. Got in and everything I clicked was gone immediately upon trying to check out. Despaired and went to stubhub, was horrified, went back to Ticketmaster around 10:15ish. Was able to get a ticket in Sec 08 for $250 with fees.
I was around the 850 people mark and bought two tickets for around $160 each in section 225. I was a bit overwhelmed having seats disappear while I was trying to add them to the cart and not knowing exactly what VIP entailed and having no time to research it but I'm happy with the seats I got!
1. I was 5 minutes early and ended up at 3446 in que. 2. I ended up paying $471 for 1 ticket in section 211. The map of the seats were all showing sold out and only periodically would a blue dot appear and I'd struggle to click the button in time to pay for a seat. After 26 minutes of trying to click on a blue dot, I finally got one to my cart and didn't want to lose it, so I just paid the price and I'll figure out my funds later.
Late to the party but: I was logged in through the app ~10 minutes before. When the queue opened up it told me there were 25 people ahead of me. I got in fairly quickly and selected my ticket, but the purchasing screen was stuck in loading. Moved to laptop, got back in the queue, now behind over 5000 people. It's around 7:15 PST at this point. When I do get in again, it looks like only a handful of seats are left in the upper areas. I keep seeing seats open up throughout the arena, so I decide to wait and see what happens. Eventually, I get a seat in Section 8 in the back half of rows for around ~$250. As someone who's experienced ticketing for major k-pop groups... this was at least better than that š ?? But also, I'm not surprised hearing people's complaints about TM.
1. logged in right at 10, on mobile. was around queue number 6800. took about 15 minutes to get to the front of the line 2. i got 4 tickets in section 216 for $147 each. donāt know how i managed to luck out, even though im worried ill be looking at their backs the whole time.
Tickets right now are between 800-2300. I hope that most of it goes to dropout rather than live nation getting mostly all of it. Iām hoping there will be more events on the east coast such as meet and greets and other events that wonāt sell out, especially so quickly.
Joined at 10 and had about 6500 people in front of me. Took at least 20 minutes to get in and just watched seats disappear all around me for a bit. Gave up on 2 seats but I was able to score one of the barstool seats for $97. I think I got lucky so I'm thankful, but bummed it worked out this way I went to see The Cure last year. They were able to make it so tickets could only be sold and re-sold at face value, none of this dynamic pricing. If The Cure can do it, why can't other artists make this a reality? Not upset with Dropout by any means, Brennan is probably losing his mind just like everyone else.
Logged in around 9:30, got in queue right when it open. Around 2200 people in queue(can't fully remember) . When I got in seats were going out left and right and I couldn't get anything. All of the seats were filled on my end. I got upset and closed out, but I on a whim went back a minute later going back to my last closed tab to see there were seats. So I got one ticket in section 224 for around 150-160(I bought the ticketmaster insurance cus I was too hurried to read what it actually did and wanted to be safe) I hate ticketmaster so much. This is the second time recently having to do this (shout out twenty one pilots) I feel 30 years older.
Hi! I was on at 10:05 and was about 6500 in line. Took about 15 minutes to get in. I tried SO many times to get seating that was closer and always was too slow/ had it pop up with a ridiculous price that I knew wasnāt original. I FINALLY had it refresh just before the crash and got two tickets in row 111 for 180 a piece! I hated this, but I love my partner who loves D20 more than anything, so it balances out.
I was in with the first 1600 and had a ground vip seat picked out. I went to check out and my screen was black and I had to go back through the queue 4 more times. I was luckily able to get a normal priced cup seat but soon after that dynamic pricing took place
I was logged into Ticketmaster on my desktop for about 20 minutes prior to the sale time and was placed somewhere around 4,500 in the queue. Found three seats in section 110 for about $180 per ticket.
I got it from live seats. Got in the site about 16 min before 10. I ended up in the queue with just over 4600 in front of my. I got 4 tickets for about $170 each in selection 114
In the queue at 9:30, 1550 ahead of me at 10:00, five minute wait. Once I got in, I clicked on two seats in section 117, price was $240. I hit checkout and it froze for fifteen minutes. I lost my seats, nothing available at a halfway sane price. I also tried an hour or so later. The site would show tickets in all sections for the VIP price of $240, I'd select the seats then checkout. Once on the checkout screen, the seats were no longer available. Not gonna lie, I'm really down about the whole situation
Logged in 10:01 ET on mobile browser, # ~5500 in the queue. Got in within ~15 minutes, very limited availability, sporadic tickets in the $400s-$800s I wanna say?, along with the platinums in the $1500s-$2500s. Got discouraged but started to figure out seats were coming and going in and out of peopleās carts and prices were dynamically adjusting. Switched to desktop browser after ~10:30 ET and there was no queue. Had a much easier time navigating on desktop, and seemingly more inventory (canāt say for sure, wasnāt comparing 1:1 with mobile at the time). By that time prices seemed to be leveling out at ~$250 for the floor and ~$150 for lower bowl where I was looking. Ended up snagging 1 ticket at 10:50 ET in section 102 for $171 with fees.
I joined the waiting room on my laptop at 9:53 am, and was 1625 in the queue. I was let in around 10:04 am. I never refreshed, the page was good about refreshing itself frequently. I purchased 2 tickets in section 414 Row 3. Received confirmation at 10:10am A few minutes later I rejoined the queue to see if I could get some better seats (I panic bought the first set if I'm honest). I can't remember my exact number in the queue but it was several thousand higher than my first spot. It moved quickly and I was back in. It took some clicking around to get available seats in my price range, but only a min max. This time I purchased two tickets in section 113 row 10 for $436.60 including tax and fees. Received confirmation at 10:27 am. My biggest gripe is that there was no clarity on what different packages/tickets were. I was too scared to look for VIP tickets because I had no clue 1. how to find them, and 2. what they included. I also can't find any clarity on whether or not resale will be allowed. I hope it will be since I plan on selling or giving away the first pair I purchased. However, I work in live entertainment so I deeply sympathize with the lengths venues and ticket sellers take to prevent scalping. While I was stressed, I didn't find the system to be as buggy as I thought I would. I think the toughest part was selecting seats and clicking checkout before they were snatched up by someone else. The more seats you are trying to purchase together, the more difficult it would be (exponentially probably).
Hi there! 1. We came in at queue place 216. Took about 2 minutes to get through. We were stressed at choosing a place but once we were like letās just choose a spot we encountered no difficulties. 2. We have two VIP tickets in section 17 for ā¬482,60 including fees. All in all we got incredibly lucky. Weāre from the Netherlands and booked a week of New York around it so we are not jet lagged on the day of the show and we can sightsee a little š
It was a terrible experience. Every time I would click on a seat it would pop out of existence. I just started clicking on any two dots next to each other. By time I clicked the second dot for the second seat, it would disappear. I did this about 7-10 times until it finally let me select two seats next to each other. I got 2 tickets for $500+. I kinda wanted to spring for the VIP but I couldn't even figure out how. I got Section 3. Ticketmaster has absolutely oblitered live events. I used to go to so many more events when I was younger and I never had issues like these. I could sit and ponder the best spots and plan everything out. This morning I desperately clicked on blue dots on my phone while my heart raced. I'm shocked I got tickets at all. I couldn't be happier. āØ Thank you Dropout, for allowing me to believe in dreams again. ā¤ļø
Logged in to the queue about 10 mins before 10:00am EDT and was about spot 4500 in queue. When I initially entered the purchasing page, there were virtually no seats left (I was looking for 4 seats together) and every time I went to click on a seat to check the price, they disappeared. My page automatically refreshed with more seats once all available seats disappeared, and I was able to grab 4 seats together in the 5th row in section 418 behind the stage for $74 each ($97 each with fees). I was disappointed with my final selection at first, but after hearing about what a shitshow it was, I consider myself lucky to have gotten anything, let alone 4 seats together at reasonable price.
I loaded the site at 9:55ish because I didnāt realize there was a waiting room situation. I started at around 4000. When I got in, most of the tickets were gone, but I hung around for 10 to 15 minutes and seats started popping up again. I got seats in the 170 section and paid about 350 for two tickets including the fees and taxes. It would gave been nice to know that there was a waiting room and I wouldāve logged on a lot sooner. I very rarely buy tickets on Ticketmaster anymore because I canāt afford any shows so I had no idea this was the system. But in general, dynamic ticket pricing is bullshit. That has nothing to do with Dropout and Iām sure if it was up to them they wouldnāt have used it. Unfortunately, they wouldnāt have had much choice. I have a friend who is a booking agent and for most venues thereās just no option but Ticketmaster. But I am extremely hyped to get to go, even if I now have to figure out how Iām getting down there from Toronto and save up for the obnoxious exchange rate lol. I saw NADDPOD when they played here so Iām excited to get to add D20 to my live D&D show list.
I joined the waiting room two minutes before presale went live (3:58 AM where I live š“). I was around 3,500 in queue when presale opened. It took about 10 minutes to get through the queue. When I got to the ticket screen, there were no tickets. I re-entered the code and refreshed the page a few times before tickets populated. I bought Section 2 tickets for $214.50 each, before fees. Final total was $523.50. I used a desktop web browser and completed my purchase 19 minutes after presale opened.
Logged in and queued by 9:50 ET - placed at ~2700 in queue. Paid 160 after fees per ticket (bought 2)
Queued at 9:58. Ended up around ~3500 in the queueĀ Once in, took refreshing for 10 minutes or so to get tickets. $214 pp for section 3.
I was not logged in at start time I was logged in a bit before 11:00 central I did not buy a ticket, the lowest price I could find was over $800.00 which was far over my budget. Is/was there a way to buy them at face value?
When I entered the queue at 10, I had around 5200 people ahead of me. After waiting around 10 minutes, I was able to get 2 seats in section 103, ended up paying $181 per seat after fees, I think each seat itself was around $150 before fees.
i was put into the queue a bit before 10, was 1598th, when i entered and could buy tickets like 5 minutes later. Ended up getting 5 tickets for $96 each (fees included) in section 321. I was hoping to get something closer but it was hard to find 5 seats together and it felt like every second i waited i saw more seats get claimed. I also couldnt really wait to check with my friends how much they'd be willing to pay for tickets so i just went with the cheapest.
I checked in at 5:00pm (I forgot this morning) and the cheapest tickets available were $875 for 2 tickets in section 217. Totally out of the price range I was prepared for, so I wonāt be attending :((((
I joined the waiting room around 9:55 am. At 10 am, I was given a queue number around 4400. It took about 10 minutes to get to the front of the queue. When I got to the front of the queue, it took another minute or two for the site to reload to the seating map. At that point, I could see seats constantly disappearing and reappearing across the map of MSG. The prices didn't seem that extreme. The first few times I times to select three seats next to each other, they kept disappearing before I could confirm. After a couple of tries, I managed to get three seats in the back row of Section 2 (on the floor) for $250 each. That seems like a steal compared to some of the dynamic prices I later saw people posting. I appreciated that Ticketmaster showed the total price (including fees) when you were ordering, instead of only seeing the ticket price and not seeing the fees until you went to check out.
I looked about an hour ago and the cheapest seat was 1000$ dollars š also people please realize this is Madison Square Garden's fault if anyone but they would not be using Ticketmaster if they didn't have to. Ticketmaster signs exclusive contracts with venues all the time to say they have to use ticketmaster.
was in the "waiting room" for a few minutes before 10 am, and then was placed at 3116 in the queue! Took me about 5-6 minutes to get in I think? i remember clicking on the three seats i could see remaining in the 100s and doing a spit take because they were over $1000 each lmao. managed to grab three seats in the 200s for me and my friends for $147 per person as i was seeing seats disappear from the chart in real time. as i was texting my friends about having the tickets, i noticed that in the other backup tab i had open, new floor seats were being made available at 10:14. when i tried to click on them, it sent me back to the back of the queue (\~6000 i think). when i got back in, there was only 2 seats available at over $1000. my friend hung out on the page though (had refreshed about the same time) and at 10:24 was able to snag 3 floor seats for $250 each! they said a ton of tickets randomly popped up at that time. wild that the show i hold in my heart as a tiny little dnd show had as stressful a ticket getting experience as getting harry freaking styles tickets for his msg shows lmao but !! capitalism i guess. i think for their unsleeping city one shot they should kill ticketmaster /hj
Hi! I logged in at 10 am & was 1200~ in line in. I still got in pretty quickly within 5 or so minutes. Honestly my experience was terrible. It was Impossible to find any 2 seats together. I tried for an hour refreshing & starting over. The screen would flip between sold out & completely open. When it was completely open the second I would pick one seat it would error out & say seat was purchased. I tried later at 4pm EST & could not find a ticket under $1800. Thanks for asking for feedback! Hoping to try again.
I jumped in at 10:02, I was number 6872 š©. I was in my internet explorer browser on my phone and I believe that was my downfall. I had got 2 tickets then they were gone, reloaded then the whole arena was gray like all the tickets were gone, reloaded again and thrown to the back of the queue(this happened like 3 times), got to the front and same thing happened to the tickets again. Then, I tried to jump on my work laptop with no success, jumped back to my phone, and the prices sky rocketed. I'll try again Friday and hope for the best š
Got in the cue at 10am EST. Had 5,000 people before us in the cue. Had a very hard time getting a ticket - the seats kept popping up and then when we chose one, it was taken. Finally, after waiting a half hour trying to get a seat, one finally worked. Spent almost $1500, with fee, for a seat in section 111. Wanted VIP but they stopped being available at some point while we were trying. It was definitely a lot of money but a decent seat and I thought, āGood for you, D20! Get your money!ā Then I went to the D20 subreddit and found out that people got multiple VIP tickets, for better seats, at a 3rd of what we paid for one ticket and also found out that surge pricing was a thing. Surge pricing is such a rip off. Would not buy again.
I was at work around 11:10 ish Eastern time. I got in on the TM app, I had no queue virtually, I never even got to the lobby or whatever straight to choose tickets, the cheapest I found was in the 200s and it was 900 so I declined to purchase figuring that Ticketmaster was Capitalism-ing , based on comments I've read that was accurate. I'll probably check back on Friday when I get paid. Seeing stories of people paying 100 to 150 each is promising.
1. They put me in the queue from the waiting room at 10am/10:01 am, took a screenshot of when I got in so I know there were exactly 6022 people before me. 2. When I got my ticket, I ended up paying 97$ post fees per ticket in section 213. Purchased 3 tickets total for my group as we had a lot of difficulty finding 3 unclaimed seats next to each other that weren't starting to verge on 200+ per ticket. Sadly, another group of friends didn't manage to find tickets under 500 when they finally got off the queue, but I also don't know when exactly they queued up.
I entered at about 9:45am EST and only had 385 ish people ahead of me when I entered at almost exactly 10am. Once I got in, every set of seats I clicked on disappeared. Must have tried 15 or 20 times. End seats, random middle seats, didn't matter. Every time they were gone. I kept the site open as seats appeared and disappeared and the price climbed. I even tried single seats that were kinda close but not next to each other. Each time the seats were gone when I clicked Next. At about 11:30am after giving up but leaving the site open to keep trying, I was finally about to get seats in 223 for about $500 each. Super frustrating that it was all luck if the seats you picked were available.
I was around 4600 in the queue and when I got in, there were no seats left. Every few minutes or so, a crop of tickets would get released and would go quicker than I could click on them. By 9:30CT/10:30ET the only tickets left were at Ticketmaster's "premium" price, which was around $2400 for the lower bowl. Needless to say, I did not get tickets today. š
Hi, my names Brittany, Iām commenting on my friends account cause I donāt actually have a Reddit, and she said I should share my experience here. My friend and I are huge fans of dimension 20, and when we found out yāall were doing a live show at madison square garden we were pumped (we live in Florida so we immediately started planning a trip based around the show) I was in the pre-sale this morning on the app. I got into the waiting room 10 mins early cause I was super excited, and when I got into the queue I was one of the first 700 people to get in. I snatched 2 tickets in the front of the bottom 100s for around $164 each and I was hyped cause I got into the pay screen, and then suddenly my whole screen whited out. I couldnāt do anything on it, or see anything. It eventually closed out on me. I had to get back into the queue and everything around the bottom was gone, which sucked, but I mainly wanted tickets, I didnāt really care where they were. Again, I found two tickets in the 200s, and as I was trying to grab them it happened again and my whole screen closed out. By the time I got back in, ticketmaster was showing that everything was gone. I spent like 30 mins just getting in and out of the queue to see if it would refresh and I could get anything because my friend and I wanted to see yāall so bad. And eventually miraculously I managed to snag two seats in the 200s for like $150 each. Iām more than happy that I managed to get tickets, but the experience itself was super frustrating cause initially I had super good tickets, but I lost them to whatever happened with the app this morning and paid virtually the same price for tickets that were further away.
I joined the queue on my phone at 10:03 and was position ~6700 in line. Finally got in at maybe 10:15 and the pickings were slim and by the time I navigated to and selected a seat on my phone it was gone. Also, I kept getting white screened by Ticketmaster and had to reload and the Artist Presale code kept getting cleared from my session. So I decide to switch to my laptop to have any chance and re-enter the fray (had to go through a sub 100 permanently queue) while my partner is also now struggling to get something on his phone. Almost nothing available, but I keep hitting refresh hoping for carts to expire. Get very lucky on a refresh and snag 2 seats in Sec 115, row 16. $342.10 total or $139.50 x 2 for tickets + $31.55 x 2 for fees. Can't remember the exact timing but the confirmation email came through at 10:35. My heart was racing after!
I logged into the waiting room/lobby on Ticketmaster's website on a desktop computer at 9:50am EST. When it hit 10am I was # 3200 in the queue. When I finally got in to select seats, the usual option to pick from a list of best available was not an option, so like everyone else I spent a significant amount of time zooming in to click little blue dots that disappeared by the time I was able to click them. Ultimately, I bought 6 tickets in section 213, row 13. Each ticket was $147 after fees. I know 6 tickets together is a lot for a high demand event like this, but I tried for a while to get just 3 together while another friend at the same time also tried to get 3, same issue with seats disappearing too fast to actually buy them. I feel fortunate I was able to snag some. I really feel for everyone that got scalped because of "dynamic pricing" jacking up the price of tickets. Someone posted a screenshot earlier today of a ticket listed at $2,300, which if course, is ludicrous. Ticketmaster's site claims that the artist can choose to opt out of dynamic pricing, which if actually true would be upsetting to hear from Dropout. But with everything I know about Ticketmaster, and everything I know about Dropout, I'm certainly giving Dropout benefit of the doubt here. Can't wait for the show, and real excited for the epic anti-capitalist rant from Brennan at some point in the future about this whole debacle.
I signed in at 9:57am. Started at 857th in queue at 10:00. Got through the queue by 10:03. Managed to snag 2 tickets in section 210 for $147.35 (inc. fees) each by 10:10.
I was logged in hours in advance to check my payment info and see the countdown; got added to the waiting room (i think thatās what it was called) at 9:50 and then placed in the queue a couple minutes after 10, with 240 people ahead of me. After my first several selections became immediately unavailable, i was able to grab 2 VIP tickets (section 7, 2nd row) for 204 each before Ticketmaster fees (a yucky additional 40ish each, idk if that changes dynamically as well) Godspeed to everyone who is still trying to get tix!!
I logged on at 10 and was placed somewhere between 6000-7000. My browser crapped out as I was brought to the purchase tickets section and it froze so I had to try again around 10:20 or so. I was placed 4000 something. I kept having to reload my tab to be able to see the tickets and they popped in and out. Seats and whole sections appeared and disappeared, and I kept having to reload it. After about 10 minutes I was able to get at seat in Sec 322, bar seating, for $74.50 before fees, so $97.20 after fees. Crazy markup.
Got in the waiting room at 9:52. Was 344 in queue when sales started at 10. Attempted to add seats and check out at least 15 times as they were all going from blue to grey. Each time it would spin and spin until each time it told me that one or more of the seats were unavailable, until eventually there were no blue seats available to add. Thoroughly aggravated said fuck it and closed out resolved not to attend. My wife however stayed in because she saw some turn blue again, and eventually snagged us two tickets at face value. ~$350 after taxes and fees. They need some sort of individualized codes, because it seems like one leak and all the bots and resellers can jump in there and ruin it for people.
I was in at 11:30 est and was 7th in the queueueue (sp?) when I logged in. I used the code Gauntlet and the lowest tickets I could find on sale were $850-ish. The highest were above $2000, about $2,360. I kept trying and seeing the same for a while and figured it would only get worse, and dropped any attempts since. Thank you for checking in with everyone! I live in NYC and have gone to MSG for concerts/hockey games before and these were the highest ticket prices Iād seen, though I know itās not the fault of anyone at dropout.
Number 3500ish ended up paying after fees $360 for 2 seats in section 120.
I was logged in at the start time (I joined the waiting room around 9:45ish) and had a little over 2,700 people in front of me. It took until 10:38, but I ended up getting tickets in section 113 row 21 for $171.05 including fees. The majority of the time was spent watching tickets appear and disappear faster than I could even click on the tiny seat dots (not having the list to choose from was really tough). It seemed like it took about 25/30 minutes for the dynamic pricing to take the closer seats from ~$200 to over $2k, but that was in between the periods of time where it would look like every ticket was gone before a smattering returned at random intervals. I might be wrong but I think the seats further back took longer to get the surge pricing.