Paperless Ticketing Leaves John Mayer Fans in the cold

Paperless Ticketing Leaves John Mayer Fans in the cold outside Madison Square Garden

fans who cannot  travel to the show can not  give the tickets to thier friends in NYC who would love to go to the show, or be able sell sell something they have bought, that they no longer need.

That should be the headline in todays New York Post

Here are the facts from a first hand account

Ticketmaster sold paperless tickets to John Mayer and also advertised that fans could sell them for face value only to other fans if you can not go, removing some of the risk of buyingt ickets to a show months away where a persons plans may change. The official Ticketmaster Paperless Ticking Exchange even 24 hours before tonight's ( Friday night show) Ticketmaster was advertising the paperless tickets and including a link to  sell them for face value, if you could not attend. Again this reenforces the indea that if you can not go you can sell them to another fan

The following is copied from ticketmaster

Paperless TicketExchange
Paperless TicketExchange is the safe and secure place for buying and selling tickets online. In order to enter the event, you will need the credit card used to purchase the tickets along with a corresponding photo ID. Paperless tickets are non-transferable, however fans unable to attend the event may have an opportunity to post their tickets for sale on TicketExchange for up to 20 percent above face value price, where TicketExchange is made available.
Buy/Sell Paperless Tickets! »

Here are the little dirty secrets Ticketmaster does not tell you

Ticketmaster remove the paperless ticketing exchange when the promoter is stuck with tickets,When the promoter needs to sell tickets that were held back in the final hours before the showtime, this way the promoter is not competing with fans trying to resell tickets. The promoter already has that fans money



The Box office and promoter have your money and they do not care if you go to the concert.

Ticketmaster will place you in a loop of customer service people who will sell they are sorry but you are screwed

Ticketmaster told people that they should spend more money and buy ticket insurance that Ticketmaster sells and then place a claim if you can not go.

Thursday Ticketmaster told fans to call Mondail Ticket Insurance company and buy insurance but make sure you do it 24 hours before the show and do not tell them that your flight might cancel, a sneaky way to get a company other than the performer to pay for the tickets that wont be used

Why does this matter, because fans and friends are stuck for tickets because one person in the party can not get to MSG for th show and the rest of the ticket buyers in the group of 4 people then have to find tickets and pay for more tickets to see John Mayer/

So John Mayer, the promoter, and Ticketmaster get to double dip on fans when something comes up and plans change, if the tickets were emailed or at least if the advertised Ticketmaster Paperless ticketing exchange worked. John Mayers paperless ticketing is just a way to make sure once tickets are sold that fans can not trade or sell them.

Yankee Stadium Boxing Match tickets Cotto Vs. Foreman

Yankee Stadium Boxing Match tickets Cotto Vs. Foreman tickets onsale soon at http://www.tixx.com

Yuri Foreman's junior middleweight title defense against Miguel Cotto at the opulent ballpark. It wasn't clear what accommodations were made, although the bar mitzvah for Scott Ballan is still scheduled.

Dave Matthews tickets New York go to www.Tixx.com

The New York Mets and Live Nation today announced that the Dave Matthews Band will perform at Citi Field Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 17 to view Dave Matthews tickets click here

Dave Matthews Band Tixx.com

Dave Matthews Band to perform at Citi Field shea stadium Friday, July 16 & Saturday, July 17
General public sale starts Friday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m.
Purchase Dave Matthews Tickets at Tixx.com click here

NFL no longer Super bowl bound Jets cut Season ticket prices

The New York Jets lowered the price of tickets and seat licenses on about 6,400 lower level seats near the goal line as the National Football League team attempts to sell out its new stadium in advance of the 2010 season.

Dallas Cowboy PSL and Ticket prices

Dallas Cowboy PSL and Ticket prices
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I’m not really sure why there hasn’t been more chatter about the exorbitant prices that Jerry Jones is charging for both the PSL’s and tickets but I am going to examine both in this blog.

Let’s first look at the PSL’s. The Cowboy’s wanted me to “invest” $16,000 per PSL for tickets I used to own at Texas Stadium. So let’s do the quick math here…I owned 6 tickets together that used to be on the 30ydline. Now I was being offered 6 tickets together on the 20 ydline at a PSL price of $16,000. 6x$16,000=$96,000. I repeat $96,000! This will give me the opportunity each year to pay $340.00 more per ticket to go watch the Cowboy’s play…oh boy! Now, I don’t know about you but I used to think that the word “investment” meant that there would be a return on the money I was investing. Jerry’s way is that it’s only giving me the opportunity to spend more money for his investment! If anyone were smart enough to do the math prior to purchasing the PSL’s, they would have realized that by earning 5% on $96,000, they would have made $4800. With that $4800 they could have taken that money and picked the games they really wanted to go to, buy the best tickets there and not be obligated to the Cowboys to pay $340 per game for the whole season. In addition, they wouldn’t be obligated to pay $340 per ticket for preseason games. Can you imagine owning 6 tickets for preseason games…that’s a cost of $2040 per game….ouch! In case you didn’t know this tidbit, there are PSL’s for $35,000 and $50,000….do the math on that investment!

Let’s talk a little about the face value on the club seats which are $340. When I had my initial meeting with my used car salesman…I mean sales representative, I asked how the Cowboy’s had determined their pricing and he replied “you guys get it, so why shouldn’t we?.” The Cowboy’s automatically assumed because they saw tickets being listed on the internet that all of the tickets were actually being sold for those prices. I replied, that we would be lucky to get that price for one or two games a year, depending on the schedule and how well the Cowboy’s were playing at the time. The Cowboy’s were so worried that they were leaving money on the table that they thought that all fans would want to pay $340 to go to a game because brokers were getting it. I had to explain to my representative that the people who are buying tickets on the secondary market are paying that price because they’re only going to select games and they can afford to buy one or two games at those prices. More importantly, the tickets that are being sold on the secondary market are only a fraction of what the primary seller originally sold. What does this mean? More math…sorry! If the Cowboys sell 70,000 tickets for a game and out of these tickets 5% reach the secondary market, we are only talking about 3500 tickets. These tickets are what owners seemed to be so concerned about! So instead of making sure that games stay affordable for the fans that are willing to buy season tickets, they decide to alienate all the fans with these ridiculous face values and that’s in addition to the already crazy PSL prices!

Once again common sense seems to tell me, if the Cowboy’s are going to charge you an incredible amount of money for the PSL’s, wouldn’t it be in their best interest to sell the season tickets at a reasonable price?

I guess Jerry wants to have his cake and eat it too!

One last note, I was at the Cowboy preseason game the other night and sat in section 335 row 13 (this is a$50,000 PSL) which I bought for $40 a ticket out in front of the stadium and I will tell you that it’s like sitting in the upper deck of most other stadiums….it’s way up there! We wound up watching the majority of the game on the Texas sized Jerrytron that actually becomes quite distracting after a while. I guess I’ll be watching the rest of the season on my big screen HDTV at home….the beer is a lot cheaper!

TKTS South Street Seaport and TKTS Downtown Brooklyn

Monday, February 1, 2010
Live performance events available today at
TKTS South Street Seaport and TKTS Downtown Brooklyn

Matinee tickets are only sold on the day before the performance at TKTS SEAPORT and TKTS DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN.

The appearance of any show in this listing does not guarantee tickets will be available for TODAY'S performance, since changes in ticket availability occur continuously throughout the day as cooperating theatres supply or withdraw tickets depending on box-office demand. Ticket availability and show times are subject to change. Please refer to the board at the front of the TKTS booth for the latest information.


SHOWS @ 8:00PM

CHICAGO
IN THE HEIGHTS
MAMMA MIA!
MARY POPPINS (7:00 PM)
NEXT TO NORMAL
ROCK OF AGES



SHOWS @ 8:00PM

AVENUE Q - 40%
BLACK ANGELS OVER TUSKEGEE
HYPNO MAGIK
MONDAY NIGHT MAGIC
NEWSICAL THE MUSICAL
PERFECT CRIME - 30%
THE FANTASTICKS
SMUDGE (7:00 PM)


HOURS SOUTH STREET SEAPORT:
(At the corner of Front and John Streets, near the rear of the Resnick / Prudential Building at 199 Water Street.)

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Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Sunday: Closed