Dang I was looking in Nashville. It was $400+ for the worst seats. Nothing less. Not sure why the delta. It was in the huge stadium.
Paul McCartney is 4 digits but playing in a 4500 person facility. At Wake the other year - small stadium - I had two extra seats. Discounted on Ticketmaster. No takers. Had to eat them.
Same with eagles in Nash. Two extra seats. Did sell but at the reduced ‘market’ price Ticketmaster set.
Crazy how city by city the dynamics are different.
I think people were still nervous in early 22. I also looked at Nashville and couldn’t find a decent price ticket.
Prices seem amazingly variable. We were able, with another couple, to get 4 tix to McCartney during the presale. That purchase on ticketmaster was crazy!
2 years ago I saw Paul McCartney at Fenway park. His tickets on Ticketmaster had dynamic pricing and the cheap seats were 600 and over 1k for decent tickets. We managed to buy our tickets from the Red Sox ticket office for $160. Ticketmaster is such a scam.
I don’t think our tix were that much - it’s just that they wouldn’t sell. We only ate one seat - my wife didn’t want to drive 8 hours but did so we used 3 seats.
The Eagles - we snagged four for two of us. Then they added a show.
Can’t win for trying 
Coldplay over $400 - in a football stadium - seems crazy.
I just bought Rod Stewart at the ampitheater - was $95 for the grass seats. Now $49.
The Doobies were over $80. Live Nation added them to the $30 deal.
Styx cancelled a bunch of shows - with REO and Don Felder - likely low ticket sales. But they tour incessantly so I get that.
Crazy - I thought I would be first in line on that pre-sale and never got the code, neither did my son, neither of us ever got the code to order presale. Then we thought we would be first to order when they opened up public sale and all tix were gone in 7 minutes, all of them. However, they started popping up at 4x the mid price on StubHub and Ticketmaster. How you got in and neither of us did is beyond me - you have special powers Jym626.
I noticed that when the McCartney site said to register with an email, that was not actually correct. You had to scroll down on the page to the specific concert date you wanted to preregister for and do it THERE (with mail and cell). My friend, who was the one who actually scored the tix, first made that mistake, so I sent her the link to the correct place to pre-register. And as I said, she was able to get a lower number when we were int eh waiting room, and she got the tix. We ended up with nosebleed seats, but in the 5th row. I am looking on seat geek right now, and for a row 2 behind ours, the total price is very, very close to what we paid. Lemme know if you want the info
Oh wow, I wonder how many didn’t see that? Yes, if you don’t mind sending me a message that would be great - I’ll give it a shot and see if it’s affordable (relatively speaking!)
I closed the link, but will look again. Which show are you considering? It was easily findable in seatgeek.
Was trying to get Sunday but will take Monday if that’s all available.
Search each show in the various ticket reselling sites…stubhub is the biggest, but ticketmaster often has some if they were the initial purveyor of the tickets, also seatgeek, vivid seats, axs.
a friend of mine who has season tickets to a baseball game and resells through, I think StubHub says that the fees differ for each of the vendors (Ticketmaster, StubHub, seat geek, etc.) so even if you see the prices looking better on their site and they claim that fees are included you need to double check
Picked up three decent seats on SeatGeek that were about the same price as the publc sale but better seats so guessing these are brokers who got in on the presale and are reselling. Now, got to back over the budget for the remaining 2025!
My brother and sister flew to Milan to see Springsteen. He got 4 tickets from Stubhub for the floor. The tickets were ~1500 each. Stubhub kept on delaying on delivering the tickets to him. When he finally got them they were nosebleed tickets. He said the sound/video system at the Milan stadium was horrible. They couldn’t hear or see much.
Stubhub said they were allowed to substitute tickets for equal or better seats. They clearly were not better seats. My brother filed a claim with AmEx Platinum. He got all of his money back in few days, but he didn’t get his travel, time and experience back.
I would use a good credit card with protections when buying from those re-sellers.
Good advice. I also always use my AMEX Platinum for tickets. So far, I’ve never had an issue 
Dynamic pricing and fees suck. I live in an area where I often look at several different city options when deciding where to see someone. The same artist’s ticket prices can have huge variations at different venues. I don’t attend many concerts because I just can’t stomach the prices at any of them most of the time. We do ride public transport when possible so we’re not tacking tolls and parking on top of it, which also helps. And we never buy refreshments at the venue. But dang, I miss the days of my youth when it comes to concerts.
I wanted to take my daughter to Red Rocks (tonight) while she was here. Tonight is Killer Queen, a Queen cover band and Tickets were ‘only’ $70. She doesn’t LIKE Queen! We could have gone to the Symphony there last night, but tickets were at least $175.
Oh for the days when Red Rocks tickets for James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet, Jerry Jeff Walker and the best concert ever Huey Lewis and the News with the Tower of Power brass were $10 and we could bringing picnics smuggle in quite a bit of alcohol.
You are welcome 
The prices were very close to what we paid the day of the presale
I haven’t bought concert tickets. When I was in college and grad school, my boyfriends would buy them and as they were for concerts on college campus, I believe prices were reasonable. We saw Bob Marley several times as well as Kenny Rankin (a flutist). They were good and venues were cozy and nice. They bought on original site and not from resellers.
I have not been to huge stadium extravaganzas, though my relatives attend them. My relatives have bought from various places—resellers and sometimes original site. The idea of being in a huge crowd has never appealed to me. I hate people re-selling and making huge profits (including the middleman industry).
Ok, perhaps these performers weren’t top billing by the time we went, but over the last 25 years, we’ve been able to attend all the following outdoor concerts for FREE!
• Doobie Brothers
• Kansas
• Three Dog Night
• Yes
• Kenny Loggins