<p>There are a lot of online sites where you can get concert tickets before they officially go on sale on Ticketmaster. The prices seem to be inflated. Has anyone ever used any of these sites? … One is TicketsNow.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand how the tickets are available for sale before they’re actually available for sale. (Does that make sense?)</p>
<p>There are tickets that I’d really like to get … any help with reputable sites would be appreciated.</p>
<p>[Tickets</a> at StubHub! Where Fans Buy and Sell Tickets](<a href=“http://www.stubhub.com/]Tickets”>http://www.stubhub.com/) haven’t used it, but I think it’s legit</p>
<p>“I don’t really understand how the tickets are available for sale before they’re actually available for sale.”</p>
<p>The band, the manager, the venue, etc. are given some tickets. Some band members, managers, etc. don’t want or need the tickets for a particular city, so they sell them.</p>
<p>Tickermaster runs their own resale operation. Also some shows have special fan sections where you get to go to the band’s meet and greet, get some SWAG and seats in the first 10 rows. For a normal $150/ticket show these deals run around $550 each. They are at Iloveallaccess.com for the Fleetwod Mac shows.</p>
<p>[Fleetwood</a> Mac](<a href=“http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/]Fleetwood”>http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/)</p>
<p>Couple of ideas</p>
<p>I go to alot of concerts and ebay is a great way to get good seats for concerts. Stubhub I find to be too expensive. The other way to get good seats is to be able to participate in online presale. This is when members of the fan club or radio station members get first crack at the tickets. You can join these clubs and they will send you the presale info by e-mail. The other option is if you know of a concert that is coming up then you know that there most likely will be a pre-sale. You can go to web-sites that will sell you the password for the pre-sale for around $5. I have done this a couple of times and it has worked. Google pre-sale concert passwords and some websites will come up. Still the best luck I have had for good seats is Ebay. I have seen Coldplay, Snow Patrol, The Shins, Dave Matthews and others this way and have never been burned. Not like the old days when you would get to the ticketmaster at Sears a couple of hours before the tickets went on sale.</p>
<p>I have used stubhub and brown paper tickets- but the only way I have bought tickets ahead of time is by joining the website or fanclub of the musician.</p>
<p>Pearl Jam tickets- are the same price for all seats but they do reserve areas for the fan club- ( they are also more like $30, and they testified before congress to complain about all the fees ticketmaster adds- they even boycotted ticketmaster venues for a while)</p>
<p>Throughly check out the venue before you bid on seats, as there may be some that have blocked sightlines & you can’t tell from the seating chart.</p>
<p>some tickets are really hard to get.
For example- last spring I went to see Eddie Vedder in his first solo tour.
Vancouver BC was the closest to me- and in the first leg, he had only about 7 or maybe 8 shows. ( Pearl Jam fanclub members had first crack- but still very small venues & we didn’t get all the seats- some were given away to radio stations etc)</p>
<p>Everyone is trying to get seats at the same time- you get online- and all the sites are listed- however only some of them have the buy ticket icon.
because the server gets overloaded, some people have the experience of putting the tickets in the shopping cart- trying to pay for it- then getting a message that it didn’t go through. Going back and finding that the venue they wanted tickets for , isn’t available.</p>
<p>However if you keep trying, they may reappear.
I tried to get tickets for Vancouver- but the only place I was able to get tickets was Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>I went to CA and had a great time- but I also found out after that others in the fan club had extra Vancouver tickets that they were trying to get rid of.</p>
<p>Plus- it was worth it to go through fan club, because at least I got some & many who tried to go through Ticketmaster weren’t able to get any at all.</p>
<p>I don’t know why or how but recently one my kids was able to buy metallica tixs early using my amex card (I was paid back!) and a coworker bought Fleetwood Mac a day early because he had an amex.</p>
<p>Amex does have early sales but they had nothing in the first 20 rows. They were saved for the regular sale and premium priced fanclub deals like I mentioned.</p>