[Craig]

Good afternoon everyone, My name is Craig im 21 years old and been listening to Michael for the last 4 years.

The reason im posting this is to see if anyone feels the same way i do.

I have recently tried to purchase tickets for Michael's latest tour in my home town of london. I have sat on Pre-sale phone lines and internet sites to of no avail as soon as they open 9am, i have tried general sale tickets to any arena's but can not get a seat that is any closer than upper tier row z **##!!?" i have been searching the internet and have come across a wide variety of websites that are selling tickets at double the face value and more for example 2 tickets block a2 row g £195 each plus £39 handling charges. which has infuriated me and just wanted to know if any one else is having this problem


Thanks for taking the time to read

Craig

[maryah]

Craig, on 30 October 2009 - 03:23 PM, said:

Good afternoon everyone, My name is Craig im 21 years old and been listening to Michael for the last 4 years.

The reason im posting this is to see if anyone feels the same way i do.

I have recently tried to purchase tickets for Michael's latest tour in my home town of london. I have sat on Pre-sale phone lines and internet sites to of no avail as soon as they open 9am, i have tried general sale tickets to any arena's but can not get a seat that is any closer than upper tier row z **##!!?" i have been searching the internet and have come across a wide variety of websites that are selling tickets at double the face value and more for example 2 tickets block a2 row g £195 each plus £39 handling charges. which has infuriated me and just wanted to know if any one else is having this problem


Thanks for taking the time to read

Craig

Yes I have had the same problem was on the internet at 8.55am all ready to go but could not get anything decent at all i am sure that we are not the only ones either. How on earth these people get hold of the tickets I do not know but this happens time and time again when I have tried to buy tickets for other artists. It is surely time that something is done to stop this.

Thanks for reading ,
Mary A H

[Craig]

They say they are clamping down on ticket touting outside the venues, but what about all this touting that goes on online. Im gutted as The guy from ticket master told me last night that pretty much all the tickets for Michael Buble where already sold and this was even before general sale!!!

[SADerani]

Craig, on 30 October 2009 - 03:23 PM, said:

Good afternoon everyone, My name is Craig im 21 years old and been listening to Michael for the last 4 years.

The reason im posting this is to see if anyone feels the same way i do.

I have recently tried to purchase tickets for Michael's latest tour in my home town of london. I have sat on Pre-sale phone lines and internet sites to of no avail as soon as they open 9am, i have tried general sale tickets to any arena's but can not get a seat that is any closer than upper tier row z **##!!?" i have been searching the internet and have come across a wide variety of websites that are selling tickets at double the face value and more for example 2 tickets block a2 row g £195 each plus £39 handling charges. which has infuriated me and just wanted to know if any one else is having this problem


Thanks for taking the time to read

Craig

I had the same problem. Had access to the O2 pre sale of Wednesday which only had tiered seating, the LiveNation one on Thursday which was the same, and since 9am this morning the venue (Glasgow SECC) was permanently engaged and could not get anything other than single seats on Ticketmaster. I've been going to see his concerts since he started and appreciate that he is getting more popular so it will be harder to get tickets, but like you have found various websites now selling tickets at highly inflated prices, which I refuse to pay, given that even the face value of the tickets is double what I have paid previously!

[Leley]

I too have had problems I tryed to get tickets for glasgow only to be told they were sold out in 10mins!

im so sad right now I wont be able to see Michael in concert now the prices are crazy money


love ans light Lesleyanne xxx

[Craig]

And i love the way these websites have put please ignore the face value of the tickets, which is an utter joke

[TheT]

Still tickets at Birmingham NEC if anyones interested, and if you want to see him that much you'll grab them

http://www.necgroup.co.uk/

[Leley]

Craig, on 30 October 2009 - 03:44 PM, said:

They say they are clamping down on ticket touting outside the venues, but what about all this touting that goes on online. Im gutted as The guy from ticket master told me last night that pretty much all the tickets for Michael Buble where already sold and this was even before general sale!!!

that upsets me because we have waited for today to try and get our tickets and cant and then wen we try diffrent websites the price has more than doubled surley his promoters can do something about this?

love and light

Lesleyanne xxx

[Jane2006]

i too am upset. its one things the prices are so much higher this time around but even when i search for tickets they never seem to have any available. i was so looking forward to seeing him next year but looks like I wont be.

[claire_buble]

Hello, i had the same problem this morning! It took me till 10:30 to try and get hold of someone at Liverpool but then i was told before i even asked if there was tickets available at the venue they turned round to inform me that the venue was a SELL OUT!
At the same time a family member was on a mobile phoning Manchester where i got a automated voice and then got offered upper level seating, this was at 9:30! ARGH!! I was not impressed!!
I then tried the interent sites and found out out that there was blocks of seats being sold at triple the price. How do these people do it? Surely this needs sorting out by someone of a high status!!

[Leley]

claire_buble, on 30 October 2009 - 06:05 PM, said:

Hello, i had the same problem this morning! It took me till 10:30 to try and get hold of someone at Liverpool but then i was told before i even asked if there was tickets available at the venue they turned round to inform me that the venue was a SELL OUT!
At the same time a family member was on a mobile phoning Manchester where i got a automated voice and then got offered upper level seating, this was at 9:30! ARGH!! I was not impressed!!
I then tried the interent sites and found out out that there was blocks of seats being sold at triple the price. How do these people do it? Surely this needs sorting out by someone of a high status!!

exactly how do they get away with it something needs to be done so real fans are not missing out.

nearly everyone has had problems trying to get tickets this is not good at all.

im so upset and angray

[claire_buble]

Leley, on 30 October 2009 - 06:07 PM, said:

exactly how do they get away with it something needs to be done so real fans are not missing out.

nearly everyone has had problems trying to get tickets this is not good at all.

im so upset and angray

Yep i totally agree! Back in 2004 when i saw him at Blackpool Winter Gardens this wasnt a problem!!

But what i really want to know and what frustrates me is that how an earth a venue like Liverpool which holds 10,600 was SOLD OUT at 9:20!!

[Leley]

claire_buble, on 30 October 2009 - 06:13 PM, said:

Yep i totally agree! Back in 2004 when i saw him at Blackpool Winter Gardens this wasnt a problem!!

But what i really want to know and what frustrates me is that how an earth a venue like Liverpool which holds 10,600 was SOLD OUT at 9:20!!

yes I too want to know how glasgow SCC was sold out and it holds about the same amount of people???

I saw michael last year and it was amazing my first ever concert im 21 lol and I wanted to relive the magic it means alot for me to support michael. its just so wrong its not right!

[Craig]

It was sold out because there is to many pre sales available to people that dont deserve to buy tickets i.e big companies and ticketing websites. As ive said i spoke to someone at ticket master last night and he said i would be lucky to even get a sniff of a ticket as most venues were already pretty much sold out.

[Leley]

Craig, on 30 October 2009 - 06:19 PM, said:

It was sold out because there is to many pre sales available to people that dont deserve to buy tickets i.e big companies and ticketing websites. As ive said i spoke to someone at ticket master last night and he said i would be lucky to even get a sniff of a ticket as most venues were already pretty much sold out.

gosh im so angray so I had no chance of seeing Michael pre-sales are wrong we should all buy our tickets on the same day.

[FeveredByBuble]

I too have had a similar experience to much of you here today.
I was registered with Live Nation for pre-sale yesterday, and still it made no difference to the tickets that were being offered/sold, much of them the crappy ones way back. I decided to wait until today, my thinking being that they were releasing them slowly, but I also thought it odd that there were no higher priced tickets showing up at all. Similarly, I have tried unsuccessfully today via general sale for (Manchester) and (Liverpool) venues, only to find the poor seats available. I was on the internet this (am) as soon as, but still no decent seats were coming through.
On checking numerous internet sites today, I found that the 'ticket brokers' are the ones who appear to have acquired the best tickets and are charging totally rip-off prices for them, which sadly, I cannot afford to pay.
So sad for his true fans and I empathise entirely with all those who have tried so hard for tickets. Rant over!!

[claire_buble]

Leley, on 30 October 2009 - 06:21 PM, said:

gosh im so angray so I had no chance of seeing Michael pre-sales are wrong we should all buy our tickets on the same day.

Yes maybe this is the answer as the Fan Club didnt even send out a flyer with his dates on when i was part of it in 2004!

[Leley]

hope michael reads this i dont think he would be too happy knowing his fans were missing out

[Craig]

I hope he does read this to Leley or someone that will actually take it on board and adress this for future reference

[Leley]

Craig, on 30 October 2009 - 07:02 PM, said:

I hope he does read this to Leley or someone that will actually take it on board and adress this for future reference

Indeed it needs to be addressed