got mine section 102

same day c u there.

I wanted VIP but they sold out @ 10:02 am

CerpinTaxt said:

Worst experience ever.

But I got my 2 tickets.

Dec 18th

MSG

SEC 108

=\ for $200 each?

But i didn't want to press my luck.

NYC code ALIST

PositivityNYC said:

The tickets are sold thru Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster and LiveNation are partners

- LiveNation promotes concerts, Ticketmaster sells the tickets to the concerts.

That's why even if you go to the LiveNation website (I included link in first post of this thread), it still takes you to Ticketmaster's website when you choose what day you want for tickets.

There will likely be a box that says:

Live Nation Presale code or Presale Code

LiveNation says their code is lights (and that it works for all 5 shows; NJ and NY)

Madison Sq Garden says their code is Guitar (and is only for the 2 NY shows)

sextonseven said:

2elijah said:

The sections with the "100" numbers I see were also going for the $200 price. I'm surprised, they were much lower for the Musicology shows.

I got front row seats for the Musicology shows at MSG and they cost me less than $100 each. Those days and prices are long gone.

yes they were one night alone was cheep too

oh man! 2 mins after for vip? crazy motherfuckers. but then considering it was changed and i paid the same price of 200? i coulda had a table and they should include a bottle if dom

it wasn't necesary to buy VIP tickets to get the tshirt, u were offered to buy one for extra $30 but i didn't want to be ripped off again!

IZOD Center aka The Venue Formerly Known as Continental Arena

[Edited 10/29/10 9:09am]

CerpinTaxt said:

Do you think we'll be able to choose what section we want, or will we only choose a price and then be randomly given a certain ticket?

This is a seated venue/performance, so you have to choose a seat with Ticketmaster.com

this isn't like the NPGMC website's "Member Presale" for Musicology in 2004 --- with those, you didn't find out where you sat (they were all near the stage) until the nite of the show when you picked up the tickets with your ID at the box office.

i never been to a concert ever where u get to pick what section??!!!

i never been to a concert ever where u get to pick what section??!!!

purplemookiebut said:

i never been to a concert ever where u get to pick what section??!!!

you go here

http://www.ticketmaster.c...ist/735895

you choose a date (3 are in NJ, 2 are in NY; be sure to choose the correct state and date you want)

on the next page, you choose:

1) how many tickets you want (max for presale is 4 tickets per person)

2) how much you're willing to pay (4-5 different ticket price levels)

next to those, you enter in the box the presale code

and below that, choose the Section (Best Available, Floor, Lower Level, or Upper Level)

Click the orange Find Tickets button

--- to make sure you are human, the system will do a Security Check and ask you to enter a CAPTCHA code; it'll show you a picture of one or two words, you have to type them in and click the Continue button in order to proceed.

Then the system searches available tickets for you, and when done (if any presale tickets are left) it will let you know where seats are still available.

If you want them, you buy them.

If you dont like the seats and other seats are still available, you can start the search again.

[Edited 10/29/10 10:31am]

PositivityNYC said:

CerpinTaxt said:

Do you think we'll be able to choose what section we want, or will we only choose a price and then be randomly given a certain ticket?

This is a seated venue/performance, so you have to choose a seat with Ticketmaster.com

this isn't like the NPGMC website's "Member Presale" for Musicology in 2004 --- with those, you didn't find out where you sat (they were all near the stage) until the nite of the show when you picked up the tickets with your ID at the box office.

I would have loved to have done it that way. Too bad the internet is dead.

jaybendy said:

PositivityNYC said:

This is a seated venue/performance, so you have to choose a seat with Ticketmaster.com

this isn't like the NPGMC website's "Member Presale" for Musicology in 2004 --- with those, you didn't find out where you sat (they were all near the stage) until the nite of the show when you picked up the tickets with your ID at the box office.

I would have loved to have done it that way. Too bad the internet is dead.

right??! --- why didn't he make ppl line up at the venue the nite before, like fans had to for the Lovesexy tour back in 1988.. LOL

actually, our parents wouldn't let us "camp out" the nite before, so my mom drove my friends & I in the minivan to Manhattan @ like 5 am the morning of.. LOL... we ended up in the nosebleed seats, but got to see him live for the first time..

Gonzalo1979 said:

it wasn't necesary to buy VIP tickets to get the tshirt, u were offered to buy one for extra $30 but i didn't want to be ripped off again!

IZOD Center aka The Venue Formerly Known as Continental Arena

[Edited 10/29/10 9:09am]

did you get your LotusFlower shirt?

I did, but it smelled funny... I put it back in the packaging... if I ever do wear it, I'll have to wash the plastic smell out of it first..

PositivityNYC said:

CerpinTaxt said:

Do you think we'll be able to choose what section we want, or will we only choose a price and then be randomly given a certain ticket?

This is a seated venue/performance, so you have to choose a seat with Ticketmaster.com

this isn't like the NPGMC website's "Member Presale" for Musicology in 2004 --- with those, you didn't find out where you sat (they were all near the stage) until the nite of the show when you picked up the tickets with your ID at the box office.

This actually wasn't the case. I chose a price level and a seating area, and then Ticketmaster spent the next 5-10 minutes making me go insane by "waiting in line."

After 3 unsuccesful attempts, starting from 10am and lasting til about 10:25am, I chose "any price" and "any section" and got section 108. Before that, I had chosen the $200 tickets and the floor and got nothing. In the end, the section 108 seats were also $200, but Ticketmaster doesn't say "try these instead" when it comes up empty handed. Instead, you have to do the search all over again.

SO

I highly recommend anybody buying tickets tomorrow to do the same. Choose "any price" and "any section."

thats why i always go it that way. but once i did best availably and was shut out but chose a section and tix came up??? weird. just that one oddball time though

CerpinTaxt said:

PositivityNYC said:

This is a seated venue/performance, so you have to choose a seat with Ticketmaster.com

this isn't like the NPGMC website's "Member Presale" for Musicology in 2004 --- with those, you didn't find out where you sat (they were all near the stage) until the nite of the show when you picked up the tickets with your ID at the box office.

This actually wasn't the case. I chose a price level and a seating area, and then Ticketmaster spent the next 5-10 minutes making me go insane by "waiting in line."

After 3 unsuccesful attempts, starting from 10am and lasting til about 10:25am, I chose "any price" and "any section" and got section 108. Before that, I had chosen the $200 tickets and the floor and got nothing. In the end, the section 108 seats were also $200, but Ticketmaster doesn't say "try these instead" when it comes up empty handed. Instead, you have to do the search all over again.

SO

I highly recommend anybody buying tickets tomorrow to do the same. Choose "any price" and "any section."

but, you asked: "Do you think we'll be able to choose what section we want, or will we only choose a price and then be randomly given a certain ticket?"

You are able to choose what section you want, but choosing the price is not the only way to get tickets..

With Ticketmaster, you're SOL (shit outta luck) if you don't log in to your ticketmaster account on time [early..], or are on a slow connection, or the section you wanted magically sells out in 4.2 seconds..... Unfortunately, that's just how it goes when buying concert tickets online, especially for someone on Prince's level..

--- that's part of why they've been so lovingly referred to as TicketBastard for almost a decade..

a hint: If you want in (and fast) for a presale, do it at work [if they allow it... don't go gettin' fired over Prince] on your job's T-1 or faster internet connection ~ trying to get presale tix on a typical home internet connection will not go well for acts like Prince (not fast enough)...

and pray Ticketmaster has enough servers to handle everybody (when Madonna's tix for her tour in 2001 went on sale, so many ppl logged in for it, the Ticketmaster site crashed... )

With Ticketmaster, you have to choose

the number of tickets, plus:

- the price you want to pay, and/or

- what general section you want to be in

If they have seats in the exact parameters/combination you chose, they'll give you the best seats available for the number of seats you wanted** - and give you 2-3 minutes to decide if you want them.

** Say you need to get 4 tickets -- blocks of 3 or more seats together in a row closest to the stage sell quickly, but you might still get really great seats if you buy two sets of 2 or all 4 tickets individually -- no, not ideal, but you'll have to decide: what's more important: better/closer view, or everyone sitting together?

-- just don't do it alone; you buy one or one pair of tix, and have a friend/friends buy the others on their own computer at the same time you get yours.. that way you all can try to end up near each other. Go over the venue's floorplan together so you each know what section each buyer should shoot for

If you're very concerned about them selling out quickly, take the first set they give you..

If you feel like there may be time to play around, or really, really don't like the seats offered and think you can get something better, start over.

~ I have ended up with better seats than the first choice they gave me, even using the very same combination of choices, just by trying again.. People sometimes toss back the first ticket selection they're given, hoping for something better the next try...

Good luck, everybody

anyone lurked ebay yet? crazy. some ppl got seats for 3,600. i see nosebleeds for 500. haha. glad to see ones around my seats going for 2000k

already at 17 pages***

[Edited 10/29/10 20:34pm]

purplemookiebut said:

anyone lurked ebay yet? crazy. some ppl got seats for 3,600. i see nosebleeds for 500. haha. glad to see ones around my seats going for 2000k

already at 17 pages***

[Edited 10/29/10 20:34pm]

2000000???

PositivityNYC said:

CerpinTaxt said:

This actually wasn't the case. I chose a price level and a seating area, and then Ticketmaster spent the next 5-10 minutes making me go insane by "waiting in line."

After 3 unsuccesful attempts, starting from 10am and lasting til about 10:25am, I chose "any price" and "any section" and got section 108. Before that, I had chosen the $200 tickets and the floor and got nothing. In the end, the section 108 seats were also $200, but Ticketmaster doesn't say "try these instead" when it comes up empty handed. Instead, you have to do the search all over again.

SO

I highly recommend anybody buying tickets tomorrow to do the same. Choose "any price" and "any section."

but, you asked: "Do you think we'll be able to choose what section we want, or will we only choose a price and then be randomly given a certain ticket?"

You are able to choose what section you want, but choosing the price is not the only way to get tickets..

With Ticketmaster, you're SOL (shit outta luck) if you don't log in to your ticketmaster account on time [early..], or are on a slow connection, or the section you wanted magically sells out in 4.2 seconds..... Unfortunately, that's just how it goes when buying concert tickets online, especially for someone on Prince's level..

--- that's part of why they've been so lovingly referred to as TicketBastard for almost a decade..

a hint: If you want in (and fast) for a presale, do it at work [if they allow it... don't go gettin' fired over Prince] on your job's T-1 or faster internet connection ~ trying to get presale tix on a typical home internet connection will not go well for acts like Prince (not fast enough)...

and pray Ticketmaster has enough servers to handle everybody (when Madonna's tix for her tour in 2001 went on sale, so many ppl logged in for it, the Ticketmaster site crashed... )

With Ticketmaster, you have to choose

the number of tickets, plus:

- the price you want to pay, and/or

- what general section you want to be in

If they have seats in the exact parameters/combination you chose, they'll give you the best seats available for the number of seats you wanted** - and give you 2-3 minutes to decide if you want them.

** Say you need to get 4 tickets -- blocks of 3 or more seats together in a row closest to the stage sell quickly, but you might still get really great seats if you buy two sets of 2 or all 4 tickets individually -- no, not ideal, but you'll have to decide: what's more important: better/closer view, or everyone sitting together?

-- just don't do it alone; you buy one or one pair of tix, and have a friend/friends buy the others on their own computer at the same time you get yours.. that way you all can try to end up near each other. Go over the venue's floorplan together so you each know what section each buyer should shoot for

If you're very concerned about them selling out quickly, take the first set they give you..

If you feel like there may be time to play around, or really, really don't like the seats offered and think you can get something better, start over.

~ I have ended up with better seats than the first choice they gave me, even using the very same combination of choices, just by trying again.. People sometimes toss back the first ticket selection they're given, hoping for something better the next try...

Good luck, everybody

~ I have ended up with better seats than the first choice they gave me, even using the very same combination of choices, just by trying again.. People sometimes toss back the first ticket selection they're given, hoping for something better the next try...

This is especially true with venues "in the round" as the computer might think the best seats are not those closest to the stage, but those that are up a bit to give you the best overall view.

Just got another ticket, this time for the 17th. Section 239. It's up there, but it looks like it'll give a pretty great view of the stage.

Also, just to add, while you're purchasing the tickets, you get an opportunity to click on the seating before deciding to purchase tickets. You can also print out a copy before purchasing, and enlarge it, so you can glance at the seating chart before purchasing.

Seating chart for the IZOD Center in NJ:

Seating chart for MSG (Madison Square Gardens) in NYC:

[Edited 10/30/10 11:56am]

remko said:

purplemookiebut said:

anyone lurked ebay yet? crazy. some ppl got seats for 3,600. i see nosebleeds for 500. haha. glad to see ones around my seats going for 2000k

already at 17 pages***

[Edited 10/29/10 20:34pm]

2000000???

$2000