egansmind said:

I think the majoriy of tickets went to fans. People are mad at touts and rightly so, but there isnt a massive amount of tickets listed on seatwave and stubhub (id say the same tickets are listed on each as the prices and quanities match up). I think the professional touts werent ready and couldnt not capitalise, its most chancers and a few fans reselling. Shame.

3QuartersInAGlass said:

I think the majoriy of tickets went to fans. People are mad at touts and rightly so, but there isnt a massive amount of tickets listed on seatwave and stubhub (id say the same tickets are listed on each as the prices and quanities match up). I think the professional touts werent ready and couldnt not capitalise, its most chancers and a few fans reselling. Shame.

I think you are right there.

It doesnt look like many touts /resellers have managed to get hold of them due to the short notice and out of the blue release time.

It was all a bit bizarre becasue as Prince said on the Brits he was doing gigs in Manchester someone seemed to flick a switch at Manchester Academy - Clever

dandan said:

Clare said:

3EG twitter account just tweeted @3RDEYEGIRL: "Npgmc was a superb model for cutting out the scalpers for premium tickets. Also helped fans plan gigs" But when I tried to favourite the tweet & retweet it a message can't do that as tweet deleted! What's going on?

@ first it was. But then the scalpers got slick and started joining also....

kunoichi said:

dandan said:

So do we reckon the walk up tickets will be sold on the door or available to buy Friday morning?

That's what I want to know. If they intend to sell on the door they'll need 2 queues. One for tickets/ one without. The academy box office opens at 8 am tomorrow, will they be selling them then? It's less hassle for them to sell them ASAP...

I'm not sure they'll need two queues? I'm thinking if everyone queues up in one line, when you get to the door you'll have the oppertunity to buy a ticket or simply get turned away if there's none left? Eitherway advanced ticket holders are guarenteed entry.

Gutted, another true fan missing out! was all set for friday

egansmind said:

3QuartersInAGlass said:

I think the majoriy of tickets went to fans. People are mad at touts and rightly so, but there isnt a massive amount of tickets listed on seatwave and stubhub (id say the same tickets are listed on each as the prices and quanities match up). I think the professional touts werent ready and couldnt not capitalise, its most chancers and a few fans reselling. Shame.

I think you are right there.

It doesnt look like many touts /resellers have managed to get hold of them due to the short notice and out of the blue release time.

It was all a bit bizarre becasue as Prince said on the Brits he was doing gigs in Manchester someone seemed to flick a switch at Manchester Academy - Clever

I agree.... It is highly unlikley that any organised touts got tickets, as nobody knew when (or even that) they were going on sale. The tickets we are seeing on the reseller sites are likley just a few random individuals who seized the opportunity to get tickets and are trying to make some quick money off fans.

3EG seem to have taken onboard the pleas for advanced tickets, but also combined it with the unnannounced hit-and-run mentality and the #princewatch spirit - ie only those watching closely had a chance to get the tickets. Sure, anyone not paying attention misses out on getting tickets, but then without tickets, anyone not willing or able to queue up for hours and hours misses out. So neither method is perfect by a long way.

I would imagine that most of the Manchester tickets have gone to genuine fans who, like myself, watched 3EG present the award at the BRITs and then had a quick check online to see if there was any actual news on the Machester gigs. Certainly the super-touts wouldn't have had a chance to get batches of tickets, as they wouldn't have known they were going on sale.

Also I notice that the tickets are named, and state they they must not be resold. So in theory at least, the venue could eradicate touting by just asking for ID on the door.

Clare said:

egansmind said:

I just started a new thread on that before I just seen this. Strange one that ! Unless whoever is in charge of the Twitter account was asked not to create negativty.

I wondered if their Twitter account had been hacked.

That was actually a bad re-tweet of someone else's tweet to them (@daf1999, I beleive?) from a few minutes prior. My guess is that they deleted it to avoid any confusion. I have noticed that @3rdEyeGirl have this weird habit of copy/pasting tweets from fans into tweets, rather than just using the re-tweet button.

It is quite bizarre that all tickets were sold at the door, until Manchester.

The presale openen unannounced while mr P was on the tele for the Brit awards.

Right?

It's quite wrong.

Ppenguin said:

How much were the tickets for Manchester?

Does it matter when (currently) they are not on sale?

70 quid it was, I believe.

Currently priced in unobtanium coins.

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DeadlyGoldfish said:

divas21212 said:

I do feel sorry that some genuine fans who missed out, especially those that had booked travel and hotels, but this is prince all over.....

Prince? His minions. And the greedy.

expect the unexpected!

That is a poor excuse for stupidity.

If he cannot implement a constant method, even in this short timespan, by which he sells his shows then his 'management' are idiots.

Probably they booked the venue but did not arrange for ALL tickets to be sold on the show day so the venue went for the quick cash route. (leaving people in the dark w.r.t. how many tickets will be at the door)

So Kiran, or whoever did this, did not learn even the simplest things that can be prevented to benefit the true fans.

And no, I ain't going so I can bitch all I want.

ThePartyman said:

udo said:

Oh man Prince just can't win can he! A lot of us (inc me) moaned that the queue and pay on entry approach meant a lot of us could not get to these shows and we therefore wanted advance ticket sale.

He does an advance ticket sale (small venue remember so going to sell out fast) and bang, now people are moaning they didn't get a ticket!!!!!!

They (Kiran) have said there will be some tickets on the door so a mixed approach.

I think it shows they have been listening.

Just hope they do the same if/when they return darn sarf to rock the capital again

jaypotton said:

jaypotton said:

Oh man Prince just can't win can he! A lot of us (inc me) moaned that the queue and pay on entry approach meant a lot of us could not get to these shows and we therefore wanted advance ticket sale.

He does an advance ticket sale (small venue remember so going to sell out fast) and bang, now people are moaning they didn't get a ticket!!!!!!

They (Kiran) have said there will be some tickets on the door so a mixed approach.

I think it shows they have been listening.

Just hope they do the same if/when they return darn sarf to rock the capital again

So true.... He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

I think the approach for the tour as a whole has been about right - not perfect, but what would be.

They learned from the lessons of the first gig and tightened up security. They listened to fans (like me) who couldnt queue and did an advance sale.

There will always be winners and losers in both approaches - I just hope that he stays around long enough so that everyone gets to go to at least one gig!

Ppenguin said:

jaypotton said:

Oh man Prince just can't win can he! A lot of us (inc me) moaned that the queue and pay on entry approach meant a lot of us could not get to these shows and we therefore wanted advance ticket sale.

He does an advance ticket sale (small venue remember so going to sell out fast) and bang, now people are moaning they didn't get a ticket!!!!!!

They (Kiran) have said there will be some tickets on the door so a mixed approach.

I think it shows they have been listening.

Just hope they do the same if/when they return darn sarf to rock the capital again

I know what text complaint will be...and maybe rightly; they're not going to try to squeeze 2 shows in to an evening so people will prob get 2.5 hr gig....not the 90 minutes £70 got you at KOKO on sunday

I hope it is just the one show, I think Curfew is normally 11pm, so unless he does two 1.5 hour shows i cant see it (however do they sometimes do club nights in there and i know they can get a late licence)

I think this whole tour schedule has been a bit weird, not playing in Britain's second city Birmingham (nice and central) , instead choosing a smaller city way up North

Hi, I saw tickets went on sale. Before I had two chances to think about it. Bam, they went. Are the tickets pick-up only or e-tickets? Just wondered how they could avoid massive queues still with advance tickets.

bluenose63 said:

I think this whole tour schedule has been a bit weird, not playing in Britain's second city Birmingham (nice and central) , instead choosing a smaller city way up North

I'd say manchester is more central than Birmingham?

jamilkj said:

Hi, I saw tickets went on sale. Before I had two chances to think about it. Bam, they went. Are the tickets pick-up only or e-tickets? Just wondered how they could avoid massive queues still with advance tickets.

Advanced, E-tickets