Why does buying concert tickets have to be such a PITA?
I heard on the radio that one of my favorite artists is performing in Houston in April. I go to Ticket Master and find that the "Live Nation" and "venue" pre sales starts today. So I go t Live Nation's site and get redirected back to Ticket Master but can't make a purchase. I went to the site for the venue but the tickets were STUPID expensive and inconsistently priced. Frustrated I went to the artist's site. I can buy tickets from there but they only tell you what section the seats are in - somewhere between rows B and HH. You don't know if your buying good seats in the second row toward the center, or shitty seats in the thirty third row on the outside. You have to make the purchase, which is final, and they will email your seat location in... SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS!!!
I have the feeling that those weeks are actually used to sell the seats at a higher price and leave me/us with whatever is left. They claim the tickets are first come first served, but if that were true it shouldn't take six weeks to figure out where my seat is.
I heard on the radio that one of my favorite artists is performing in Houston in April. I go to Ticket Master and find that the "Live Nation" and "venue" pre sales starts today. So I go t Live Nation's site and get redirected back to Ticket Master but can't make a purchase. I went to the site for the venue but the tickets were STUPID expensive and inconsistently priced. Frustrated I went to the artist's site. I can buy tickets from there but they only tell you what section the seats are in - somewhere between rows B and HH. You don't know if your buying good seats in the second row toward the center, or shitty seats in the thirty third row on the outside. You have to make the purchase, which is final, and they will email your seat location in... SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS!!!
I have the feeling that those weeks are actually used to sell the seats at a higher price and leave me/us with whatever is left. They claim the tickets are first come first served, but if that were true it shouldn't take six weeks to figure out where my seat is.