"Right! " I said to myself, "This time I will be on the ball".
Yesterday I found out that tickets for Bob Dylan Concerts go on sale at 9.00am this morning, so I got myself prepared to get reasonable seats for at least one Concert. As he is doing 3 nights in Blackpool in November.
I was feeling really optimistic.
I got the Ticketmaster website up, at 8.30am ish, and the message duly came back "Not on sale until 9.00am.
Likewise I phoned them, and the same message came by.
In great anticipation, I waited until 9.00am, using phone, and Internet simultaneously, I only wanted 2 tickets.
On both internet and phone, that amount wasn't available, "please try a different number of tickets.."
What? and be more successful... do me a favour! I only want 2 tickets..
I persevered, putting different venues, and dates etc., until I was successful. Hooray!
2 tickets for Blackpool in the GODS (that's the one above the circle) right at the back, in the corner.
"Stuff that!"
However, after each refusal, I did get an encouraging message,
Don't worry if you've been unsuccessful, tickets will probably become available nearer the Concert date.
Yeah! of course they will, and at inflated prices.
This of course, has happened to me before, last time with Andre Rieu.
Sold out in January, but plenty on sale 11 months later at ridiculous prices.
And so it goes on.. no recourse to complain, ordering on the phone is entirely automated, and the website is just the same.
So.... diehard, hardcore fans pay inflated prices, whether it be for "One Direction", or "Dylan".
While touts (who seem to come by these prime tickets so easily) bleed fans dry.
Of course, we can choose not to go, but that will not be successful unless we all stay away, and of course, that will never happen.
