amen!!

but wait...what if you had three or four tickets? Couldn't you just sell two and add them to your party?

NICE!

you could only buy two tix per night

Yup.

Plus you have to figure real ticket scalpers are not going to the show themselves...although I guess for a really popular show, it might pay to buy two tickets for 60 bucks, sell one for a few hundred bucks, walk in the venue for two minutes then walk out.

I have to wonder also how this policy will work with the rich snobby types who will raise hell against the door people who won't him in with his printed out credit card reciept he paid 700 bucks for.

So what will happen to all those seats that scalpers bought and can't sell? Don't want?

Maybe the scalpers can be given amnesty and forgiveness...RETURN YOUR UNWANTED SEATS!..no questions asked

Hey AF....Keep us posted on the next round of legit sales.

So what will happen to all those seats that scalpers bought and can't sell? Don't want?

Maybe the scalpers can be given amnesty and forgiveness...RETURN YOUR UNWANTED SEATS!..no questions asked

Hey AF....Keep us posted on the next round of legit sales.

I just noticed the Bowery Presents website is showing listings for 2 Bloc Party shows in March at the United Palace Theater.

nahhhh...scalpers are going to hang onto these tickets and just walk in with their "guests" and walk out.

a friend found this one...any takers?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tix/258064238.html

Bloc Party at the UPT?? I don't see anything about this show on Bowery Presents. What you talkin' about Willis?!?

I also saw the Bloc Party info on bowerypresents.com this morning. Said tickets go on sale Jan 13th @ 11AM. Interesting that it has since been deleted...

The tickets are being sold through Ticketmaster.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/953414/?search_redirect=bloc%20party&tm_link=tm_header_search

You know, while the Bowery did say "non-transferable" before the on-sale, didn't it occur to them that publicizing what exactly that meant BEFORE the frigging on-sale might have kept the vast majority of scalpers away?

The major problem here is the professional scalper companies, who have the technology (and warm bodies) to snag tickets for online on-sales. These would be the people selling tickets on Ebay even before the thing went on sale. Most of those companies would likely not have bothered if it meant paying someone to go to the show (even if only for a minute) in order to get the proceeds from only half the tickets they bought.

Think about it: Major scalping company buys up, say, one hundred tickets across all nights. Even if they got 20 tickets for each show in ten different names, that would be 10 people they'd have to pay to go to the show each night. No way they would consider that worth the trouble.

I love the policy, and it's very similar to what Springsteen does these days, but you have to make it clear up-front in order to keep the saclpers at bay and let fans buy the tickets. Yeah, it would have still be extremely hard and would have sold out in a few minutes, but normal folks would have at least had a real shot.

Just annoying.

tickets.com is even worse than ticketweb. the ticketmaster service charge might actually be worth it at times if you get an application that can handle some traffic...never thought i would stand up for ticketmaster, but tickets.com SUCKS

The guy offering sex for tickets makes it seem like he has tickets in hand. I was under the impression this show was entirely will call

Anyone know otherwise?

I've never been able to buy high-demand tickets on ticketmaster.

Tickets.com presented no problems to me.

I blame the Arcade Fire. If they had not signed to that sadistic major label, Merge Records, they would not be as popular as they are now. That pompous, bloodthirsty capitalist Mac McCaughan and his faceless corporate staff can go eat it. Mac has absolutely no history in the indie world and only got into this game when the OC started making stars out of our circuit darlings.

"The guy offering sex for tickets makes it seem like he has tickets in hand."

His hand is certainly holding something, but it's not an Arcade Fire ticket...

Does anyone have the presale info for the Bloc Party shows? I haven't received anything from the Marshalls fan club yet...

That is a great policy for trying to get rid of scalpers, but sometimes people like to buy tickets as gifts, or legitimately can't go to a concert they have bought tickets for.

and what about people who don't have credit cards so their parents buy them the tickets?

their parents have to go to the show too.

it can be a nice bonding experience for them

i hope this is as much as a disaster as i think it's gonna be

ah crap. just realized my kid bought tix for the vday show! guess i'm not getting laid that nite anymore.

Yeah I'm sure it's going to be a disaster. I'm sure no planning went into these shows at all. I'm sure the promoter and everyone involved are totally blindsided by the fact that Arcade Fire was able to sell out these shows. I'm sure it never even crossed their minds. I bet they announced these shows and booked them without ever thinking things out. I bet it will be complete chaos and the building will crumble to the ground. It happens all the time.

Nice idea, but i question whether this policy is legal under new york state contract law, which allows consumers to transfer items, including tickets for fair value. No one wants to support scalpers, but god forbid i get sick and can't make the show, or one of my friends can't...why should Bowery reserve the inalienable right to dictate who i give my extra tickers to? This is a bit draconian, no?

Good points all of em. I say everyone including those who bought tickets should stay home and let these pretentious f**ks play to 5 nights of empty rooms.

hey sergio, why the mailice? last I checked they had shows and mp3 downloads making money for charities, I'm not sure if you actually know what pretentious means either. They would have to make claims about their own intentions or greatness or importantness or whatever in order to be pretentious, at best, they've joked about the hype surrounding them.

The thing that is not right about this policy is what happens if the ticket holder cannot make it for a legitimate reason. Case in point, recently, a few friends and I planned to go see a show at the Mercury Lounge. The day of the show, only a few days later, the person who ordered the tickets and had them at will call was really sick and could not make it. I called the Merciry Lounge to see what my options were since the others wanted to see the show. The person who answered (btw, was very mean and a total a-hole in case someone from there is reading) told me we could only get in with the credit card holder and there was nothing else. We ended up missing the show and losing the money.

That is why these measures suck. There is always cases of this happening.

I wonder if we send letters to maybe the Attorney General's Office, they will look into this non-transferability issue.