Stop whining

It is YOU that is ruining things for the rest of US!

Tickets only cost £200 in the first place because they think there are enough suckers out there who will pay for them. You have proved them right and forced everyone else into the cheap seats (or out of the game all together. If you pay that price for a ticket, you *are* responsible for making it harder for new fans to experience the band. You just are).

If more people had had the common sense to realise they were being ****ing ripped off, the prices would have come down a whole lot sooner.

Whoa now... You seem to under some illusion that ticket prices have dropped. The last weekend is the only time you can get a deal.

If I wanted to get a ticket for The pit tomorrow night I would have to pay £200+ on Ticketmaster. The prices for these shows have not gone down...

So if I wanted a pit seat for tomorrow night I would have to pay full whack. How is it fair then that somebody who bought a ticket for £45 can be put in one of the same seats as me?

It's an extremely unfair system they have got going. They simply want to save face by taking people from the upper sections (where you can't see the empty seats) down to the floor seats.

No one is ruining anything here and I certainly wouldn't take the high ground just because I didn't want to pay for a full price ticket

They have. On the open market (ebay), through the 2 for 1 offer, through the upgrades, through the recent price reductions.

The one thing I am genuinely pleased about about the upgrades is that they seem to have been giving them away to the people with the worst seats - most likely long time fans who have been priced out. It shows *some* respect to the idea that it's not all about money - Charlie finding the Golden Ticket!

Not individually...

There were *always* going to be reduced price tickets for this run, through ebay if nothing else. Bon Jovi ain't Michael Jackson. I'm not sure how anyone can act surprised that tickets have come down in price. Let alone get pissed off at fans who have been lucky enough to have the thrill of getting close.

What a load of rubbish!

The reason they have reduced the price is because they realised they were literally giving away upgrades.
These tickets are still available because there are so many dates being played.
If they charged these prices and played only 4 nights you can guarantee that it would be 100% sold out.

No-one is being FORCED to buy cheap seat tickets - only the people who are going 5/6 times.
Think about it - you could pay 5 x £50 and sit in the crap seats, or go once and get the best in the house.

Yes, we are being ripped off, but at the end of the day I don't spend £50 per weekend going out on the town, so I can justify spending it on once in a lifetime seats.

Personally, I think we're entitled to whinge and whine if we've paid that much for a seat and then someone gets a FREE upgrade from a £50 ticket!!!
Put it another way - if I got to a venue at 4am and queued all day, I'd expect to be front row for the effort put in.
I am then incredibly entitled to be angry if the doors open and the front rows are taken by people who showed up 20 mins before the doors open.

We realised on Saturday night that the liklihood of getting free upgrades on the 26th is incredibly small. Therefore I've gone and spent £430 on 2 tickets (which it turns out are incredible) for the 19th. Yes, there are lots of things I could also do with that money - but what the hell, you only live once.

Oh and yes, pit prices HAVE gone down.
Rows A & B were £450 each - and they are now down to £110!
I can now get Row F in A3 for £110 per ticket instead of the £215 we paid.
If I had booked the tickets 6 months ago, fair enough, no reason to moan.
However, we booked them on Sunday and TM decided to reduce the price 48 hours later.

If you buy a general admission ticket, that entitles you to a spot on the floor and nothing else, you have no right whatsoever to complain if anyone manages to find a spot in front of you.

I just can't blame the fans for what's happening. The goal posts keep getting moved. Some people don't want to risk losing seats while waiting for prices to drop and then there's people like you who will hold out and won't be too worried if they miss out. I myself had a ticket bought for me, so I never had the quandary some people have had.

This 12 night run looks to be a failure. I doubt they have made half the money they wanted to and they only have themselves to blame.

Out of curiousity, did you look on ebay before you booked?

Yes, and the prices were the same if not higher, for seats WAY further back.

As for the comment about General Admission tickets - it's exactly the same as people getting free upgrades.
Why should people with upper tier seats be GIVEN seats in front of me?!
I have PAID for my seat with the anticipation that they are the best in the venue. If someone pays £50, knowing they are in upper tier, that's what they should get.
Fair enough if they get better seats in that block or price group, but not if they get moved to seats 4 times more expensive.

I started this thread 'cause I really do think that people have a ****ing cheek to complain about people getting upgrades, when they knew *exactly* what they were signing up for when they paid £200 a ticket. And there is an extremely valid point to be made that its them who keep the prices up.

The facts of the matter are that you could have gotten a GA ticket to Paris *AND* a flight there for the price of a top price o2 ticket.

That is true. I am just greedy in the sense that there will *always* be £200 worth of tickets to acts I would like to see at *any* given moment. It is no problem for me to find an alternative.

I'm sorry, but that actually *is* just acting spoiled. Jealousy, nothing else - did you read Dawn's story? How ****ing wonderful that someone got an experience like that!!!!

At the time you bought your ticket, you knew *EXACTLY* where in the house you would be sat.

That someone else paid less to be in a seat better than you does not change that.

Grow up ffs.