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Thanks.

Max, will that be set up soon? I believe all the presales are now over, correct? Or are there a few still going on?

I'm pretty sure that was me. I couldn't find any specific "section" to post the trade I was offering, so I just started my own topic.

Brian, I may have an extra pair of Red Zone. I had some very dear friends going with us but because of potential immigration issues (it's a very long story that I'm happy to share privately, but I don't want to take the time to type it all up here) they've had to back out and I had to send them back their $704. I have someone else interested locally (I live near Nashville, TN), but that hasn't firmed up yet and I need to get a definitive answer from them. Since I've been out the $704 for months (bought them in the presale), I'd like to work on getting them sold so I can recoup my money! I'll send you a PM to see if you're still looking for a pair. Chris

I got four for Boston, although I did get them in two separate orders.

Yeah, that appears to be a Ticketmaster coding error. The $70 (in some cities) or $75 options for Red Zone tickets will only bring up regular GA. All of the Red Zone tickets are $350 (or something similar).

They appear to be $350 each at many of the shows. Plus a small service charge. The "$70 red zone" ticket category is bogus and appears to be a Ticketmaster glitch, as it will only bring up regular GA tickets.

Red Zone package for me. Entered presale code & "apply," which opened the options for tickets under the "U2.com Redhill group" presale category. Then I selected the "Red Zone package" option. Tickets were $350 each, plus there was a service charge of $4. So the total for a pair was $704.

Yes, all RZ tickets are will-call in an attempt to prevent reselling. However it appears that Ticketmaster ITSELF is offering a "sell" option after one purchases the tickets, which seems wrong to me. But maybe that option doesn't actually work for these tickets? EDITING TO ADD --- Yes, just to check I tried the "sell" button and I do indeed get a message that "due to ticket delivery restrictions, you cannot list these tickets." Excellent!

Got my 4 RZ for Boston. Had to use my Red Hill presale code to access anything, so the system appears to be working correctly EXCEPT my presale code appears to still be working to access other shows. Since I've already purchased my limit of four I have not bought any more, but I was just curious so I tried to access a few other shows and the code has allowed me "in." One other note ---- I checked GA for Tampa. They ARE "credit card entry" tickets. So as I suspected they are going to try to use credit card entry tix for GA's in an attempt to prevent reselling.

For those thinking of buying GA and then reselling it if you later decide to go "VIP" or RZ, keep in mind that is far more difficult this time around as many of the venues (at least in the U.S.) will be using CREDIT CARD ENTRY for GA tickets and will NOT be issuing hard tickets. That's a big change this time around.....

This has probably been mentioned on another thread (and if so, I apologize for the duplication), but Lighting 100 (100.1 FM) here in Nashville announced this morning that one of the shows on this tour will be at Bonnaroo.

Fire code determines floor capacity. Where were you standing? I attended the first night and the floor was pretty packed. Not uncomfortably so, but there wasn't any extra space to roam around.

So much to say here, but I'll try to keep it short. Longtime fanclub member, primarily for the access to the presale tickets. Belong to other fanclubs at similar prices for some artists who practically never tour (Sting, for example), therefore providing no ticketing advantage, so I have no problem with the fanclub fee. As for tickets to the NYC shows, I used my presale code and snagged two GA's for night one. Yes, it took some work at the onsale time, but I managed it. As a side note, I live in Nashville, so since the band wasn't coming anywhere near me on this first U.S. leg I had to choose a Saturday night show and make the trek. So any savings I gained by getting GA (lower priced) tickets was easily eaten up by travel and lodging costs, etc. But it was a great NYC weekend. (and no, I'm not complaining about the travel costs, as I know there are folks who travel a LOT further at a lot more cost in order to catch shows) As for Ticketmaster and the resale thing, as others have mentioned, they are merely providing the same service the Ebay, StubHub, or other similar sites are providing - a ticket holder to ticket purchaser internet portal to conduct a free market price transaction, In New York, state law not only permits these transactions but I think it also pretty much says they HAVE to be permitted. Thus the "hard tickets" for GA for the NYC shows (which permitted fairly easy resale, while the credit card entry procedures they were using at most of the other venues in the U.S. for GA were NOT applicable to this show). There were plenty of tickets sold to the general public for all of the NYC shows. As a matter of fact, in my particular case I purchased 4 extras for the July 26th show (initially for a friend, who then decided he didn't have use for them, so I had to resell them). I got these at the initial public onsale. They weren't the greatest seats (section 214, row 3), but I'd gotten them based on price ($118 each, with the service fees) and when my friend decided he didn't want them I immediately started an effort to resell them - AT COST - here on this forum. I believe that was in February, but I'm too lazy to go back and check my initial post date to confirm. The point is that it was MONTHS before the concert. All those many months went by and there were still "original price, not resale" tickets available for several of the NYC shows late in the run on Ticketmaster. Yeah, most of those were the $300 seats, but the point is the shows were not sold out. So no one bought my tickets directly through me. I tried StubHub for several weeks (with a marked up price, of course, to cover the StubHub fees but still net breakeven for myself) during that run without success. And finally I sold them through Ticketmaster, about a week before the run of shows at the Garden began. Yeah, my buyer (however he or she was) paid something like $155 per ticket because of the additional fees and I netted $119 each, just covering my initial cost. But that buyer got "guaranteed" seats and had the choice to buy the tickets or not. Nobody forced that purchase. Do I feel screwed because TM profited from the sale and I didn't? No, not really. It was my choice to sell the tickets that way. And I certainly tried to sell them on here at original cost. Sure, resale prices NOW are insane, as demand has gone through the roof once the NYC shows started and word of mouth was spreading how amazing these shows are. But it's always a "supply and demand" situation. There are some shows where the market dictates resale prices BELOW face value on the major resale sites (if you don't believe me check out an Imagine Dragons show in a smaller market on StubHub near show date sometime). But my point is that tickets for some of these NYC shows were readily available at original pricing for weeks, if not months, without a fanclub membership, through Ticketmaster. They aren't the "evil empire" that some claim they are. As for the resale prices now, they aren't setting them. The sellers are. And they're basically pricing things absurdly high because of their own greed and what the market is indicating they can sell them for. One more thing, if I may - both Ebay and StubHub (who have the same ownership anyway) also charge a % commission on resale tickets handled through their sites. So Ticketmaster is no different in that regard. As for the whole "seating chart is different than actual setup" fiasco, I'd blame that one pretty much on the band's management and Live Nation as the promoter/producer of the tour. They're the ones who decided to put tickets on sale so many months in advance that no one really knew what the production setup was going to really look like. Ticketmaster only went with what they had those many months ago. That blame is not theirs. But yeah, it sucks. Good luck reaching someone who actually had and/or has anything to do with that. Because the customer service reps at TM are powerless in that regard. Funny thing is - Live Nation owns Ticketmaster now. But obviously they are still being operated as two separate companies when it comes to any decent communication! Disclaimer - I do not work for either Ticketmaster or Live Nation, nor have I ever. I have dabbled in concert promotion a bit over the last 40 years, so I do know a little about how the business works. Obviously I failed at the "keep it short" goal. Oh well!