Guns N' Roses playing Las Vegas April 8th and 9th!!!! / Fan meeting at NYNY 4/7

[richbc]

Sold out by fans or sold out by scalpers? It will be interesting to watch how fast things sell on StubHub.

Bizarre how sections 14 to 17 were never available. Must be club seats that are already spoken for. Anybody know?

[bolton]

It will be the tour of the year...

[Spirit]

Sold out by fans or sold out by scalpers? It will be interesting to watch how fast things sell on StubHub.

Bizarre how sections 14 to 17 were never available. Must be club seats that are already spoken for. Anybody know?

Those are reserved for HTGTH members.

[Lotgrinder]

Sold out by fans or sold out by scalpers? It will be interesting to watch how fast things sell on StubHub.

Bizarre how sections 14 to 17 were never available. Must be club seats that are already spoken for. Anybody know?

Probably reserved by band, casinos, corporations involved with all this, etc, there will come a time when those tickets ARE released for sale if lets say all are not accounted for....

More tickets to this show will pop up from time to time as on sale as well I think.

Happens with every show.

Prince playing a venue as small as Fox Theatre in Detroit had a lot a lot a lot of hype and more tickets popped up after first initial wave.

[Lotgrinder]

Sold out by fans or sold out by scalpers? It will be interesting to watch how fast things sell on StubHub.

Bizarre how sections 14 to 17 were never available. Must be club seats that are already spoken for. Anybody know?

Probably 50/50.

But, that doesn't matter.

As long as Guns N Roses selects the right cities/markets and prices their tickets accordingly in America every show will sell out.

Like, if they come to Detroit, I am sorry, they are not going to be able to sell the tickets at this ticket price and get a sell out.

I think they'd need to adjust to something along the lines of $200, $150, $100, $50 sections.

Madison Square Garden and other venues that are near lots and lots of disposable income, they can easily keep the prices where they are at.....

I would love to see for tour dates across the U.S to be announced shortly and absolutely KILL the scalpers ability to sell these Las Vegas Main floors for anything more than $400. 

[GnR-NOW]

I had a very interesting experience with the AXS general sale today. I scored a ticket for both shows via the Nightrain pre-sale. On 4/8, I had Floor B, Row M. I wanted to be in the stands but close, so I tried today on the general sale. After 20 minutes I scored Section 8, Row A, fucking awesome. I click purchase and it says AXS error and boots me off. WTF right, so for the next 40 minutes I keep clicking and click as the red lines are going through each price range, finally all of the price ranges have the red line through them, at 2PM I score Section 18, which is one of the sections they were using for the ultimate vip package. So I bought it, fortunately my friend already agreed to buy the Floor B ticket from me for $395. Super stoked to have the seats I want. For fans who didn't score any tickets off AXS I would not panic or give into third party tickets yet. I would still plan your trip, and then look to Stubhub as prices will fall the closer we get to the show and scalpers realize most people aren't paying $500+ for tickets.

[Lotgrinder]

I had a very interesting experience with the AXS general sale today. I scored a ticket for both shows via the Nightrain pre-sale. On 4/8, I had Floor B, Row M. I wanted to be in the stands but close, so I tried today on the general sale. After 20 minutes I scored Section 8, Row A, fucking awesome. I click purchase and it says AXS error and boots me off. WTF right, so for the next 40 minutes I keep clicking and click as the red lines are going through each price range, finally all of the price ranges have the red line through them, at 2PM I score Section 18, which is one of the sections they were using for the ultimate vip package. So I bought it, fortunately my friend already agreed to buy the Floor B ticket from me for $395. Super stoked to have the seats I want. For fans who didn't score any tickets off AXS I would not panic or give into third party tickets yet. I would still plan your trip, and then look to Stubhub as prices will fall the closer we get to the show and scalpers realize most people aren't paying $500+ for tickets.

Exactly.

Not many people are going to pony up $750+ each for Floor GAs or Lower Bowl and do the whole Las Vegas trip. (Especially, when they could probably go to Coachella for less and experience an entire festival weekend.) The scalpers will only make money the next few days off panic buyers or ones who are well off and $750 isn't sweat off their nuts and then they are done for in my opinion. You could possibly even see some tickets go for under face value on this by the night of show. (You will for sure if other U.S dates are announced shortly.) I made sure I got two tickets just to get in just in case, but I am planning on buying much better seats for face value or below face value the week of the show. I could pony up the $750 for Main Floor G.A, but I personally hate scalpers and will take the calculated risk of waiting it out. 

[richbc]

I am blown away at the result. Speechless! The last residencies I attended you could by tickets the day of the shows! Add Duff, Slash, and some marketing and nose bleeds in a hockey rink are double the price of VIPs at The Joint.

I'll patiently see if anything else pops up over time - if not I just saved $5,000 and a trip from Calgary.

[adydas78]

Sat and clicked through the official sell but seems like this is mostly a scalpers affair. Fernando and management or whoever should have done a better job making sure that more fans get to decently priced tickets. Offering super expensive VIP packages on Nightrain is pretty fucked up. Well, I know people buy those too because have no choice and most of them are too stupid to think it's not worth that much. Especially some of the fans who buy VIP are not exactly rich. But whatever, I hope at least the band will play tight, ticketing and management fuck ups have nothing to do with the band and the music.

[Ginger King]

So I ponied up and bought two Gold VIP (floor) tickets for Sat. the 9th (taking my older brother for his 40th - I know, awesome gift).  I previously bought two tickets in Section 6 (Row R) that I am now looking to sell.  Figured I would see if anyone here is interested.  PM me if you want details.  

[Lotgrinder]

Sat and clicked through the official sell but seems like this is mostly a scalpers affair. Fernando and management or whoever should have done a better job making sure that more fans get to decently priced tickets. Offering super expensive VIP packages on Nightrain is pretty fucked up. Well, I know people buy those too because have no choice and most of them are too stupid to think it's not worth that much. Especially some of the fans who buy VIP are not exactly rich. But whatever, I hope at least the band will play tight, ticketing and management fuck ups have nothing to do with the band and the music.

The management has no reason to work directly with or offer favors to scalpers. You just have to accept the fact that EVERY ticket broker/scalper in America was online today and each of them is playing the game with 10-20 other people who work for them that are trying to get tickets as well. I would wager 50%+ of the tickets are in people's hands who do not want to go to this show. Sad, but true. I know. Hold tight and don't pay the ridiculous scalper prices. Trust me, by showtime they will be much lower.

[rebelhipi]

StubHub?!

That stage design looks interesting.

[richbc]

I heard many conspiracy theories that the bands and promoters are often the scalpers, holding back the release of tickets to the public while they guage demand. If public demand is high during the initial on-sale, magically a volume of tickets slide over to secondary sites at inflated values. Anybody buy into that theory?

[Lotgrinder]

I heard many conspiracy theories that the bands and promoters are often the scalpers, holding back the release of tickets to the public while they guage demand. If public demand is high during the initial on-sale, magically a volume of tickets slide over to secondary sites at inflated values. Anybody buy into that theory?

I don't think any version of Guns N Roses would ever do that to fans.

I can not speak for other bands.

I would guess bands that make "music" would never do such a thing, but bands who produce a "product" might.

[adydas78]

Sat and clicked through the official sell but seems like this is mostly a scalpers affair. Fernando and management or whoever should have done a better job making sure that more fans get to decently priced tickets. Offering super expensive VIP packages on Nightrain is pretty fucked up. Well, I know people buy those too because have no choice and most of them are too stupid to think it's not worth that much. Especially some of the fans who buy VIP are not exactly rich. But whatever, I hope at least the band will play tight, ticketing and management fuck ups have nothing to do with the band and the music.

The management has no reason to work directly with or offer favors to scalpers. You just have to accept the fact that EVERY ticket broker/scalper in America was online today and each of them is playing the game with 10-20 other people who work for them that are trying to get tickets as well. I would wager 50%+ of the tickets are in people's hands who do not want to go to this show. Sad, but true. I know. Hold tight and don't pay the ridiculous scalper prices. Trust me, by showtime they will be much lower.

Not saying management works with the scalpers. They just should have somehow offer more tickets through the fan club not only a few pricey VIP packages. But anyways, sure thing I won't pay scalper prices.

[Lotgrinder]

Sat and clicked through the official sell but seems like this is mostly a scalpers affair. Fernando and management or whoever should have done a better job making sure that more fans get to decently priced tickets. Offering super expensive VIP packages on Nightrain is pretty fucked up. Well, I know people buy those too because have no choice and most of them are too stupid to think it's not worth that much. Especially some of the fans who buy VIP are not exactly rich. But whatever, I hope at least the band will play tight, ticketing and management fuck ups have nothing to do with the band and the music.

The management has no reason to work directly with or offer favors to scalpers. You just have to accept the fact that EVERY ticket broker/scalper in America was online today and each of them is playing the game with 10-20 other people who work for them that are trying to get tickets as well. I would wager 50%+ of the tickets are in people's hands who do not want to go to this show. Sad, but true. I know. Hold tight and don't pay the ridiculous scalper prices. Trust me, by showtime they will be much lower.

Not saying management works with the scalpers. They just should have somehow offer more tickets through the fan club not only a few pricey VIP packages. But anyways, sure thing I won't pay scalper prices.

Agree with you on offering more affordable options in the pre-sale.

I am quite confident everyone who wants to get into this show at the $100-$400 price points will get in, though.

Just going to take some time.

[Spirit]

The problem has been scalpers signing on for Nightrain memberships though..

[Lotgrinder]

Just pulled up a Section 209 single ticket.

For Saturday.

Keep trying. 

Sadly, it booted me out after I didn't buy it and now I am back waiting in line.

 

[richbc]

I would guess bands that make "music" would never do such a thing, but bands who produce a "product" might.

The "reunion" isn't happening just for the music. People don't just bury the hatchet if there is no money involved. Duff's and Slash's return reinforces the "product".

[Spirit]

What I wish for in the future (although that unfortunately excludes some of the members of the boards), is an own pre-sale based on seniority Nightrain memberships. I can imagine most of the ticket scalpers signed up for memberships within the last month.

Let's say you must have been a Nightrain member since the summer of 2015 or earlier.