Presale experiences: Fan Club vs. Citi vs. Facebook

[Alan]

going to chicago 

so much shit with trying to get tickets and failing with errors, just got a text from a guy I grew up with who moved out there he got tickets for me   

[GnR1988]

I got tix for the Metlife Stadium show using the Citi Pre-Sale. I was logged in Monday morning exactly at 10am with two separate browser sessions opened on the ticketmaster page. I have a ticketmaster account already so my credit card info was already saved. After about 5 or so minutes of both sessions stuck on "searching for tickets, sit tight" I decided to refresh even though I would lose my place. Well, I immediately started getting lower bowl tickets but in the back, I ended up refreshing for about another 5-10 minutes and finally to my surprise started to get Floor seats..I jumped on section 8 row 29. I was only getting floor sections 7 8 or 9 obviously since the front sections were most likely priced at $285. Even after I purchased my seats, I kept refreshing to see what the absolute closest seats I would be able to get and I only ended up with section 8 row 14. So, Im thrilled with my seats, Im not about to be picky!..Very surprised I ended up with floor seats! 

[UKWildcat]

About a 15 year almost daily reader, first time posting.  I too had a bad experience with the NT pre-sale for Nashville.  Was on it right at 10AM to get best possible seats and nothing would come up for first 15 minutes and finally some floor seats pretty far back came up, I purchased them because I was afraid that would be the best I could get.  I can get on ticketmaster now and find closer seats with my Citi card.  I tried the Cincinnati show on ticketmaster yesterday for shits and giggles just for 1 ticket, floor seat 6 rows back.  What the hell, I took it.  I live about 3 hours from Cincinnati and 2 hours away from Nashville.  2 shows in 1 week, I'm pretty fucking excited!

[aaronjcurtis]

About a 15 year almost daily reader, first time posting.  I too had a bad experience with the NT pre-sale for Nashville.  Was on it right at 10AM to get best possible seats and nothing would come up for first 15 minutes and finally some floor seats pretty far back came up, I purchased them because I was afraid that would be the best I could get.  I can get on ticketmaster now and find closer seats with my Citi card.  I tried the Cincinnati show on ticketmaster yesterday for shits and giggles just for 1 ticket, floor seat 6 rows back.  What the hell, I took it.  I live about 3 hours from Cincinnati and 2 hours away from Nashville.  2 shows in 1 week, I'm pretty fucking excited!

Nice job. I'm sort of hoping for the same stroke of luck for the Seattle show.

[gnrfan89]

Purchased 4 Tickets for the August 9 show at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Took a couple of tries but I got descent seats for the price range I was looking for. Overall a good experience.

Can't wait for this weekend. I have tickets for both nights. It should be epic!! 

[gunsnroses85]

I have a friend who may be interested in going to the DC show but with his work schedule he may be forced to be out of town that weekend. I have no experience selling a ticket online but I would be forced to if he's unable to attend, not looking to make a profit. Being that I would buy that ticket under the Nightrain presale would I be punished for reselling my ticket that I acquired through their presale? The last thing I want to happen is to be penalized for trying to not end up stuck with an extra ticket if he can not attend.

[classy2016]

I tried using other pay options. I didn't have a master pass and didn't see my cc there to select. No choice have to wait for Friday. Uugh.  Any other options?

[GypsySoul]

Live Nation Pre-Sale

Guns N' Roses - Not in This Lifetime

Saturday, July 23  MetLife Stadium

Presale starts:
Thursday, April 7 at 10AM

Presale ends:
Thursday, April 7 at 10PM

Use Password:  BACKSTAGE

Public On Sale: Fri, Apr 8 at 10am

[zod]

I tried using other pay options. I didn't have a master pass and didn't see my cc there to select. No choice have to wait for Friday. Uugh.  Any other options?

When I did the CITI presale, I used the visa checkout option.   Visa checkout is just another paypal or google wallet.  You can attach whatever credit card you want to it.

[Pinball Wizard]

So... you can get only 2 tickets through the fan club pre sales for THE WHOLE TOUR? I'd understand this limit if it were 2 tickets per concert, that's reasonable... but for the whole tour? It makes no sense...

[damnthehaters]

Since when can people not "choose" their own seats for concerts?  Last week during the Nightrain presale, ticketmaster just spit out random seats.  Is this the way now?  Or was it just during presale?  Will it be the same during tomorrow's presale and during public sale on Friday?

Wtf

[Thorned Rose]

I did the Nightrain presale.

I had some issues with getting tickets to load in my laptop as I have stated previously in another thread.

Overall it was alright I guess. I got the tickets I wanted, took about 10-15 minutes to get it to work right. Oh well. I got what I wanted. I'm happy.

[zod]

Since when can people not "choose" their own seats for concerts?  Last week during the Nightrain presale, ticketmaster just spit out random seats.  Is this the way now?  Or was it just during presale?  Will it be the same during tomorrow's presale and during public sale on Friday?

Wtf

Lol that's the old school way.  That's how it used to be.  Ticketmaster still does "best available" when their servers are under load.  IE you can select seats during heavy activity.  It makes sense.   By the time you tried to click tickets someone else who of snagged them.

[gnrrock]

Facebook presale seemed to work fine today.

[zod]

Got stuck on a lot of loading pages during todays onsale.  I was trying facebook, livenation, and the livenation mobile presale codes.  My phone was pulling up tickets alot faster than the comouter.  Webbrowsers got stuck in searching for crazy long periods of time.   About 40 mins in I pulled up pit tix.. Pit2 which i think is duffs side.  Ik pretty stoked to be in the pit.  Now ive got to offload the other 2 pairs i bought this week.  Ugh.. Hopefully demand in Seattle is high so i can sell them

[Slashblack]

The Nightrain tix were frustrating.  It was easy to log in and order, but the best I got was Section 110, Row 2.  Not bad, mind you, but I was hoping for floor/field.  Well, today, I thought I'd see what came up on the Live Nation resale- I brought up Floor B, row 29.  It's disappointing that the fan club didn't offer something better than the generic, everyone-can-get-the-password-presales.

[Ja5oN]

I think the entrance into the NightTrain was too small.  You could buy a digital membership for $10 and then use the code to get 2 tickets.....so really upping the price of each ticket by $5.
Now for some people they are taking a $100 ticket and reselling it for $200, $300 or $400....so the $5 meant nothing.

Yes I know the membership prices have risen.....but I bet there were lots of the old ones still kicking around from the Vegas and Cochella days.

[tim_m]

I'll be trying tomorrow for the general public sale. Just looking to get the cheap $45.50 seats. That's all we can afford.

[vortex05]

Got my tickets today with the Facebook presale for Pittsburgh. Got the 45.50 seats as that's was all I could budget but who cares it will be fun regardless.

[ericy210]

Tried with nightrain on Chicago with no success.  Tried with Citibank and got in lower section in 4 minutes. I was going for "best available"