Radio City Music Hall is SOLD OUT

[rats]

i called ticketmaster a half hour ago and the show is sold out. it doesn't say it on the site yet, because you can still buy tickets in the event that someone cancels their orders. but who is gonna do that knowing there are thosands of people out there trying to get tickets.

[fitzcarraldo]

Next stop Madison Square Garden! Congrats MMJ!!!  

[classicrocker623]

Managed to get single seats after an hour of bullshit, but it makes no difference

[bear32]

If anyone has 2 tickets that they can give up to a long time MMJ fan, I would be forever indebted. PLEASE let me know, as I can pay immediately and more than the face value. Thanks!

[cmccubbin@work]

If anyone has 2 tickets that they can give up to a long time MMJ fan, I would be forever indebted. PLEASE let me know, as I can pay immediately and more than the face value. Thanks!

hopefully the kind souls on here will only sell to you for face value...if they don't report to us!!!

[RedPatokaSea]

A friend of mine got 3 tickets, but we decided to split up and get some better seats. So he'll be listing them on ebay for face value (fees included).  Shipping will be free (I'll just email the pdf).  They'll be up shortly.  

The tickets are 3rd mezzanine, section 100.  

[TheBigChicken]

Managed to get single seats after an hour of bullshit, but it makes no difference

same here...3

[Witness MMJ]

THERE IS A GUY ON EBAY SELLING FOUR TICKETS - SEE BELOW

You are bidding on 4 tickets to see My Morning Jacket live in New York, NY on June 20th, 2008


These 4 tickets are located Together in:

Section Orchestra 3 Row ZZ

US $700.00

SAME PERSON HAS ANOTHER SET OF FOUR TICKETS - SEE BELOW

You are bidding on 4 tickets to see My Morning Jacket live in New York, NY on June 20th, 2008


These 4 tickets are located Together in:

Section Orchestra 6 Row OO

US $900.00

THIS IS WHY TRUE FANS CANT GET TICKETS BECAUSE A [b]PRICK[/b] LIKE THIS BUY'S THEM & SELLS THEM FOR PURE PROFIT.

WHAT A PRICK

[BH]

What pisses me off is that there has got to be a person somewhere within the system that is getting a kick back to hold the good tickets for these people.   There is no fucking way that these scalpers are using the same method as me an you to get the tickets.

[aMD]

So much for there being "plenty of tickets"  as management said.  I hope this is a sign of things to come for the band.

As for scalpers, it REALLY sucks.  MMJ made an effort to keep the price of the ticket minimal to not rip off their loyal fans and all they really did was increase the profit for scalpers who are going to turn around and rip off loyal  MMJ fans!  Very shitty.  I also hope the fans refuse to pay more than face value.

[thatswhatshesaid]

THERE IS A GUY ON EBAY SELLING FOUR TICKETS - SEE BELOW

You are bidding on 4 tickets to see My Morning Jacket live in New York, NY on June 20th, 2008


These 4 tickets are located Together in:

Section Orchestra 3 Row ZZ

US $700.00

SAME PERSON HAS ANOTHER SET OF FOUR TICKETS - SEE BELOW

You are bidding on 4 tickets to see My Morning Jacket live in New York, NY on June 20th, 2008


These 4 tickets are located Together in:

Section Orchestra 6 Row OO

US $900.00

THIS IS WHY TRUE FANS CANT GET TICKETS BECAUSE A [b]PRICK[/b] LIKE THIS BUY'S THEM & SELLS THEM FOR PURE PROFIT.

WHAT A PRICK

i would say the dude has never heard mmj. its a fucking shame that greed has taken over one of the most beautiful creations known to man.

[Elizanne33]

I was curious to see how many tickets made it onto ebay and other ticket sites. Stub hub has over 200 tickets right now from $85 to $648. Crazy! 200 tickets that could have gone to people who got shut out. I feel so lucky to have gotten a ticket today, because there is absolutely no way I could afford to buy a ticket otherwise.

[Crispy]

I sense some serious shenanigans in the surreptitious stockpiling of sweet tickets by scalpers. There's gotta be some back-door dealings between the venue and/or ticketmaster and these resellers.

[Witness MMJ]

there needs to be a law passed that bands are made to pay a fine if tickets are sold over face value. Or that the Venue has a system that tracks people who buys the tickets, in otherwords, they have all there details on a database & can look up very quickly if this person sold the tickets onto someone else.

Do you understand my idea or am I talking through my hole ?

[Witness MMJ]

what also should happen is the poor fucker that buys these ticksts on ebay for $900 should be fine also.

So when the show is on, the FBI or whom ever walks to those seat, Row 00, seat 4.5,6,7 Mezz 1 & says "where did you buys these ticket", then they get hauled away, miss the show, then spend a few nights in jail, so that way people will here about it & will never buy from ebay etc etc

[knarf]

oh poor jaded emmetg... if only protecting the fan were so important.

unfortunately, the laws are actually moving in the other direction...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18959856/

[Bigsky]

I agree and thinks it sucks that someone can get 2 sets of 4 seats, while some can't get one. I also think it sucks that he's selling them for so much. At the same time, this is nothing new; I used to go see the GD & Phish, and buying tickets after a sell-out was always $$$. We do live in a capitalist society. Some are just greedier than other.
Next time it will be MSG.

[upstatestruggler]

Posted with thanks to Andrew Cuomo, NYS Attorney General.
He has been trying to help us out for years. Thank Eliot Spitzer for nothing- scalping is now 100% legal, as knarf has pointed out above...

full text at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/reports/scalping/exec_summary.html

Why Can't I Get Tickets?
WHY CAN'T I GET TICKETS?

REPORT ON TICKET
DISTRIBUTION PRACTICES
BUREAU OF INVESTOR PROTECTION
AND SECURITIES
MAY 27, 1999



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

   This report is intended to shed light on the largely underground and unexamined ticket distribution system in New York, a system which diverts the most desirable sports, concert and theatre tickets away from the general public.

   The process by which tickets wend their way from the original issuer to the ultimate consumer is complex and often illegal. In the general case, the consumer walks up to the box office or telephones a ticket agent such as Telecharge or Ticketmaster (or uses one of their outlets), pays the price on the face of the ticket (with perhaps a small additional service charge) and obtains the ticket that he or she wants. Too often, however, the consumer finds that the desired ticket (e.g., to "The Lion King" or the Yankee playoffs or the Spice Girls) is unavailable within minutes after it goes on sale, and if there are any tickets left, they are at the rear of the house, the highest tier of the stadium or, in the case of a hit show, the wait can be for over a year. However, while a "sold-out" sign confronts the consumer at the box office, the newspapers nonetheless are filled with advertisements for the most sought after seats -- at prices, depending on the popularity of the event, ranging into the thousands of dollars. The Attorney General[ch65533]s investigation demonstrates that ticket distribution practices are seriously skewed away from ordinary fans and towards wealthy businesses and consumers.

   This problem is not simply the result of the law of supply and demand. Rather, the availability of tickets and the outrageously high -- and illegal -- prices that brokers charge, to a large extent, can be laid at the door of illicit practices in the ticket industry and other practices that, although possibly not unlawful, are deceptive, unfair to the ticket buying public and supportive of the corrupt ticket distribution system.

   Thus, the average disappointed consumer walks away with the suspicion that the tickets could not have all been sold, through the normal means, quite that fast. He or she often believes that someone, somewhere, had an "in," and that dutifully waiting on line or telephoning repeatedly was, in reality, an exercise in futility. To a large extent, that frustrated consumer is correct. This report attempts to explain why and highlights the myths, half truths, and outright criminality that causes the scarcity of tickets.

   The entertainment industry is one of the core sources of revenue for New York. Just as we demand integrity of New York[ch65533]s financial institutions and its securities marketplace, New Yorkers have a right to expect integrity in the system through which tickets are distributed. New York[ch65533]s citizens and the millions of tourists who come to New York to attend entertainment and sporting events deserve to obtain tickets through a distribution system free of fraud and corruption.

   A system that provides access to quality seating on the basis of bribes and corruption at the expense of the fans, without whose continued support the theatre could not survive, should not be tolerated. Indeed, Billy Joel stated in a recent interview that he would in fact stop doing live concerts because the system did not permit the "real fans" access to tickets.

[upstatestruggler]

ps-
The price that tickets to popular events command in the marketplace belongs to the performers, producers and investors who create the events, not the speculators who through illegality and deception take advantage of the excess demand in the system. Ticket scalping is sometimes referred to as a "victimless" crime. To the contrary, the victims of the current ticket distribution system are the fans, the producers and investors who create the events and the State of New York, which loses both tax revenues and credibility as the entertainment center of the world.

[Murph]

I was unable to get tickets and was just wondering if anyone had any ideas or recomendations on where i could go to try to get 2 tix without paying a ridiculous amount for them.  Thanks