Northern Wish Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 (edited) Hi Betty, I know you will be getting lots of mail so I will keep it short. What the heck happened with the ticketing for Toronto? At both PTBM and regular onsale time the best tickets that were being found by most (I will admit that one friend did receive Pits from the lottery) were 400 level at best.Immediately following the onsale there was an onslaught of 200s to StubHub.We all tried really hard to get good tix for the first show back in TO since 2000 (I was there and at 99 too); and then to watch Ticketmaster drop 300s and Pits over the weekend and then all of the remaining 200s yesterday.I won't swear- or stomp on my soapbox- but I will just say that I am supremely dissapointed. I read that Phish got a $1 mill dollar bonus to play only LNation venues last summer. I would expect that will have to stay in place as fewer and fewer fans want to buy bad seats at the onsale- and will rather wait for prices to fall drastically on the secondary market due to the backhanded tactics. Would Phish really rather have Live Nations money, than from their own fans? Perhaps that is one of the reasons they are no longer a band that sells out shows, but sells out its fans.Lets be honest here the band or management is clearly playing with the on sales to ensure that the worst seats are eaten up by real fans, and then maybe you get some casual interlopers to buy the good seats near the show. Somehow this seems like a better way to sell more tickets to someone like Coran.This is not acceptable and Phish fans won't stand for it. I will never ever buy tickets to a Phish event in advance again.I hope the lid gets blown off of this situation like all of those manhole covers during the massive storm last night.Even though I love the band -this will be my 63rd show- all travelling far and wide from Canada (even during the days of 52% currency exchange)- this is the first time I feel like they don't love us.Too bad, so sad. Edited July 9, 2013 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Thanks for taking the time to write. I should do the same. Livenation and ticketmaster need to be held accountable. I dont even know where to start to be in honest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted July 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 I know it comes off as a bit whiny, but I don't fucking care. Copy and paste all you wants folks.I found bettys email, a few at phish.com and 3 for Red Light. I doubt it gets a response but if just one person reads it and talks about it at the water cooler then great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcust99 Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Can you share those addresses? I'd like to write as well. I'd be interested to hear what Capshaw says about this fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted July 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 I also just realized that they dropped all of the good seats once we were inside the 1 week window when you can no longer upgrade through ticketmaster.Another lovely practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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