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Post by Blackjack on Nov 6, 2010 9:47:44 GMT -5
I was wondering those who were able to sit in row 1, 2, or 3 for an WWE event what way did you get that close? Going to a ticketmaster outlet, on the computer, or over the phone?
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Post by Randolph J 'Hurricane' Spencer on Nov 6, 2010 12:25:31 GMT -5
i used to get 1st row for every wilkes-barre show by waiting in line at the arena box office, people who have sat next to me mentioned getting them online so it's really just the luck of the draw
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on Nov 6, 2010 12:27:09 GMT -5
I'd say your best bet is through Ticketmaster online...
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Post by HugoOne on Nov 6, 2010 12:42:28 GMT -5
I've gotten front row at a house show through my Dad getting online at Ticketmaster right as they go on sale. Other ways are to go through brokers, but going online right as they go on sale is your best bet. Brokers are 'spensive.
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Post by J12 on Nov 6, 2010 12:50:31 GMT -5
Ticketmaster. I've sat front row for about five house shows, second row for three or four. As far as house shows go, I refuse to go unless I'm in the first few rows. The experience is totally different.
As far as my front row luck goes, I've done it online three times, and by other methods twice. The first time I ever had front row, I got in line at the box office at 4am (only because the venue wasn't affiliated with Ticketmaster - they had a local box office only). The other time was just this past summer. My friend and I walked up to the ticket office an hour before showtime, asked for the best seats available, and got front row.
As far as online goes, it's a pretty simple process, but there is always a bit of luck involved.
Make sure you're online five to ten minutes before tickets go on sale, and be ready. Refresh the page frequently, but not too fast. Ticketmaster will lock you out if it thinks you're a spinning robot.
Once the tickets go on sale, just go through the process as fast as you can. You may be lucky enough to grab first row on your first try, but it's highly unlikely.
Never assume that what you get first is the best you'll see (there exceptions to this rule, of course, like something as big as Wrestlemania XX, in which if you didn't take the first tickets you saw, you were S.O.L.)
Don't like what you get? Throw them back. Keep trying, because what happens is, people will secure tickets and then lose them if they don't complete the process in time, their card declines, etc, etc.
When you start to see the selection getting thinner, consider taking the best you can get so you don't get totally screwed.
If you want to get crafty, you can have windows open on separate browsers. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, whatever you feel comfortable using. Don't have more than one window open per browser, though, it will lock you out.
Of the three times I've scored front row online, only once did I get them within the first couple tries. The other took me about five minutes of searching, and the other I didn't grab until almost 10:20, nearly 20 minutes after they went on sale. It's always a gamble.
Good luck! I always loved searching for tickets during an on sale, there's something really exciting about it.
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Post by AdamBomb on Nov 6, 2010 13:26:22 GMT -5
I sat second row at a house show, and grabbed the ticket online.
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Post by DMO™ on Nov 6, 2010 13:53:50 GMT -5
I sat 3rd row at a RAW back in May and I got them off my cousin who was a scalper at the time ( not sure if that's even legal to talk about on here but oh well lol)
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Nov 6, 2010 14:35:29 GMT -5
To consistently get a seat like that, you will need to buy from a scalper. Days of waiting in line or jumping on ticketmaster are over. Scalpers are getting tickets days before the general public has access to them.
There is one other way. Re-Releases. Usually about an hour before the show, the arena will be allowed to sell tickets that were reserved for friends, family and celebs. They are generally NOT on camera, but still are great seats in the first 3 rows. Its a gamble, as there is no guarantee that they will be available.
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Post by Randolph J 'Hurricane' Spencer on Nov 6, 2010 14:39:53 GMT -5
There is one other way. Re-Releases. Usually about an hour before the show, the arena will be allowed to sell tickets that were reserved for friends, family and celebs. They are generally NOT on camera, but still are great seats in the first 3 rows. Its a gamble, as there is no guarantee that they will be available. very true, i went to the ecw/smackdown taping in wilkes-barre in jan 2008 and was able to buy 3 2nd row seats about 30 min before the show started, plus the guy in front of us kids were not enjoying the show so he left after smackdown and we got his 1st row seats for ecw. everything seemed to fall into place that night.
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Post by raabhimselffanv2 on Nov 6, 2010 15:23:19 GMT -5
I sat third row at a house show, nabbed the tickets online. Granted, I got them about a week before the show, and I know i was incredibly lucky.
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Post by J12 on Nov 6, 2010 16:31:39 GMT -5
To consistently get a seat like that, you will need to buy from a scalper. Days of waiting in line or jumping on ticketmaster are over. Scalpers are getting tickets days before the general public has access to them. Actually, for the most part, this isn't true at all. I worked for a ticket broker for four years, and still do some weekends and during summers. "Scalpers" and brokers get tickets the exact same way the general public does - online the morning of an on sale. The only difference is, some of them invest in expensive "robots" that spin and generate fake IP addresses to avoid getting kicked out by Ticketmaster. It makes the process quick, but no faster than an individual sitting behind a computer at home with quick fingers. I've seen these machines at work, they're more about getting a large quantity of tickets quickly than they are about getting the best seats possible. In fact, the guy that I used to work for supplies several of the largest brokers in the country and I've worked against his machine on more than one occasion to test for him whether or not we were leaving anything behind. I got better seats than he did on more than one try. The only "in's" the third party market has with venues is when it comes to sporting events like football and baseball. In those cases, places like StubHub may be allotted a specific number of tickets. For the most part, though, it's just good old fashion man power. You can beat the brokers, you just have to know what you're doing.
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Post by jfinnomore on Nov 6, 2010 19:44:14 GMT -5
got 2nd row, camera side for SmackDown and just got online when the presale started. i heard its easier to get single seats in the closer sections but idk.
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Post by johnnypoopypants on Nov 6, 2010 21:12:06 GMT -5
I sat 3rd row at a Smackdown taping in 05. We entered a drawing after we got there and won. so.. be on the lookout for stuff like that cuz you never know it may pay off
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Post by Nick on Nov 6, 2010 22:11:11 GMT -5
I sat 2nd row at WWE TLC and got my tickets through stubhub.
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Post by |»Champ«| on Nov 6, 2010 22:13:01 GMT -5
I found it very easy to get camera seats for Smackdown/ECW when it was here. Spent half hour on ticketmaster the day the tickets went public and still got 3rd row seats. RAW seems impossible to even get a floor seat when I try.
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Post by ß®å¢K$ßâ¢k on Nov 6, 2010 22:39:02 GMT -5
Never assume that what you get first is the best you'll see (there exceptions to this rule, of course, like something as big as Wrestlemania XX, in which if you didn't take the first tickets you saw, you were S.O.L.) Way right on that one...And luckily my seats weren't shitty...They weren't great, but they were almost behind the stage but on the bottom level. So we got to see like Eddie Guerrero and SCSA setting up for their entrances. We also got to see Taker before everyone else
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Post by BcBlingin- Scooter Glenwood on Nov 6, 2010 23:09:51 GMT -5
When I go I just go up to the box office anywhere from an hour before or til the doors open and they will release ringside tickets on the non camera side that are not going to be used for comps. I have had luck all but once on that . I prefer the non camera side to camera side. That is the way they face during interviews for the most part because of the cameras... I really don't care about seeing myself on tv or holding up an ignorant sign to get recognized.
That has worked at all tv events I have been to including ppvs.
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Post by BOOM! #WDE on Nov 7, 2010 0:28:45 GMT -5
I went to a Raw house show once with no tickets. I just went to get autographs. Before the show a guy came out back and said they just opened up some new seats on the floor. They were first come, first serve, so my dad and I jumped on it and got front row. I've tried ordering by calling, but the local venue does not take call in orders until all the people lined up are taken care of. They recently started using online orders too, but they do the same thing with those. Once everyone in line is taken care of, they go up.
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Post by comintogetcha on Nov 7, 2010 0:46:06 GMT -5
StubHub is in bed with Ticketmaster now and gets allotted a certain percentage of premium seats for most shows, so say for example if there's a total of 200 seats total in the first three rows on all sides of the ring, maybe 80 or so of those seats will not go on sale to the public, and will immediately end up on StubHub at a grossly inflated price, sometimes up to 5 to 10 times the face value of the initial ticket.
A good example of this was with the recent WWE Fan Appreciation show where the floor seats were only $20. IMMEDIATELY upon going on sale, seats in the first three rows were listed on StubHub for $150 and up, and it wasn't scalpers or resellers selling them, it was StubHub themselves.
StubHub has to be the worst thing to ever happen to the concert and sporting event industry. It used to be that when you were buying tickets to a show, you only had to compete with local scalpers for the best seats. These days you have professional ticket brokers that hire people whose job it is to sit at home and purchase tickets for every popular show or event all across the country to sell at a profit. Don't you think it's strange when you buy tickets on StubHub for a Lakers game, and they get sent to you from some guy in Vermont?
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Post by J12 on Nov 7, 2010 1:24:44 GMT -5
StubHub is in bed with Ticketmaster now and gets allotted a certain percentage of premium seats for most shows, so say for example if there's a total of 200 seats total in the first three rows on all sides of the ring, maybe 80 or so of those seats will not go on sale to the public, and will immediately end up on StubHub at a grossly inflated price, sometimes up to 5 to 10 times the face value of the initial ticket. A good example of this was with the recent WWE Fan Appreciation show where the floor seats were only $20. IMMEDIATELY upon going on sale, seats in the first three rows were listed on StubHub for $150 and up, and it wasn't scalpers or resellers selling them, it was StubHub themselves. StubHub has to be the worst thing to ever happen to the concert and sporting event industry. It used to be that when you were buying tickets to a show, you only had to compete with local scalpers for the best seats. These days you have professional ticket brokers that hire people whose job it is to sit at home and purchase tickets for every popular show or event all across the country to sell at a profit. Don't you think it's strange when you buy tickets on StubHub for a Lakers game, and they get sent to you from some guy in Vermont? Why would Ticketmaster allot premium seats to StubHub when they are partnered with TicketsNow, StubHub's direct competition? (albeit much smaller). StubHub almost never owns tickets. They work almost exclusively as the middle man between an individual seller or a broker and the fan purchasing the ticket. The rare exception to this is when a broker physically sends tickets to a StubHub office for last minute services.
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