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Topic: NYC gigs in Jan

Hello out there I am planning to come to the Radio City gigs in January which is the best way of obtaining tickets via the venue itself or the big sellers ie Ticketmaster thanx Neil UK

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

There will be a fan pre-sale. The codes should be posted here sometime before the 4th of September when they go on sale. The New York city shows are tough to get good tickets for. Ticketmaster is the seller but it seems mysteriously the best seats are not available. There will be some PBS tickets which are seats available through the local PBS station which are good seats you can obtain by making a donation to the station.

Scalpers rule in the New York City Market unless Joe's management has figured out how to beat them.

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

Will Bonafans have good seats (at least) and not in the nosebleed sections? We certainly will buy tickets.   Is Joe going to DVD of RCH?

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

Cheers for the info

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

jim m wrote:

Ticketmaster is the seller but it seems mysteriously the best seats are not available .

Its regretable that it seems Ticket Monster is locking out the best seats (first 10 rows center)

It would be nice if Joe and the JR management could regain control of ticket sales again, so they can control which sests are released on which days.

I will pay the 2015 markup but would like the chance again of getting in the first 10 rows center with fan precode like i did in 2013

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

jim m wrote:

There will be a fan pre-sale. The codes should be posted here sometime before the 4th of September when they go on sale. The New York city shows are tough to get good tickets for. Ticketmaster is the seller but it seems mysteriously the best seats are not available. There will be some PBS tickets which are seats available through the local PBS station which are good seats you can obtain by making a donation to the station.

Scalpers rule in the New York City Market unless Joe's management has figured out how to beat them.

Maybe I'm being naive here, but doesn't posting the pre-sale codes on the forum for the whole world to see rather defeat the purpose of having codes?

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

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jim m wrote:

There will be a fan pre-sale. The codes should be posted here sometime before the 4th of September when they go on sale. The New York city shows are tough to get good tickets for. Ticketmaster is the seller but it seems mysteriously the best seats are not available. There will be some PBS tickets which are seats available through the local PBS station which are good seats you can obtain by making a donation to the station.

Scalpers rule in the New York City Market unless Joe's management has figured out how to beat them.

Maybe I'm being naive here, but doesn't posting the pre-sale codes on the forum for the whole world to see rather defeat the purpose of having codes?

I don't make policy around here I just deal with it. The NYC scalper network however doesn't need to get codes from here. It is a well oiled machine I theorize entrenched in the  inherent corruption present in all facets of NYC businesses.

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Jim is correct. The scalper networks have the ticket allocations lined up long before they go on sale. All it takes to have front row center in NYC is $$$.
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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

Jim, no criticism meant and I hope you didn't take it that way. I appreciate that it is almost impossible to prevent the scalpers getting the best seats or multiple tickets, as they always seem to on every continent. Maybe the codes should only be sent to forum members. That would get the membership numbers up!

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Wow.  Sorry to hear all this about the realities of NYC ticketing.  Was seriously considering attending RCMH, to experience a Joe milestone, going by train so as not to worry about the weather, and returning late same night to avoid hotel expense.  Giant allocation to travel time, but now getting mighty discouraged about landing a decent seat.  May have to punt.    hmm

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Wow.  Sorry to hear all this about the realities of NYC ticketing.  Was seriously considering attending RCMH, to experience a Joe milestone, going by train so as not to worry about the weather, and returning late same night to avoid hotel expense.  Giant allocation to travel time, but now getting mighty discouraged about landing a decent seat.  May have to punt.    hmm

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

Hi, first post, great site.  Just wanted to mention that there is also a Chase pre-sale on Wednesday.  Can't wait to see Joe tear it up at Radio City!

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

For the third show added to the Beacon last year I scored 10th row center in the pre-sale. I was pretty happy with that.

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Re: NYC gigs in Jan

jim m wrote:

There will be a fan pre-sale. The codes should be posted here sometime before the 4th of September when they go on sale. The New York city shows are tough to get good tickets for. Ticketmaster is the seller but it seems mysteriously the best seats are not available. There will be some PBS tickets which are seats available through the local PBS station which are good seats you can obtain by making a donation to the station.

Scalpers rule in the New York City Market unless Joe's management has figured out how to beat them.

When you say codes will be posted here... Do you mean in the forum or is there someplace else I need to go?