Holiday price for TBF sold out in less than one day???!!! What the He**??!!!

[RockyMtnGuy]

OK, planet bluegrass, how in the heck did ALL of the discounted 'holiday price' tickets sell out in less than a DAY??!!  I just checked shop.bluegrass.com and it says they're already sold out!!!  What, did you cut down the number of tickets to 50, versus the hundreds in past years?????  OR, did scalpers inundate the servers??

After a cursory query, the following is found on stub hub:

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 4 Day Pass (June 21 -24)   
TBD 
   Telluride Town Park
Telluride, CO   Sell   
 
Priced from: $850
28 tickets left

luride Bluegrass Festival Thursday Pass (June 21)   
TBD 
   Telluride Town Park
Telluride, CO   Sell   
 
Priced from: $400
4 tickets left

Nice.  Real Nice.  Gee .. 28 tickets for the first one.  One can hope that next year IP filtering will be used and known scalpers' IP's will be blocked from even accessing the site!

Truly Sad!

[TellurideTom]

As long as nobody buys from these scalpers at anything but face value they will continue.
Force them out of business by not accepting their price, and they will have to eat the tickets.
That's the only way to stop it.

[HuckinFappy]

As long as nobody buys from these scalpers at anything but face value they will continue.
Force them out of business by not accepting their price, and they will have to eat the tickets.
That's the only way to stop it.

The problem is, there are people who will pay their price.  Sadly.   

[Mark of Bloomington]

This really s**ks, and not in the good way.

[Mark of Bloomington]

Here's an idea that just occurred to me for 2013 TBF Holiday Priced Ticket sales.  I do not know how pragmatic this may be, but what if the Holiday Priced Tickets were sold by "Will Call" only?  That would force the Purchaser of Record to actually show up at the Festival and claim his ticket(s).  Just a thought.  Like I said this may be a logistcal nightmare, but I feel it would be a fair work around for the TRUE FESTAVARIANS.

[ShatteredArm]

Or they could just give us a REALLY crappy lineup one year, so nobody wants to buy their tickets.  That'll show 'em!

[dpkane]

I agree that scalpers are all over this. RockyGrass Holiday Tickets also sold out by something around noon. I'm completely floored.  I had someone offer me several times face value for my tickets when I posted I had extras. The times they are a-changin' <sigh> but sadly...not for the better. 

Very disappointed.

[wngsfn99]

I too was shocked when 2 hours after on sale they were already sold out...makes me wonder how fast the 4-day passes are gonna go...

 Listening to: Mickey Hart Band - 12/6/11 Compound Grill, Scotttsdale

[HuckinFappy]

We've had years with "crazy" sales before.  But my memory is that when that has happened, the subsequent years have quieted down a little.  As if people decide not to come after the craziness of the previous year.

But is the popularity finally feeding on itself?  Have we reached the point of no return, where each year it will be harder to return, and the returning percentage of the  population of Town Park will decline until nobody remembers Rum Balls, the Fashion show, or Potluck?  Will the sanctity of "traditional camps" be lost?  in other words, has it come to this?



ShatteredArm is onto something.  Maybe an "All Banjo" festival would work?   

[Mark of Bloomington]

I would like to hear from someone at Planet Bluegrass regarding all of this.  Is it scalpers, as we all suspect, or is it simply a matter a fewer holiday tickets this year?

They still owe us a preliminary line up.

[ShatteredArm]

Maybe an "All Banjo" festival would work?   

Four days of Edgar Meyer.  Just Edgar Meyer.

I'd be in heaven.  Everybody else might get a little bored.

[HuckinFappy]

Maybe an "All Banjo" festival would work?   

Four days of Edgar Meyer.  Just Edgar Meyer.

I'd be in heaven.  Everybody else might get a little bored.

With Bela singing?

[Hot Sugar]

Maybe an "All Banjo" festival would work?   

Four days of Edgar Meyer.  Just Edgar Meyer.

I'd be in heaven.  Everybody else might get a little bored.

With Bela singing?

Don't forget a repeat of the 2008 Ryan Adams set!!!

 Listening to: The Highwaymen

[Debbiefromtucson]

and all Ryan Adams festival?

[Debbiefromtucson]

rning percentage of the  population of Town Park will decline until nobody remembers Rum Balls, the Fashion show, or Potluck?  Will the sanctity of "traditional camps" be lost?  in other words, has it come to this?
 

Or the Bloody Mary's.........