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

[theguywthething]

I think the idea of WillCall pickup for all Holiday sales...is great!  I have never had a problem getting my tickets when I get to the fest!  Its a first activity, right after a cold Fat Tire!  I just wish someone would have seen this coming!  It is happening anywhere where there is a croud of more than 10,000 for an event with great acts!

To get back to a positive point...  Here are some ideas for keeping this very hard for the scalpers to make money with this fest in the future!

  As suggested...Will Call pickup of all Holiday Ticket Purchases
  Lottery for past festavarians...  You got our names and addresses!  Send us a pre-sales email..
  Festavarian Club Card...  You can only get a club card if you go to the fest the year before!  Club members get first dibs.
  Limit sales of large numbers of tickets to the same person or credit card number.

[Mark of Bloomington]

These are some good ideas, but if Dustin is correct, the sell out of Holiday Priced Tickets was not obviously due to scalpers, but perhaps to a new awareness in The Festival.  I would like to make it harder for the dirty, rotten scalpers to aquire cheap tickets, but not for novice Festivarians who may be your new best friends by the end of the 2012 TBF.

[JoeBu]

I've used so called "Flash Tickets" from Ticket Horse several times now.  It's actually easier than print out tickets or hard tickets.  You just swipe your CC and you ticket prints out...super fast, super easy.  I don't think it would be a logistical nightmare at all.  The problem is Ticket Horse (pretty sure they did the Phish Town Park tickets) has their own secondary market website...so it defeats the purpose a bit.  I think the ultimate solution would be if you could sell them as non-transferable flash tickets and stop Ticket Horse from reselling.

That said, for something this great it's always going to be stressful getting tickets...nothing you can do about that.

Signed, lucky to be in Warner.

[tycho_brahe]

Or you could just update the PB internet server so it can handle the traffic on ticket sale mornings. I was into my cart by 9:05, only to keep getting "timed out" and didn't end up getting them purchased until about 9:45. I was the only one in about 15 or so of us WF veterans that got a ticket.

I don't know what I am to do with all my cases of honey and mead for nest year. I may need to meet some new friends at warner field this year to help me consume this nectar. Otherwise, I think I will end up being blacked out for the whole 6 days in a drunken shitshow of a slumber..

[TellurideTom]

I don't know what I am to do with all my cases of honey and mead for nest year. I may need to meet some new friends at warner field this year to help me consume this nectar. Otherwise, I think I will end up being blacked out for the whole 6 days in a drunken shitshow of a slumber..

Bring it into Town Park! I'm sure there are plenty of Town Park campers that would love to share your brew. 

[festimose]

I think the jury is still out on what is going on here.  From Dustin's feedback it doesn't sound like a well organized scalper attack.  This is kinda backed up by what I see on stub hub.  When I bought my full price tics I saw an "8 max" message below the qty box.  I assume that it was also there for the holiday tickets??  If so there are so far only two low lifes trying to sell 8 tickets.  The rest are a mix of 2 to 4 tickets.  If some folks are trying to finance their trip on the backs of festivarians by scalping I hope a critter (of the non-guitar playing variety) eats their bacon!  Of course there are still tickets for sale at full price.  Not sure why these folks are posting tickets for $495 min when you can still buy them for $195.  Curious to know if the run on tickets extended to the full priced.

I'm sure I'll appear as a newbie - gotta do something about that - have only missed one fest since 2001.  My first post because I feel scalping for $500 and up can threaten the best fest in the land.  Thanks to PBG for fostering this environment and festivarian family.  Nowhere else would we even have heard from Dustin.  Festivarians - PBG will need our help on this one.  I for one pledge to never buy scalper tickets. I have said a few times that the Elks Park line-up is good enough just to come and hang there without fest tickets.

 Listening to: Appalachian Pickers Society

[tycho_brahe]

I don't know what I am to do with all my cases of honey and mead for nest year. I may need to meet some new friends at warner field this year to help me consume this nectar. Otherwise, I think I will end up being blacked out for the whole 6 days in a drunken shitshow of a slumber..

Bring it into Town Park! I'm sure there are plenty of Town Park campers that would love to share your brew. 

 

That is a wonderful idea, Tom!


  

[landshark]

I have been thinkin about how fast this sold and I think it is just a sign of the times. For each festvarian we are linked to at the very least 10 more and so on. Technology is a beautiful thing.