General Chat

Hi all, I was surprised to find my thread resurrected!

I didn't get any tickets at all, sadly, even though I got a code for every one of my five email addresses. It took ages to get close, as others have said, then I kept getting cut off.

Ticketmaster warnings have been taken on board, thanks to all who raised these concerns.

So clearly there is hope for a later concert - although maybe I will just stock up on the CDs.

Pamela,
We got tickets for the third show, This July. Im not that bothered to be honest but my husband was really looking forward to it.
Ours is one of those that has been re-scheduled for March 2010. I think it's a damn cheek! We should have been at one of the 1st shows, Not the last.
I doubt that he will do all of the shows, It all seems to be a big publicity stunt, i.e How many fans do I still have.... The thing is I bet that more than half of those tickets went to touts, Serves them right!
Pat

Thought I'd raise this issue again as there is such doubt as to whether MJ will actually perform his July concerts (if any at all!). If he doesn't go ahead with a concert and a refund is given, I wonder what will happen to those who paid extortionate prices on ebay for their tickets? Presumably the refund will go to the original purchaser (the ebay seller) and it will be up to their honesty/integrity as to whether they pass the money on to whoever they sold the ticket to? In any case, the refund will only be for the original price of the ticket, not the huge mark-up figure that it was sold at. Never more has the saying been truer: buyer beware!

I got my tickets about 7.45am this morning, despite being cut off after 30 minutes of being in the telephone queue.

I am looking forward to 23rd September.

Fi

Oh wow.....Good luck girls, hope you enjoy the show. My daughter was desperate to go also but decided as she's seen him she'll remember him as he was, but she will be envious of all of you :o))

But please be aware of Ticket Master, you may have paid for them now but its when they arrive that things could be different. Ours arrived 3 days before the show having booked them last MAY!!

jude :o)

I got my pre-sale tickets this morning after sitting on the internet for an hour and half. Got them through Ticketmaster, although the same block different row seats are on seatwave for over £1000....

Ann - yes . l don't have the tickets now as he needs them as proof of purchase, but l think he paid £150 each (x 4) and got 4 x £75.00, plus the handling fee's presumably. Was told on Saturday that promotional packages should have arrived same time as tickets, but they did'nt arrive, not that he wanted them.
Ticket Master are apparently known for this and they said on Saturday there is nothing he can do.

jude:o(

Jude, when you say they had lost £300 do you mean they had paid for dearer seats and got the cheaper ones? If they have proof surely that is fraud.

l might add that a number of people sitting behind us had the same problem having booked with Ticket Master and the people next to them, they were all furious and extremely upset at having lost approx £300!!!

jude:o((

I have just spoken to my daughter about this. Apparently, you had to register online and wait for an email to arrive confirming that you were in the queue for pre-registration. A selected number of people were then given a pre-sales code. At 7.00 a.m. today (11th March) those who had the code could then go online to purchase tickets for one of the concerts. If you didn't have this code, you couldn't even attempt to buy tickets. My daughter had been issued with a code and so at 7.00 a.m. today she started the process of entering the code etc. with a view to selecting a concert date. A message intermittently flashed up informing her where she was in the queue in terms of minutes. With 6 minutes to go, she was booted out of the site and had to start the whole process again - only to be informed that all the tickets had gone!!
When MJ first came to England back in the 1980's, my mother and I spent nearly all morning on the telephone trying to get through to the Wembley Box Office line but eventually we got 2 tickets (maximum issue per person) and I took my then teenage daughter to see what turned out to be a fabulous concert.
It would seem that this pre-registration fiasco has left it wide open for abuse. Touts from all over the world were able to register for codes, using banks of computers. Having obtained tickets online, they were then able to sell them on e-bay for extortionate prices. Coupled with the fact that the 02 arena only seats 20,000 compared to nearly 100,000 that attended Wembley Stadium in the 1980's, it doesn't take much working out to realise that the tickets are even harder to obtain.
Although I registered via email as well as my daughter, I didn't even get given a code and so couldn't even try to get tickets when they went on sale this morning.
All in all, I am happy to remember MJ when he was at his peak. I doubt that he will even manage to fulfil his July dates , let alone the extras that will extend his concerts to the end of September!
I just feel so sorry for all those people that really believed that once they had been given a code, they would stand a good chance of getting a ticket.

Please be careful using Ticket Master, we saw Tina Turner on Saturday at the O2, fantastic show, fairly goodview but should have been better, my nephew has lost approx £300.00 because the tickets that arrived were not the ones he paid for!!
Try and book your tickets via the Box Office!!!!
This is'nt the first time he has lost money with Ticlet Master and it has been said that they are having money probs.Watch Dog has had complaints in the past.

jude

I wont be going this time, but I did go to his concert in 1992

Was well worth the money back then , he entered the stage at Wembley stadium by being catapulted out of a trap door in the middle of the stage :o))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCwDIVXJIQ&feature=related

A colleague of mine got a code from ticket master today and I was very suprised the tickets are under £50.00.

I got up just before 7am this morning and got tickets after being in a queue for 30 mins. They cost me £75 each.

I noticed later that pairs of tickets on e-bay were selling in excess of £500 and were still being bid on!

Joanne

Got my tickets in the end :-)

I got my tickets after 5hrs and 23 mins of sitting on the pc, got them with a O2 code priority. Tickets go on general sale on fri at 7am. 10 dates where released but by 12 there where 16 dates. Ticket master charging £9 per ticket booking fee which I think is a sham.

I,ve got a code, trying to get them from ticketmaster.

Anyone got tickets yet?, i,m still trying.

Helen

Thanks, jan, will do my best!!

Hope you enjoy him if you manage to get some tickets.