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I was really excited about this and wanted to book as many tickets as I could for my family until I saw that the cheapest tickets will be £395.......can this be true and have I read it wrong? I am really disappointed.

I know :(( i hope I am wrong.

Just heard on the news on the radio that the tickets are at "affordable prices"

Top price £70 then I think he said £65 or £60, then the lowest is £50.

Jan

I was reading on a site earlier (found through google) that tickets at the O2 would cost between £50-£75, which seems to be about the going rate for these big concerts these days.

Carolyn

Where do I find these prices?

Found this article
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/05/michael-jackson-announces-ten-concert-run-at-londons-o2-arena/

tickets go on sale next Wednesday, March 13th. Fans can register for the chance to buy tickets on MichaelJacksonLive.com; the ticket sale will be similar to the Led Zeppelin reunion one, where registering results in a unique password that gives the user the chance to buy up to four tickets.

Just looked again and this is the website you need

http://www.michaeljacksonlive.com/

I found those prices on the BBC news site. It said concerts start on 8th July, and tickets will go on sale from 13 March.

Carolyn

Hi Jan, I just looked at the first site you provided and have registered on all my five email addresses (yes, I know...) Going to check out the others now. Thank-you Carolyn, going to look at that too.

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

Thanks, jan, will do my best!!

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

Helen

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

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.

Got my tickets in the end :-)

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

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

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

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 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.