With Spring and Summer comes concert tours, so if you are chomping at the bit to purchase good seats to see your favorite artist, group or band, you need to start planning ASAP. Here are some tips to help you get the tickets you want before your show of choice is sold out!
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- Try to be ahead of the curve and learn about tour dates early. Sign up to receive online newsletters on such sites as Ticketmaster.com, Livenation.com, etc. In addition, join your favorite venue's mailing list as they typically alert their regulars about upcoming tour dates, sometimes before the release date
- Sign up for your favorite artist or group's fan club. Members usually get first choice on tickets at a discounted rate
- Radio stations also have mailing lists -- join them. Since a large chunk of tickets are pre-sold to scalpers, promoters, tour sponsors and radio stations, they oftentimes are given away by listeners so keep your ears open for possibly give aways
- Oftentimes artists will perform in smaller venues so befriend your local party promoters and club owners to ensure a spot on their guest list
- Tickets for artists who are in high demand sell out within minutes, so one sure fire way to get the best tickets is to camp out outside the box office hours before sale time
- You can now purchase tickets over the phone as well as online, so be sure to synchronize both the computer and phone a few minutes before the show goes on sale. Get your friends, co-workers and family members involved as well. The more man power, the better your chances are for getting through. Redial and refresh are your friends!
- Sites like Craigslist.com or EBay.com always have tickets for sale. While sellers are trying to make a profit, the best time to buy is right at the 11th hour. Their prices will drop dramatically in desperation to sell off their tickets. The same tips ring true for scalpers at the venue; if they don't sell their tickets, they don't make their money back
- If money is no object, there are always great tickets available. If you do not have a ticketbroker, call a local hotel and ask for a reference
- If you have a long list of artists you are interested in seeing this season, opt for an all day/night event with multiple acts such as last month's Coachella. You get more bang for your buck when you buy an all inclusive ticket
I hope you find these tips useful. As always, if you have anything to add, please feel free to add comments below!
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Great tips. I definitely do the phone one, I'm not the sort to sit outside a ticket office at 3 am.
1Two things I've learned -
Ticketmaster monitors if you have more than one computer window open trying to get tickets - they'll push you back to start, so don't do this!
Second, most box offices / music stores w/ box offices now have what they call the lottery. when i used to stand in line in Michigan (i don't know how it works elsewhere, but i'm guessing similarly), everyone is allowed to line up but it's not first come, first serve - they give you a ticket, then whatever ticket number they draw first marks the start of the line. This is a situation where you'd want to bring 4 of your closest friends and disperse yourselves throughout the line - I did this once w/ 6 friends and one of them was selected from being spread out (3 of us were even ahead of her in line but would have been sent back)! But remember, if the tickets go in number order, most often if number 10 for example is first, 1-9 has to go to the end of the line (behind 11 - 345 million).
2it also may be good to get there early so you can disperse easily and not all be stuck in one place.
Fantastic tips! When I was buying tickets to a quickly sold out Bloc Party concert about three months ago, I definitely had like multiple tabs open to different vendors, just in case! I was so determined, as the tickets went on sale at 9 am and I set my alarm and everything ... hehehe
3Try being your ticket is a small shop/town, if you can.
4When I went to see U2, all the tix sold out in a couple of hours in the capital and big cities; but my hometown is relatively small, so although I queued for half an hour before they opened (and I wasn't the only one) there were 50 people maxi who wanted to get tickets.
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