capthowdy
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Did you use a credit card?
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valium will get you through the stress
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prolly too late now but like I said before, maybe someone who can make things happen will see these posts? Can only hope. I
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Placebo did that on the Meds tour. Small uk club tour, wait to see how the new album does then a full uk areana tour. I'm kinda thing that Muse are doing the same thing too.
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Yup, that would be cracker idea. Maybe someone with a bit of clout keeps an eye on threads like this for ideas like that. Anything, ANYTHING that helps to get tix into the hands of the fans is alright with me.
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I remember the shit the happened on u2's vertigo tour - tons of ppl who had been paid up members of the old U2 Propaganda Club got right-royally screwwwwwwed over on presale tix - codes not working, TM crashing, credit cards refused for no reason - the boards were going mental with so much traffic that Larry Mullan jr. actually sent out a personal email to all members apologising for to mess and promising to make sure that it didn;t happen again. This time around, for the 360 tour, it went far better. They split the membership into three groups - full u2.com members with unbroken, paid up membership got access to the presale first, then the two other groups, all based on how people had been members for. Here's the interesting thing though, as far as I can remember, the mods at u2.com asked the memebers to watch out for ticket listings on ebay and to post the links on one of the boards. They then had ticketmaster cancel the tickets and/or have ebay drop the listing. Someone can correct me but I think thats how it worked and it I believe it worked pretty well, not perfect, but better than doing fuck all about those fucking scum touts.
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People will ALWAYS get screwed on presales, ALWAYS. And anyway, what IS actual fan? How do you tell? What do they look like? Not having a go man, you're pissed and it's understandable but there absolutely fuck all you can do about. You could mitigate a bit by charging for mu membership but can you imagine the row, geez. I've been paid up U2 member for years, only to get a chance for tickets in their presales, and you should see how fucked off people get over there about tickets, fees etc. Agreed with the rest of your points, though.
