Take That 2007 Uk Tour tickets

niteflite01

Teresa60 wrote:

Would you say, from experience, it is more successfull to buy the tickets online or on the phone? Never done this before, but I really want to see Take That! I've got their CDs from the first time round!!

Online. But only if you're given the choice of seats etc.

If no choice is offered then either use another agent, or do it by telephone.

niteflite01

johnnhoj35 wrote:

i really dont wish to argue with you, it is a money saving board as you say. however,

firstly, the arctic monkeys presale was not password protected. the links were easy to extract once you got past the password entry page. likewise with the wet wet wet page, you could go directly to the purchase page and bypass the password quite easily. the only people who dont understand this are real fans. any tout worth his salt knows how to play these systems.

secondly, main agent = biggest seller, biggest seller = main agent. I wouldnt consider using anyone but ticketmaster tommorrow morning because (assuming it hasnt died under the traffic volume) seetickets will not tell you where your seats are for several hours. the site goes into some kind of `basic` operating mode when it gets overloaded so you could be sat anywhere!

thirdly, its more than naive to think that ticket touts dont watch these pages. its just one more step to making life easy for them.

the point I would agree with is that presales are pointless unless handled correctly.

Ticket buying is a science these days and Im afraid Joe Public stand no chance!

To be fair, most bands put pre-sale links on their homepages. So I hardly think me posting them here is going to play any more easily into the hands of the touts than that, do you?

However, you make some fair points and in future I'll not be posting them here. Fair play.

And for the record, I'm by no means a massive fan of Seetickets. Far from it. I prefer dealing with Ticketmaster every time both professionally and personally. But sometimes Seetickets are the most reliable choice in terms of having tickets when Ticketcrooks have sold out. And in terms of not having to input that blasted CATCHPA code every time I want to look for tickets - slowing the whole process down dreadfully. I really hate that. Really, really hate that.

There's really no excuse for any of these companies not having a suitably robust mechanism in place to deal with high server loads. I mean, they earn quite enough money.....

Anyway, cheers and enjoy Take That (not my cup of tea personally but there you go)

IClaudius

niteflite01 wrote:

To be fair, most bands put pre-sale links on their homepages. So I hardly think me posting them here is going to play any more easily into the hands of the touts than that, do you?

However, you make some fair points and in future I'll not be posting them here. Fair play.

This whole site is about saving people money and getting deals and thanks to your posts over the last few months, you have enabled lots of grateful people to secure good seats at some cracking concerts and gigs.

I for one think you posting pre-sale links is fantastic.
If some band is going to charge me £50 the privilege of seeing them, then "see" them is what I would like to do, not view them on some huge screen from the back of an auditorium because I couldn't get decent seats due to the fact I couldn't get through on the phone for two hours!! :mad:

Most of us who use Tesco points and money off vouchers and discount codes and slip ups in company websites, know that we are just lucky to have access to that information.
You posting your presale links is just one more example.

In no way here I am sure do the majority of MSE'ers think that you are the same as the ticket touts.

I for one really really hope you continue to post the links but if you decide not to, a HUGE thank you to all the links you've already posted.


And I shall buy you a virtual :beer: as thanks


:T :T :T :T

foxyuk

niteflite01 wrote:

To be fair, most bands put pre-sale links on their homepages. So I hardly think me posting them here is going to play any more easily into the hands of the touts than that, do you?

However, you make some fair points and in future I'll not be posting them here. Fair play.

And for the record, I'm by no means a massive fan of Seetickets. Far from it. I prefer dealing with Ticketmaster every time both professionally and personally. But sometimes Seetickets are the most reliable choice in terms of having tickets when Ticketcrooks have sold out. And in terms of not having to input that blasted CATCHPA code every time I want to look for tickets - slowing the whole process down dreadfully. I really hate that. Really, really hate that.

There's really no excuse for any of these companies not having a suitably robust mechanism in place to deal with high server loads. I mean, they earn quite enough money.....

Anyway, cheers and enjoy Take That (not my cup of tea personally but there you go)

the problem these days are there is only ticketmaster and seetickets..... the rest aloud,gigs and tours, ticketline, ticketweb and so on are all owned by above

piperd

I cannot believe that anyone is having a pop at niteflite for what he/she does in posting pre-sale links. I'm sure these same people have used them in the past or would use them if there was an event that they were interested in.

The links posted on here by niteflite in the past have sorted me with tickets for concerts that I probably wouldnt have got tickets for otherwise.

P*sses me off that someone tries to do a good deed (niteflite could just keep the links to themselves OR exploit them for personal gain), and can still get people having a dig.

Keep up the good work I say mate, fair play to you.

mrs_s_11

Hi, not really sure why this has turned in to a debate about pre-sales, ticket touts, but I just wanted to add my thanks to niteflite01 for posting the link earlier. Shame it didn't work, but hey that's life. I know you have posted other pre-sale links and it would be a shame if you stopped because of the opinions of a few.

So anyway I guess I will see you all in the virtual queue for Take That tickets tomorrow !!! I am sure I will be disappointed and be forced to pay ebay prices, I couldn't go to the last Take That tour as I was heavily pregnant/had a newborn, so am DESPERATE to get tickets tomorrow. As is a good majority of the female (and male??) UK population!!

Good luck all!

everso908

hi take that tickets are on general sale march 2nd at 9am

there was a presale since the beginning of the week for fan club members only, there will be tickets avaible tomorrow mornign at the usuall outlets

claren

mrs_s wrote:

I am sure I will be disappointed and be forced to pay ebay prices, QUOTE]

I'm not so sure you should be so pessimistic mrs_s......with 22 dates lined up, I think you should stand a good chance of getting some reasonable seats. Might be worth trying for some tickets for one of the midweek shows, as they may sell out slower, and give you a better chance of getting the elusive FRONT ROW you're after!!!;)

Good luck anyway...and thanks to niteflite from me too

foxyuk

everso908 wrote:

hi take that tickets are on general sale march 2nd at 9am

there was a presale since the beginning of the week for fan club members only, there will be tickets avaible tomorrow mornign at the usuall outlets

no there wasnt..........

IClaudius

everso908 wrote:

there was a presale since the beginning of the week for fan club members only,

Where? What Site?