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So though we're far less worried about the public ticket sale, starting Monday... the news keeps getting worse and worse. *sighs heavily* There are people on ebay with 70-some GA tickets, when I don't think *any* of us could get GA (this includes both my little group of U2spazzes and everyone on Megs' friends list and most people on Wire, on top of that)... and now, to try and prevent the scalping, there's going to be a cap on how many tickets each person can buy, for the WHOLE tour (or, the first two legs, anyway, I suppose).. only FOUR apiece, total, in the UK. That's ridiculous. I understand how limited space is and how few shows and all, but.. Limit here is eight per person, so we're fine, but..
I'm really getting sad, this is so horrible...
And what makes it all the worse is that fans are flipping out all over the place and screaming about it, you've got people sending their membership cards back to u2.com, you've got so much public outcry and the papers and things are picking up on it and it's making our band look *terrible*.
We all *know* that they wouldn't do this even remotely intentionally, they're usually so anal about all the details, *especially* when it comes to their fans.. they've always taken such good care of us. I think.. I have a feeling it was just a really bad combination of different things. First the dates being pushed back and so many shows not happening cos of that delay, which I'm assuming still has a lot to do with the availability of venues.. Second, the fact that U2 has never handled the presale before, it's always been through Propaganda, and it was before such a majority of ticket-buyers were online. Third, the huge reputation U2 regained as having awesome concerts after the Elevation tour. Fourth.. I honestly think scalpers got trickier and made pretty concentrated attacks on this. By all accounts, this has been like the worst pre-sale ever, not just for U2. Oh yeah, and fifth? Ticketbastard. Sixth, U2.com not being able to handle the sudden surge of traffic and basically going down for an hour at least. Seventh, they left the presale open to people who'd gotten a membership only the night before. Eighth, we think it was a *really* small number of tickets in the presale...and there are like 90,000 members of U2.com. O_o;
..I mean, it was just so many things, all at once, many of which couldn't be foreseen.

I know not many people read this, but anyone who is and is after tickets.. please please PLEASE do *not* perpetuate the awful scalping that's happening, *don't* buy tickets on ebay.. it's one thing if someone has an extra they're trying to sell cos a friend suddenly couldn't make it, but when you see someone with 72 tickets..that's a scalper, and they're the reason we were all fucked over.

*Ananda Daydream * 7:12 PM * *

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