Tickets to Police 2007 Tour in Vancouver? Dream on! · Saturday February 17, 2007 by colin newell
Ok. So it is no big deal… but come on!
Quite a few of us have been sucked into the 2007 Police reunion tour
hype.
And I was one.
For starters, I heard that by signing up for a free newsletter on BestBuy.CA that I would have access to pre-sale tickets.
Yea. Right. Those tickets were long gone within minutes of this promotion first being offered.
Yet they kept the hype up getting thousands to sign up to their retail shill with virtually zero hope of getting tickets for any Police concert anywhere.
So now I have to take the 3 seconds to sign off of the stupid BestBuy newsletter.
Then there is TicketMaster. How I have learned to loathe TicketMaster. Many acts and performers avoid them too.
My story.
Like a good consumer I showed up at the TicketMaster website with plenty of time to queue up for the 10AM sale of Police 2007 tickets.
Right on the money, I clicked in. I requested any ticket at any price… at 10:00:05 AM today. Within about 1 and one/half minutes of waiting the TicketMaster web site spat back there all tickets were gone.
Ok. Fine. So they sold X number of thousands of tickets in 1.5 minutes.
But did they? Did they really?
No. They did not. Let’s count the number of online ticket sales scams that are under way here.
Yesterday (Friday) I could have taken advantage of a Police Fan Club pre-sale for a paltry 120 dollars… 120 bones just to join the fan club and that is prior to actually getting a ticket.
That and all the other pre-sales, corporate sales, and coupons that (I imagine) the uber-wealthy get. And what’s left for the rest of us?
Nothing? Nope. Not quite.
Within minutes of todays TicketMaster sale being complete, a ticket-auction appeared on the TicketMaster website!
Yup. I could bid upwards of 600$+ on a ticket to see the concert.
But I thought there were no tickets left? What is ticketmaster now? Ebay? Well maybe.
I guess it is free enterprise – but for the love of pete, make it a little bit fair and a little more honest.
Thankfully, I only lost about 5 minutes of my life.
I will certainly listen to The Police in a slightly different way in the future.
this just in… a second show has just been added for Vancouver. Tickets go on sale on Feb 27 at 10AM. Of course they do… sign me up…
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So… Has anyone of our wonderful coffeecrew blog readers scored any tickets to the POLICE 2007 reunion tour?
— colin (the editor) Feb 17, 06:32 pm #
Another concert has been announced in Montreal…... Radio is better. Classical radio. I started this life all wrong. I should have learned how to play the guitar…..
— Frederick Feb 18, 05:08 am #
Montreal is sold out.
— dave Feb 18, 10:29 am #
$240.00 to see the Police!? Outrageous! It’s ridiculous when a band reunites for nostalgia-sake and wants you to pay the moon to see them. Only the Stones are worth the three-digit ticket prices.
— Jason Mar 23, 01:24 pm #
I’m in Toronto and I had a BestBuy code for earliest pre-sale on TicketMasters (even earlier then the fan club members) and I got 18 row floors for Nov 8 and 6 row floors for Nov 9. If you go and check the Toronto Nov 8 and Nov 9 shows on TicketMasters, you still can acquire floor tickets. It is true they cost a lot, but the Police hasn’t played as the Police in Toronto since 83 and I was there too! The Stones are great of course but I seem to recall several tours over the years with shows in Toronto, so in fact I wouldn’t pay as much to see the Stones. :)
— Charles Aug 1, 09:35 pm #