How fast did Phish tickets sell out?

Really effing fast. Like, under 5 minutes fast. If you managed to get through at all, you probably ran into a CAPTCHA issue that wouldn't allow you to complete the order. Or you got booted to the back of the line because you had too many browsers open. Did anyone out there actually manage to successfully purchase tickets? I haven't heard many positive reports.

But hey, if you've got money to burn, check out the scalper shenanigans:

Ticket Liquidator - $324 to $1414
Tickets Now - $346 to $1604 (suspiciously enough, this is a Ticketmaster company)
StubHub - $350 to $6500

While you're at it, why not browse through the auctions on eBay? You glutton for punishment, you.

More ranting about Phish Hampton tickets after the jump

And yet! We all saw this information before entering the pre-sale lottery:

Phish Tickets has a zero tolerance for scalping and insists that all patrons of our service abide by our policy stated herein. Tickets made available through this site are intended only for fans who are actually planning on attending the shows requested. It is strictly prohibited to resell any tickets obtained through Phish Tickets for more than the purchase price. If you are found to be reselling, trading or brokering tickets that you purchased through our site for profit, Phish Tickets may at its discretion cancel your ticket order and all other pending orders in your name. This cancellation will result in a refund of the total price for the tickets minus a $7.00 per ticket processing fee and any shipping fees that have been incurred with respect to the order. We reserve the right to investigate all orders suspected to be in violation of this policy.

Write me off as a whiny hippie, whatever. But this is some ridamndiculous bullshit! What's the point of having a 'no scalping' policy if it's not actually enforced?

Anyway. It was disheartening to see hope vanish from Eggs' eyes this morning, but I think he'll live. I stumbled across a petition to get the reunion shows simulcast to theaters and/or arenas. Phish have done this in the past, and it would certainly make a lot of phans happy if they'd do something similar this time around. Via Burning Oak:

After tens and likely hundreds of thousands of people got shut out of tickets for Phish’s March 2009 return shows, both during presale and this morning’s Ticketmaster stampede, a petition has emerged online to encourage the band the simulcast the upcoming shows in movie theaters nationwide. The band has a precedent of doing this for concerts in the past such as Coventry, and DVD releases like Brooklyn 2004. Anyways, after scheduling their comeback show in a venue with approximately 12,000 capacity despite hundreds of thousands of people trying to get the tickets, and scalpers claiming between $400-$6000 per show on stubhub, this also may be the only way for the band to avoid having thousands of ticketless fans descend on a Virginia parking lot for a weekend of tailgating and (drug-induced) dreams of scoring someone’s lot extra ticket. If you are a Phish fan, a concerned Virgianian, or just a kind soul, do some hippies a favor and sign this petition. After you sign it the website will ask for a donation, don’t worry about that since the signature has already gone through.

Maybe nobody will take notice of it, but what could it hurt? If you're feeling generous and want to help out some hippies, please sign the petition here.

Good luck to everyone who's still trying to secure some tickets! The scalper prices are way out of our budget, so it looks like Eggs and I are staying home.

True Phans can't get a break

After attempting the lottery and numerous attempts online and via phone I was unable to get any tickets for the reunion show. However it seems that if you are a greedy prick of a ticket scalper otherwise known as a broker, you could get as many tickets in advance as you wanted and then are allowed to sell them at 5 times their face value w/o any repercussions. It's a pretty sad state of affairs as the root cause of the reason our economy along with rest of worlds is in the crapper is greed on Wallstreet and in Washington. This is no different. These people selling these tickets probably don't even know who Phish are and we as a community are lining their pockets at will. I have been a Phan since the early 90's and feel cheated that my loyalty to Phish can't even get me one ticket for one night.

I was able to get 6 tickets

I was able to get 6 tickets (two per night) and signed up for the lottery about 2 hours before it was due. Did I get lucky? Hell yeah! But I have been a phish fan for years and am looking forward to the 3 shows. There are hundreds of thousands of people who want to go to this show, its inevitable people are going to get pissed about not getting tickets.
My 2 cents

I got lucky too

I was a lucky one with the lottery. However, in early summer they are doing a northeast tour, then playing bonaroo (as crappy as that may be), and then in late june are doing a 2 week west coast thing. Hopefully that eases some peoples ire about not getting tics.

Phish at Roo

Why the crap would they play Bonnaroo? People keep saying that, and I think it's a load of bs.

If anyones got an extra I'll

If anyones got an extra I'll pay the what the 3 package deal was for one night. Haven't seen these guys since the NYE Miami Run and would love to see the reunion show even though its probably going to be sloppy. Please e-mail me at O1Roggae@aol.com if you are kynd enough to spare one.

Ugh...

I had my clock watching the seconds leading up to 9:00 CST. As soon as I saw it strike the top of the hour, I had Ticketmaster refreshed and working. Unfortunately, that wonderful "error" that many of us experianced started to be noticed. As soon as it took over a minute to load the next page I knew I was royally phucked.

Jump forward to 9:04 Central Time. At this point ticketmaster made it obvious the show was sold out, but had no problem recommending that I pay the brokers on the partner site mucho dinero. It really put a negative vibe to such a beautifully gloomy day.

I still plan on being there, not to mention the rest of the TBA tour.

Peace, Love, and Breakfast for all!
-A4

(PS, the word I had to type to prove my humaness was schwag! How glorious and fitting)

We only feature...

We only feature the best CAPTCHA words on BOT!

Re: Ugh...

I think we've pretty much given up on Hampton tix (unless prices drop or something closer to the date, then we'd reconsider) but we're def in for several dates of the tour. I'm still determined to buy an old RV or short bus or whatever and travel around with a bunch of people, selling stuff in the parking lots. I think I'm going to sew a whole bunch of dresses before tour so I can try to hawk those.

TicketsNow is such a crock of bullshit.

You know that I'm still game

You know that I'm still game to join the BOTbus. I still haven't put any thought into things to sell for the tour. I'll do that soonly and get back to you, Ms. Cereal.

The CAPTCHA never gets old. This time its Beaver.

yah i got tix through

yah i got tix through tixmaster all you needed was a superfast connection and a fast computer with nothing else open, I went to my school computer room, they got brand new macs with a t3 connection did it for me

What do you think?

Hey "lucky one"! So happy for you that you got tix! My wife and I weren't so lucky but its all good...we had six friends all together with six laptops and six phones... and all got denied. I heard that they (Ticketmaster) only gave out 5% of the tickets to the public. If you got denied, it said buy now at ticketsnow.com which is owned by Ticketmaster...conspiracy? I don't mind if Phish gets a cut but I hope that Ticketmaster isn't getting the bigger portion of the profit. Look at Pearl Jam back in the day when they gave up on Ticketmaster and started Brown paper bag tickets and wanted everyone to have a fair share in getting tickets for the concerts. Do you think that Phish was working with Ticketmaster to make more money because they don't want the younger crowd (that is in the same age bracket as their children) to get caught up in the typical partying scene? It all really should be about the love of the music, not the "extracurricular events" that go on within it.
It's unfortunate that some "fans" go to shows and don't know any of the music as lovers of Phish. And also its sad seeing those who go to the shows for those "other experiences" that don't coincide with the meaning of Phish or their music.
Finally, as I'm sure as everyone else that has read your blog...the more specific and important question(s) is...do you know more specifically what the tour dates will be for 2009?

J.F. in R.I.

I got mine

Had the same experience, but ended up getting the tix. Here in Philly they use LiveNation, which should be called JiveNation b/c their infrastructure SUKCS ASS! Their site crashed, their phones disconnected on thousands of people. It was horrible. I just kept hammering away and got four tix, one at a time. See you in Camden!

phish or foe?

Nobody I know got early tickets or tickets today for Asheville6/9/09! Scalpers must be stopped.

really sad experience

It is completely unreasonable that between the several people that were trying with me no one could get any tickets for the hampton shows or the summer tour (ny or nj). There was a convergence of a lot of factors that made this experience my worst (failure of) ticket purchasing experience ever.

While this isn't the most important factor, I'm listing it first because it is under Phish's control. Why would you offer a 3 night package to a set of shows you know is going to sell out in 7 seconds? Every person that got 3 nights prevented 2 people from getting any. I'm very happy for the people that got 3 nights and tried to get them myself, but it shouldn't have been an option. Phish tickets by mail is supposed to be Phish looking out for its fans, so it's even worse that it offered the 3 night package, in effect, as well. There is no reason that anyone should have gotten multiple night orders filled until every single person had a single night filled.

Scalping has really reached a new level recently with sites like stubhub and ticketsnow. There really is no justification to allow these sites to exist unless they prevent price mark ups. Scalping is illegal at the venue and it should be illegal on the internet.

To save a few bucks, Live Nation decided to take on an amount of net traffic they had to know they had no business trying to handle.

Got tix to 2 shows 1hr 45m after onsale time

I was able to get tix to the Camden and Jones beach shows about 1hr 45m after the onsale time. For the first 90min I experienced what a lot of other people did: Server time-outs, pages not loading during all steps (seat selection, captchas, shopping cart, etc.) What finally got me through was creating a LiveNation account first and ensuring I was logged in to it, then going through the select tickets process. I have a feeling people were having their orders invalidated, because there were different sets of tickets available every time I was able to get to the seat selection page. So don't give up until LiveNation completely closes the ticketing for each show!

Don't buy over face!!! Especially for shitty lawn seats

were all in this together!!!! I got 9 tickets somehow, end of summer tour. And to all you numb nuts who pay over face let it be known that they will be almost face if not face come a week before the show and the dates of the show- excluding hampton, ashville, and fox theatre- all the venues that hold 20,000 and up will have cheaper tickets clooser to the dates. Scalpers are all douches.

PHISH TICKETS FOR FACE VALUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its true

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If they are publicly speaking out against scalping, take the initiative and call them on it. Post comments on their website or send them a WTF email. I am sure they are too busy playing concerts to keep tabs on these things. If enough people complain, they might actually do something about it.

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