Ticket Prices. Are they too high?

First Page - Previous - Next - Last - Add Entry - Other Topics - Message Boards - Exit Page 13 of 14 Submitted by Beth from phoenix Arizona USA Date: Wed Apr 18 22:49:03 2001 the concert was AWESOME!!! and its okay that the tickets were more expensive than their last concert. some of the money goes to each of their charities. so you figure that each person is paying five dollars to each charity. so that's thirty dollars. and the tickets for the last concert didn't cost that much more than $30. Am i making cents? lol...yeah i know i'm corny. Submitted by Emory from Orlando FL USA Date: Wed Apr 18 21:28:55 2001 hey everybody (YEAA, ROCK YOUR BODY!!) okay sorry! anyways...I do think the tickets are expensive, but there's nothing we can do about it right now! they're way up there! I still got tickets for the June 8th ORLANDO show, and I had to save up for a loooooong time!! I understand that a lot of people can't pay for tickets, and that makes me sad! anyways, what also pisses me off is that dumb ticket master fee they put on all the tix unless you buy it at the box office! if they didn't have that my ticket would have been $7 cheaper!! I would still pay a lot of money to see them, but I seriously have to put so much money aside each month to pay for it! I can't wait till I see them I'm so excited!! I met Howie at the Easter day parade, everybody read my entry under "Ever had one of the BSB kind?" well I'm gonna go now! yes, the prices are expensive. too expensive to stop me from seeing the best group in the whole entire world? No. Never. =) ~KTBSPA~ Emory Submitted by Danielle from Bufflao New York USA Date: Wed Apr 18 19:47:58 2001 Hey guys~ well i have 5th row tickets to their concert here, and yes the tix are expensive, but ya know what?i really dont care, b/c it is a BSB concert and I would pay all the money in the world to see them! thats a TRUE FAN! (well if I had all the $ in the world)Especially since I have such great seats! You people are nuts for saying bad crap about the prices. Plus, you gotta think about how much it costs the tour to be put together! all their pyro stuff, cat walk, 2 stages, costumes! thats gotta be expensive! o well KTBSBPA ~!~EVERYBODY~!~ luv ya'll! Danielle I3sI3 Rule! Submitted by Jodie from Oakville (near Toronto) Ontario Canada Date: Wed Apr 18 19:23:45 2001 well i had a really good place when the wristband number got called, 3 away from the person who got called, wut could i say, me and my friends freeked out!! we had about 7 friends and family there with wristbands, and when it got called, we were shaking! and at the time, we thought the tickets for FLOOR were gonna be about $90, but nope, more expenisive, i remeber the first gurl, had to get her friend and her credit card just to pay for 2 tickets, and it was soo expensive, i couldn't belive it, i almost freeked, were lucky we had enought money for 7 tickets!!! 106 dollars each is just unreal, and they arn't even on the floor, try the 300 section (top level in ACC) i love BSB to death, but that's not right to charge us fans who buy everything they see that has to do with BSB, we don't have the money (well some of us do) Submitted by Crystal from Rocky Mount NC USA Date: Wed Apr 18 18:56:52 2001 OK first off, I have the WORST ticket buying experience. I've been a fan since 97 and I just went to my FIRST concert on Jan 26th. Yea it was a B&B concert and I had nosebleed seats. I paid 137 bucks for two of them. I really didn't think I'd paid too much untill people started to point it out. It was ALL worth it; it was worth the 4 hour drive, and the 2 hour wait in the freezing cold. To experience them LIVE is so unreal! This time around, I went through HELL to get some tickets! I mean I drove 45 min to a ticketmaster, got there was 2nd in line after the lottery I was 6th, finally was about to pay for them and the lady won't take a discover card. The tears start rolling, I drive 45 min back home, get $181.50, drive 45 min back to the ticketmaster, and thank GOD she held the tickets! I'm 3rd row on the side. Now that I think about it DAMN, that's almost 200 bucks! I paid 85 bucks each plus ticketmaster fees. Do you know the upper level seats at my concert sold out faster than lower level? That's pretty sad. But at the time I didn't really care how much they cost, my goal was to GET TICKETS! I'm so disapointed with the prices, c'mon Limp Bizkit is out there putting on FREE shows. I know the production is very costly, but I think we wouldn't mind if all they did was sit on stage and sing as long as we're there with them. That's all we really wanna do, is hear them sing. Don't charge us out the ass to get near you. But on the other hand, I'm thankful for such a good show and i KNOW that it will be worth it. ANd fellas My parents gave me the same bull jive, so I said "forget it I'll get a job and pay you back every cent plus interest!" and that's what i'm doing cause I love my boys! Hey I'm young, I don't have any bills to pay, what else am I supposed to spend my money on? Also, Howie said in an interveiw that they spen too much money on this show, and weren't making a profit. HMPF. Submitted by kelly from georgia USA Date: Wed Apr 18 16:18:09 2001 hey guys whats up? IS anyone out there a little upset about the high ticket prices that have taken over the summer tour??? I heard on the radio that the Ticket prices for the Atlanta show are $127 + service charges. They are lower if you want to sit in the nosebleeds!! this is insane, I will pay this much but why should we have to when I know that the tickets in places like NC, and FL are less than a hundred dollars!!! I'm mad whose with me?!?!? I don't know what to do besides just vent my anger but my parents are gonna kill me if I pay this much for tickets!!! Submitted by bsb fan forever from YAY bsb are back again for the 3rd time Canada Date: Wed Apr 18 15:12:06 2001 Luscious- they added a third show for Toronto because the other 2 ARE sold out, and because after selling out the dome in like 20 minutes or whatever, the ACC only holds like 18,000 for a concert, so the three shows pretty much equal up to the amount in the dome. I guess bsb just LOVE toronto. if i were bsb i wouldn't wanna go back to montreal, after all the fans got pissed off the last time they didn't go there. Submitted by ebony from Vancouver Canada Date: Wed Apr 18 13:54:49 2001 All I can say is that I hope the BSB concert in Vancouver this summer is dang good! I paid about $180 (the tix were $150 plus tax) for floor seats...*gulp* yup, it still sounds like a lot! It was painful pressing the "purchase" button, but I wanted the best seats, and this is what it took. What's totally ridiculous is that the nosebleed section seats were $100! So I thought that I might as well just pay extra and get seats that were way better. I'm willing to pay this to see the Boys up close, but I don't know if this will become a habit. A girl needs to eat, ya know! ;) I hope all of you will be able to get tickets and enjoy the show. After all, they don't come to town every day...Take care! =P Submitted by Maha from United Kingdom Date: Wed Apr 18 09:33:06 2001 !"£$%^&*()_+)((&(*^&^^%$£"&%%$^T&^&^%&$$$%^&**(*&^ I LOVE BACKSTREET BOYS!!!! They R the BesT!!!!!! BSB RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !$£"%$£&^%$&*^%*^%*&^(*^(*&)(*&)(*(&*^&*^%&^%&^%&% Submitted by Shennifa Bonita Jackson from NY New York USA Date: Tue Apr 17 23:15:16 2001 Well girlfriends... it looks like Shennifa Bonita Jackson isn't ever going to get to go to a bsb concert. Submitted by Shennifa Bonita Jackson from New York New York USA Date: Tue Apr 17 23:13:23 2001 Well girlfriends... it looks like Shennifa Bonita Jackson isn't ever going to get to go to a bsb concert. Submitted by BSB Fan from USA Date: Tue Apr 17 22:27:13 2001 Well, I was shocked to find out that the B&B summer tour tickets were 99$ each plus taxes! That is way too expensive for tickets! Millennium's tickets were reasonable & that's why I went twice! Don't get me wrong, I love BSB, but that is just a rip-off.. and I heard the B&B tour show was shorter than the Millennium show. I could only afford 1 ticket because my parents wouldn't pay any more than that! NSYNC tickets are more reasonable.. maybe that's because they are crap! Oh.. well! But I hope the show is worth it! =) Submitted by Amanda from Colorado USA Date: Tue Apr 17 18:09:31 2001 I'm totally upset about ticket prices! I wanted two tickets..because usually I can only get a single because they sell so dang quick...but the day they went on sale I was suprised to see that it was $81.50 a ticket...plus surcharge and shipping so all toghether $113.00 a TICKET I freaked out!! I said I have to pay for this!! OF course I had to get the tickets..MY men I needed to see them bottom line I couldn't say no...And I think that's why the make the tickets so high because Crazy true backstreet fans can't say no unless they HAVE to...I'm disapointed that anyone would even charge that price...No wonder the show hasn't sold out..I wonder what scalper tickets are going for if the face value is 100+..And again I got a single...This is coming out of my paycheck no way would I buy more..BBB row 11 :)..good seat..Best seat i've gotten since they became popular..Remember the first bsb tour in the US..in 1998 when tickets cost $24.50 for 4th row...:) those were the days.. P.S. I think Shaggy may have something with the ticket prices going up!..the more opening act the more $$$$ plus all the trucks and gear and stuff! --Amanda Submitted by Megan from USA Date: Tue Apr 17 16:50:25 2001 hey everyone...i paid $132 for one ticket on july 16...i only paid $83 for the july 17 concert and the sections are only 3 sections away from eachother...does anyone know why that would be? Submitted by Luscious from Canada Date: Tue Apr 17 16:18:22 2001 Well, my post is not about the price its about that why do they added 1 more date in Toronto instead of Montreal?Or even,why they dont go to other city in Canada?Isnt 2 show enough for Toronto? Tickets arent sold out for the 2 shows,so why make a 3rd date there? Sorry.it just makes me sad and a bit upset. Submitted by Vicky from Canada Date: Tue Apr 17 14:10:35 2001 You can only win backstage passes. You can`t buy them. Another way you can get them is if you know someone who works for the band. But backstage passes are never for sale. So listen to you local radio station on how to get your backstage passes. Submitted by April from Virginia USA Date: Tue Apr 17 10:08:27 2001 Hi I paid $300 dollars to this years summer tour. But for the Black & Blue tour I paid $400 dollars to get to Georgia and back and that includes the ticket prices. Also does ne one know how to get backstage passes???? I've always wondered about that!! lol If ne one want's to know my seats are section 102, row V, seats 1&2, to the concert in Bristow, VA. OKay ttyl, KTBSPA!!! ~Hugs ~*April Submitted by Celeste from Fullerton CA USA Date: Tue Apr 17 01:18:10 2001 I paid 140 BUCKs for ONE ...yes 1 ticket for the summer Black And Blue tour!! It's a floor seat, but it's more expensive than the regular Black and Blue floor seat that I had 2 months ago!!! That cost me 80-90 bucks!! I don't understand how they rose the price so much, so quickly! but I love my men...so i had to bust out the cash. ..DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET BACKSTAGE PASSES?????!?!?!?!?!?...email me pleez! I Love BSB!!! krayzie4aj@aol.com Submitted by leela from phx az USA Date: Tue Apr 17 00:21:24 2001 well for the B&B tour, my mom paid $180.- for 2 tickets. why it was so exensive was because they were both $50 dollars, then there was tax, then shipping and handling, so thats why....but it was first row on second level, wonderful seats, well for me, lol my mom was leaning on me cause she was behind a glass where you can see peoples faces reflecting on it...lol. i didnt go to the millenium tour. :( they sold out too fast. Submitted by Melissa from TX USA Date: Tue Apr 17 00:17:25 2001 Actually, I paid about the same (about $45) as I did for the Millenium Tour, and I got WAAAAAYYY better seats this time. Last time I was front row of the nosebleed section (whoopee!) and this time I got seats on the 1st level, which is pretty close to floor level, actually. But the Alamodome has way lower prices compared to other venues (the highest is about $85). I saw the $125 prices on some of the venues and freaked out. Those prices are DEFINITELY wack! First Page - Previous - Next - Last - Add Entry - Other Topics - Message Boards - Exit Page 13 of 14