Ed Sheeran - Croke Park - July 24th

Loughc · 25-02-2015 6:07pm

Wish I held off now. Would have much rathered a Saturday ticket. Oh well 3 day weekend it shall be instead!

kitten_k · 25-02-2015 6:29pm

Wish I held off too but at least we have our tickets and don't have to get involved in the madness tomorrow.

The Red Lad · 25-02-2015 6:51pm

Forgive me guys but I'm clueless with concerts if one person buys 4 tickets for standing and another person buys 2 tickets for standing can this group of 6 all be together?
Or is the standing section in sections ?
Just want to make sure in advance thanks guys.

jonny_b · 25-02-2015 6:53pm

The Red Lad wrote: »

Forgive me guys but I'm clueless with concerts if one person buys 4 tickets for standing and another person buys 2 tickets for standing can this group of 6 all be together?
Or is the standing section in sections ?
Just want to make sure in advance thanks guys.

You can all stand together

Alanhooly · 25-02-2015 7:00pm

dodzy wrote: »

Here's the view from your seat.........

That's encouraging! Great stuff!

damianmcr · 25-02-2015 7:44pm

All tickets the same price?

Will try and get tickets for the Saturday night gig.

Bonavox · 25-02-2015 9:18pm

Guys how much are the standing tickets? I know the price range just wondering standing in specific.

Thanks!

FourFourRED · 25-02-2015 9:21pm

People queuing outside Merchants Quay overnight for this. Madness when they will be available online 9am.

_Tombstone_ · 25-02-2015 9:24pm

FourFourFM wrote: »

People queuing outside Merchants Quay overnight for this. Madness when they will be available online 9am.

3 days possible with this id say.

DC10555 · 25-02-2015 9:31pm

Kinda blown away that he sold out the entire gig based on his fan club newsletter alone I'd have thought that they would have released maybe 10K or something just for the pre-sale instead of an entire gig, is it 80K capacity for a concert at Croke Park?

Muir · 25-02-2015 9:32pm

FourFourFM wrote: »

People queuing outside Merchants Quay overnight for this. Madness when they will be available online 9am.

In fairness though I remember trying to get tickets to Garth for my dad, and I spent an hour and a half in a virtual queue on two laptops. Ended up going in and queuing at a quiet ticketmaster when the next one was announced and got them no bother, so online isn't always reliable if the demand is high.

Loughc · 25-02-2015 9:39pm

DC10555 wrote: »

Kinda blown away that he sold out the entire gig based on his fan club newsletter alone I'd have thought that they would have released maybe 10K or something just for the pre-sale instead of an entire gig, is it 80K capacity for a concert at Croke Park?

Yea he hasn't. Tickets are on sale tomorrow.

_Tombstone_ · 25-02-2015 9:40pm

DC10555 wrote: »

Kinda blown away that he sold out the entire gig based on his fan club newsletter alone I'd have thought that they would have released maybe 10K or something just for the pre-sale instead of an entire gig, is it 80K capacity for a concert at Croke Park?

Presale WAS only a small number of tickets.

DC10555 · 25-02-2015 9:48pm

Loughc wrote: »

Yea he hasn't. Tickets are on sale tomorrow.

Yea my bad I mis-read the Ticketmaster post! LOL makes more sense alright..

bren2001 · 26-02-2015 12:00am

Muir wrote: »

In fairness though I remember trying to get tickets to Garth for my dad, and I spent an hour and a half in a virtual queue on two laptops. Ended up going in and queuing at a quiet ticketmaster when the next one was announced and got them no bother, so online isn't always reliable if the demand is high.

Just put a small amount of research into how the queuing systems work. There is a very simple workaround which allows you to essentially skip most of the queue. The only set of tickets I've ever not gotten are Glastonbury, I researched after that. Online is always better.

thelad95 · 26-02-2015 12:04am

Does anyone have any tips tomorrow on the best way of making sure I get on the site?

afro man · 26-02-2015 12:09am

thelad95 wrote: »

Does anyone have any tips tomorrow on the best way of making sure I get on the site?

safest way seems to be the old fashioned way que up at your local ticketmaster outlet... if ticketmaster online site goes down again due to high demand it is a bit of a lottery trying to get tickets .. seems to be plenty of tickets for sale / swap already on donedeal:mad:

thelad95 · 26-02-2015 12:10am

afro man wrote: »

safest way seems to be the old fashioned way que up at your local ticketmaster outlet... if ticketmaster online site goes down again due to high demand it is a bit of a lottery trying to get tickets .. seems to be plenty of tickets for sale / swap already on donedeal:mad:

So is it just a case of get online and hope for the best?

JamieHP · 26-02-2015 12:32am

Do people reckon standing will sell out straight away? my dad wont be able to get to a ticketmaster till about half 9/10

Sideshow Mark · 26-02-2015 8:44am

For buying online, having a decent Internet connection is the main thing. Have a Ticketmaster account set up before the tickets go on sale. Also if your using Visa, have your "verified by visa" password handy. Never had any issues buying tickets for big events in the past.

JamieHP wrote: »

Do people reckon standing will sell out straight away? my dad wont be able to get to a ticketmaster till about half 9/10

2 shows so you should be fine. Won't actually sell out today, no matter what their press release says, more tickets will become available in a few weeks time as always. Don't give in to the touts.

Tuhula · 26-02-2015 9:12am

Sideshow Mark wrote: »

For buying online, having a decent Internet connection is the main thing. Have a Ticketmaster account set up before the tickets go on sale. Also if your using Visa, have your "verified by visa" password handy. Never had any issues buying tickets for big events in the past.

2 shows so you should be fine. Won't actually sell out today, no matter what their press release says, more tickets will become available in a few weeks time as always. Don't give in to the touts.

Dont give in to touts! with Croke park they have the premium level which are for those who have seats bought. they get an option to buy tickets, if they dont want them, ticketmaster will release these tickets to general sale about May ish, so hold tough, tickets will be available in a month or two.

The Red Lad · 26-02-2015 9:18am

Don't have verified by visa on the card I'm using what can I do it's visa too ?

Shiraz 4.99 · 26-02-2015 9:27am

Sideshow Mark wrote: »

For buying online, having a decent Internet connection is the main thing. Have a Ticketmaster account set up before the tickets go on sale. Also if your using Visa, have your "verified by visa" password handy. Never had any issues buying tickets for big events in the past.

This is all good advice along with refresh once only.
If you keep pounding the keyboard refreshing it drops you to the back of the queue each time.
It might look stalled but stick with it, if in doubt open a new browser & do your refreshing there.
Some people swear by having an online clock with exact time & refreshing the page about 5 seconds before start time, I've found this doesn't always work as Ticketmaster often goes live about 2 minutes early.

Good luck.

Tuhula · 26-02-2015 9:35am

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

This is all good advice along with refresh once only.
If you keep pounding the keyboard refreshing it drops you to the back of the queue each time.
It might look stalled but stick with it, if in doubt open a new browser & do your refreshing there.
Some people swear by having an online clock with exact time & refreshing the page about 5 seconds before start time, I've found this doesn't always work as Ticketmaster often goes live about 2 minutes early.

Good luck.

Just on the browser thing, I wouldnt recommend having two of the same browser tabs opened as I know several times before this has thrown up an error for me from Ticketmaster saying ''you already have a Ticketmaster page open' or something to that effect. What you could do instead is for example, having lets say an IE browser and a Chrome/ Firefox etc Browser open but only one Ticketmaster Tab in each.