Coldplay - Dublin 2024 - Update Post 1 on Toutless

I’d say its Livenation who are actually managing the tour, decide timings, tm does what ever they are told to do, as a service provider, but thats the way things are done in this business, be it rightly or wrongly, they get a massive interest surge, by selling multiple gigs at the same time.

Its like a broken record, each time a big event is on, promoters like MCD and tour management companies like Live Nation, are going to milk the publicity, any which way they can, thats the nature of business they are in, and they want demand to exceed supply, which they usually achieve.

I accepted years ago, this is just the way it is, and get organised, as best i can for the onsale. I have noticed, since i got fibre broadband, a few years back, this has definitely made a difference for me in getting tickets to big event gigs.

Same here. I'm good at getting tickets generally and random lotteries are just exclusionary bullshït.

The only presales I really agree with are past purchasers presales or paid fanclub presales.

Every gig these days has a presale and it's just painful for nearly every gig these days to have an artist presale, mcd presale, 3 presale and then a general on sale. It just drags the ärse out of it all and is completely non-transparent.

What they should do when they do these types of presales is tie it to a ticketmaster account and limit requests to a single country (a large part of the problem with Taylor Swift last week was that it was the last on sale so you had a rake of fans who missed out on all their countries piling into the Irish sale as a last resort).

Here is an unused presale code if anyone wants it.

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Don’t know if it’s any good without the corresponding email address on the TM account though?

Yep, the other thing being that it's not really clear how many tickets are sold in presales in 2023. Today was every bit a general sale with over 200,000 in a queue at one point for one of the dates. They'll probably all be gone in a couple hours on Friday.

Reality is a lot of people don't have much experience buying tickets and don't keep that up to date with bands touring so have no idea on presales and such. There is better ways to do presales, I like how Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift did their album presales, where you pre-ordered/signed up but the tour wasn't announced yet, so it limits the amount of people getting access as nobody knows. Gigs like Coldplay are the exception to the rule where everybody and their mother wants to go.

That's it,I am going trawling the pubs next year before the concerts sussing out who could have an argument and decide not to go!

That’s my point though about the website, it’s not fit for purpose & people should know that by now. Why stress yourself out & waste up to 6 hours of your day when tickets will always come available. Concerts, matches etc. tickets are always available if you want one badly enough. I’ve gone to Dublin every year since 1999 for the All Ireland hurling final and I’ve always got a ticket. I’ve been a few minutes late into a couple of matches because I’ve got a ticket last minute but I’ve always got one.

Someone above mentioned hotel prices for these Coldplay gigs. I’ve not checked prices but the person mentioned €1,000 a night for hotels. Nobody in their right mind will pay these prices & when reality hits they’ll put the tickets up for sale. Anyone who isn’t lucky enough to get one this week I guarantee if you want one badly enough, you’ll get one. And I’m not talking about paying over the odds, I’m talking face value tickets. I’ve heard stories of people buying €300 tickets today just to guarantee them, that’s bananas. If they want the €300 experience, not sure what that experience is, then fair play I’m delighted they are sorted but if people found they were the only tickets available & stretched their budget just to get one then I think it’s madness. Face value tickets will be in plentiful supply in the months and weeks leading up to the gigs.

Because if Ticketmaster transfer is available you can pay someone the money and they transfer it to you. I’ve never seen a gig where transfer is never available

your night it’s easy to get one ticket - but if groups of friends or couples want tickets beside each other it’s harder and riskier l. Hurling tickets have always been easier to get - try all Ireland football find day and some of the early years it was like gold dust

This is all I'm getting... Nothing to click?

That's all I got this morning after queuing for ages.. What is wrong with this site?

Today, was just a complete fiasco.

while I managed to get tickets, I believe they’ll be readily available once hotel/accommodation costs become widely known.

Something weird about Irish people because they try to buy tickets to the biggest band in the world?

Certain concert snobbery around here which I find bizarre and pathetic.

Unless you go to TM via the link in the email you won't get through to purchase tickets you'll get stuck on the seating map page with a spinning artist presale

Friday at 10am

Just got the MCD presale there now