[Gopher]

I was on ticketmaster refreshing the page until the presale started and put in a request the second it did...   Nada.  Been trying for the last half hour to get anything, but even 1 ticket with no parameters ain't cutting it.

Anyone get in on pre-sale tickets for the bands final show at MSG?

http://pitchfork.com/news/41507-lcd-soundsystem-presale-tickets-on-sale-today/

[low.pfile]

I  checked for you. no parameters and received this:
"Sorry, no exact matches were found, but other tickets may still be available." message. In my experience this means no remaining tickets (of the presale allocation) at ticketmaster.

I am not planning on going(west coast), but I hope you do get tix. Definitely try again when they officially go on sale.

Very strange to have a presale publicized that way on a major internet site. Most presales are via email lists. Ticket resellers had another chance to scoop up tickets. Ticketmaster doesn't care.

Good luck!

[sts9fan]

Crazy they are gonna sell out MSG.  Not so long ago I saw them in a 750 person club.  I doubt it will be the last show.  Or at least James will do something else cool. 

[Gopher]

complete BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ticketmaster was screwy and wouldn't even let me and 3 friends search until 11:10--we were on 3 way telephone conversation trying to score tickets. 

ALL GONE.  Somehow there is like 1000 tickets on stubhub already...  GA seats are like $750 and the cost is triple face value just to get in the door.

I hate f*cking scalpers.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/02/scalpers-sell-lcd-soundsystem-pre-sale-tickets-for.html

ANYONE???  http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem

[JoshK]

My experience has been, ticket prices drop drastically the day of the show, or even a couple days before as scalpers panic to dump their inventory. 

The whole stubhub market exists because of scalpers.  There should be some regulation of this.  Not sure how or what kind, but something needs to be done. 

[JoshK]

Some more thoughts....

Stubhub is obviously making money off this quasi-scam as they get to charge fees for all the scalped tickets, so they are in favor of seeing this continue.

The venue (or whoever is responsible for putting on the show) likes this situation as well since it ensures they sell out every show, for if the show wasn't to sell out, their would  be supply available and the scalpers wouldn't have the pricing power to jack their prices up unless they got all the good seats or something like that.  So the scalpers have to buy up all the remaining tickets in order for their scam to work. 

The scalpers then have amasses large inventories of tickets that may or may not sell.  I assume they don't sell a fair fraction of their tickets, so they have to make it up off the tickets they do sell, hence the huge gouge in pricing.   The whole scheme is very anti-fan.

I went to see some shows that were "sold-out" at MSG, including Arcade Fire, Muse and Iron Maiden.  Sure was a lot of empty seats around me for shows that are supposedly sold out.

[JoshK]

The more I think of this, the more I realize this system encourages the average Joe Schmoe to become a scalper from the privacy of his own home without having to stand in the cold and peddle for buyers.  Anyone can see the money being made off this scheme and readily buy up tickets to make a quick buck themselves.  I wonder if that is driving a large portion of this too.

[sandbagger]

no show in the detroit area so luckily I dont have to worry about this mess

I did get to see them in a very small historic venue a few years ago when they played the majectic theater, the last place harry houdini performed before his death.

When ever a show is sold out that I want to go I always take a chance and just go down to the venue right as the show is starting and then buy tickets from a scalper, if they are still to high, I just wait them out as they always have left over tickets.  I do this for sporting events too