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Post by minion on Feb 13, 2024 15:33:42 GMT
I am just wondering what all these Spidermen are going to make of a Lloyd production.
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Post by mrnutz on Feb 13, 2024 15:39:31 GMT
I just don't understand the hype for this one. And my wallet thanks me for that.
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Post by rumbledoll on Feb 13, 2024 15:42:33 GMT
Oh, that’s good someone manage to screenshot that. I am wondering if ATG is going to respond. |
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Feb 13, 2024 15:48:45 GMT
They won’t respond. This isn’t new for them, they always raise the prices throughout the sale. Happened with Plaza Suite, with bigger increases.
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Post by rumbledoll on Feb 13, 2024 15:49:36 GMT
I just don't understand the hype for this one. And my wallet thanks me for that. My thoughts exactly. I do think Tom is a talented chap yet showcasing him as Romeo of WE stage is such a lazy choice.. Besides I don’t think I will be able to sit though another Lloyd production ever again.. |
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Post by rumbledoll on Feb 13, 2024 15:50:45 GMT
They won’t respond. This isn’t new for them, they always raise the prices throughout the sale. Happened with Plaza Suite, with bigger increases. Wow. Someone needs to do something about it.. |
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 13, 2024 15:55:30 GMT
They won’t respond. This isn’t new for them, they always raise the prices throughout the sale. Happened with Plaza Suite, with bigger increases. Wow. Someone needs to do something about it.. There’s nothing to do. They’re selling a product and have every right to do what they did. They come across as a horrible company for doing it, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with it. |
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Post by kyvai on Feb 13, 2024 16:10:29 GMT
Ah well. By the time I got out of court and allowed to use phone again it had sold out completely
But cheeky not to role the presale people who had already waited hours into the general queue
Ah well. T’was not to be then 😂
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Post by asfound on Feb 13, 2024 16:21:48 GMT
Ah, so that's that. I didn't try, not particularly interested in seeing yet another Jamie Lloyd production with lazy casting amongst the Spiderman pyjamas and funkopops crowd (I know, SNOB SNOB etc.), but I might try and get a key worker front row just for the hell of it if I remember when they go on sale.
Just a thought regarding the accessibility tickets - in New York I've seen them offer young person/student tickets but they make them pick up at the box office only, and people have to show ID or proof. No proof and there's a $100 upcharge. This would definitely disincentivise abuse of the access tickets, and I reckon the box office could handle it for 60 or so tickets a night.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 13, 2024 16:30:29 GMT
Theatres like ROH, NT and the Almeida have success run under 25 schemes for years, requiring ID before collecting tickets or similar strategies. Why are people acting as if it's some sort of new thing?
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Post by viserys on Feb 13, 2024 16:31:26 GMT
Wow. Someone needs to do something about it.. There’s nothing to do. They’re selling a product and have every right to do what they did. They come across as a horrible company for doing it, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with it. I think there must be something that can be done in this case. Everyone has joined the queue at the same time, but only some people can buy at the lower price, others are charged a higher price. It's basically "bad luck" for being assigned a high number in the queue and surely that's unfair. I don't know how to express this well, but hopefully you get my drift |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 13, 2024 16:56:28 GMT
Wow. Someone needs to do something about it.. There’s nothing to do. They’re selling a product and have every right to do what they did. They come across as a horrible company for doing it, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with it. Exactly this. It's so tedious having the same argument every time a show goes on sale. |
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 13, 2024 17:01:23 GMT
There’s nothing to do. They’re selling a product and have every right to do what they did. They come across as a horrible company for doing it, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with it. I think there must be something that can be done in this case. Everyone has joined the queue at the same time, but only some people can buy at the lower price, others are charged a higher price. It's basically "bad luck" for being assigned a high number in the queue and surely that's unfair. I don't know how to express this well, but hopefully you get my drift But it’s not unfair (legally). They adjusted the prices before you got into the website. It’s not like you had a ticket for £50 in your cart and they charged you £75 - the prices were adjusted before you saw them being offered to you. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 13, 2024 17:04:17 GMT
It is a low thing to do, to up prices while people are in the queue, I don't remember that happening before (but may well be wrong). But we also benefit from dynamic pricing when shows don't sell out.
The biggest thing I don't get is why ATG didn't start at the higher prices. This was always going to sell out in hours, they could have charged more from the start and people would have paid.
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Post by Rory on Feb 13, 2024 17:04:58 GMT
There’s nothing to do. They’re selling a product and have every right to do what they did. They come across as a horrible company for doing it, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with it. Exactly this. It's so tedious having the same argument every time a show goes on sale. Not as tedious, I suspect, as being an ATG+ member and getting zero priority whatsoever for the privilege. Not as tedious as queueing for 4 hours, getting a 404 error and being kicked back to the start of the queue because it's a shambles. Seriously, do you and others on here not see any problem whatsoever with inflating the ticket prices during the presale? I am genuinely flabbergasted that many people on here are content to be mucked about and ripped off, and then make others feel wick for having the temerity to call it out. |
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Feb 13, 2024 17:11:47 GMT
It’s extremely commonplace, just newer to theatre than it is to other industries that sell tickets. It’s the norm now unfortunately, and no one is going to stop ATG (a greedy commercial organisation) from not doing that. I don’t agree and hate it as much as the next person but this is the world in which we live now.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 13, 2024 17:12:35 GMT
The ATG members do hold some responsibility, you have to vote with your feet and cancel your memberships. Companies like that only change when it hits in their pockets. I agree it's very unfair to pay for membership and not get any presale perks.
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Feb 13, 2024 17:14:13 GMT
People cancelling their memberships won’t change a thing, ATG are getting plenty of money selling tickets. And if they see a loss from memberships what are they going to do? Raise ticket prices to cover it.
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 13, 2024 17:14:47 GMT
Exactly this. It's so tedious having the same argument every time a show goes on sale. Not as tedious, I suspect, as being an ATG+ member and getting zero priority whatsoever for the privilege. Not as tedious as queueing for 4 hours, getting a 404 error and being kicked back to the start of the queue because it's a shambles. Seriously, do you and others on here not see any problem whatsoever with inflating the ticket prices during the presale? I am genuinely flabbergasted that many people on here are content to be mucked about and ripped off, and then make others feel wick for having the temerity to call it out. Please don’t misunderstand me. It’s an AWFUL thing to do to customers. My responses are solely responding to the assertion that “something must be done about it”. |
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Post by dippy on Feb 13, 2024 17:15:47 GMT
Thought about this far too late in the day, but popped on there out of curiosity. Logged in to my ATG+ account (which I really need to cancel one day) and discovered I was in a queue of 8 and went to buy tickets. Found a few £25 ones and was trying to figure out a day that would be best, then suddenly a few minutes ago all the performances changed to sold out even though there were definitely still tickets as there were some for most of the performances I clicked on, only ever one but often a £25, £45 or hideously a £165 one. Oh well, won't be watching this, not that I'm really fussed but was a tiny bit curious.
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Post by n1david on Feb 13, 2024 17:29:10 GMT
Theatres like ROH, NT and the Almeida have success run under 25 schemes for years, requiring ID before collecting tickets or similar strategies. Why are people acting as if it's some sort of new thing? I think the challenge here is that this scheme is for key workers and people on benefits too. There's no official definition of "key worker" and no single form of ID. My husband works in a university, the tertiary sector - is he a key worker because he works in education? I would say no and would not try and access the scheme - however, others may take a different view. If he did want to, how does he prove it? He works for a London university so an usher might accept his LSE access pass. But what about if someone presents a letter from, say, the University of Auchtermuchty? Who is supposed to check if an institution is even real? Proving age is easy. Proving employment status, or benefits status, is more difficult. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 13, 2024 18:44:51 GMT
Not sold out now
Couple of dates showing single £125 tickets.
30th May and 13th june
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Post by dip on Feb 13, 2024 18:53:11 GMT
All the complaints here are echoed every time a big tour goes on sale via Ticketmaster. In America, fans have started legal action over it.
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Post by dillan on Feb 13, 2024 19:32:01 GMT
No show is ever fully "sold out" till the actual day.. don't worry. Random tickets will pop up here and there from now until the entire run.
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Post by kyvai on Feb 13, 2024 19:32:20 GMT
Question, once you’d bought your ticket(s), could you stay on the site and buy more without going through the queue again?
I’ve seen two posts already of people looking to offload tickets as they have bought more dates than they need - posts along the lines of “oh I bought these ones but then managed to get better ones so now I’m selling the first ones.”.
Did they get through the queue, grab the first tickets they saw but then stayed on the site and bought more on other dates? Whilst we’re all still waiting in the queue and some of us never get through?
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