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Hi...I've heard that people have luck at the music stores in the mall, FYE?? Has anyone tried the one in Orland Mall? Just wondering how it works with the lottery...if the mall opens at 10, and the tickets go on sale at 10. Just trying to find a new venue this year. Any help is appreciated. Getting Chicago show and Alpine Show this Sat....

Jen

JenChicago wrote:Hi...I've heard that people have luck at the music stores in the mall, FYE?? Has anyone tried the one in Orland Mall? Just wondering how it works with the lottery...if the mall opens at 10, and the tickets go on sale at 10. Just trying to find a new venue this year. Any help is appreciated. Getting Chicago show and Alpine Show this Sat....

Jen

I imagine that the mall opens before 10 possibly just not the stores?? Many times stores in malls with tix outlets will have people come to the front of the store to check out if a line has formed at say 9:30 and start the lotto process...I go to a ticket outlet in a student center and thats what they do there...nothing else is really open but they have everything ready to so before 10

Back in high school and college I worked at a National Record Mart in a mall. We had a Ticketmaster computer and would often walk in on Saturday morning at 9:30 or 9:45 to find a crowd of people already waiting for tickets.

The malls do open early - some of them never even close allowing for walkers/joggers, etc. At any rate, we would either do a lotto or ask people how many they were buying. Rather than serve just one person at a time, we'd hit the total number of tickets we were allowed immediately.

So let's say the first five people all wanted four tickets and the max number of tickets on one order was 4, our computer operator would stand there and hit A4 (adult 4), A4, A4, A4 and A4 in quick succession. That would give us 20 tickets often in the first four or five rows. Then we could collect money and distribute the tickets.

That could be why FYE people are having success. But this was 10 years ago. I don't know how much Ticketmaster has changed their policies to prevent this from happening. Perhaps they haven't and that would explain why people can get around the ticket limit.

cartmill72 wrote:policies to prevent this from happening. Perhaps they haven't and that would explain why people can get around the ticket limit.

the limit when in person can only be controlled by the clerk, if someone has cash in hand for more than one set of tickets its up to the person selling tix, sure they can't get any more than the 'limit' in one transaction but whos to say how many transactions you can have...?

I've bought at outlets that sold the max no matter how many you wanted...think 'ticket nazi'...2 best avail, here's 8, 4 on the lawn, heres 8...by the end there were people dealing tickets with those in line who were shut-out because tix sold out...this is one way shows sell out in 8 minutes...

I actually bought tickets for the thursday tweeter show this past saturday. It went pretty well and the good thing is that there was no more than 10 people buying tickets. What I found to be a good idea is to bring a friend, and get lottery tickets at FYE and Carsons. That way you could see where you are in line for both. The best advice is to just go to the worst neighborhood imaginable with a ticketmaster location... more often than not you will be the only one

not too change the subject too much, but is chicagoland on the 10 minute delay for wisconsin shows..?

Good question....if Chicago is on a delay....then the internet would be the best?

no, there is no delay in Illinois for the Alpine tickets-so ALpine and Tinley Saturday go on sale at the exact same moment.

ejr wrote:no, there is no delay in Illinois for the Alpine tickets-so ALpine and Tinley Saturday go on sale at the exact same moment.

okay not to split hairs, but in IL or in Chicago. I'll be buying tickets in central IL and there has been a 10 miunte delay the last two years, if there is no delay, alpine will be gone in minutes.

In previous years, I was able to buy tickets right away at onsale time in Indiana for the Chicago and Alpine shows, even though there was a supposed 10 minute wait.

I got tickets for Alpine at an FYE outside of Chicago last year. There was no delay and very few people waiting at the store.

jiggs(2) wrote:

ejr wrote:no, there is no delay in Illinois for the Alpine tickets-so ALpine and Tinley Saturday go on sale at the exact same moment.

okay not to split hairs, but in IL or in Chicago. I'll be buying tickets in central IL and there has been a 10 miunte delay the last two years, if there is no delay, alpine will be gone in minutes.

Just wondering, what part of Central Illinois?

captainjoe wrote:

jiggs(2) wrote:

ejr wrote:no, there is no delay in Illinois for the Alpine tickets-so ALpine and Tinley Saturday go on sale at the exact same moment.

okay not to split hairs, but in IL or in Chicago. I'll be buying tickets in central IL and there has been a 10 miunte delay the last two years, if there is no delay, alpine will be gone in minutes.

Just wondering, what part of Central Illinois?

East of you in Normal