4 GA's for Istanbul

Today, I got 4 GA's for Istanbul. Unfortunately they will not be delivered until after June 1, 2010 so there's a long wait ahead of me. 480 TL is roughly 2375 SEK (about Eur 238). That's quite cheap I think. Someone said that it's like I am pregnant with tickets, waiting and anticipating for like 9 months now.

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Life saver

I'm really starting to like those trips to the post office. Thanks P, you've saved me!

You're the owner of

I made a deal with a friend P in Finland. He is in desperate need of a Horsens 2 ticket and I need 2 Ga for Helsinki 2. He promised to get me 2 GA's for Helsinki 2 if I'd give him my GA for Horsens 2. He allready got one Helsinki 2 GA spare via a friend's presale code and he's going for one more in tomorrow's public sale. It's very hard not to fight for tickets in the public sale. What if P doesn't succeed? But, P is a very trusty guy who'd fight for tickets with his own life at stake. If he doesn't succeed, no one will, I'm sure. He told me he'll camp outside the ticket sales office all night. So, I trust P to get me the tickets I need and then I have the ticket he needs. Needless to say, I'll pay for the second Helsinki 2 ticket, even if Horsens 2 tickets are quite ”the rocks hottest tickets”.

Today, 2 days before the public sale, I got this wonderful e-mail:

Från: P
Skickat: den 22 oktober 2009 12:12:32
Ämne: Andreas, you're the owner of TWO Helsinki 2 GA's‏

Hey,

after some negotiations I now have TWO ga's from todays pre-sale for you, so Helsinki 2 is covered :) I'm going for a few more tomorrow so it's a possibility that I can already send out your tix by tomorrow too, that would be nice.

Cheers, P

Morjestaa!

This is what I picked up from DHL at 7 pm today.

2 x Suomi

This means I can pick up the tickets for Helsinki 1 today at the post office. Do note that I just wrote Helsinki 1.

Yes! There is a second show for Helsinki announced.We have no more presale codes and we desperately need to use a code as the public sales have been a disappointment for us so far.

From Finland

I just love express delivery as I can track the path of the envelope travelling through Europe. This means I should get my Helsinki tickets soon.


ANDREAS - tack för att du valt eventim.fi
Vi har skickat din beställning, bokningsnummer xxxxxx, som expressbrev med DHL. Kollinummer: xxxxxxx.
Försändelsen når dig normalt sett inom ett par arbetsdagar efter att du har fått detta meddelande.

Staying in Moscow

Booking of hotel in Moscow is now ok. As you can see, I've booked several nights, just in case there will be more shows added and if not, I'll have a chance to see Moscow up close. Suppose the hotel will raise the price a lot in the beginnning of 2010.

Dear Mr. Andreas!
In enclosed file confirmation booking at the Hotel from 23.08.2010 till 28.08.2010.
It's advance booking.In March will we send you Invoice for accommodation for all period staying at the Hotel.If you have change in period accommodation,please inform us about that.If you like receive Visa support letter you should send copy passport of first page of 2 person.It's free by booking.For Payment will send you Payment Agreement Form for payment with your credit card.You should fill this Form and send to our Office with copy credit card customer in bouth side and first page passport.
Room cost xxxx rur per Night without Breakfast.But in new year price at the Hotel will change.

More Danish gold

Today I got 4 of the hottest tickets so far for 2010, thinking about how extremely difficult it was to get my hands on them.

Precious Horsens 2

I sometimes wonder how I manage to put all that energy and effort into getting the tickets for Horsens 2.

Background
Extremely hard to get tickets for Horsens 1 at the public sale on Saturday 10 am. Tickets for Horsens 2 were  released abuot 10.15 am as tickets for Horsens 1 sold out immediately. Got my tickets for Horsens 1 via presale. No presale for Horsens 2 was offered.

And then...


I tried in every possible way to get tickets for Horsens 2 through dba.dk and blocket.se. There are only a few tickets on sale and prices are outrageous. None of the 5 sellers I've e-mailed have replied. I assume the tickets are gone.


As you may see in yesterday's posting, there are 2 links on u2.com showing there are still tickets available for Horsens 2 if you have a presale code. Don't have the nerves to try that. How can I find out if there are only seats left? Don't want to waste my presale code if there are no GA's available.


I've been thinking a lot about if there are a limited number of tickets available for each presale group. That would be the most logical and to give everybody a fair chance. I'm especially worried about the fact that Billetlugen responds that there are no tickets for postsale. Probably they didn't understand my question.

Also a bit afraid that the info on U2.com is not correct. It would not be the first time they state "tickets available" and when you go to the ticket vendor's site, it's sold out. In this case it would be a catastrophy.

If there are seats in the very back of the arena, U2.com and Billetlugen have done their part in all this and I cannot complain. I had the chance to get tickets, they never promised GA's.

THANK YOU Fredik who posted at u2.se that there still are GA's for Horsens 2 if you use a presale code. So, this morning at 5 am, I did it. I logged in with my Breathe presale code and got GA's. My presale code was intended for Istanbul but it's probably better to use it for Horsens 2 and as a matter of facts, I do have those precious 4 GA's now.

Postsale with presale

 

 Looks a bit strange at U2.com. Are you telling me there really are tickets left for Horsens 2? Too good to be true. I dare not try logging in with a presale code. What if there are only bad seats left and my presale code is concidered as used after logging in? Actually U2.com have fulfilled their obligations if there are any kind of tickets left. GA's are the only kind of tickets I want. I simply dare not try. On the other hand, it would be great if I could get tickets through Billetlugen, 100% genuine and not over priced.

Sent an e-mail to Billetlugen and got a very short reply: "There are no tickets left for postsale"

Helsinki 1 goes public

It's been an unusual and strange morning. The public sale of the tickets for Helsinki started at 9 am in Finland, that's 8 am here in Sweden. It was quite hard to get in on lippu.fi but I managed a few times though the GA's were sold out every time and RedZone were available every now and then. I'd say there were a few seconds during a full hour when it would have been possible to purchase tickets. I should have bought 2 more GA's if there eventually is a second show announced, and then trade for Helsinki 2. So far (it's 12:20 pm in Finland) there hasn't been any second show announced. It could happen any second though. Maybe they will wait to be able to offer a presale for the fans? You can never relax in this business.

Down the drain

There was absolutely no chance of reaching the site billetlugen.dk. So, the hunt for Horsens 2 tickets goes on and I'll probably have to buy spares for a lot of money. Thank God it almost a year from now, there should be a fair chance of getting tickets. Damn, I should have bought 4 tickets for Horsens 1, then I would most likely be able to trade for Horsens 2. Read more about the disaster here:


100 000 fans queuing in vain for tickets

Countdown

It's ok if the tickets for the first show in Horsens are gone when I manage to get on the site as I allready have what I need, 2 GA's. I feel pretty sure they will add one more show right away and that's when I need to be alert and ready to buy. I feel butterflies in my stomach.

No shit Sherlock

"One of the biggest bands in the world"...no shit Sherlock!
I assume that as soon as the tickets for Horsens 1 are sold out, there will be a second show on sale right away. My guess is that both of the shows will sell out in about 15 minutes. Casa Arena is a small place, about 35 000 visitors at concerts.

Danish gold

Postal mail rarely brings you any joy but what a joy it was to find the tickets for Horsens in my mailbox today. Still, it's a reminder of all the efforts I'll go through in August to get to front row. Well, it's almost 1 year to go.