In late spring I'd looked at their concert schedule for this year and thought about getting tickets, but I hesitated. I wasn't sure I could afford them out of pocket, so I put the thought away. Then yesterday I received an email from the company through which I've purchased Red Sox tickets and in checking information on the Eagles' summer tour again, I found that seats were still available at not completely outrageous prices. Couple that with a credit card that was down to a zero balance and I thought the time was ripe.
Ordering tickets online can be.... well, interesting. What you see on the screen is what WAS available a little while before you accessed the page, and just by ordering and receiving a receipt, you aren't assured of actually getting those tickets. With several attempts and several phone calls under my belt, I pushed the [purchase] button and thought I had acquired some seats near the stage, requesting that the tickets be emailed to me. I'm one of those who needs to have ticket in hand before I drive for 2 hours to a venue because I have nightmares of going to the window where tickets are held and them not having any for me. As the gal on the phone advised me, it might take overnight for the people at the ticket company to email them to me, so I sat tight.
Flash forward to this morning at 10:30 when yet another check of my email showed nothing from that company. Good thing I printed out the receipt. I went to the tracking site and typed in my tracking number only to see the message that my request was under review and if there was a problem, the agent would contact me directly. Well, I wasn't going to sit here sweating bullets while I waited for the agent to take his or her sweet time, so I called. "Sorry but those tickets were sold to someone else," I was told. Oh, I was so disappointed.
"Now what do I do?" I asked the gal at the other end dejectedly.
"You can go back to the original web page...blah blah blah...or...what I do is go to Ticketmaster.com because the performers release any tickets they haven't given away on the day of the event, and if there are any available, they're pretty good seats and at a decent price."
So that's exactly what I did, and lo and behold there were two club section seats just waiting for me to purchase them. Not only that but these were available to be printed on my own trusty printer! Wooo hoo! Success!
I now have sitting beside me two freshly printed tickets to club section 141 for tonight's performance, and I am a happy gal. I've picked out the clothing I'll wear, I'm searching for my Charlie (MBTA) Card, and we've discussed when to leave for the drive to Wellington Station. We won't spend the day in the city since I'm now putting myself on a no-frills budget and I'd be tempted to pick up a few unnecessary tokens if we wandered around Quincy Marketplace and Faneuil Hall as we did in February. We'll head down with an extra hour or so in the schedule because it'll be the start of rush hour congestion by the time we're on the road and we want to have a little time to catch our breath, buy a t-shirt, and get a bite to eat before the concert begins. I am looking forward to a very enjoyable evening!
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