February 14, 2008
209 Billy Joel tickets at StubHub already?
The other day Billy Joel announced that he was going to be performing at Shea Stadium this summer. The significance is that it will be the last concert ever at Shea Stadium. Now, I’m not a super Billy Joel fan or anything, but I was thinking it’d be neat to go - especially since it’s around my birthday. Tickets are being sold on two official sites starting this Saturday.
Not to pull a Hannah Montanagate, but I was rather surprised when I checked StubHub and found this:
What the heck? Tickets are on sale this Saturday, yet 209 of them are already available here?
Now, it’s possible that some of these tickets don’t actually exist - the seller is hoping to get them and then fulfill the order. I simply don’t know enough about Stubhub or concert tickets to know if this is the case.
But frankly, I hope that’s what is happening here - otherwise, this is pretty ridiculous.
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2 Comments to “209 Billy Joel tickets at StubHub already?”
February 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
This happens all the time. Normally at least 25% of the house goes to the band, promoter, sponsors, fan club, radio stations, American Express cardholders, etc. way before the public onsale. There is nothing keeping those “connected ones” from offering their tickets for sale on StubHub or eBay or wherever. At least you noticed they do this before the onsale. Normally, whiney fans suggest that it happens minutes after the onsale and blame robots or cyborgs or something.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Wow… I never knew. Thanks!!
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