Argh! Take That...

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:26

My wife and I have been trying to buy tickets all day. It seems the entire World and their Mother want to go. Absolutely no joy at all - every single seat for all Wembley dates seems to be sold out

Anyone else had any luck?

Dano · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:36

I was lucky enough to not only not waste time attempting to buy tickets I also managed to not get any either!!! Score

Shamikebab · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:41

I am so confused, why exactly do people want to see Take That :confused:

I'd be ****** off if I got given them tbh.

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:43

Shamikebab said:
I am so confused, why exactly do people want to see Take That

I'd be ****** off if I got given them tbh.

I'm not interested in what you think of the band, so keep your views to yourself.

If you can't contribute in the way outlined in my OP then don't post.

Shamikebab · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:47

The Mad Rapper said:
I'm not interested in what you think of the band, so keep your views to yourself.

If you can't contribute in the way outlined in my OP then don't post.

ok in response to your OP I have had some luck then

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:51

Shamikebab said:
ok in response to your OP I have had some luck then

I just need you to be run over by a bus and kharma will be complete

Azza · 29 Oct 2010 at 19:53

Got my tickets in 16 minutes.

Non of that 4 to 6 hours waiting I've seen people on Facebook saying.

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:00

Azza said:
Got my tickets in 16 minutes. Non of that 4 to 6 hours waiting I've seen people on Facebook saying.

Oh well done. It's a nightmare going on TicketMaster et al, I wish they'd just show you which seats are available for which dates instead of making you constantly jump through hoops

Tombstone · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:11

Probably 75% of the tickets bought will be ebayed. Keep seeing/hearing of people who bought 8 or 9 tickets and only want 2 but plan to sell the other half dozen for a bit of wonga.

Felix Da Housecat · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:12

My girlfriend had to wait about 6 hours, but got some in the end.

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:16

Tombstone said:
Probably 75% of the tickets bought will be ebayed. Keep seeing/hearing of people who bought 8 or 9 tickets and only want 2 but plan to sell the other half dozen for a bit of wonga.

I won't even consider buying eBay tickets for a hundred and one reasons. I really wish they'd stamp down on this practice though

The Mad Rapper · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:17

Felix Da Housecat said:
My girlfriend had to wait about 6 hours, but got some in the end.

We've given up now. If they don't release more dates then we won't be going.

RoboCod · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:19

My GF has been trying to buy too, no avail

knip · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:44

I managed to get 4 for Cardiff just before 12:30 this afternoon, then finally got the last 2 I needed for Manchester about 2:30pm.

Was absolutely shocking how difficult it was though. Never had it take that long or be that much fuss before now.

I got no work done all day as a result either, thank god the boss wasn't in!

Try gigs and tours, there are still some showing as available.

molinari · 29 Oct 2010 at 20:56

Just seen they've added Saturday 9th July at Wembley so after 12 hours, I've finally got my wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law tickets to see them, phew!
I'm amazed that those working for the ticket companies or concert promotion company can't sort themselves out and release the tickets in a more organised way so that there isn't complete chaos.

knip · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:00

molinari said:
Just seen they've added Saturday 9th July at Wembley so after 12 hours, I've finally got my wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law tickets to see them, phew!
I'm amazed that those working for the ticket companies or concert promotion company can't sort themselves out and release the tickets in a more organised way so that there isn't complete chaos.

Nice one!

The annoying thing is this is bound to happen if they release the tickets in small bunches, if they put all of the dates on sale in one go, they would have the same amount of people trying, just spread out further among the dates, rather than x amount of people trying for 10 dates.

The telephone network in the UK was struggling due to 3-4 times the number of people using it than normal, and ticketmaster said they had twice the demand they did for the Michael Jackson tour that never happened.

shifty_uk · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:08

WTF is the fascination with Take That, a bunch of soppy middle aged morons singing averagely **** love songs?

Sorry if you didn't want to hear that OP, it is a discussion board after all

Someone please explain the craze because I'm ****** if I know!

knip · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:12

shifty_uk said:
WTF is the fascination with Take That, a bunch of soppy middle aged morons singing averagely **** love songs?

Sorry if you didn't want to hear that OP, it is a discussion board after all

Someone please explain the craze because I'm ****** if I know!

If you havent seen them live then you wouldn't understand. Trust me, they're bloody fab, even before Robbie came back, and I think his return has added even more excitement to things.

arknor · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:14

Tombstone said:
Probably 75% of the tickets bought will be ebayed. Keep seeing/hearing of people who bought 8 or 9 tickets and only want 2 but plan to sell the other half dozen for a bit of wonga.

they just get put on ticketmasters partner website for a small fortune , ticketmaster were on watchdog the other week.

shifty_uk · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:15

I've watched them live on Youtube? Their songs are so utterly average it's actually unreal.