Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
Post by belltwala1 on Nov 23, 2008 16:31:24 GMT -5
i tried to search this and didnt find another thread although im almost sure there is one so im sorry if im repeating.
does anyone think that the whole "christmas art contest for roo" might surely indicate that they are going to sell early tickets? i mean...why would they do an art contest revolving around the holidays unless they are going to use it to sell tickets... i havent seen anyone discuss this - maybe my email about the contest was a spam?
maybe or maybe they are just bored over there at superfly, I couldnt buy a ticket without a line up tho at least not for roo. Camp Bisco is prob the only fest I would buy an early bird for.
Post by pondo ROCKS on Nov 24, 2008 14:41:16 GMT -5
Not happening on the early tickets.
I won the Carbon Shredding Contest (Madmanpondo) and i asked the people at SuperFly about early tickets. They said too many people would attempt to scalp them, especially withthe lineup they are trying to get. That was all I could get out of them.
Providing an outlet and a voice for music lovers to unite under the common theme of music for all. Join The Pondo Army to show your allegiance to musical freedom! Fighting for no censorship of the arts & music education in schools, The Pondo Army will triumph! The Pondo Army Movement
Follow me on twitter@Pondoknowsbest
I won the Carbon Shredding Contest (Madmanpondo) and i asked the people at SuperFly about early tickets. They said too many people would attempt to scalp them, especially withthe lineup they are trying to get. That was all I could get out of them.
I won the Carbon Shredding Contest (Madmanpondo) and i asked the people at SuperFly about early tickets. They said too many people would attempt to scalp them, especially withthe lineup they are trying to get. That was all I could get out of them.
aka, phish
Well they did say what they were TRYING to get. Not what they actually will get.
I won the Carbon Shredding Contest (Madmanpondo) and i asked the people at SuperFly about early tickets. They said too many people would attempt to scalp them, especially withthe lineup they are trying to get. That was all I could get out of them.
I can understand early bird not happening...most festivals drop or limit early bird tickets when they're established.
But the scalping issue is bullshit. There are plenty of systems other venues and festivals use to insure against scalping that Bonnaroo could easily adapt if they wanted to.
They don't do earlybird tix cause they don't have to. People will buy a $200+ festival ticket to Bonnaroo because the brand is good.
The only effective way to prevent scalping is keep all tickets on premise, and only distribute them to the person with the credit card that bought them. However Tom Waits went one further this year, they scanned the card you bought them with at the door, looked at a photo id then put a wristband on you. The Bonnaroo scalpers always kind of tick me off, you see them on craigslist scalping the ticket for 50 more than it cost. However I would like to still get my physical ticket, the bonnaroo ones are always cool. Also just imagine the Clusterquack if they tried to do that at Bonnaroo.
They could do like Glastonbury and require a copy of you passport picture page. I don't think scalping has been much of a problem at 'Roo.
The only time they've offered early bird tickets was a couple years ago. It's likely they were trying to raise money for the purchase of the farm at that time.
I do not use this term as a pejorative very often, and don't like it. However I see plain bonnaroo tickets on Craigslist for like 500 dollars when they are still on sale from Superfly, if you buy that you area custie.
Providing an outlet and a voice for music lovers to unite under the common theme of music for all. Join The Pondo Army to show your allegiance to musical freedom! Fighting for no censorship of the arts & music education in schools, The Pondo Army will triumph! The Pondo Army Movement
Follow me on twitter@Pondoknowsbest
wish i had something to go on as far as a solid lead on some of the line-up, however..... i think ill be in for the early bird. unlesss i decide to volunteer in the next 24 hours (which is very possible)
These aren't really early birds, Superfly simply needed to put the tickets on sale earlier. Times suck, money-wise, so they introduced (and should be applauded for) the ticket lay-away package so that a large number of their customers could still swing a trip to the farm. In order to spread out the payments, they had to start now. I'm betting it'll be this way every year.
The early bird tix in 07 were at least $40 cheaper than the first tier the year before. Not so this time. Brought them anyways.