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Hi. I have a predicament I'm hoping one of you Rooers can help me with. I have not bought my ticket yet b/c I refuse to pay $250.00 or more with all the fees associated with the cost of tickets now. But, I also don't want to miss out and think I should suck it up and pay. On the flip side, I had tickets 3 years ago and was unable to go. I sold them on Ebay and LOST money b/c everyone's ticket prices were so low and it was mid May. So, i was thinking I should hold off till closer to the event but am nervous I might miss out. Any suggestions??
Post by roolacksreality on Mar 26, 2007 15:39:28 GMT -5
Haha I just remembered the old Eddie Murphy skit on SNL. H
"Are you a female high school dropout, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five?...Are you tired of lying around in bed all day with nothing to do? Well. you never need get up again, because in six short weeks I can train you to be high paying ho...Just think-fifteen hundred dollars a week, without even leading the comfort of your own bedroom.. Sound too good to be true? Just send for my new book, "I Wanna Be a Ho."
Post by oatmealschnappz on Mar 26, 2007 15:43:41 GMT -5
I understand where you're coming from but, come on, It is definitely a reasonable price for what you end-up getting in return. Four days of music and partying and some of the coolest people that you will ever meet is absolutely worth the $250. IMHO
If you are the gambling-type, you can always just head to Manchester and try to buy your tickets right before the festival. There are always MANY people selling them along the road. I've heard several stories about how people have ended-up selling them for much less than face-value as they start running out of time/getting desperate. It's a gamble but, it's possible.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Many tickets are given to the people who live near the Roo as compensation for the inconvenience. Even though I have been offered very cheap wristbands by people I know and trust I still pay the ungodly price for two reasons:
1) I don't take chances when it comes to going to Roo.
2) I owe SF/AC way more than $250 for introducing me to all of the wonderful music and people I have met over the last five years.
When it comes to 4 days vacation from the "real world", $250 isn't all that much to ask.
Post by AngrySunday on Mar 26, 2007 17:31:12 GMT -5
roolacksreality said:
Haha I just remembered the old Eddie Murphy skit on SNL. H
"Are you a female high school dropout, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five?...Are you tired of lying around in bed all day with nothing to do? Well. you never need get up again, because in six short weeks I can train you to be high paying ho...Just think-fifteen hundred dollars a week, without even leading the comfort of your own bedroom.. Sound too good to be true? Just send for my new book, "I Wanna Be a Ho."
Who wrote the book of love? Velvet. It's as simple as that.
just knowing that you FOR SURE have a ticket on the way is worth the $250....or if you're like me, the $215 plus another $32 for the overdraft fee it took me to be able to get it on the first day.
and not to be apathetic about your apparent plight...but the rest of us scraped it together. i'm sure you can do the same.
yeah, Im a pretty poor college kid but 250 for roo is a bargain, I had the absolute time of my life last year! And roo is so far off you will forget about the money you spent and then when the ticket comes you'll congratulate yourself for being a badass
I would suck it up and go. Or you could roll the dice and wait until the last minute. If the sell out you could get your the reverse of what happened the last time and make someone else lose some funds.
Me, bought VIP day one, no chance I am not going-but of course last year, didn't think could go, had to pay top teir, but paid it and went-had awesome time.
suck it up and go, make plans now, no excuses, go, suck it, buy'em.
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suck it up and buy your tickets - trust me - we really could not "afford" them - but we are going - just means we will be eating alot of hamburger helper in the next few months
Post by stuckinutero on Mar 26, 2007 20:39:59 GMT -5
bos1969 said:
suck it up and buy your tickets - trust me - we really could not "afford" them - but we are going - just means we will be eating alot of hamburger helper in the next few months
Bingo. Sans the Hamburger Helper.
Bonnaroo is the greatest diet I've ever been on.
Between my friends and the internet, I'm really tired of this topic. Bonnaroo attracts folks from all walks of life, but the main demographic is college aged kids like myself. Tons of us are semi-broke twentysomethings, and we all manage it.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
Post by spookymonster on Mar 26, 2007 21:09:46 GMT -5
There's also several ticket giveaways - Jambase, Starr Hill Brewery, Elvis Perkins to name a few. Do a search on giveways... or just search for posts started by me (shameless karma plug ).
It's sort of funny I'm reading all these "suck it up and buy your ticket" posts on a board in which alot of people chipped in to buy a ticket for a guy who went to Bonnaroo 2006 two weeks before-hand without a ticket and without the means to buy one. NO offense to anyone on this thread, I just find that extremely ironic.
As for me, I do NOT advocate going to concerts without tickets, but alot of my lazy-ass friends do. And I can tell you from experience that I have had several friends go up to Bonnaroo without a ticket and score them for less than face. It pisses me off too, b/c here I am doing things "the right way," and shelling out the cash well in advance, and they get a "price break" for being lazy and doing it the "wrong way." I also have one friend who waits until the end of May to start looking On Ebay for his $100 ticket, and he gets one every time.
I don't advocate any of that as a method for your ticket acquiring needs, but thought I'd throw it out there, since it does happen.
Difference was he planned on working for his ticket and some A-hole prevented him from doing so...... I hear ya though on the other means of getting tickets cheap...
