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Post by Guiitar Man on Apr 29, 2011 14:20:11 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken they say this every year at some point. I think it's just a marketing tool to get people to go ahead and buy tickets that would otherwise wait until they have the extra money.
'03 and'04 sold out with much larger crowds. Most years sell out (at least officially) shortly before the event. I'd think this year would sell out a bit quicker just because everyone stayed home last year due to the economy and is now ready to come out again. But with gas prices, who can say?
it will sell out but they will sell tickets for as long as they can.. they will announce a sell out around the 1st of june so they can say it sold out.. they can sell as many tickets as they want.. i bet it is close to 90,000 this year.. it will be packed
Was hoping for 100K plus. Would love to know the number of tickets sold on June 7th though. With these new SMART wristbands, I wonder how effective they will be at stoping people from "jumping the fences", and getting in?
Post by Chris Major on Apr 30, 2011 14:02:57 GMT -5
I heard last year that there were upwards of 100k people on the farm during the weekend even though they only published 75-80k in advanced ticket sales.
itrainmonkeys posted an interesting article about RFID wristband usage at Coachella in the RFID wristband thread. In it the festival organizers gave a few figures which I thought were pretty interesting. (See my post from that thread below)
“It was noticeably less crowded and [ticket buyers] were less likely to hear discouraging stories of people sneaking into the expensive event.” Tollet says it was because of the advanced security measures that total attendance didn’t breach 90,000.
The two most interesting sentences of the article for me. So festival organizers estimate close to about 15,000 people sneak in for a festival that sells around 75,000 weekend passes. Damn! That seems pretty high to me that means that every 6th person you encounter snuck in...
I heard last year that there were upwards of 100k people on the farm during the weekend even though they only published 75-80k in advanced ticket sales.
I heard last year that there were upwards of 100k people on the farm during the weekend even though they only published 75-80k in advanced ticket sales.
That's nuts, gatecrashers suck.
Yea, I believe they announced sales of a little more than 75,000 last year. But anyone who was in the field during Jay-Z can tell you there was more than that in Centeroo on Saturday night.
