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Was it ever mentioned that the proceeds go to Charity or to Gord himself?
If so $166.00 is a fair amount of money, otherwise I feel taken advantage of.

Some of the proceeds are going to the Sunnybrook Foundation (Toronto Hospital)

Moosehead Wrote:Some of the proceeds are going to the Sunnybrook Foundation (Toronto Hospital)

Ok, much better, thanks!

MountainHip Wrote:Was it ever mentioned that the proceeds go to Charity or to Gord himself?
If so $166.00 is a fair amount of money, otherwise I feel taken advantage of.

IIRC this is in line with what the hip have been charging for their last few stadium tours. You're welcome to debate whether or not it's worth it, but the tickets would probably cost about the same amount even if it was "just another tour"...

boot Wrote:

MountainHip Wrote:Was it ever mentioned that the proceeds go to Charity or to Gord himself?
If so $166.00 is a fair amount of money, otherwise I feel taken advantage of.

IIRC this is in line with what the hip have been charging for their last few stadium tours. You're welcome to debate whether or not it's worth it, but the tickets would probably cost about the same amount even if it was "just another tour"...

Yeah, I paid $125ish for 6th row in Kingston last year. Price range for Kingston this year tops at $126.

carebread Wrote:

boot Wrote:

MountainHip Wrote:Was it ever mentioned that the proceeds go to Charity or to Gord himself?
If so $166.00 is a fair amount of money, otherwise I feel taken advantage of.

IIRC this is in line with what the hip have been charging for their last few stadium tours. You're welcome to debate whether or not it's worth it, but the tickets would probably cost about the same amount even if it was "just another tour"...

Yeah, I paid $125ish for 6th row in Kingston last year. Price range for Kingston this year tops at $126.

Pennies compared to what shows have been going for in NE US lately. Hopefully secondary market will be affordable

I like the credit card requirement -- should deter at least some of the secondary market

Yeah, I seem to recall the prices the last two times I saw them in kingston (NFPA tour and the fully completely one last year)were bordering on the absurd...$126 for this one is entirely reasonable, all things considered.

murphy917 Wrote:just scrolled though as much of the facebook hip page as I could stand and was really suprised to see the number of people complaining about the tour dates and locations....Maybe complaining, is too strong of a word, but effin-a , this guy has terminal brain cancer.....I'm not sure how many people would be willing to spend one of their last months alive touring with terminal brain cancer.

Its pathetic what our society has become. Complaining over Tour dates and locations? WOW hock:

I wish Monday would hurry up. My stomach is going to be in knots all weekend hoping I can just get one ticket to Kingston.

And looking back, last year I was hoping I'd do better than 6th row centre floors. Funny how things change.

I've been on the hip mailing list and this site for years, yet for some reason I am super worried about tickets. I just have this odd feeling that the presale password isn't going to get out to everyone on the 30th.
Is anyone planning on posting the passwords on this board? I just want to know what would be considered kosher and non-kosher in terms of what we should/shouldn't post on this board.

tth_fan Wrote:I've been on the hip mailing list and this site for years, yet for some reason I am super worried about tickets. I just have this odd feeling that the presale password isn't going to get out to everyone on the 30th.
Is anyone planning on posting the passwords on this board? I just want to know what would be considered kosher and non-kosher in terms of what we should/shouldn't post on this board.

Same. There's always something that goes wrong, and that's when demand isn't even high. I'm worried.

carebread Wrote:

tth_fan Wrote:I've been on the hip mailing list and this site for years, yet for some reason I am super worried about tickets. I just have this odd feeling that the presale password isn't going to get out to everyone on the 30th.
Is anyone planning on posting the passwords on this board? I just want to know what would be considered kosher and non-kosher in terms of what we should/shouldn't post on this board.

Same. There's always something that goes wrong, and that's when demand isn't even high. I'm worried.

With sites like Stubhub already selling tickets to these shows, I'm just worried there isn't going to be enough to meet the demand once the presale starts on Monday morning. Generally there's a certain alloted number of tickets set aside for presales. Once those are gone, all we have left is the public onsale. And we all know how frustrating those can be. I'll certainly be bummed if I don't get tickets. But on the other hand, I've seen this band well over 30 times, and if something goes wrong and I don't get tix, at least I'll still have the memories of all those shows. We're all such die-hards in here, and I'll be crossing my fingers for all of us on Monday. We all deserve to be there for this tour.

No one on Stubhub actually has tickets yet. These are probably speculative based on season ticket plans, what they THINK they can score during the presale, etc. This kind of thing happens all the time with Pearl Jam tickets. If you buy these and the seller doesn't actually secure them, you may get an email with a really late in the game before the show.

I agree the Kingston show might be a problem but these are mainly 15,000-20,000 seat hockey arenas. You'd be foolish to purchase something in the secondary market without trying the presales or public sale.

I believe the tickets available on Stubhub are venue season ticket holders. Same thing happened with Pearl Jam's Toronto first Toronto show: Leafs and Raptors season ticket holders were given first crack at their own seats, and some of those ended up being resold.