“I had three different friends trying and I was trying two different computers at the same time”, she tells NEWS 1130. By 10:30 a.m., the ticket window was officially closed, and the site was reporting there was no inventory available.
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Gary and a several of his co-workers all banded to together to find tickets for the super fan in their office. Many fans criticized platforms like StubHub for reselling tickets that have a charitable aspect.
Chandra Herbert thinks there is something the province could do.
As a recent report by the office of NY state attorney general Eric Schneiderman declared: “ticketing, to put it bluntly, is a fixed game”.
His office found that each year, at least tens of thousands of the publicly available tickets are being acquired by computer software run by resellers.
The public safety minister won’t be doing anything.
She denied the province is to blame for scrapping a law that prevented primary sellers like Ticketmaster from owning resale sites like StubHub.
There are only so many seats to go around and far more Tragically Hip fans to fill them.
Representatives from Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, did not return repeated requests for comment. She forked over $100 to StubHub for her ticket – more than double its face value – for the last row in the top section.
This tour is widely expected to be the final one for the iconic Canadian band, given lead singer Gord Downie’s diagnosis of incurable brain cancer, which has created an insatiable appetite for seats.
The Tragically Hip have expanded their farewell tour with the addition of four concert dates amid controversy over a first-day fan club presale on Monday.
“So did literally no one get Tragically Hip tickets??” asked user Ali Neil on Twitter, echoing the sentiment of others on social media who logged onto ticketing websites and were quickly met with rejection.
Some fans were lucky enough to get tickets by lining up at Budweiser Gardens.
Fans lined up at the Air Canada Centre ticket booths for hours, hoping to have a better chance at snagging the seats.
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“The ticketing business is not a transparent business”, said John Karastamatis, the director of communications for Mirvish Productions.
