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To buy Concert Tickets by phone consumes a lot of your time. First of all, realize that you, along with thousands of others are blocking the phone lines all at once. It is a matter of luck whether you are going to get through to an agent in a timely manner to buy your tickets.

First of all, Ticket Tips recommends you program the box office number into your speed dial. If you receive that annoying busy signal, you can hang up and push the speed dial over and over. Also, have a seat map of the venue in front of you so that you know exactly where the available seats offered to you are located.

Once you get connected into the box office, you may receive a recording telling you that the wait time is several minutes, making it too late to obtain quality concert tickets by the time you actually get through to an agent.

Once you get an agent on the phone, remember that they have to search their computer for the best seats available, obtain all your personal information and run through the confirmations. This process can easily take several minutes, making placing multiple orders with any speed or efficiency practically impossible.

Often ticket brokers are not well trained on their systems, are impatient, and have little concern where you are sitting at an event.

While buying tickets by phone will not require you to leave your home, or fight long lines, be prepared for busy signals, long hold times, as well as little chance of getting premium quality seats.

Have the box office number programmed into your speed dial. You may have to dial several times before you actually get through. Remember, you are one of thousands of people jamming the phone lines all at once.

Once you get through, be prepared for several minutes of hold time before you actually get through to an agent. Have a seating chart (map) of the venue in front of you so that you know exactly where the available seats offered to you are located.

If the seats that are offered to you are not acceptable you can ask the agent to search again. Keep in mind, that the agent cannot retrieve the prior seats if the new search is not acceptable.
Most agents do not have the patience to do multiple searches and have little concern where you are sitting at an event.

Keep in mind that the agent must enter all personal information, payment method, and confirmations which could take several minutes, making placing multiple orders with any speed or efficiency nearly impossible.

The advantages of buying by phone are the fact that you don’t have to leave your home or fight any long lines and crowds. Also, the box office agent’s computers are super fast at seat searches, which can equal great seats!

The disadvantages are jammed phone lines, resulting in busy signals and long hold times which could result in being too late to buy quality tickets. Concertticketssales.com makes really easy to buy concert tickets online to save time and money. Buying your online tickets online will make your life simpler because It’s 100% secured and it’s easy to for anyone to buy their tickets.

There are many ways to get tickets to see your favorite artist or band in concert when they visit your area or even in a city across the country. Some ways include the old fashion way of standing in line at the box office, but some of the best ways are on the internet.

The first step is finding out when and where the event will take place. To find information on upcoming concerts there are several great sources on the internet such as pollstar.com, livedaily.com and citysearch.com. Also many bands, theatres and venues have websites where you can subscribe to a mail list that will keep you up to date. The major box office websites such as Ticketmaster and Tickets.com are so have list you may join and do not forget the old fashion way of listen for announcements on your favorite radio stations. Many stations have online websites where you may sign up to receive email notifications of upcoming shows.

Tickets for most concerts are in high demand. Most shows sell out in a couple of days and some sell out in minutes. So how do you get the best tickets?

If the artist or band has a fan club, consider joining it. Many fan clubs will hold presales and make tickets available to club members first. Even this is not a grantee of getting the best tickets and you still may not get any tickets. Most fan club presales have a set allotment of tickets for any show, generally less than 10% of the ticket.

Radio stations may also sponsor presales for the show. Once again you will need to sign up for information at the stations website. Just like the fan club presale there are only a limited number of tickets available.

Many theatres, venues and concert promoters also have special clubs you may join that give you the privilege of buying tickets before they go on sale to the general public. Once again only a small number of tickets are available to these members, so just being a member is not a grantee of getting tickets. Also these memberships can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars, plus there are generally additional services fees added to the cost of the tickets.

Another way of getting tickets is to buy season tickets. Many theatres and venues sell season tickets. This is the most expensive way of obtaining tickets. Season tickets can cost $5,000, $10,000, $12,000 or more due to the fact that you are buying the same ticket for every show at that theatre.

If you had no luck getting tickets in any of the previous ways there is always the general public sale. You can find the date of this by the artist website or fan club, the theatre website, radio stations, newspaper or special sites like pollstar.com. All remaining tickets, that have not been sold during any of the presales or given to radio stations for promotional purpose, will be sold during this sale. You can generally purchase ticket during this sale by one of three ways. You can buy tickets online, by telephone of at the box office or at a box office outlet. Tickets go on sale at all three places at the same time, and all three are selling tickets from the same pool.

So what to do if after all of this you still have no tickets because the show sold out to fast or you missed the sale. Can you still get tickets? Yes, tickets are still possible. There are five primary ways of obtaining tickets after a show has sold out, or getting the better seats. Ticket prices will generally be higher, due to the free market the holder of tickets may sell at any price they wish. This price is general determined by the popularity of the event, amount of tickets available and the demand of the tickets.

One of these ways is to visit websites like concertticketssales.com that lets fans and season tickets holders sell their tickets.

Ebay also has a great deal of tickets being offered for sale. Once again these tickets are being sold by individuals who may ask any price the wish. Most tickets sold on Ebay are sold buy auction, where the price is determined by the highest bidder.

You may also check your local newspaper or online classified sites. Many of these have sections where tickets maybe sold.

The worst way to purchase concert tickets for an event is from a ticket scalper on the street out side of the theatre. There are many problems with buying tickets this way. One the tickets maybe counterfeit or stolen and you will not be allowed into the venue. Two, in many cities this is illegal and the person selling you the tickets may be an undercover policeman. In either way you will miss the concert and maybe out of the money you spent to purchase the tickets.

Likewise buying ticket through Ebay of the classifieds have some of the same problems. The tickets could be stolen, counterfeit, or in the case of tickfast tickets sold to more than one person. In any of these cases you are going to miss the show and be out of your money with no where to turn because the person who sold you the tickets can not be found.

Concert Ticket Sales Facts:

Concert ticket sales nationwide are down 2 percent so far for 2004, according to industry tracker Pollstar. High-profile tours such as R. Kelly and Jay-Z's double bill and popster Avril Lavigne's arena outing, playing the Bradley Center on Oct. 24 and Nov. 12, respectively, have had trouble filling venues from coast to coast.

At first glance, however, the slight slump nationally seems to be a slide in Milwaukee. A-list artists such as Usher, Hilary Duff and Metallica sold out multiple dates in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, but when they hit Brewtown, they couldn't find enough fans to sell out just a single show.

Reunited alt-rockers The Pixies are selling out whole strings of shows within minutes in markets such as New York, but a hefty chunk of tickets remains for the band's Nov. 9 gig at the Milwaukee Theatre.

What's going on? Has Milwaukee lost its love for live music? No, say industry insiders, venue operators and fans themselves. The slowdown in big show attendance is merely the end equation in a numbers game that involves economics, market size, tour routing and the proliferation of entertainment options.

It costs how much? $75?

Pocketbook realities are playing a major role in sluggish sales nationally. According to Pollstar, for the first six months of 2004, the most recent period for which data is available, the 2 percent drop in ticket sales corresponded to a 13 percent increase in concert ticket prices. Pollstar put the average price of a concert ticket for the top 20 tours for that period at a whopping $74.35 -- and that's not including the double-digit convenience fees and other charges tacked on to most tickets, as well as incidental costs such as parking, a souvenir T-shirt and a cup or two of beer.

While the sting of high prices is being felt nationally, Milwaukee's cost-conscious concert-goers may be even more likely to pinch a few pennies from their live music budget than more spendthrift fans in other cities.

"The strength of ticket sales is always tied to the local economy - - people have to feel comfortable before they dip into their discretionary funds," said Pollstar editor-in-chief Gary Bongiovanni.

"I've cut back on shows, mostly due to the cost of tickets," agreed Taj Dahl, 31, of Milwaukee.Dahl, an information systems student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has a range of musical favorites, especially late '80s and early '90s acts such as Motley Crue. In previous years, Dahl has shelled out plenty for acts ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Tommy Lee and Prince. This year, however, high prices and less appealing bills have him staying home -- Dahl said he has not attended a single big concert in 2004.

"It seems all the bands come in a chain now. Tickets used to be affordable to go see two bands, but now you've got shows like Ozzfest," Dahl explained, referring to the all-day metal extravaganza that took over East Troy's Alpine Valley Music Theatre in August, with tickets ranging from $35 to $75 -- in Dahl's mind, too steep a price considering only a couple bands on the 20-plus-act bill appealed to him.

Dahl is not alone in just saying no to paying more to see more bands, whether he likes them or not. Lollapalooza's entire tour was canceled this year because of lackluster sales. According to Pollstar's midyear report, ticket sales for amphitheaters -- the venues most likely to hold package tours such as Ozzfest -- were down 35 percent. At Alpine Valley, only 23,000 of metal's faithful made the annual Ozzfest pilgrimage. A respectable number, but thousands short of the sellouts of years past.

Scheduling can also be a significant factor, both in terms of the actual concert date and overall tour routing, when it comes to lower Milwaukee numbers for an artist.

Usher's Sept. 12 appearance at the Bradley Center was far short of a sellout, drawing just 10,500 fans. The "Confessions" heartthrob has been selling out shows at similarly sized venues across the nation, however: on Aug. 30 and Sept. 2, he filled the Staples Center in Los Angeles twice. On Sept 3 and 4, he sold out another two nights, this time at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. On Sept. 5, he sold out the Las Vegas venue Mandalay Bay Events Center.

Bradley Center vice president and general manager Steve Costello said he still considers the Usher show a success, noting that Usher's ability to draw more than 10,000 mostly teen fans on a Sunday night at the start of the school year is nothing to sneer at.

"We felt it would be in the 10,000 to 12,000 range, and that's where it was. It met expectations. We love when shows sell out. On the other hand . . . is Sunday as good as Friday or Saturday? Probably not. The show was early in September -- the promotion window was in August, when people are distracted planning a last summer vacation," Costello said.

And while Metallica has sold out previous appearances at the Bradley Center within minutes, Costello said he was similarly untroubled by the metal giant's August draw of 14,179 fans at the venue, which is several thousand short of a sellout. The band has been touring behind its 2003 album "St. Anger" for more than a year and had already performed a number of shows throughout the region, including Minneapolis and Madison.

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