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Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:35 am
by JimbO
Daughter wants to see Coldplay. I bought an Album which got you a link to a presale. Only when I log in to find find their was a no purchase option anyway.
Is this the norm?
Is their any other what are basically scams to get you to buy something almost under false pretences that bands operate to get people to buy tickets?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
by Mick McQuaid
No, it is not normal to want to see Coldplay.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
by Dunners
Did you buy the album from a reputable source?
Usually presales are at scheduled times, so you can only access the booking portal at the allocated time and date. Outside of that time window the link will not work.
Also, presales are generally a bit of a scam. The promoter will allocate a selection of tickets for that sale, and often they're not even in the best location. These will then sell out within seconds of the presale portal opening, which then contributes to the rush and demand when the remainder go on general sale.
Buying concert tickets of big-name acts/bands nowadays is awful and I've pretty much stopped even trying.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
by Hoover Attack
Deserve everything you get for having a family member that likes coldplay.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:51 am
by JimbO
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
Deserve everything you get for having a family member that likes coldplay.
Bore off you tw*t
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:53 am
by JimbO
Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
Did you buy the album from a reputable source?
Usually presales are at scheduled times, so you can only access the booking portal at the allocated time and date. Outside of that time window the link will not work.
Also, presales are generally a bit of a scam. The promoter will allocate a selection of tickets for that sale, and often they're not even in the best location. These will then sell out within seconds of the presale portal opening, which then contributes to the rush and demand when the remainder go on general sale.
Buying concert tickets of big-name acts/bands nowadays is awful and I've pretty much stopped even trying.
Yep got it from the coldplay website only to find in the small print theirs actually a no purchase option at the bottom in the small print. So the world and their dog has a code.for a band that preaches ethics think it's pretty disgusting.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:57 am
by Hoover Attack
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:51 am
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
Deserve everything you get for having a family member that likes coldplay.
Bore off you tw*t
F*x you.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:57 am
by Long slender neck
Whats the link for then?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:18 pm
by Mylo Xyloto
Queued once and got kicked out due to a connection error at their end, now 130k in front of me at back of queue.
Rubbish.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm
by JimbO
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:57 am
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:51 am
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:44 am
Deserve everything you get for having a family member that likes coldplay.
Bore off you tw*t
F*x you.
well that's the response you get if you insult my autistic daughter.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:35 pm
by Adz
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:57 am
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:51 am
Bore off you tw*t
F*x you.
well that's the response you get if you insult my autistic daughter.
Are you saying she only likes Coldplay because she's autistic?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:36 pm
by JimbO
Adz wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:35 pm
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm
well that's the response you get if you insult my autistic daughter.
Are you saying she only likes Coldplay because she's autistic?
and you morons wander why people don't post on here
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:37 pm
by Proposition Joe
No interest in seeing them but genuinely intrigued by how the UK leg of their world tour consists solely of 8 nights at Wembley and 2 more at the second biggest rugby league ground in Hull.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:38 pm
by Hoover Attack
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm
Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:57 am
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 11:51 am
Bore off you tw*t
F*x you.
well that's the response you get if you insult my autistic daughter.
To be fair to me, I only insulted you, not your daughter.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:44 pm
by Dunners
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:37 pm
No interest in seeing them but genuinely intrigued by how the UK leg of their world tour consists solely of 8 nights at Wembley and 2 more at the second biggest rugby league ground in Hull.
Good spot. Given the density of population in the Northern region is weighted to the West (Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool), motorway congestion and lack of reliable public transport, it will be easier for most Northerners to get on the train to London instead.
Also, it looks like the UK dates are the only European dates on the world tour.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:49 pm
by Dunners
Ah, it appears that Coldplay have sacked their manager, Dave Holmes, for mismanagement and bad decisions costing them £millions.
Craven park is a bad decision.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:52 pm
by Adz
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:36 pm
Adz wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:35 pm
JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm
well that's the response you get if you insult my autistic daughter.
Are you saying she only likes Coldplay because she's autistic?
and you morons wander why people don't post on here
So why bring up she's autistic?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:02 pm
by Constanza
Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:49 pm
Ah, it appears that Coldplay have sacked their manager, Dave Holmes, for mismanagement and bad decisions costing them £millions.
Craven park is a bad decision.
Apparently he ordered 5 million coloured tour t shirts. When they opened the boxes, they were all yellow.
By the way I like Coldplay and would love to see them live.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:06 pm
by Dunners
Constanza wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:02 pm
Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:49 pm
Ah, it appears that Coldplay have sacked their manager, Dave Holmes, for mismanagement and bad decisions costing them £millions.
Craven park is a bad decision.
Apparently he ordered 5 million coloured tour t shirts. When they opened the boxes, they were all yellow.
By the way I like Coldplay and would love to see them live.
It was the boxes full of a bulk order of Panda that finally got him his P45.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:06 pm
by Long slender neck
Are they using dynamic pricing?
I'm sure this has shifted a fair few albums for them under the guise of helping real fans get tickets.
What does the link take you to if not the presale?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 2:10 pm
by CEB2ElectricBoogaloo
Surprised by the way this has gone. No fan of Coldplay, and reckon the initial teasing wasn’t out of order or anything, but once he’s brought up his daughter’s autism - and been clearly a bit annoyed by the jokes about it, it’s a bit much to carry on the “are you saying she only likes Coldplay cos she’s autistic?” jokes. It might be intended as a gag about Coldplay, but it’s a bit “oooff” imo.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 2:13 pm
by CEB2ElectricBoogaloo
I mean, I suspected he mentioned his daughter’s autism to head off the piss taking about her musical taste, and to signal that the routine gags about Coldplay would not be welcomed. Seems fair to me
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 2:59 pm
by Dunners
Is anyone else as surprised as me that, of all the people to post a sensible reply, it was me?
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 3:00 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Chris Martin cringes me out and basically anything they've put out in the last 15 years isn't for me. But as a live act it's pretty common knowledge they are unrivalled as a gig experience. I saw them at Glasto in about 2011 and they were great. First 2 albums still hold up imo as well.
Re: Coldplay
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 3:01 pm
by one o in huntingdon
Just go to Glastonbury, they seem to be the resident band there.
Got an email today for Iron Maiden presale tickets at the London Stadium.
Bit concerned it seems the done thing is to leave the stadium half way through.