No more camping out for concert tickets

[Uncle John]

This means more money for Ticketmaster on concert ticket service fees.

Effective July 1, 2024, the Ticketmaster Box Office at Enterprise Center is open on event/game days only, beginning at noon through approximately one hour after the start of event/game. The Box Office will be closed on non-event days. On non-event days, guests may purchase their tickets online at ticketmaster.com.
Limited, short-term parking is available for ticket buyers in front of the building on Clark Avenue.

[Pink Freud]

This means more money for Ticketmaster on concert ticket service fees.

Effective July 1, 2024, the Ticketmaster Box Office at Enterprise Center is open on event/game days only, beginning at noon through approximately one hour after the start of event/game. The Box Office will be closed on non-event days. On non-event days, guests may purchase their tickets online at ticketmaster.com.
Limited, short-term parking is available for ticket buyers in front of the building on Clark Avenue.

Thank you for the heads-up. I consider myself very fortunate that 99% of acts I wanted to see I saw before TakeIt,B--turd! ever $h1+ the concert-going bed.

[George Zipp]

Is this story from 1997?

Camping out for tickets? Last time I recall waiting in any significant long ticket line was the Blues. It might have been 2019 that they allowed fans to queue up at the Enterprise Center for tix. I think we got there super early.

Back in the 90s Plaza Frontenac used to have a ticket machine in the info desk that very few people knew about. Springsteen played a show from his Tom Joad tour at the Fox. Tix went on sale in the dead of winter and we spent the better part of the night in the parking garage at Frontenac. We were second in line out of maybe 30.

I miss the good ole days of mail ordering dead tix. 3x5 index card. Details had to be engineering specs precise or you would get rejected. Then you would wait, and wait for those tix.

[Pink Freud]

I miss the good ole days of mail ordering dead tix. 3x5 index card. Details had to be engineering specs precise or you would get rejected. Then you would wait, and wait for those tix.

In November 1981 when the Rolling Stones came to the Arena, they caused quite a stir, by:
--- Requiring by-mail orders ONLY;
--- Paid for with USPS mail orders ONLY;
--- Requests for four tickets ONLY;
--- Sponsored by Jovan Musk Oil (What??? A corporate sponsor for the Stones??);
--- And the then-outlandish price of $17.50 per ticket.
--- Note: No service fees. No "artist's favorite charity" fees. No "venue usage" fees. No "convenience" fees.

Geez, I hope Take It, B**turd! dies a horrible, sudden death. In the meantime, StubHub is about to issue an IPO. There's huge money in ripping people off through scalping. Remember when, if you wanted to sell your extra Cardinals postseason tickets, you had to include something silly like a pen to sell the ticket --- as a package of the pen and ticket --- for more than face value? And they'd have cops on Stadium Plaza and outside The Arena just looking for scalpers? Nowadays we have police chiefs and prosecutors investing in those scalping companies.

Personally, I've never stood in a long, long line for concert tickets, though I did spend 11 hours in line outside The Arena in February 1969, when they put ALL of their remaining single-game tickets for the rest of the season on sale at the box office. The line was so long, and moved so slowly, that the Salomons called Steak 'n Shake on Hampton and had them deliver hundreds of dollars worth of sandwiches, hot chocolate, and coffee, since it was cold out there!

Then, once you finally got to the tiny box office, you saw just a mass of humanity. Your feet barely touched the ground we were so packed. It took more than an hour to get from the doors inside the ticket office to the ticket window.....and all I wanted was single tickets to three games!! Once I finally had my mother lode, I walked to the bus stop outside KTVI, stopping at the Burger Chef to get three of their huge roast beef sandwiches to inhale on the Hampton bus going back to Goodfellow and W. Florissant, toward my home in Ferguson.

[Mark beld]

I have gone to the Enterprise box office a few time for tickets. Like when Pink and the Stones last played there. I don't think that people think of actually going to the box office anymore, but I have never failed to not get tickets there. have not done that in awhile and apparently won't be doing so in the future.

[Aesa]

My favorite spot to buy tickets back in the day was Orange Julius at Northwest Plaza. They always had great floor seats in the middle section close to the stage, regardless of which venue was hosting.

[Pink Freud]

My favorite spot to buy tickets back in the day was Orange Julius at Northwest Plaza. They always had great floor seats in the middle section close to the stage, regardless of which venue was hosting.

Ah, sweet nostalgia! Buying concert and sports tickets at Orange Julius; Famous-Barr; Streetside Records; Peaches; Golde's; the Arcade Building. No "convenience fees". No "facility usage fees". No artist's charitable foundation fees". No "artist's political donation fees".....

Since Live Nation now controls both artist bookings at venues and ticket availability through its TakeIt!Bas**rd organized crime syndicate, there's no reason for stadiums and arenas to even staff a ticket office.