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[Koolan]

I'm so gutted, got no tickets for any of the Montreal shows. Damn scalpers go to hell!!!

Thanks TeamCeline for making it easier for them to get more tickets  

[ChristaStojkovic]

Dionesque, on Nov 17 2007, 07:15 PM, said:

I'm happy for you guys who are going to Montréal gig(s)!!!
I guess it will be huge - that's the city in Northern America where I'd looooove to see her - in her home province!

About the entire presale, I think there are many bad things, not only about TeamCeline....

1) For concert in Köln TeamCeline offered only not-so-good seats - aside and starting from 8th row...

2) General presale for Amsterdam was the biggest disastar in my opinion!!! I haven't heard of anyone who got better seats in general presale than 8th row in A section and these were gone almost immediately plus there were huge problems with the site, incl. rejecting valid and good credit cards.... TERRIBLE service!!!...

I'm happy I'm actually done with my tickets now, I will only buy more if there will be some concerts added in destinations we haven't got a concert in already, otherwise my personal "tour dates" are just closed.

Exactly! But the whole presale / general sale for Canada / the US is even worse.
Did any of you already notice that they´ve added 2 additional dates for Montreal??
And that Montreal is sold out??
And that the best seats we (Teamceline members..) could get were 15th/20th row (mostly in the corner)
And that all the good seats are in the ´exchange´ section on ticketmaster; offered at an average of $1000 per ticket...

[DianaLuts]

THIS SUCKS! SCALPERS NEED TO BURN IN HELL. I gave up and had to buy thru scalpers. I was able to get front row for Seattle Tacoma and for Sacramento...

[Cheerfuljane]

Even Ticket Exchange on TicketMonster has tix for Montreal (20th) going for over $1000

Does anyone know if they're holding seats back for sale at a later date or have the scalpers taken them all?
For all the venues?

[Koolan]

Jane, were you able to get any tickets for Montreal?

[ZoraSourit]

This Montreal ticket sale has been insane! I really feel for you guys. How strange it is that all good tickets are in the hands of scalpers? And for what I've understood, there are no good or bad tickets for fans to buy. That's really frustrating...

[tativale]

I really think we should sue TeamCeline - the official website - just like the fans from Hannah Montana did. It's very serious guys.
This is an absurd what they are doing. They promise something that in real it didn't happen. How come those nights are already sold out??? they didn't even communicated it to us. How come many good seats are now on ticket exchange for prices like over CA $ 1,300 ?!?!?!?!?!

[Cheerfuljane]

Koolan, on Nov 17 2007, 07:54 PM, said:

Jane, were you able to get any tickets for Montreal?

Yeah
Row A in the 100's
15 Aug I think

I wrote a reply to your question in the Tour Section

Edited by Cheerfuljane, 17 November 2007 - 02:18 PM.

[Cheerfuljane]

tativale, on Nov 17 2007, 08:13 PM, said:

I really think we should sue TeamCeline - the official website - just like the fans from Hannah Montana did. It's very serious guys.
This is an absurd what they are doing. They promise something that in real it didn't happen. How come those nights are already sold out??? they didn't even communicated it to us. How come many good seats are now on ticket exchange for prices like over CA $ 1,300 ?!?!?!?!?!

I agree something NEEDS to be done.
We need to do this the right way though.

I'm gonna open a discussion thread in the Tour section.

[celinefan1985]

I freakin' spent an hour online trying to get tickets for Montreal and even with the extra shows, NOTHING!!!  How infuriating.  Scalpers are the worst bread on earth.  I HATE THEM!!!

[Tal]

And if you all remember, TC said that the 2 ticket limit policy was to avoid scalpers.  A lot of good that did!

[tativale]

Cheerfuljane, on Nov 17 2007, 06:26 PM, said:

tativale, on Nov 17 2007, 08:13 PM, said:

I really think we should sue TeamCeline - the official website - just like the fans from Hannah Montana did. It's very serious guys.
This is an absurd what they are doing. They promise something that in real it didn't happen. How come those nights are already sold out??? they didn't even communicated it to us. How come many good seats are now on ticket exchange for prices like over CA $ 1,300 ?!?!?!?!?!

I agree something NEEDS to be done.
We need to do this the right way though.

I'm gonna open a discussion thread in the Tour section.

Yeah count on me! we need a help from someone from US - we need a lawyer!

[Tal]

Well she'll be in LA this week and I know some fans are going to see her at various appearances.  If anyone can get a hold of Rene, I would suggest they bring this up to him if thats at all possible.  There are seats for Montreal going for $3000 a piece!

[nico robin]

  i don't think i can get tickets for houston or phoenix......i don't have the money, i don't heve the visa...this was my chance to see Celine and now....it won't happen....     

[celinefan1985]

Yeah, count me in.  I would love for something to actually reach Rene and Celine herself.  We, the fans who are basically doing all the promotion, we, the fans who are getting her played on Z100 after the station had dropped the single, we, the fans who are spending money on LEGAL cd's, we, the fans ARE getting a big F*** YOU!

Edited by joeym, 17 November 2007 - 02:37 PM.

[tativale]

Tal, on Nov 17 2007, 06:32 PM, said:

Well she'll be in LA this week and I know some fans are going to see her at various appearances.  If anyone can get a hold of Rene, I would suggest they bring this up to him if thats at all possible.  There are seats for Montreal going for $3000 a piece!

This is an absurd! boycott! lol

Seriously, we must do something .. because it's fake publicity.

[Tal]

i wonder if rene even cares?  i mean he can see whats happening with tickets for the last few months of the vegas show.  they're outrageous!  he's not doing anything about that, and its now legal for scalpers to sell tickets.  if they really wanted to give fans the best seats, they should have given us a much larger limit and access to better seats (and i dont mean those ridiculous $1000 gold seats).

[celinefan1985]

Tal, on Nov 17 2007, 03:41 PM, said:

i wonder if rene even cares?  i mean he can see whats happening with tickets for the last few months of the vegas show.  they're outrageous!  he's not doing anything about that, and its now legal for scalpers to sell tickets.  if they really wanted to give fans the best seats, they should have given us a much larger limit and access to better seats (and i dont mean those ridiculous $1000 gold seats).

Girl, at this point, I wasn't even looking for the best seats.  Just ANY seat for heaven's sake!

[Tal]

they'll just give us some BS about Montreal being her hometown, having high demand, and how they added more dates.  we can just point them to the ticket exchange area i guess.  but whats the point?  the tickets were already sold...its not like they can turn back time.

[tativale]

Tal, on Nov 17 2007, 06:41 PM, said:

i wonder if rene even cares?  i mean he can see whats happening with tickets for the last few months of the vegas show.  they're outrageous!  he's not doing anything about that, and its now legal for scalpers to sell tickets.  if they really wanted to give fans the best seats, they should have given us a much larger limit and access to better seats (and i dont mean those ridiculous $1000 gold seats).

I totally agree. It's an absurd. How come a fan now have to pay over $1,000 to get a front row seat, now we have to pay to meet Celine????????
Where are our priorities as they say we have??????????

Tal, on Nov 17 2007, 06:50 PM, said:

they'll just give us some BS about Montreal being her hometown, having high demand, and how they added more dates.  we can just point them to the ticket exchange area i guess.  but whats the point?  the tickets were already sold...its not like they can turn back time.

I doubt it is sold out. Look at Dublin, nobody could get ticket for the whole A blocks.
I bet many seats are reserved or something.

Edited by tativale, 17 November 2007 - 02:55 PM.

[celinefan1985]

Me wanna cry...     

[ZoraSourit]

The question is: who's responsible? Did Céline's team sell the tickets to the ticketmaster and they did whatever they wanted with them? What happened?

[tativale]

ZoraSourit, on Nov 17 2007, 06:56 PM, said:

The question is: who's responsible? Did Céline's team sell the tickets to the ticketmaster and they did whatever they wanted with them? What happened?

Well, it doesn't "matter' because TeamCeline also says that Teamceline members are the first ones to buy tickets and we have priorities. But it's not true for real.

[Tal]

joeym, on Nov 17 2007, 03:54 PM, said:

Me wanna cry...     

are you coming to any NY shows?

[PrincessCéline]

This is something I've always wondered, you see. How can the scalpers get the tickets ? Are they members of every fan club in the world ? They don't work, don't go to school, have every password presale code ?

I feel really bad for the people in Montreal. Talking to Rene about it would be good, maybe he wouldn't care, but if Celine gets slapped back for it, he won't be able to say he wasn't aware of it!

[Koolan]

There are even passwords being sold on ebay.  

[nano]

[dlh1]

The same is happening in the UK, it's not fair on real fans. BTW if you ever try and ask Rene a question, he just pretends he can't hear you so good luck

[linah4]

Guys i totally agree with you, and i want celine/Rene to hear us out..... if we all email TC i'm sure something will come out of it.... we need to get the media involved get this on the news, email people like Larry King.... i mean, come one... i wasnt a part of Team Celine before so i woke up at 9:30 to get tickets for Edmonton... i had both my commputers setup for celine dion search ticketmaster, the best they had left at 10 in the mornign was in the 200's..... then going into 300s!!! then, without any ntoice they add another show and put them on sale!!! if i wasn't looking on Ebay at the time i wouldn't have gotten the tickets i got!! i had to join Team Celine to get mine, and im pretty sure they are in the corner!!! i'm not complaining im glad that i'm even going, but still it is rediculous!! something has to be done about the bum scalpers who are too lazy to go get a real job! seriousely they need to do something with ticketmaster, like take the names of whoever is buying the tickets and later confirm that the same people who bought them will be going to the show!!

[SarahJB5]

Tal, on Nov 17 2007, 03:28 PM, said:

And if you all remember, TC said that the 2 ticket limit policy was to avoid scalpers.  A lot of good that did!

Yeah, this made it so much easier...before you had to wait the 7 days to buy tickets, now you have instant access to tickets, it's sooooooo easy. I bought additional TC tickets for the Cleveland concert because I am afraid I won't be able to get any good seats come Monday. All I had to do was pay the extra $40 and I got 2 more TC seats! I'm sure the scalpers have done that plenty of times. Then they didn't even inform us of the 2 new dates for Montreal, so to me that is false information or with holding information from us. What I'm thinking of is sending a letter to CDA. I don't know what they can do about it now, but they need to be aware of this. They should make it madatory for all people to have will call or something so that you have to go to the venue on the day of the event pick up tickets....I don't know something NEEDS to happen, the fans are getting taken advantage of big time!     

Edited by SarahJB5, 17 November 2007 - 04:30 PM.