Jamie
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Robbo
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Geezer at work is still waiting to get em 
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philrussell81
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in nottingham?
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Jamie
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Location: Aberdeen
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Aberdeen
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grigglet33
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Got tickets too!! 
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Gg_mf
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haha everyone at work trying to get them...all on hold still!!!
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Danny H
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Just got 8 for Sheffield.
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Fro
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Girl at works trying too
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corsa-sxi
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Location: Kingston upon Hull
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where from? i got mine last mnth
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CraigyG
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Hope this helps some people. A few of my mates used it & got their Killers tickets a few days ago
There are many ways to buy tickets on the internet.
Not all of them are official vendors and not all of them are as different as you may think.
From my experience the best online sites to use are:
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
www.seetickets.com
www.ticketline.co.uk
There are other sites that specialise with different events, one such being:
www.keithprowse.com
For the widest variety of events TicketMaster is the one to use, and this is usually the most responsive in extremely busy periods I.E. When a big name artist’s tour goes on sale it will not crash.
SeeTickets also does music, sports and theatre tickets but just doesn’t have as wide a database as TicketMaster does. This website changes its home page when large events go on sale to make it easier to purchase them, however it can run slow and you can wait a few minutes until you find out that there are no tickets left.
TicketLine has fewer events still and only really does music events. However this website is relatively unknown and can often have tickets left after the websites above have sold out.
To make sure you know what events go on sale when, you should sign up to the mailing list for these three websites. You usually only get an e-mail with upcoming events every Thursday evening as they usually go on sale at 9AM on Fridays.
There are many other ticketing websites that you may know about but many of these will only take you through the same line as either TicketMaster or SeeTickets websites. For example, www.aloud.com and www.livenation.co.uk (formerly GetLive) will take you through onto TicketMaster's bookings pages. When TicketMaster has sold out of an event so will these sites. There are also a number of websites which are part of the same group as SeeTickets, for example www.gigsandtours.com.
I will now take you through the processes I have found best to use when trying to get my hands on tickets for popular events.
TicketMaster
The quickest way to buy tickets from TicketMaster is to have an account and be logged in before you search for your ticket.
When you know what tickets you want to buy, use the search option at the top-left of the home page and find the page for your artist. If it is not yet on sale it should look something like this:
As you can see, the tickets are not yet on sale. Click on the ‘More Info’ link for the date and venue that you want.
This screen should then appear:
On the far right-hand side you can see all the gig information, including the price, when it is on sale and door times.
If it is the morning that the tickets go on sale you should be on this screen from about a quarter to the hour it goes on sale. From here keep refreshing your browser on this page every 10 seconds, be careful though as clicking it any faster can cause an automated 5 minute lock-out of the page.
From about five minutes to the hour the next screen I will show you will flick on for a nanosecond every time you refresh, this means the event is nearly on sale.
This screen or similar will be the next one you see and will automatically appear from refreshing the above page:
Here you can choose how many tickets you want, your ticket price and your ticket location. Then click the ‘Look for Tickets’ button at the bottom.
This screen will then appear:
Type in the word as seen in the box, do not worry if you get it wrong by mistake another word will appear.
Once you have entered the word correctly you will get to the following screen:
This tells you how long the expected waiting time is while it is trying to find your tickets.
Following this, the next page that comes up shows the details of the tickets it has found for you and then you go through the next few pages entering your payment details and delivery address. If you are logged into your TicketMaster account at this stage you can just select the postage method you want and confirm you want your tickets.
You should then receive a confirmation e-mail describing the tickets you have purchased.
IMPORTANT: Do not try to double your chances of getting tickets by searching on two different TicketMaster pages at the same time, the website will not let you, and you will have to start your search again.
(All pictures in the above section have been taken from the official Ticketmaster website)
SeeTickets
On days when a very popular event goes on sale the home page for SeeTickets changes to one where you can choose the exact date for that particular artist. E.G.
(Taken from the official SeeTickets website)
Once you have clicked on the type you would like to buy you have to fill in the amount you want, and your payment and postage details on the same page, you then click confirm.
Following that, the next page that comes up will tell you if you have or haven’t got any tickets. However, during these busy periods you cannot choose your ticket location, for example if the event is all seated you will not know the location of your seats until you have paid for them and received your confirmation e-mail. You then need to ‘Track’ your order to find out the location of the seats.
Usually, if there are tickets available you will have to click an ‘OK’ button that pops up making sure you want to complete the transaction, if you click this button your card will be charged.
If a new home page hasn’t been made for the event you want to buy then on the normal home page keep using the search feature at the top of the page. It will come up with no results until the event is on sale, so keep trying.
If, for example, you are looking for tickets for an upcoming band and are unsure if the tickets will sell very fast, then this website has a very useful feature called ‘Top Sellers’. This is a list of the top 40 selling tickets for that day. If the band you like is in the top 20 of this it means that they are selling a lot of tickets and you should buy some sooner rather than later.
TicketLine
This website is relatively unknown to many people, and in my experience has still had tickets left for gigs that sell out instantly on the websites above up to an hour later. The only trouble is that is can sometimes freeze at busy times so don’t rely on it.
You need to sign up to an account with this website to buy tickets. You can do it once you have hosen your tickets but it is best to do it before to enable faster purchase of tickets.
If a gig is not on sale yet this website sets up a system relatively the same as TicketMaster whereby you can search for the event and it will say ‘on sale soon’ next to a picture of a traffic light.
Keep refreshing this page and it will eventually change to ‘Check ticket availability’. Click this and it will have a list of the different ticket types and seating locations still available for the event.
Choose which you want and click ‘Add to your order’. The website will then ask you to confirm that they are the tickets you want from which you can proceed to ‘checkout’. The next page should tell you the seat numbers and that the tickets have been reserved. You then select the postage method and continue to checkout.
The Morning Your Favourite Artist Goes On Sale…
The following strategy is the best way I have found to buy tickets over the internet in busy periods.
Get to your computer for about 8:30 if the event is on sale at 9.
Load up the home page of the three websites I have listed above and sign into any accounts you need to (Please note that not all sites sell all events).
On TicketMaster gat as far as you can in the process of choosing your tickets so you are on a page similar to this:
Do the same on TicketLine so you get to the page that says ‘On sale soon’.
Also load up any website that has been listed by your artist’s official website.
Wait until about 8:50 and refresh all the pages you have loaded up, The SeeTickets home page may change to a temporary one just for that specific event if it is very popular.
Keep refreshing every so often, because if one site crashes or is slow loading up you can concentrate on the others.
At about 8:55 you should start refreshing the TicketMaster web page every 10 seconds or so, because they sometimes go on sale slightly early and I find this website to be much faster, whist every so often checking the other sites.
Be ready to act quickly as soon as a site’s tickets go on sale as there are many other people trying to get tickets.
If you refresh often, enough you will realise that they are on sale before other people do, because they will not have refreshed the page yet. This means you have a much better chance of getting better tickets, instead of just any ticket that becomes available.
If you are lucky you may even get the choice of 3 different seating locations before you decide which to buy.
To End With
Hopefully this guide has been useful to you and you end up getting tickets to see your favourite artist.
Please note that using the techniques explained in this guide will not guarantee you to get tickets but they are just ways that I have found where I very rarely miss out on getting tickets.
You can also get tickets via telephone but these lines are very busy and I find it is near impossible to get through, and if you don’t end up with tickets you may waste a lot of money on phone bills.
If you do miss out on tickets, and you wish to buy some from eBay, I encourage you not to do it straight away. Often, the prices are higher as soon as a gig sells out. They then drop over time. Another tip is to look out for ‘buy it now’ auctions on eBay. Some sellers will put a much lower price than what the tickets are selling for on auction, to ensure that they get a fast sale, these items sell quite fast so you need to keep your eyes peeled.
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CorsaChris12
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Registered: 28th Jul 04
Location: Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees
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I am gutted just tryed to ring everywhere all sold out now 
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Aberdeen sold out in 17 minutes
Think Glasgow was similar, but there are so many tickets on ebay right now
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CorsaChris12
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Registered: 28th Jul 04
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Yea there is loads on ebay i am bidding on 1 at £100 but not going into a silly price war lol
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Thats insane considering they cost £20-£30 (depending on venue)
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CorsaChris12
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Registered: 28th Jul 04
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Just got some mate well happy
** But not of ripping ebay **
[Edited on 03-11-2006 by CorsaChris12]
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