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Ticketmaster was kind enough to require a "presale password" to buy the tickets online for the Grand Prairie, TX (near Dallas) show.  If anyone's wondering, the password is "WALL", but don't hold your breath---even though the general sale doesn't begin until tomorrow, all of the center/decent tickets are GONE.  Want to know what happened to them?? Check EBAY!  Isn't that some BULLSHIT?!?!?!?!?!  >  When I called Ticketmaster, they blamed it on the promoter.  By making presale tickets only available by a mysterious password (and then leaking it in various places on the internet), they have effectively encouraged professional scalping and driven up ticket prices illegally BEFORE THEY EVER WENT ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC all in all ensuring that unless we buy their scalped tickets, we don't get decent seats.  So what did I do?  Well, aside from reporting the "4th row" ticket seller I found on eBay to the Grand Prairie Police Department (and to eBay), I bought some shitty tickets.  I would encourage any of you planning to see the Dallas show to do the same before buying from a scalper.  Make them pay for their illegal trade by eating the cost!!

If this wasn't the Aussies, I would boycott the show.  Instead, I'm sucking it up and sitting in row NN (yes, "double N") way off to the left because they were the best tickets I could get.  All the good ones are gone unless you care to pay $239 for them on eBay.

Next time, I would recommend that the Aussies do what Nine Inch Nails did for their recent tour--set up an online presale which requires registration on the website.  Then print the ticket holder's name on the tickets, make them "will call only."  Require a photo ID to pick them up.  Yeah, it's a few extra steps, and yeah, it can be a lengthy process, but it ensures that scalpers don't get all the good tickets.  Most scalping takes place on the internet these days, and I've actually seen people arrested for it in front of arenas and stadiums before.  They'll be a lot less likely to scalp tickets with their own names on them.

Isn't this kind of greed quite disgusting ? The promoter of this show has allowed this to happen so as  a sign of my displeasure even though IT IS the Aussies I wouldn't bother going. The promoter deserves an empty house.
    I get most angry when music events are hijacked by greedy bastards. The band members themselves will be much more upset about this than you realise mihalis. What do you think it does to their hard earned reputation ?

eBay could easily stop this practice, but they're making too much money from it to give a shit.

Those rat bastards  >

Oh I agree, don't get me wrong.  The promoter definitely deserves an empty house.  Still, I have no other way to see the Aussies this year thanks to my ever-empty wallet, which I'll be kind enough to attribute to my country's currently shitty economy and our (thankfully) outgoing president.  lol   No, seriously, I just got back from Europe a little over a month ago and I'm playing catch-up with my finances now.  Hence, I can't take a road trip to see the Aussies in a nearby city.  I can't afford the time off from work, the gasoline, or the miles on my car (and unlike what you Brits & Europeans are used to, we actually have to drive everywhere because our public transportation blows).  Hence, I'll be attending the Dallas show despite the shitty promoter.  Still, I sure wish I could stumble upon a pair of better tickets (or backstage passes... : lol.. wouldn't that be nice!)  Anyhow, glad to hear my feelings are reciprocated.  And yes, I also agree that it isn't good for the Aussies' reputation for the promoter to have ENCOURAGED SCALPING as they so obviously have.

There goes my chances of getting to the show.. I was waiting to buy tickets this year like an idiot. (last 2 years I was on the 2nd row)  now it looks like I will be in the balcony ducking the planes...ugh

John said that someone had some on Ebay going for 3500... I love my TAPFS but come one, thats alot to ask..