100% bad planning coupled with the misguided wish of having them all go on sale at the same time. Ticketmaster & ticket agents suck & fuck up sometimes, but this was 100% bad planning. They are covering 4 time zones in the US... having all tickets go on sale at the same time is ridiculous & highly inconvenient. The general rule in the US is to have tickets go on sale between 9am-12pm local time on a Friday (9/10 at 10 am), with presales before that. Wanting to make "an event" out of ticket sales is just not a thing & will cause far more problems than anything else.Catallena wrote:Bad planning? Unless US venues are that much of a mess, I'm thinking they booked too late. If you book on time, you'd have a confirmation by the time tickets go on sale right? Then they kept adding surprise dates, causing people to get frustrated because they had already bought tickets for shows somwhere else while they could've gotten tickets for their own city (or at least a somewhere more near). It was such a mess.
The problem with the vidcon theory (if that is what they were thinking) is that Anaheim is at bare minimum 45 minutes away from the Dolby in Hollywood & that is on the absolute best of days. In shitty Southern California traffic, that drive can easily turn into two hours, especially on a Thursday, which I swear to god are getting just as bad as FridaysCatallena wrote:About the new LA matinee show, I'm thinking we'll see these tickets getting discounted just like with the last minute added Palladium show. Maybe they're hoping Vidcon visitors will buy a last minute ticket? Perhaps they can work together with Vidcon to sell tickets, because I doubt they'll get a full house at this rate.
. You would probably be looking at a $50 uber ride in no traffic. + to that the fact that vidcon is starting that day, so most people are going to want to be at vidcon to get the most of their passes. My only theory is that they're hoping that kids will go to a matinee if their parents wouldn't let them go the evening or if they didn't get tickets to the first? Most schools are out by then, but I dunno if parents are gonna be compelled to take a day off work to take their kid to TATINOF. Though from the parents I encountered at the Costa Mesa on sale... holy shit, phandom kids will threaten their parents to see Dan & Phil. 
The other motivating factor is having two takes at filming.Vegas is a notoriously tough sell for any touring act. My friend who lives there constantly complains about the omission of Vegas from tours, but he also completely understands that Vegas crowds suck & residents just aren't into supporting anything since they have to deal with tourist assholes & shitty shows littering their town constantly. + to that that their show is off strip, meaning they won't even be able to market that shit to tourists because no one's gonna head north of the shitty outlet mall to go see two dudes from the internet unless they're going to Vegas already to see two dudes from the internet.pearshaped34 wrote:They haven't added or just released those seats the Vegas show just didn't sell well and there was a lot left.
tl;dr: are not good at planning a tour in the US.
In less *womp womp* news, I enjoyed agar.io & I am looking forward to Dan's quarter life crisis.
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