Helsinki sold out in 10 minutes.

[werty567]

[Fantsu]

and the other seller Tiketti didn't open until 9.15 or so, but sold out in 5 mins.

But I got my tickets!!! Wooo and yay!

[Lalalal]

> and the other seller Tiketti didn't open until 9.15 or so, but sold out in
> 5 mins.

> But I got my tickets!!! Wooo and yay!

WHy? The arena looks horrible and the tickets cost a fortune compared to the average ticket prize on the tour.

[Tommi]

> WHy? The arena looks horrible and the tickets cost a fortune compared to
> the average ticket prize on the tour.

Yeah, if I can't have my luxury dinner with three different desserts on the exact kind of plate I want, I ain't eating! Oh, and the tablecloth is unacceptable as well!

Dude, get real. It's Morrissey. We're just glad he's finally coming back to Finland, so we're not forced to do the unthinkable and visit Sweden this time. I'd pay double and be happy with an even worse venue.

[Fantsu]

Some, earlier reserved, tickets have become available at the Ticketmaster (Lippupalvelu.fi)

[Moz. Er?]

Luckily, I got a ticket for the Helsinki gig. I knew it would sell out very quickly because the capacity of that place is only 2870. He could have easily sold out a bigger venue.

One reason why the tickets were sold out so quickly is because ticketservicefinland has this Vip-system for companies (and individuals if you have lots of money). Companies can buy a "vip-treatment" which quaranteens them tickets before general sale. Usually, in big concerts, this has meant that even before general sale 30-80 percent of the tickets have been sold. This system might be good for ticket touts. Two hours after today's tickets had been sold, they were already on sale on "local version of e-bay", double the price.

Those unfortunate ones who didn't manage to get tickets there might be a little hope for you. Reserved but not collected tickets might pop out on sale within a week or just few days.

Finnish Mozzer fans have waited eight and half years to see Moz back in Helsinki. I just bloody hope that Morrissey doesn't cancel this Helsinki show.

[Sheer greed.]

> Luckily, I got a ticket for the Helsinki gig. I knew it would sell out
> very quickly because the capacity of that place is only 2870. He could
> have easily sold out a bigger venue.

> One reason why the tickets were sold out so quickly is because
> ticketservicefinland has this Vip-system for companies (and individuals if
> you have lots of money). Companies can buy a "vip-treatment"
> which quaranteens them tickets before general sale. Usually, in big
> concerts, this has meant that even before general sale 30-80 percent of
> the tickets have been sold. This system might be good for ticket touts.
> Two hours after today's tickets had been sold, they were already on sale
> on "local version of e-bay", double the price.

> Those unfortunate ones who didn't manage to get tickets there might be a
> little hope for you. Reserved but not collected tickets might pop out on
> sale within a week or just few days.

> Finnish Mozzer fans have waited eight and half years to see Moz back in
> Helsinki. I just bloody hope that Morrissey doesn't cancel this Helsinki
> show.

I'd like to know, do other countries have this kind of vip-systems for companies; i.e where they can buy tickets before general sale date? Companies got tickets to Morrissey's Helsinki gig last wednesday. official sale date, on the other hand, was today. This could mean that Ticketservise finland had only few hundred tickets available for Morrissey fans. Whereas companies and their staff, who are not necessarily Moz fans, got the majority of the tickets. Among them might be ticket touts, who were selling the tickets today at the starting price of 80-100 euros. The real tickets price was 47 e, the most expensive tickets on this tour.

On other big (and) small concerts this thing has happened before. F.ex: a band comes to play a big show, 10k venue, sale date is released, but companies (who have bought the vip package) can buy tickets to the show a week before
the general sale date. So, this could mean that in a venue which holds 10k people nearly 8-9k tickets could have been sold before the fans get a chance to buy tickets. And again, touts are selling tickets with astronomical prices. Some newspapers have tried to open a discussion about this, but not much has happened. Ticketservice co. tries to be silent about this and say that there are plenty of tickets available for the fans. But this clearly isn't so. These vip-systems make a lot of money to ticketservicefinland, because they cost thousands of euros to companies (or to individuals).
That's why most of the shows sell out in few minutes, because there are only few tickets left for general sale.

So, I'd like to know, does this happen in the UK, Usa, Sweden or anywhere else in the world?

[Marion]

I was lucky enough to get tickets. The Lippupalvelu sales point at Kupittaa Citymarket in Turku was again the best bet. I have never managed to book anything on their web system on the first day - it simply cannot cope with the pressure caused by thousands people trying to buy tickets at the same time. Quite frankly, the system sucks.

These corporate VIP tickets are just frustrating, and have ruined the whole thing for ordinary music fans who still have to pay for their own tickets. And they seem to go for just about anything - even the likes of Morrissey... ;-) I once bumped into a friend at a Depeche Mode concert at the Hartwall Arena - he'd been invited to the Bank of Finland's box. Never knew that bankers and economists were that keen... When I asked him how he'd liked the show, he said that no one was really watching that keenly, most people were more interested in the free booze...

And even though the number of tickets was limited to 4 per buyer, there were already people capitalising at the huuto.net auction site, selling tickets at a starting price of €80...

[Fantsu]

> [the Ticketmaster web system] simply cannot cope with the pressure caused by
> thousands people trying to buy tickets at the same time. Quite frankly, the
> system sucks.

At least today it worked fine I started pressing refresh 5 mins before 9.00 and all went very smoothly.