U2 tickets sell out

Last updated 10:45 03/09/2010
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Tickets to U2's Auckland show sold out within an hour this morning.

In excess of 50,000 tickets, with prices starting at $39.90, went on sale at 9am and were sold out by 10am.

The Irish superband will bring their U2 360 Tour to Mt Smart Stadium on November 25.

Support will be provided for the New Zealand and Australian leg of the tour by Jay-Z.

Within minutes of the concert selling out tickets were appearing on the TradeMe auction site with general admission tickets attracting bids of over $400, four times their face value.

A Christchurch U2 fan who started an online campaign to see the band play in the city is "gutted" she missed out on tickets to the band's Auckland gig.

Chelsea Daly, from Ilam, logged on to buy tickets this morning but they sold out before she could buy any.

"I was on the site at 8.30am and still failed to get a ticket, so gutted."

Daly had started a campaign on Facebook called Bring U2 and Jay-Z to Christchurch in Nov 2010 last week.

The online approach worked for Metallica fans earlier this year when thousands of people joined en masse to convince that band to schedule a Garden City gig.

Despite her efforts, Daly had received an email yesterday from concert organisers to say no Christchurch concert would be announced.

"It's just too hard with 360 stage," she said. "Hopefully they take notice of the page for next time."

*Did you manage to get tickets to the show? Post your comments below.

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Pattie   #140   09:37 pm Sep 06 2010

Am wrapped to have secured some U2 tickets today on the U2.com presale, I hope all those scalpers that bought up a storm to make a profit for the first show are up shit creek without a sale you selfish bastards hahaha.....I'd rather go on a Friday in any case!!

Tom   #139   10:36 pm Sep 05 2010

@ #99

Hope that the second concert means that you are stuck with 8 tickets you can't sell.

Sammy   #138   07:34 pm Sep 05 2010

Hey Money Maker, Heart Breaker #102 , 2nd show.... Ah there is a god out there...ha ha...you look like such a dweeb now...good job loser!

Bazz   #137   02:14 pm Sep 05 2010

Excellent, a second concert. I hope you scalping tossers who bought up the 1st tickets are left holding the baby.

AJG   #136   10:03 am Sep 05 2010

To all those ticket touts that make lame excuses about being a business..yes everyone does it but it doesn't mean it's right and if you had morals you wouldn't do it, so to those that make excessive cash from true fans well done and I hope you enjoy the cash you low life cockroaches. It's a shame you where not selling tickets outside the ground as I recall going to many a footy game's in England where ticket tout's got a good kicking & slapping before their tickets being kindly taken off their hands. Those touts would only receive a free trip to the ED dept via the St Johns Ambulance!!!Good old days not like now hiding behind the internet!!

sean   #135   01:24 am Sep 05 2010

im from ireland living in new zealand,have never see the boys play before ,(U2),would love to of course,,its just crazy first of all bean able to buy 8 tickets, most of them end up on trade me,,and know after wats happened in christchurch with the massive earthquake,would be really special if U2 put on a second show and donated the money in helping those in the earthquake,,sean,,

joyce   #134   10:41 pm Sep 04 2010

I knew this concert would sell out in an hour, its like the last concert.. It was worth registering for the presale tickets even for the $50USD it costed me. the ticketek website had trouble with the presale codes provided by U2.com BUT they kept their promise by contacting everyone via phone to make sure our tickets were guaranteed awesome job ticketek crew... and as for the scalpers on trademe shame on you guys, trademe should ban traders who try to get over a certain % profit on these items.. would stop scalpers and leave tickets for true fans, not money hungry people..

jo   #133   09:28 pm Sep 04 2010

Bought my tickets on presales and am very glad I did!

James   #132   05:08 pm Sep 04 2010

I had the opportunity to buy a $40 ticket, but when it went through to checkout, it was like $462. i found out later there was another drop down box on the website. what a maze that website was! I ended up buying seated tickets at a higher premium. Still better than paying a premium to one of these scalper idiots though.

maybell   #131   10:49 am Sep 04 2010

I recently returned from uk and have used such ticket trading services as stubhub.com and viagogo. i want to share a local website dealing exclusively with second hand tickets. since i missed out on tickets yesterday and did not want to pay for ridiculous scalper mark up, i googled u2 tickets market price and found this site coincidentally called marketprice - i was pleasantly surprised to find some reasonably priced GA tickets. altogether i paid a 20 dollar markup for each ticket which i thought was fair.


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