OK, planet bluegrass, how in the heck did ALL of the discounted ‘holiday price’ tickets sell out in less than a DAY??!! I just checked shop.bluegrass.com and it says they’re already sold out!!! What, did you cut down the number of tickets to 50, versus the hundreds in past years??? OR, did scalpers inundate the servers??
After a cursory query, the following is found on stub hub:
Telluride Bluegrass Festival 4 Day Pass (June 21 -24)
TBD
Telluride Town Park
Telluride, CO Sell
Priced from: $850
28 tickets left
luride Bluegrass Festival Thursday Pass (June 21)
TBD
Telluride Town Park
Telluride, CO Sell
Priced from: $400
4 tickets left
Nice. Real Nice. Gee … 28 tickets for the first one. One can hope that next year IP filtering will be used and known scalpers’ IP’s will be blocked from even accessing the site!
As long as nobody buys from these scalpers at anything but face value they will continue.
Force them out of business by not accepting their price, and they will have to eat the tickets.
That’s the only way to stop it. :flower
Here’s an idea that just occurred to me for 2013 TBF Holiday Priced Ticket sales. I do not know how pragmatic this may be, but what if the Holiday Priced Tickets were sold by “Will Call” only? That would force the Purchaser of Record to actually show up at the Festival and claim his ticket(s). Just a thought. Like I said this may be a logistcal nightmare, but I feel it would be a fair work around for the TRUE FESTAVARIANS.
I agree that scalpers are all over this. RockyGrass Holiday Tickets also sold out by something around noon. I’m completely floored. I had someone offer me several times face value for my tickets when I posted I had extras. The times they are a-changin’ but sadly…not for the better.
We’ve had years with “crazy” sales before. But my memory is that when that has happened, the subsequent years have quieted down a little. As if people decide not to come after the craziness of the previous year.
But is the popularity finally feeding on itself? Have we reached the point of no return, where each year it will be harder to return, and the returning percentage of the population of Town Park will decline until nobody remembers Rum Balls, the Fashion show, or Potluck? Will the sanctity of “traditional camps” be lost? in other words, has it come to this?
I would like to hear from someone at Planet Bluegrass regarding all of this. Is it scalpers, as we all suspect, or is it simply a matter a fewer holiday tickets this year?
rning percentage of the population of Town Park will decline until nobody remembers Rum Balls, the Fashion show, or Potluck? Will the sanctity of “traditional camps” be lost? in other words, has it come to this?
I realize there isn’t really anything I/we can say to make you all feel better.
We were floored yesterday by the sheer demand. We had almost 4x the number of UNIQUE visitors to the website. (not scalpers with duplicate IP’s running some kind of “program” to get tickets).
People made money last year on tickets. Some people are going to try that again this year. Honestly, I don’t see that many tickets out there in the hands of “scalpers”. I see a couple of folks claiming they have tons and tons of tickets, but no proof of ownership.
I can promise you that I lose sleep over how to keep the tickets in the hands of Festivarian’s and out of the scalpers hands. There is no way to do that entirely until people don’t pay inflated prices and the scalpers stop buying.
Is the cat out of the bag? Who knows. Is this a social media feeding frenzy? Possibly.
One fact remains, Telluride will be awesome. There will only be 10k people, and we’ll keep evolving to TRY and give you the best festival experience you’ve ever had…every year.