The wife and I got tickets for their two shows in Seattle last may. I like to get tix before traveling, and I like good seats so I paid a hefty markup for shows 1 and 2 in seattle on stubhub and ticketmaster, respectively.
At noon the day of show 1, stubhub notified me via the app that they couldn’t fulfill my order. I was livid because I figured we’d miss the show, and we had dropped over $2k for the show 1 tix. Stubhub auto-refunded me within 30 minutes but I was at lunch with the wife fuming that we were out $2k and would miss the show that we had flown up to see. The 30 minutes between the stubhub notification and the refund were bad.
I was not gonna miss the show and bought a tix in a section closer to the stage for around $700 for 2 tix.
End result: I got slightly better seats and got +$1300 net.
I had bought the night 2 show through ticketmaster, and it didn’t have the high scalper markup.
Pearl jam doesn’t let scalpers make their cut.
Lesson learned for PJ tix: Buy using ticketmaster. Seat selection is pretty good. Lots of people traveling into seattle from elsewhere were buying tickets the days leading into the show.