I came home yesterday evening, (from a night of shopping with my mother...I love her and her dastardly Barnes and Noble gift cards...), to an e-mail from StubHub saying that the seller of my Lady Gaga ticket had canceled my sale!!!
Gaaaaahhh!
On further exhaustive search, it wasn't the sale that had been canceled, it was the show.
Gaaaaahhh! x infinity
On even further exhaustive search, it wasn't canceled, it was moved from Chicago theatre, (apparently too small to accommodate demand*) to someplace else (I'm not saying where, you can do your own damn exhaustive searching...)
So, it's still on, but because I bought my ticket through StubHub instead of directly through ticketmaster, I have to wait for everyone from ticketmaster to re-buy their seats, and then I have to re-buy mine. Now, take heed: do not use StubHub, except as a last resort.
I say this not out of malice, though I think things could have been better handled, say, by the agent I spoke to laying off the inhalents to preserve whatever brain cells they had left, but out of concern for others convenience. My (now invalid) ticket was MUY expensive, and is now invalid because ticketmaster doesn't honor second party sales. Also, their FAQ section is no help whatsoever, and their agent was thicker than two short planks.** To be brief, StubHub has been nothing but trouble since I started, the original ticket holder overcharged me by about 150%, and I highly recommend going straight to the source if you can, and thence to ticketmaster, and only thence to a second party dealer. Also, their phone menu begins by someone shouting "STUBHUB" in a way reminiscent of a painfully annoying commercial that was so painfully annoying I've blocked the product out of my memory. If I remember, I'll let you know.
To sum up, I am exactly where I began two and a half months ago. Without a ticket.
*And also, infuriatingly, convenient. About five steps from the el-train I would use to get there. The new location is in the ass end of nowhere, both decreasing my chances of being able to get there, and increasing my chances of getting a new ticket because no one else will be able to get there either.
**Admittedly, so was the first person I spoke to at ticketmaster. The second person I spoke to at ticketmaster was a real doll of a man, who helped me out, was incredibly sympathetic, and who is going to be e-mailed my article if I do indeed manage to get an interview.
*update*
The tickets go on sale to the general public on...January 4. The concert is on January 8.
I hope this is the universe telling me to shut up cause I'm going to get the interview...
See you in 2010!
