Foo Fighters had turned off the transfer of tickets before their Citi Field concert. However, in New York they legally had to open a transfer and pit tickets were under face value.
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Foo Fighters turned off transfer but in New York they legally have to open transfer and wow, Pit tickets are under face value!
Turning off transfer does not help fans and #paystowait pic.twitter.com/4DGDxYH4OW
— TICKETSHELP1 (@Ticket_Help2022) July 17, 2024
Last year, officials with the Spokane Arena and TicketsWest noted that ticket transfers and resales were disabled. This means that anyone buying tickets from a third party might face difficulties receiving them due to transfer restrictions. Officials also said that they can’t guarantee any customers purchasing through a secondary site will receive their tickets.
Countless concert-goers missed out on tickets to the Foo Fighters show after they sold out on the first day of sales.
“Nothing was available,” said Jonathan Rivera, a Foo Fighters fan. “Tried 20 times, did not get it and was told that they were gone.”
Rivera revealed that it wasn’t the first time he faced difficulties getting tickets to a concert.
“My wife and I go to a lot of concerts,” he said. “She’s in a wheelchair and it’s something fun we do all the time. And the last couple of years have just been getting harder and harder.”
Rivera was shocked that even the handicapped seats weren’t available for his wife. In his search for tickets on third-party sites, he soon found out he wouldn’t have luck there, either.
“Everything’s a rip-off these days,” Rivera said. “Everybody trying to take advantage of everybody.”
Matt Meyer, the director of the Spokane Arena, said he’s not surprised by this change.
“I think it’s the industry where the industry is starting to shift to protect the consumer a little bit more and the true fans,” Meyer said.
Foo Fighters are among the several artists that have been making this change. This is the third artist coming to Spokane that has done so, according to Meyer.
“It’s just to combat all the secondary markets,” he said. “That way, people aren’t purchasing Foo Fighters tickets for $500 or more and then coming to the venue to find out that they don’t even have a ticket.”
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters had to cut short their Wednesday night, July 17 show at Citi Field in New York due to severe weather in the area. “We are so disappointed that we were unable to play our full set for tonight’s fantastic crowd at Citi Field,” the group wrote on X.
