Austin City Limits Ticket Pre-Sale (Sold Out)

My apologies, I meant to back and state that my post was a late April Fool's. I was rather upset myself that I saw this article and had not yet received my e-mail either. So with that said. I have no ACL passes - I was just trying to be bitter and funny at the same time.

I am personally against people buying up any tickets and selling them for profit - sort of like SXSW (which I did actually have access to multiple wristbands, but only got as many as I needed for friends and sold those at cost).

Hopefully we will all get in on the next round of lower priced ACL tix. Even at full price, I generally consider it worth the price of admission.

I got the memo after they sold out too. Boo hiss.

ACL's email list did send out a message a few weeks ago explaining that the September festival date was due to UT Football. You would think that UT has more away games though than just one weekend in September *shrugs*

wow...can we say bitter? i mean, yeah i didnt get the early bird tix and also didnt get the email in time but is there really a need to get so upset? like someone said previously...even if you had gotten the email in time, they would have sold out in the same amount of time. and the chances that you would have gotten any are about the same as if you didnt even check your email that day = slim to none. so stop your crying...you know youre going to go to ACL anyways.

get your "fuck you acl" shirts right here -> http://showgazer.blogspot.com/2006/04/to-aclfrom-sam-regular-music-fanmsg.html

I finally got the e-mail, at 10:55pm

Update. My email announcing the sale arrived at 10:58 tonight. Sweet.

jooley, you're fired

Hey het, thanks for the explanation. That makes quite a bit of since, actually. I hadn't seen it that way.

And I'm with you 100% on baseball, man!

het, too bad about your baseball opinion re: suckiness. yes, the 90's was roid-infused madness but it's a great game nonetheless. i do, however, and have always said so, that bonds wants to be all-time left-handed home run king and pass ruth. as much of a dick as he is, he does respect aaron, and moreso, the breaking of the record would cause even more disgrace and controversy than even he could handle. but it will be interesting to see how it plays out. there is no way that he would not be able to shatter it by playing two more seasons. but this will probably be his last one and willl finish around 750

i will never again pay money for ACL until they start holding it a few weeks later in the fall, last year was brutal. Until then, night shows only.

Joooooley

Its cause $35 for a 3 day festival is pretty damn sweet. Out of the hundred+ bands that will be there, I doubt anyone could argue it's worth at least $35. I've yet to see an ACL lineup that made me spend $100 though...

oh yeah, I got the email and it didn't matter. same with a friend - waited 45 minutes and then nothing

oh yeah again, BASEBALL SUCKS! even on opening day. And I don't think Bonds will break the recore. I've been saying for years he will intentionally not (like he was REALLY hurt last year...). He'll break Ruth's (if he hasn't yet; I really don't give) because he hates him, but won't want to disrespect Aaron. write it down

i think anon may be jerking your chain a litte, kate.

hey anon...

you might want to lower your selling price a bit. when the normal sale tix go on sale they usually average between 70-80 bucks and with fees usually end up lower than $100. granted, with the popularity of ACL growing, they might jack up the prices a bit and thus clear the $100 dollar mark so im just going off of previous years. plus, we all know you got them for $35 so why would we want to give you a $65 profit unless you were going to cut us a slight deal? i mean cmon, help out your fellow austinist. we all just wanna go hear some great live music just like you. give them to me for $75 a piece and you got yourself a deal :)

i completely agree, declan. on both counts. huzzah for Oswalt vs. D-Train.

i feel bad we did nothing to celebrate it.

I got in and some of my friends picked up some for me as well. I have 11 of the $35 tickets that I'll sell for $100 each. They are all for sale as well seeing I get free vip passes every year anyway. Post here is you'd like to purchase one from me.

I didn't get the e-mail either and I'm pretty sure I'm subscribed to two addresses, one here at work and one with GMail. I still don't see anything on either account. Sigh.

Maybe someone at the festival HQs likes Animal House.

Plus, it's hard to be mad on the greatest day of the year -- Opening Day!

I got the email this morning. "There are 3,000 $35 tickets getting mauled right now, so go get yours! This is an unannounced double-secret sale for subscribers only, and only the lucky and/or unemployed will get them. Hurry!"

mauled? double-secret? those words are more appropriate for sxsw. or maybe the entire austin music scene is about being fucked in the ass by some unnecessarily deceptive ploy.

Plus, tt's hard to be mad on the greatest day of the year -- Opening Day!

Odam--

I wish I could say I worked for Charles Attal, CSE, SXSW, ACL Fest, whomever. Unfortunately, I don't because being involved in that industry would probably be a lot more exciting that my current form of employment.

Regardless, I find the constant griping about things like this to be absurd. It's faux persecution, because no matter *what* the people at ACL Fest did, these people would complain. Last year, before the hurricane warnings -- people were complaining that ACL planned their festival during the end of hurricane season and it would be rained out. Then when no rain appeared and things went off without a hitch (albeit very sweaty and dusty), those same assholes wanted the festival to be moved to a weekend where the chances of rain/bad weather were greatly increased (see: Octobers in Austin).

People will complain if ACL Fest releases too many tickets at $35 and then scalpers get them all. People will complain if ACL Fest does as they have done today and randomly announce it. People complain that ACL Fest brings in too many tourists. People complain that ACL Fest doesn't book enough local talent (this I agree with actually, though last year was a breakthrough in those percentages so I have shelved my complaining pending this year's lineup).

Honestly, how many of these people are going to blame Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo for the fact that THOSE clients routinely hose email. If Hotmail got 10,000 emails all at once with the same subject/sender's email -- I wouldn't be shocked if Microsoft's filters held things up a bit to make sure they weren't getting a spam attack.

All of this is a lot of bitching over a lot of nothing and that's silly to me.

"Tickets on sale NOW." The people at CSE/Frontgate should have perhaps realized the lag factor of e-mail and sned it like they have done in the past - a day if not a couple of days ahead of the sale.

Why?

Last year, they did that and had the sale at like 8am on a Saturday or Sunday morning and they still sold out of 3000 tickets in less than an hour.

The randomness, just like the way SXSW released wristbands this year, prevent scalpers from camping and beating/abusing the system.

Sure it means that you didn't get tickets, but it also likely means 1500 people LIKE you did get the tickets. Unless, you're a scalper in which case they foiled your nefarious plans!

a kinder/gentler declan mcmanus (for the most part)? something's fishy. givnig people (ACL Fest specifically) a free pass? very.fishy.

Um, it "took about 42 minutes to go through 3,000 tickets" and they don't even have a confirmed lineup yet?

I really do not get it.

First they don't send an email out to their entire list. Then, their server still doesn't scale (after 4 yrs. of doing it) to allow people to buy tix? Nicely run, ACL folks.

Perhaps they sort their e-mail database alphabetically, meaning I jsut missed the boat. I am still checking gmail to see if and when it arrives.

I haven't seen the e-mail yet, but I am guessing it is something like: "Tickets on sale NOW." The people at CSE/Frontgate should have perhaps realized the lag factor of e-mail and sned it like they have done in the past - a day if not a couple of days ahead of the sale.

I got the email, but I still didn't get tickets. By the time the email arrived, it was a 50 minute wait time according to the site.

Technology isn't always reliable. Even if ACL's mail servers can handle sending the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of emails instantly, a lot of mail systems -- particularly free ones like hotmail and yahoo -- don't work quite as well as you'd like. It happens. Shit happens.

As for pushing it back; They can't schedule the damned thing when there are other commitments already booked -- namely UT Football, etc. Once again, shit happens. There are limited weekends that may (or may not) wind up being sunny and able to handle that many tourists. It's certainly not the ACL Fest planners' fault that historical data shows September weekends not being as hot as the past couple of years.

I agree that it's probably more fun to relax and then go to the night shows of the bands you really want to see, but a lot of people enjoy the social aspects of a huge festival with their buddies. Kudos to them and I hope they got the cheap ass tickets instead of some cranky assclown who will just scalp them.

I got the e-mail - one minute AFTER the tickets sold out.

the best part about ACLFest? having all those bands in town so you can see a few good night shows after sitting by the pool all day. screw standing around in a 1,000 degree dustbowl and paying an arm and a leg for food and beer. and the sound sucks at that thing. it's all about the night shows. CSE can bite me. and they could have pushed it back this year. douchebags,

Oh, here is even more irony. After no e-mail notice like they promised, they have this posted on the site:

"Stay tuned for 2006 Festival ticket information. Our e-list subscribers are always the first to know about special ticket deals and on-sale dates, so sign up here."

I didn't get my damn email from ACL about the presale either. That sucks.

What happened to the e-mail from ACL about the presale? I got the one back in late February saying that the day was coming up, but then no e-mail actually telling us that the presale was today?

Btw, as of 2:15 the site says they are sold out.

sold out...

:(

SOLD OUT.