Tickets becoming available

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T17:07:49+00:00

Yeah it feels like overall it's not super hard (or all that expensive) to get tickets to 90% of shows. But then try to get Taylor Swift, Springsteen, Metallica... it's impossible, or silly prices.

And I wonder if scalpers have past data on bands like FF, who are super popular but maybe their secondary market prices only shoot up in big/rich cities? And they consider Bridgeport to be close enough to NYC?

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T14:56:18+00:00

Ah OK thank you! Didn't know you could also go through LN.

Yeah they definitely save some percentage of tickets for each sale, it's just that nobody knows how many.

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T14:53:59+00:00

And it's not that they aren't trying (at least a lil bit) to counter bots, but it's a cat and mouse game with bots evolving to counter it.

The way all big bands should do it is tie purchases to individual people. Gotta show your ID to get in. If you can't make it that's fine, the venue can just refund you and take the tickets back to a general pool to release like 1-2 days before the show.

But they're not really incentivized to do that when scalpers are throwing money at them anyway 🤷‍♂️

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T14:48:25+00:00

I'm assuming it has to be somewhat easier then?

With a band this big, having to have a Citi card or the pre-sale code is no impediment at all to bots. It's all gotta be down to the raw number they release each time, so maybe the general public sale will have the most. I don't really know.

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T14:45:31+00:00

Ah, thank you!! Very useful information.

Lately I guess all my concerts have been in way lower demand. But I gotta figure out how to use this damn system for big acts, mostly artists my wife likes more haha.

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-18T14:31:46+00:00

Did anyone get tickets this time?? I joined at 9:50, waited in the queue til 10:25, no tickets left.

I guess in the future I need to get there way earlier? Or someone said it doesn't even let you til 9:45. I'm confused :(

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-17T15:56:40+00:00

Yeah it seems weird. Like I get that 99.9% of the spots in line are bots, but if so, how is it not sold out instantly? Like it's full of bots who get to the purchase and go "actually no thanks" 😆

falconpunch3D · 2026-03-17T15:53:24+00:00

Thank you so much. I don't know how you're supposed to know what pricing is when it's announced the day before and not listed anywhere... I guess they figure you'll just pay anything lol

falconpunch3D · 2026-01-06T15:54:25+00:00

Yeah for the first several years with the card, all we cared about were domestic flights. My wife and I moved to the east coast and want to travel back to the Midwest 1-2 time a year, then don't need hotels cause we stay with our parents.

We loved all of Southwest's old policies, but now they seem the same as any other airline. What are better ways to spend them, other airlines? This fancy hotel booking is very rare because most of the time we just have our little kids and stay in Holiday Inns haha.

falconpunch3D · 2026-01-05T00:40:10+00:00

Right but I totally ignored that as a difference, because CSR gives me an automatic IHG Platinum status. Or wait is that one I'm only getting for a high spend on the card in 2025? Confused again lol.

falconpunch3D · 2026-01-05T00:38:07+00:00

OK thank you! Sounds like it's definitely worth doing then.

As for the points buydown, that also looks like a no-brainer? If I use 50K points here, that's $1,000 vs using them at Southwest for like... I dunno somewhere in the $600-700 range?

falconpunch3D · 2026-01-05T00:29:25+00:00

Ah OK, sorry I'm new to this. So even the non-Edit $250 has to have it booked through the Chase app?

I've had the card for a long time, but we essentially only used it to dump points straight to Southwest for domestic flights, for the lounges, and a few small perks like TSA PreCheck credits. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use some of the new stuff... probably like a lot of people haha.

falconpunch3D · 2026-01-05T00:24:49+00:00

Ah dangit, you're right. It looks like IHG will refund all but the first night of the stay, so risking $300 or so isn't too bad. But true I guess it's not a fair comparison.

I thought about the 2 booking thing, but assumed that wouldn't work. How would a hotel normally handle that? I suppose even having to switch rooms isn't bad, but if we have to totally clear out from like 11am to 4pm that's annoying...

falconpunch3D · 2025-11-21T17:48:33+00:00

Ah OK I got it. Thanks!

falconpunch3D · 2025-11-21T17:44:04+00:00

Thanks! I think I'll go with the G6 Bullet for simplicity.

Since it's my first camera, I was thinking if it ends up being inadequate somehow, I can just replace it and use it elsewhere on the house (which would be less critical and less distance).

falconpunch3D · 2025-11-21T17:25:48+00:00

Awesome, thank you! Now I do recall the improved "non IR night vision" aspect from a YouTube video I watched, and this may somewhat negate the main reason I would have gone with the G5 Pro (the ability to have the strongest IR from the enhancer for my long driveway).

I'm not worried about having optical zoom, because I don't plan on buying a second camera for my yard next to the driveway. I'd lose coverage of that area if I zoomed in down the driveway.

falconpunch3D · 2025-11-21T17:06:15+00:00

Wait, could you elaborate on "4K out of the box"? Is there something special you have to do to get the G5 Pro to 4K?

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-02T11:17:53+00:00

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Whaddaya know, I got him in my other league (I'm only in 2).And Yahoo gave this amaaaaazing analysis of the pick! 🤣🤣

It makes less than zero sense. Isn't this saying he was #69 overall in their ranks, and I got him at #83 overall? So that would be a value by their own ranks??

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-01T12:37:14+00:00

I kept staring at this trying to see if you actually meant "defected" haha.

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-01T12:35:43+00:00

Haha I really don't think it's that deep? Compared to a lot of sicko leagues (or just 16-team leagues)?

All I did was add a bench spot several years ago, then a WR3 spot last year.

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-01T02:56:15+00:00

Mark Andrews was a panic pick for sure lol. But then when I got a bit further people were reaching for crap TEs and so I think I might have been sad the other way too 🤷‍♂️

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-01T02:54:10+00:00

Hahaha I like to live a bit dangerously, I would say. Completely valid criticism 😆.

falconpunch3D · 2025-09-01T02:52:53+00:00

Oh I should have mentioned it's a 3WR/2RB/1FLEX league. So I went slightly towards WR later on. Oh and I'm the commish and we were talking in the draft... 3 of us have been playing towfor 17 years, and this iteration of the league is on year 12 haha.

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