My experience was different from the OP. I was online at exactly 8:30a and got great 2nd row seats. Very happy with the tickets we bought.

??? isn't that what the OP said he did. I know I was #9 in line at the Savannah Center Box Office and the best I could get was halfway up the Mezzanine for 85.00 a piece.

The Sharon mgmt has chosen to contract with a third party online ticket sales organization to "sell" tickets for the shows at The Sharon. As most entertaiment venues are now doing.

There are several well known online sites that handle the majority of entertainment ticket sales. They certainly have the technical capability to prevent the "mass" purchasing of event tickets. However it must not be in these online ticket fulfillment sites to take the necessary steps to do so. Just follow the money. Would you rather collect a service fee or resell sold-out tickets at 3+ original price? Why not even do both?

Don

If it's a popular show that will happen more than not. I suspect most of the tickets now are bought online and if popular, could be gone in minutes. The theater holds about 1100 folks. How many residents and non residents must those 1100 come from? The more we grow the more scarce those seats will become. Our strategy has been to start the login process at 2 minutes prior to when they go and sale and keep reloading....we have been pretty successful at getting in when they open. We also have a priority list of the seats we want so don't spend a lot of time evaluating seats. Works for us.

No ticket should be sold to the general public without a village ID for 48 hours after the first tickets go on sale.

Plenty of ticket for sale third party starting at $410. Each. I could by 10 tickets at a time for that price. I did find 8 tickets on Sharon web for $45 to $85 but none together. Guess they went really fast. For $820. I can find lots to do.

From the prospective of a part time resident that would be a bad idea and make it impossible to get tickets to many shows.

On the Facebook page of The Sharon today.....

Hmm, but... seconds after the tickets went on sale, most of the good seats of them were gone to a third party, at a much higher price... according to the OP. It may be legal, but there's a way to fix this, and TV needs to address it.

I don't buy 100% of TV's explanation.

Yep, they completely ignored the issue of allowing large numbers of tickets to be purchased by those who bought them purely for resale.

I interpret their response as them basically saying that it's not their fault the tickets are drastically marked up...and there is nothing they can or will do.

After all these posts, can anyone explain why two users of the same website at the same time had completely different results?

Their FB post doesn't address the issue we are discussing here. They are just defending the WAY they sell them not WHY they disappeared in minutes. No one says they are in cohoots with 3rd party buyers just that Villages residents don't get first dibs which IMO we should.

I've been on at the beginning of Paul Anka and Tony Bennett. You can't dilly dally if your first choice fails, and it may help to have a high speed connection. Got the seating area I wanted both times. Popular events (think The Jersey Boys) have been promoted and demand is high.

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Probably because the 8:30 guy got lucky and if he had logged in at 8:32 he'd have had nothing.

or

maybe he's a Russian bot trying to cause dissension:spoken: :D

Think about The Villages golf tee time system. You must be a Village Resident to place an online request for a tee time, up to a week in advance. Three days prior to your requested play date the tee time and course is assigned. Once those times are assigned then the unassigned open times become available for any resident. A modified version of this could work for The Sharon, possibly for known certain high attendance shows only. For example RESIDENTS ONLY could place an online request (max 6 to 8 per request), for the ticket price they prefer, the day the tickets would normally go on sale. Three days later these requests would be assigned based on the time the request was made. After the three day ticket requests are assigned then remaining tickets could go on sale to the general public. Yes in this case you could not pick your specific seats, but at least you would get a seat at face value, and RESIDENTS would get first dibs. Possibly this idea could be tweaked to work in a more efficient and equitable manner so let the conversation start here.