I admit it – I have always loved Dire Straits, and I've seen Mark Knopfler perform many times as a solo artist. I even walked down the marital isle to one of his songs, much to the chagrin of my in-laws. So when I received the email below from Ticketmaster, announcing that Knopfler is coming to nearby Ann Arbor, I got excited.
Until I saw the date of the concert.
More than seven months from now. The 2009 baseball season still has a couple weeks left, but this concert won't take place until the 2010 campaign is a month old.
Do any of us today have any idea what we're going to be doing on the last Tuesday of April? Or what we're going to want to be doing?
I would hope that Mark Knopfler will still be healthy and vital seven months from now. For that matter, I hope that I am going to be vertical and mobile in late April.
So what is Ticketmaster thinking? Outside of a mega-event like the Super Bowl, does anyone plan that far ahead for a concert?
Is Ticketmaster in such "dire straits" that they need the cash flow that badly – and now? Because my $200-300 "investment" in these tickets will just sit around earning interest in their coffers for the next two quarters.
I really would love to go to this show, but I just can't plan that far ahead. That date is just "so far away" as I'm sitting here in Detroit in late September.
This just doesn't feel like good customer service.
Pass.
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I had the same reaction when I heard that the indie band Pavement was planning on reuniting and touring…and I got excited reading the news and was looking forward to finding out when they’d be out on the road…their first gig, 2010…late 2010 in NYC and I thought WTF??? Why in the world are they announcing and pre-selling a concert I’d kill to see myself that’s only going to happen ONE YEAR FROM NOW, heck, I’m hoping they’ll come to lil’ old Pittsburgh and play, I suppose I’ll see an announcement for their show here in 2014 any day now and the tickets will be gone even before I can hit the website to buy them. What a joke, IMO.