Even by todays lax standards of conduct, the Rolling Stones have found new ways to sell tickets to their two shows than there are tickets.1. Facebook presale
2. The Brussels Affair Box Premium Tickets Bundle
3. VIP Tickets
a) Gold VIP
b) Hospitality
c) Tongue Pit
d) Silver Hot
e) Bronze Hot
4. American Express best Seats
5. American Express presale
And that is before the official on sale.
I bought my ticket from stubhub for $550. Though I could get a ticket off Ticketmaster, the cheapest would have been $850. Too rich for my blood. Instead I gave somebody who paid $50, a $400 payday, and $50 to Stubhub. there were cheaper but not for a single.
The Stones concept, a more complicated take than the Pink and the Lady Gaga concept, is that people will pay a ticket broker those kinda bucks, and nothing is much bigger than the Stones, so why not pay the Stones directly? The end result is that the bigger tickets are very very expensive. It is an Upper Middle class endeavor. I went $350 for Barbra, $550 for the Stones… this is getting pricey…