So I signed up, and once the minimum number of purchases were made and the deal became official (if they don't reach that minimum they cancel the offer) I received an email with instructions on how to get my ticket. I had to print out a voucher and take it to the Electric Factory box office. The voucher said I could redeem it during normal hours, including the day of the show.
Yesterday, since I was downtown, not far from the Electric Factory, I decided to head over to the box office and get my ticket so I wouldn't have to wait in line the night of the show. At the window I handed the woman the voucher. She and another woman looked at it and told me I had to bring it back the night of the show. "That's not what it says," I explained, and repeated the instructions on the voucher. I then stood there, in the 90-degree late afternoon sun, for about 20 minutes while the two women tried to figure out what to do, sometimes entering info into the computers; I think one woman got on the phone with someone at one point. Apparently this was the first time they had to deal with such a promotion. Eventually they determined that it was a deal between the PhillyDealYo site and Ticketmaster, and Ticketmaster had to authorize the discount ticket, and one woman said "we put in the request to Ticketmaster but I don't know how long it's going to take." Or something like that. It was only a minute or two after that when the ticket finally printed out.
(In case you still want to go, I checked the Ticketmaster site and it seems the actual ticket price is $39.50, but their added fees are $10.20; apparently, if you go to the Electric Factory box office and pay cash you can avoid the Ticketbastard fees.)
I only hope that I don't get half the entertainment for the half-price ticket!
Just another reason I rarely ever go to shows anymore. B-52's are a tired act. I saw them in 79 at Penn and 1980 at the Tower. Call me jaded but the lost it when the guitarist Ricky passed away.
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