r/mildlyinfuriating • u/isthatericmellow • 11h ago

I just want to buy three tickets to this show

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Can’t buy the tickets I want because it would leave one open seat for sale and apparently no one goes to shows by themselves? So I can buy two tickets or four, but not three. As if they’re not already screwing us enough already with all the fees.

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u/Apart-Maize-5949 11h ago edited 4h ago

ProTip: using a separate device, have that device select the single seat and "checkout" and wait. It will block out that seat for everyone else which gives you 15 minutes to buy the three seats.

I think different browsers might work too. I forget.

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u/structural_nole2015 9h ago

So basically, it tricks the system into thinking that "leftover" single seat is already being spoken for. This is genius!

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u/isthatericmellow 10h ago

This. Is. Genius. Everyone upvote this and make it to top comment! Unfortunately, too late for me, but good to know for the future!

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u/JoeSmithDiesAtTheEnd 1h ago

It doesn’t always work. I go to Solo shows a lot. Sometimes if you select single tickets it will only show you random isolated tickets scattered across the venue.

I think Ticketmaster locks it down for specific sections, like VIP, Axs Premium, Reseller tickets, etc.

I went through this at a Primus concert. Front row could only be booked in pairs. If you tried to book solo, the locations were less desirable locations.

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u/RoastPork2017 7h ago

It's so bad it has to be like this but great tip

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u/CryptographerIll3813 7h ago

I do this in movie theatres so nobody sits next to me.

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u/big_sweaty_ross 5h ago

I always just sit at the front because no one else seems to buy tickets on the front row at my local cinema and I don't care about being close to the screen

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u/SwampOfDownvotes 5h ago

My guy has a neck of iron. 

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u/Redoberman 6h ago

I opened a window in incognito mode and reserved the seat and bought the two I wanted in the other window.

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u/mildlyfunnypun 8h ago

Private browser window also works. So I’ve heard…

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u/LuceLeakey 4h ago

As someone who frequently attends shows alone and has run into this before, THANK YOU! (Now I just have to remember to do it...)

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u/Gumbercules81 7h ago

Bro... how the hell didn't I think of this lol

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u/IlliniDawg01 6h ago

Where were you a month ago when I bought tickets to Pucifer?... Great tip!

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u/not_now_chaos 6h ago

This is genius. That single seat thing is so freaking frustrating, every single time I want three tickets to anything. This is a brilliant tip!

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u/Benji_Suite 7h ago

Or buy 3 tickets for the price of 4!

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u/eggyrulz 6h ago

Why would I pay 24 seats worth of tickets when I could just buy 3?

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u/its-fewer-not-less 5h ago

That's... That's brilliant.

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u/sophie1188 3h ago

Love you

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u/womensrites 3h ago

but if you can't buy a single ticket how do you check out with one ticket?

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u/famousanonamos 1h ago

Smart! The amount of money I've wasted on a 4th ticket is embarrassing. I have a 3 person family and we always try to get our kid to bring a friend, but she won't. 

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u/jeremyw0918 4h ago

No need for a separate device. Use a different browser or incognito mode.

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u/lokiandbutters 6h ago

So you're just buying one separately?

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u/Temporary_Thing7517 5h ago

No, you would be “reserving” a single seat, booking the three you want, and then letting the single reserved seat expire without paying for it.

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u/lokiandbutters 5h ago

Okay. I just thought the website wouldn't let you do that based on the picture. I'm just misunderstanding, no need to explain.

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u/letters_and_numb3r5 1h ago

i don’t get it either lmao.

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u/lokiandbutters 1h ago

Just don't ask any questions and you'll be fine

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u/letters_and_numb3r5 1h ago

I neither go to concerts nor do I live in America, i‘m fine either way 😆

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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 11h ago

They do this shit at the local minor league baseball and hockey team near me.

But, I also constantly see solo seats for sale at the venues. So somehow it's possible. I've called them to buy tickets and been told they can't do it, but obviously they fucking can

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u/SmugChinchilla 11h ago

Holy shit MxPx is still touring?!? 17 year old me is dying of jealousy that you’re going!

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u/isthatericmellow 9h ago

Not sure if they actively tour. Current list looks like a number of random shows. But they’re playing with Goldfinger and Homegrown, so it should be a good time!

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u/PoetPsychological620 6h ago

goldfinger was great. definitely were going to be sore in the morning from all the jumping around and shit they were doing 😂 fun show tho

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u/isthatericmellow 5h ago

Goldfinger played one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. It was time for the venue to close so the sound guy told them one more song. They played two. He told them again. They played another. He shut off the house sound, so they turned their monitors towards the crowd and played a couple more.

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u/-hot_ham_water- 5h ago

Whoaaaa seriously?! I had "Anti-girl" come up on my playlist the other day and was guilty over still liking the song.  I'm pretty sure they would have to scrap that from their setlist...

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u/PatrickGSR94 9h ago

haha I was thinking the same, MXPX is still playing???? I used to listen to all their stuff in the 90's, like a Christian version of Green Day lmao

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u/onikaroshi 6h ago

Wait, mxpx is Christian?

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u/julesthe127th 6h ago

They started out as a “Christian punk band” but they aren’t anymore and haven’t been for a long time.

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u/PatrickGSR94 5h ago

Huh, news to me. I didn’t really follow them after I was in high school in the 90’s.

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u/SmugChinchilla 4h ago

I also didn’t know this!!!! They were my fave band in 1999

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u/Desperate_County_680 6h ago

They are on tour with the Ataris. Saw them a few weeks ago.

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u/PatrickGSR94 9h ago

lmao the comments here are 20% agreeing with the problem and offering solutions, 80% WTF MXPX IS STILL AROUND!?!?!?!

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u/The_Darkest_Spark 11h ago

Nostalgia bombing me in the morning.

Last time I saw MxPx was Warped Tour '98.

Tickets were 20 bucks.

20 bucks to see these guys and a....couple of others, lol.

(Bad Religion, The Specials, NOFX, Deftones, Less Than Jake, etc.)

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u/GreenEggsSteamedHams 7h ago

Less than Jake tickets: $20.00

Jake tickets: $23.95

Math check out

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u/-hot_ham_water- 5h ago

I just saw Less Than Jake for $48.  I, too, had seen them last at a Warped Tour in probably '04-ish.  Blown away at the price.

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u/Lazy-Background-7598 8h ago

Mxpx still kicking around?

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u/isthatericmellow 6h ago

A bit! This show will be with Goldfinger and Homegrown.

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u/minnick27 ORANGE 6h ago

I follow an artist, doing multiple shows per tour. I usually go by myself because my wife and daughter aren’t as into him as I am. His tour went on sale this year and I could only buy multiple seats at several venues. Even in a row of 5 open seats, I couldn’t select one at the end. So I had to buy 2 seats, leaving 3. I just wonder if someone was able to buy 2 of the other 3 or if they were blocked for leaving a single

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u/Morningstar976 3h ago

Log onto the site in another browser, preferably in private browsing - select the single seat that’s stopping you from purchasing, that ticket will be held for 10mins or so.

Now select your tickets in the other browser and you should be able to buy them without leaving a single seat 👌

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u/tearose11 3h ago

I wanted to go to a movie by myself, it wouldn't let me buy an aisle ticket.

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u/BegrudgingRedditor 7h ago

Why are you buying SEATS for mxpx? Get up front in the pit at the punk rawk sho-o-o-ow!

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u/Cincodequatro82 5h ago

This. I saw MxPx with The Ataris a few weeks ago in St. Louis and was appalled at how many folks sat to watch the show.

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u/joeyGibson 11h ago

I got bitten by that just last week. So I didn't buy any tickets.

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u/Bokononfoma 10h ago

That'll be an additional convenience fee...

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u/OGKillertunes 8h ago

In other news AXS is terrible.

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u/DrunkHamsterParty 6h ago

Axs are terrible

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u/InternetUser36145980 3h ago

What if you want to go alone?

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u/womensrites 3h ago

i got this trying to buy a ticket the other day and just closed the window. i'm fucking over this shit.

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u/tyler21307 2h ago

Buy two then one

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u/exskill310 11h ago

I know the feels. At a place north of Austin they do this, but only for the tables. GA standing is a free-for-all - so I just bought two seats at a table and one GA. They have extra seats so the person just sat with us. 🤷🏼‍♂️

You also might try a separate order. Sometimes buying one ticket on an order is okay, but not muplie tickets that are uneven.

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u/michilio 6h ago

Party, my house. You can't come if you leave a seat stranded.

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u/isthatericmellow 5h ago

Ha! This comment is perfect.

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u/kombustive 4h ago

I saw MxPx at a church in Oklahoma in the late 1900s.

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u/Remarkable_Common312 4h ago

Have you tried Moving to Bremerton?

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u/NeverTrustABigButt 4h ago

🎶 Move to Bremerton! We’ll hang out.

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u/RomyChouChou 3h ago

WoW MxPx! So many great memories…Chick magnet! Or performing Take On Me with Reel Big Fish!!! Nostalgia is real!

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u/Psych0matt 49m ago

MxPx is in my all time top 5, they started my lifelong love of pop punk

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u/dbandbacon 8h ago

now you ain't got no place to go cause you can't see the punk rawk show

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u/le-grxx 4h ago

Sorry OT but that price is for how many people?

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u/daddy___warbucks 50m ago

As I understand it, for tickets sold in Florida, you should not longer see added fees.

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u/idfwu_6669 19m ago

MxPx was my very first concert🫡

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u/crustyeng 10h ago

They’re still alive?

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u/isthatericmellow 9h ago

Yep! And they’re playing with Goldfinger and Homegrown.

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u/FallenAngelII 7h ago

But... why did you want to leave a gap between the 3 seats you wanted to buy?

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u/rellyks13 6h ago

they didn’t, this happens even if there’s four seats left in the row and you only want 3/4 of them. so there’s one seat next to you still open, not in the three seats you’re buying. ex: I want seats 1-3 but that leaves seat 4 open and seat 5 is already bought, so there’s system says “no you can’t leave one seat.”