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Tickets To Overpriced Concert Series Not Exactly Flying Off Shelves

noah | July 26, 2007 10:35 am
noah | July 26, 2007 10:35 am

dave_matthews_300.jpgHey, remember Social@Ross, the $15,000-a-ticket concert series that allowed Hamptons types to sit on ottomans and suck down top-shelf cocktails while they listened to live shows by Prince, James Taylor, Tom Petty, Dave Matthews, and Billy Joel? You may be surprised to hear it, but tickets aren’t selling very well–even though only 1,000 were going to be made available! At least that’s what we’re guessing from this e-mail that went out to the Dave Matthews Band’s fan club and made its way to Bob Lefsetz’s inbox. It’s hawking tickets to this Saturday night’s show for the Crazy-Eddie-low price of $250 a pop. (For those of you who don’t feel like doing the math, that’s a 92% discount–and you still get free parking!)

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noah | July 26, 2007 4:04 am
noah | July 26, 2007 4:04 am

From a commenter whose boss tried to buy discounted Dave Matthews tickets for this weekend’s $3,000-a-ticket show: “I forwarded this to my boss who is a fan of Dave Matthews and lives on Long Island. He said that they have pulled back the offer! Now it’s back up to $15,000. More »


Dave Matthews Ticket Prices Going Down At A Pace Faster Than My Typing Speed

noah | July 26, 2007 3:05 am
noah | July 26, 2007 3:05 am

This morning, tickets to Dave Matthews’ $3,000-a-seat show that’s part of the $15,000-a-pop Social@Ross series were going for $250 to members of Dave’s fan club. But if you’re affiliated with the Ross School, where the super-swanky, slow-selling series is being held, you have the opportunity to pay even less for your ottoman. An e-mail to “the Ross School community” is giving people affiliated with the school the chance to buy 100 pairs of tickets at a lowest-high-bid Dutch auction, where the 100th-highest bidder gets to set the price for the 99 bidders above him:

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When Bad Headlines Happen To Even Worse Bands

noah | December 21, 2006 4:41 am
noah | December 21, 2006 4:41 am

From today’s Chicago Sun-Times. Anybody want to take bets on whether the copyeditor who came up with this headline is a fan of the Dave Matthews Band? More »


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