GuideLive, an extension of the Dallas Morning News website, has a blurb about U2 playing in Dallas on October 12, and even provides a link to their ticket seller where tickets are being sold anywhere from $305 to $975 – Yet no announcement has been made by U2 or the new stadium.
As a U2.com subscriber I’ve been told that we will get the opportunity to buy presale tickets before they are available to the general public.
So what I’m saying is that this doesn’t make sense. No date has been confirmed either by the stadium or the U2 website, but tickets are already going on sale for crazy prices? They are going off information from a non-official U2 source, and they are promoting a scalper?
I contacted U2.com and provided a link to the article.
Developing . . .
UPDATE:Â The GuideLive editor provided some clarification:
Thanks for your questions about tickets for the U2 concert. Here’s more information that might make the situation more clear.
A representative from TicketNetwork confirmed the tickets on GuideLive.com’s TicketNetwork page are legitimate. What you’re paying for holds a place for when the tickets go on sale.
The representative also said TicketNetwork has access to these tickets because of its relationship with the venue. When you pay TicketNetwork, you’re getting a commitment for that ticket when they go on sale.
The price is set at a 15 percent markup, the majority of which goes to The Dallas Morning News.
Let me know when you get my tickets…
That looks like typical spam-blogvertising. Kind of like the banner ads on Facebook promising you a “stimulus check”.