Bono and bassist Adam Clayton perform September 16 in Toronto.
Photo by MelicansMatkin
Less than a week before the Charlottesville U2 show, the event hadn’t sold out, and the prices appeared to be dropping. Some $30 tickets were offered for $19, the $95 tickets for as little as $71, and the $250s appeared as low as $130. And with just six days before Charlottesville’s own U2 concert, the head of the world’s biggest ticket reseller was advising would-be concert-goers to hold off a little longer.
“Wait out the weekend, and see where ticket prices fall,” said Joellen Ferrer, the communications director for StubHub, the eBay-owned service that links ticket buyers and sellers.
As of Friday, September 25, StubHub members were advertising nearly 1,800 tickets for the October 1 show at Scott Stadium. If the venue holds 60,000, that’s about three percent of all seats.
“That’s actually quite a high amount,” says Ferrer, and that’s why she was predicting (more)
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