Buying Tickets for a Group--What Would You Do?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

You are buying Lion King tickets for a group of 8 going to Nashville for Thanksgiving. You have always been the trip planner because no one else in the group can plan ahead or make a decision unless they are forced into it.

You have told them that there are decent seats for $56. They procrastinate, and by the time they all say to go ahead, when you call to get tickets all that is left is the back of the second balcony. There are $56 seats, and there are $32 seats five rows behind that. If you wait until you contact the others and get their opinion, all the seats will be gone.

What would you do?

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

I would do what pleases me since they already took long enough for me to lose out on the better seats. You may find that the first few rows at $32 are sold out, btw... that often happens here.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Buy the tickets for the people who have said yes already and if other come in late they get the backseats.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Everyone is in, but now the choice is 8 seats @ $56 or 8 seats five rows behind that for $32, all in the upper balcony.

And you have to decide for the group while you are on the phone, or risk getting no seats at all.

Buy the tickets for the people who have said yes already and if other come in late they get the backseats.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Everyone is in, but now the choice is 8 seats @ $56 or 8 seats five rows behind that for $32, all in the upper balcony.

And you have to decide for the group while you are on the phone, or risk getting no seats at all.

5 rows behind is not that bad, I would go with the cheaper seats unless the $56 seats were first or 2nd or 3rd row.

[3kids4me Super Moderator and Super Mom Find all posts View Profile Close 3kids4me]

I would get the better seats.

[topcop400 Member Find all posts View Profile Close topcop400]

Life is too short to stress yourself over a $24 difference. You should buy the tickets based upon how much you want to pay for your seat and where you prefer to sit.

If you end up committing everyone to $56 seats and they are unhappy about what they get for the money they spent.........well, maybe they ought to be a little more involved in the future.

Geeeezl, it's not like they can take your birthday away from you.

(I've been in your situation before.......it sucks)

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

I would charge everyone $56 and buy the $32 seats, so that my seats were free. Not really, but I'd be pretty annoyed with everyone so it's tempting...

[nursetanya1973 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close nursetanya1973]

I would buy the cheaper tickets and be done with it.

I would also make sure that I got tickets for the right date and time, and I would check them before getting on the train 2 hours after the matinee show started, thinking that I had tickets for the 7pm show. And I would definately not have to rebuy them at the box office for 4 people.

Oh sorry, bad flash back there.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

The replies so far is about the size group we have involved. As you can see, neither of the two on-the-spot decisions that had to be made would have pleased everyone.

The one that would have pleased everyone would been to go ahead and buy the $56 seats, because no one would ever know that they could have sat five rows back and saved $24/seat. They would never know that those seats were still available, if they ever found out they were less expensive. And they had already committed to $56.

The other alternative, another little white lie, would have been to say all the $56 seats were sold out, and the last seats available were the $24 ones.

Or, we could just say that based on the best intelligence, we really did believe that we would find weapons of mass destruction.

Oops, wandering off there.

[camachinist Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close camachinist]

I'd just buy my own tickets and let the pot stir a bit

So, how many of this group have advanced you the moola so far? My instinct is zippo.

I have a somewhat similar situation. I busted my butt and got good tickets to a Brooks and Dunn concert for one of my wife's girlfriends, to the tune of about 300.00. Still no money in my hand a month later. Credit card bill due in two weeks. The tickets go on eBay this weekend

Pat

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

It's not me, it's my wife, and I believe she has the money, or credit card #s, for most, if not all of it. I know she said she has money to give back to one, enough to pay her hotel room.

So, how many of this group have advanced you the moola so far? My instinct is zippo.

[camachinist Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close camachinist]

In that case, if everyone has paid already, I'd buy the cheap seats and pick up the dinner tab. Try Demo's. Reasonable and good grub. 3rd and Commerce, IIRC. Within walking distance of Andrew Jackson Hall.

Hope it works out!

Pat

[Icarus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Icarus]

Give the money to HOF and let him sort it out (plus his customary handling charge, of course.)

-David

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

I would get the $56 tickets. If you get the less expensive tickets there is bound to be someone who wishes they were a few rows forward if they even know about the less expensive seats (why tell them?). I would also explain that, because of the delay in response, you could only get 2nd balcony. JMHO, Linda