But I think I should clarify the post in general. One, as all my posts are, it was just to poke harmless fun, not make a serious case about things. Of course I’m going to try the Internet; my life is spent on the Internet, I wake up Googling my slippers. I just thought it was hysterical to suggest it. Imagine if AT&T did customer service that way: “I don’t know, try the Internet.”

And two, one of the reasons I posted this was to be resourceful. I got a ticket to see the Deftones last year from a stranger by posting “I need a Deftones ticket.” Every hour since I posted this brings people who have never been here before but were Googling regarding Cure tickets. One of them pointed me in a potentially good direction. And I’d wager that’s how you got here too.

http://www.thegarden.com/newsletter_about.html

You can sign up for a newsletter for American Airlines Arena in Dallas and receive passwords from them for presales at their venue. MSG is no different. Ticketmaster only sells the tickets – they just provide the service…msg and backstage access pay ticketmaster to sell tickets for them and they provide tm with the password they want tm to put into their system. There is no way Ticketmaster is making up all the presale passwords that float around these days. Every password I posted came from different sources. Mostly the venues in which the event is to take place.

I do think ticketmaster customer service sucks and I’ve had plenty of problems with them. I’m just sure that Ticketmaster would not set up presale passwords and have people calling the customer service line to ask for them. That just costs them money.

Jane, close! Alas it was BABIGSHOW. That would have been my next guess. But 6969, I’m using that next time.

James, I’ve edited your post of all the passwords so that I don’t have searchers coming from all over for them. However, you are incorrect in that although the e-mail did come from MSG, MSG does not have my info, Ticketmaster does. Thus, it was Ticketmaster who directed them to send it to me. Note the wording:

As a member of Backstage Access, you can purchase tickets TOMORROW, June 27 at 10:00AM through 10:00PM before the tickets go on sale to the general public on June 28 at 9:00AM.

I signed up for Backstage Access through Ticketmaster so I’m guessing they run it. Is it really too much to ask that a person who works for Ticketmaster might know that they have a special membership that allows you access to passwords?

As well, read carefully, I did look around the Internet. But I wouldn’t have had to if Ticketmaster trained their reps in their own policies.