Tickets for the Oct. 1 Drake concert sold out in six hours, but for those still looking to get their hands on a ticket, there’s an easy way and a hard way.
The easy way to snag tickets may involve another line.
According to SA Vice President for Programming Aaron Cohn, University officials have decided to allow the Student Association Programming Board to sell ‘under 400’ additional tickets.
The additional ‘late-release’ tickets will be sold for $40, and purchases will be limited to one ticket per person on a first-come, first-served basis and will be cash only. Tickets will be available this Thursday at 9 a.m. at the SA office, which is located behind M&T Bank.
‘Whoever can wake up the earliest will get the tickets,’ Cohn said. This would bring the total number of tickets to about 7,000.
And then ‘ there’s the hard way.
Many ticket holders have been trying to sell their tickets to desperate concertgoers at premium price. Offers to sell Drake tickets online on Facebook and Craigslist are as high as $350, though most offers are around $100 to $150.
But Cohn cautioned against buying tickets from unknown sellers.
Many of the tickets purchased were purchased online, which means that they will be printed out by the concertgoers themselves. This makes the tickets more vulnerable to counterfeiting.
As a result, the SA issued a warning. The warning states that each ticket purchased online has a unique bar code. All tickets will be scanned at the door, and only the first print-out will be permitted. All subsequent tickets with the same barcode will be denied to keep the number of attendees to about 7,000.
With the increase in ticket sales, there will not be ‘wiggle room’ to let people in who may have been scammed, Cohn said.
Lauren Coringato, the concerts chair of the Student Association Programming Board, advises students to be very careful when not purchasing tickets through the University.
‘We want to get the word out to our students to protect them,’ Coringato said.
The Drake concert is the second event for which the SAPB has sold tickets online. The first was the Andy Samberg event earlier this spring.
‘Andy Samberg was the first show we did print-at-home for, and University officials were very nervous and didn’t want to go down that road,’ Cohn said. ‘Fortunately there were very few issues, though, which is why we pushed for them once again.’
Coringrato did offer some advice to students still hoping to get their hands on a ticket.
‘Hold on,’ she said, because there will be more tickets available. She also cautioned those who may be seeking to purchase tickets through other means.
‘Be very, very careful when purchasing tickets not purchased through the University,’ Coringrato said. ‘We don’t want any cases of fraudulent tickets.’