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Post by Tin on Aug 25, 2010 10:27:37 GMT -5
Personally, I have a problem PAYING for the "priviledge" of being a band's fan.
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Post by stuporfly on Aug 25, 2010 11:11:40 GMT -5
I don't think the official membership details in the initial post are incorrect, but they are a bit vague and disingenuous. As other people have pointed out, what you wind up getting doesn't really amount to very much, though how disappointed you are by that probably depends upon your expectations going in.
I let my membership lapse last year, but I still had forum access until three or four months ago. I don't have any plans on signing up again, though maybe I'll feel differently when tour dates start rolling out.
I only bought tickets through DDM a few times, with one being the general admission fan show. I think I maybe bought the tickets I had for the 2006 Chicago show through DDM, and those were on the floor, though not super close. I believe the third show was one which followed a week or two later in Albany (NY), and those seats were pretty terrific. I think I also bought my tickets to one of the Broadway shows on the Red Carpet Massacre tour through DDM, but that was one of the shows that was canceled. I put my refund toward a new iPod, and the tickets I bought for the other two shows on that tour were purchased elsewhere.
The DDM forum is definitely a different animal than this one, though I enjoyed posting there and met a few really cool people I consider good friends. As I think was pointed out in another thread recently, this ProBoards forum really is more inclined to engage in actual discussions about the music. Not that they don't do that over at DDM, but it seems to happen more frequently here.
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Post by fireskye on Aug 25, 2010 13:35:20 GMT -5
It is relevant and youve never been a member so kibdly s.t.f.u. and let people who are there answer the question!
simple really
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Post by errbt on Aug 25, 2010 13:41:43 GMT -5
It is relevant and youve never been a member so kibdly s.t.f.u. and let people who are there answer the question! simple really I think we can trust fineline, as the thread starter, to decide who he does or doesn't want to listen to. Even more simple.
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Post by drnick on Aug 25, 2010 13:46:27 GMT -5
I was a member for about 4 years, but knocked it on the head.
I joined as soon as it started, and I was bought 3 VIPS by my wife as a wedding present for the reunion shows in the UK.
The first one I went to there were about 20 people there, and it was just right.
By the time the Earls Court shows rolled around, it had swelled to about 120 people there. So big they could no longer take people down in 1 group to get standing spaces, it took then 4 trips.
The same people win the M&Gs time in and out, its odd, the excuse 'its the bands management thats chooses' wears thin when you see some one get a M&D 4 times out of 7......
The site is average, and at worst amateur, I ordered a bag from the store there, and it took 6 months to arrive as they 'forgot' to mail it.
However, I did get one cool thing, I won the print of Nick that they used for the 2007 or 8 calendar, that was signed.
Have to say though, that I loved the VIPs, as they enabled me to get close to the stage, until I did a Peter Gabriel one, which blew Duran's out of the water for less money.
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Post by fireskye on Aug 25, 2010 13:55:48 GMT -5
It is relevant and youve never been a member so kibdly s.t.f.u. and let people who are there answer the question! simple really I think we can trust fineline, as the thread starter, to decide who he does or doesn't want to listen to. Even more simple. True dat It just gets old when people who have obviously never been a member there run it down
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Post by errbt on Aug 25, 2010 14:06:03 GMT -5
I think we can trust fineline, as the thread starter, to decide who he does or doesn't want to listen to. Even more simple. True dat It just gets old when people who have obviously never been a member there run it down I understand that, but Flamey didn't "run it down." He simply made a general comment about the (all too common these days) tendency for the upfront money grab over customer service, as well as stressing the importance of speaking out by the people who've been slighted, in other words, the paying customers. Never did he imply he was including himself in that group. That's how I saw it, at least.
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Post by La Princess on Aug 25, 2010 14:35:23 GMT -5
Btw, I didn't use this login name there, I used another one which I've forgotten. I didn't do that to hide, I think this name was in use or there was a reason I couldn't use it. I made it known who I was though. But yes I thought DDM was very poorly run, and a rip off. I never rejoined because I saw no purpose and since I thought the VIPs were too much for what you got, I saw no other reason to rejoin. I prefer meet and greet the guys when they leave the hotels they are staying in. They are usually nice to the fans. Simon has been the nicest so far. He's really genuine, looks at your face with those lovely big blue eyes and tries to make a conversation. As far as the tickets are concerned I don't need to be a DDM member to get the best tickets! I got better tickets through radio presales than I did through DDM. I too met them after a show at their hotel, but Simon was rude. Maybe he was rude because the girl I was with is a known fan but I'm not sure. Incidentally at this concert I was upfront though I didn't pay for VIP.
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Post by sarahb1863 on Aug 25, 2010 16:49:15 GMT -5
Highly unlikely......money talks no matter what country you're from. It's a shame really. Cheers to the fans for speaking up though, it's harder to speak up than to stay quiet or call people names for doing so. Oh, yeah, some fans are speaking up! Adam might speak up too, apparently he's noticed that some people are coming to multiple M&Gs and said, "Really? You don't have a job, a life?" He himself wants to see as many different people as possible. He's pretty busy touring right now, and may not even be aware that his fan club is currently set up unfairly. The problem is, his fandom is very young and the whole "pay money to meet Adam" - which used to be free - is leaving a bad taste in some peoples' mouths. They're not used to Lambert being a commodity. And this crummy M&G setup is the sort of thing that can divide a fan base if it isn't fixed. I hope it is.
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Post by moonagedaydream on Aug 25, 2010 17:35:18 GMT -5
I know this much is...true.
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