Keep checking Ticketmaster online. Tickets to previously "sold out" shows sometimes become available.Check eBay and classified ads for tickets being sold for well over face value. Be aware that there is risk involved because tickets with canceled bar codes may be invalid.Check other venues. Tickets may still be available for some larger venues in Los Angeles and Anaheim.Wait until the day of the show and take a chance. Occasionally, tickets are released a few hours before showtime and can be bought at the box office.
October 25, 2005Eagles fans lined up as early as 2 p.m. Sunday for tickets that went on sale at 10 a.m. Monday for the band's third and final concert, Nov. 21, at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
And this time, the 200 fans lined up at the Tennis Garden all were able to buy tickets.
A publicist for the band and the Los Angeles-based promoter, AEG, said tickets sold out in the late afternoon Monday.
But fans will have one more opportunity to experience the frenzy of standing in line for tickets to see The Eagles in the desert.
The promoter has opened an unspecified number of seats in all price categories, including some for as low as $26.25 plus surcharges, for all three local Eagles concerts, Nov. 12, 20 and 21.
They'll go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday through all Ticketmaster outlets, including the walk-up lines at the Tennis Garden and the Robinsons-May store at Westfield Palm Desert.
Publicist Larry Solters of Scoop Marketing said stadium inspectors concluded that seats that hadn't been put on sale had adequate sightlines and sound to satisfy the Eagles' standards.
Raymond Moore, president of PM Sports Management, which operates the Tennis Garden, said acts including Luciano Pavarotti and Los Lobos have been satisfied with the quality of those seats, but The Eagles' inspectors had reportedly been checking them out since the announcement of the concert.
Some ticket-buyers spent Sunday night in the Tennis Garden parking lot to get a good position in the ticket line. But no signs of a ticket shortage occurred until about 11 a.m., when the cheapest tickets - at $47.25 - became available only as single seats.
The Tennis Garden had been selling allotments of up to four tickets, although groupings of eight were available online.
The third concert date proved to be the charm for many fans trying to see the California soft-rock band whose first greatest-hits album is the best-selling album of all time.
"The first time, I tried on Ticketmaster (online); the second time, we came here and left without tickets; and now this is the charm," Karen Kott of Rancho Mirage said after buying two tickets for the Nov. 21 show, which was added last week.
About 9,100 seats had been made available for each show. Resale tickets had been selling for more than $500 online, although Solters warned buyers to beware of fake tickets being offered for sale.
Bobby Gutierrez was first in line Sunday in a successful bid to buy front-row tickets.
"We stayed in the parking lot, had an ice chest, we were ready for it," he said while relaxing in a lawn chair in his first-place spot in line.
Although the majority of those lined up were in their 30s and up, there was at least one teen waiting patiently for a ticket or two.
"We tried on the Internet last time, but they were sold out in, like, 10 minutes. I kept hitting, like, 'go, go, go,'" said 16-year-old Megan Lowder of Cathedral City. "I grew up around music my whole life; that's all I like. I love rock, I hate rap."
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