So you know that feeling you get when you hear a song that you absolutely love? Yeah that feeling. Now multiply that feeling times a million; that is what it feels like to be at an actual concert hearing that song live. It sounds simple, right? Buy the ticket and go. But nope, it’s never that easy. If you have ever been to a concert, you have to understand the ticket buying anxiety. Ticket buying anxiety is something all concertgoers experience, especially the ones that frequently go to concerts. If you do not know what ticket buying anxiety is like, then this is for you.
1. You Fall In Love With A Band.
You finally find a band that understands you. All of their music seems to make sense to you and every song either makes you laugh, cry or just dance.
And you probably fangirl just a little bit.
2. The Band That You Previously Fell In Love With Has Just Announced A Tour.
Obviously you were the first person to find out about the tour since you have Twitter notifications and Google alerts set for this band. Once you finally pull up the tour schedule you search for your state and pray that the venue is a town close to you.
3. Is There A Pre-sale?
This is normally the next factor considered in the ticket buying process. If there is a pre-sale when does it start and what site do I need to be on? But what if there isn’t a pre-sale? That means you will have to fight the rest of the world all at once. Since it’s the world against you when buying tickets that do not have a pre-sale, the site will probably crash.
4. The Day You Buy The Tickets.
You know the exact time and website where tickets will be sold and you are sitting in front of your computer waiting anxiously. What if the time on your computer is wrong and you miss the sale? Or what if the internet goes out while you’re trying to purchase tickets? Is my mom going to kill me for spending $300 on pit passes? These are all questions anyone with ticket buying anxiety asks themselves.
5. Where To Sit And Where To Ship?
Picking your seat at a concert is terrifying. What if you cannot see the band? What if pit passes are too much or your friends don’t want to be right up front? Ultimately you decide that if they are your friends they can hang in the pit for a few hours. But where do you get the tickets sent to? If you have them mailed to you they might get lost in the mail and then you wouldn’t get to go, but if you print them yourself you might lose them. In the end, it’s always safer to print them yourself and let them rest in all their glory on your refrigerator for eight months until you go to the concert.
6. Paying For The Tickets.
Once you have picked out your seats and your shipping plan, you have approximately a three minute timer for entering in credit card information. During this time you question if you should spend half of your life’s savings to see this concert.
The answer is yes.
While typing in your credit card number you anxiously check to make sure all the numbers you typed in matches the little plastic card in your shaky hand. You should already know that the numbers match up since you buy concert tickets so often and you’re used to this.
7. Printing The Tickets.
Finally, everything is over the stresses of picking seats and buying the tickets. Now all you have to do is print the tickets and then you are done with this round of ticket buying anxiety. Even though it seems like it’s not worth it to get all stressed out over a concert, you know that you will do this again in a few months when you buy more tickets. But as for this round, all that’s left is to go relax… And wait forever for the concert to actually be here.
Buying concert tickets may seem like a lot of work but it is always worth it, even if you struggle with ticket buying anxiety.
