OMG.
Quelle expérience. 
I was getting tickets for Philadelphia - Wachovia Center - the old Spectrum (that will cease to exist soon - Leonard's concert will be one of the last)!
The seating chart is vague - shows 3 blocks in front of the stage - but does not give you any idea of seat numbers (and there is no raised seating for the floor seats). I had called the venue three times in the last few days trying to get information about seat numbers - all to no avail. I was on the site for about one hour - submitting requests for "best seats available" - also got "expired" by the time I went to buy a few times! The sections across the front are 101, 102 and 103 and I never once saw anything available in Section 102 (center). I wanted a front row seat. The best choices that showed up ever were front row in section 101 (stage right), or rows 3 & 4 section 103 (stage left). I screwed up a couple of times and released row 1 and then was timed out with row 1 as well - kept hoping for the center section. I finally bought the Row 1 tickets in block 101, on the stage right side - still wondering about seats numbers.
I just called the venue again and asked about my seats - where the numbering started - and the woman was very nice but told me that that information would NOT be available (even to them) until the tickets went on sale to the public on Monday. I went through a routine of telling her that was "not right" - that fans were people too
and were paying real money and their normal hefty fee - and she said that it definitely was something they could improve upon.
In the past few days I had tried looking at other concerts but still could not find that information, and when I called, I was told that every concert was numbered differently.
Anyway - she suspected that my seats are in the front row - in front of the stage - but on the far stage right (or left from an audience point of view) - but STILL in
front of the stage (not off to the side).
SO - I will be sitting on the "side of the angels" in the front row to see the amazing Leonard Cohen and his wonderful band of merry men and women - in Philadelphia - on October 22, 2009.
Thank you so much Jarrko (and anyone else involved) in arranging for good tickets to be available through the presale.
Good luck to all those waiting to buy! May the force be with you!
Now I can relax - um - can't I???
p.s. Don't you just hate failing CAPTCHA?
(p.p.s. - I am trying to refrain from going back in there and checking available tickets to see if I "missed" anything!
)
Oh my!!!
