I told my fans I booked the tickets months earlier, and, besides, the weather was perfect for outside photography".
They book tickets months in advance before they even know the lineup, because you know Coachella will be getting every one of your favorite bands.
They buy them from wholesalers, individuals who have purchased blocks of tickets months (and sometimes years) in advance in a kind of futures market.
But it turns out that to gorge on performing arts in Europe, you don't have to book philharmonic tickets months in advance or ask the concierge to procure a last-minute box at the opera.
The Melburnians who snapped up tickets months ago for the Australian Open women's semifinals must have liked their chances of seeing the Belgians Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters in action.
Brendan Ross, the chief executive of Razorgator, a reselling exchange similar to StubHub, said fans — particularly season-ticket holders in sports — take considerable risk when they buy tickets months ahead of time, and should be able to do what they like with the tickets.
The Yankees took the field with a lineup so sparse of stars that before the game a local television reporter asked Girardi if he felt sympathy for local fans who might have purchased tickets months ago still expecting to see a lineup that included Jeter, Rodriguez, Teixeira and Granderson.
Having managed to sell out the Grand Final at last, Foster's vision is for two more years of house full notices leading to Old Trafford being rammed every year as fans change their habits to buy tickets months in advance.
I ordered the tickets months in advance.
