How to get cheap tickets Coachella Music Festival

The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is the premiere annual concert event for Southern California. Over 130,000+ people attend the three day music festival so there is a lot of demand for event tickets, campsites, transportation, food, water, etc.

The first thing you need before going to the music festival is tickets right? Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Are you an idiot?-type wrong.

You can save a lot of money playing concert chicken. Concert chicken is where you wait until the last minute to buy your event tickets. Thus putting the pressure on the people selling the music festival tickets.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• An internet connection
• A cell phone
• Money
• Transportation

1. 
    
   10 concerts worth of people

   Do not buy your concert tickets from ticketmaster. I'd like to say never use ticketmaster but in some cases they are necessary; like when a concert sells out in ten minutes and you know TM will have a last minute on sale the day before to cover credit cards that didn't go through. For the Coachella concert though, we don't want to use them. Using ticketmaster would be the worst case scenario. Coachella has so many tickets sold that the possibility of free tickets is not beyond a reasonable doubt.

2. Go to www.craigslist.org and monitor the price for one and three day concert tickets. Remember that craigslist tickets will be most expensive for the show one week before the music festival. This is because people who are traveling from hundreds of miles away want the comfort of having their event tickets in hand. Ticket agencies are advertising the crap out of the show on the radio. Demand is peaking. From the Coachella ticket on-sale date to the week before the show you need to be cool and bide your time. It's rock concerts not rocket science.

3. On or about three days from the music festival, start to seriously search the craigslist ticket prices. A steady decline always starts about 48 hours before the music festival. There are many factors to why this happens but first and foremost concerts and music festivals get missed because people always back out at the last minute. Or someone bought 6 tickets and only need 3. Or someone gets sick.
   
   The longer you can stand to wait, the cheaper they will get. I've bought full concert tickets for $20 a day at least four or five times.
   
   Call a few ads and tell the people how much you want to pay for their music festival tickets. Call them early in the day. Then call them back in the early afternoon. The first phone call puts you first in line of responders, the second one closes the deal if they haven't received any other calls.
   
   When you are at the Coachella music festival, towards the end of the day, look for worn out people and offer them $20 for their next day ticket for the music festival. One in five people will sell it to you just to go home or do something else in Los Angeles.
   
   If you still don't have a ticket, go back to craigslist because a lot of ad's are posted on the palm springs edition during the show.
   
   If the sky falls in. Cave and buy a walk up ticket. They sell these at the gate of the Polo Grounds.

Tips & Warnings

• Prepare for the most grueling music festival in the world. Sunscreen, hats, water, money, cell phone, comfortable and rugged shoes, sunglasses, a jacket for the 50 degree temperature drop at 9 PM.

Resources

• Coachella Web Site
• Other articles by Alcor805
• Alcor805's Blog

[alcor805]

on 4/22/2009 Coachella 2009Concert Chicken Report:Friday $60Saturday $80Sunday FreeTotal $140

[SunnyStars]

on 3/9/2009 Super informative article, Thanks! 5*Stars!