Wednesday
May202020
Nickelback Cancels Tour
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 08:49AM
Another one bites the dust. Nickelback has officially canceled the All The Right Reasons 15th anniversary tour. I have tickets via Groupon for the Cincinnati date. I expect getting the money back from Groupon will not be fun or easy. Otherwise, if you bought tickets directly, your refunds should be quick and note Nickelback did the right thing by canceling so people can have their cash back during this odd time for so many. Stone Temple Pilots were to provide support. One thing is for sure, it is going to be a boring summer without shows.
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Reader Comments (18)
Everything else canceled. On a positive note - I guess - is that some concerts are coming back. Last weekend, the Velcro Pygmies played a club show with no social distancing or anything. National news hasn't picked it up, they wanted to focus on some country artist that had a show 2 days later and there was social distancing. They called that the "first show back". They're wrong, Pygmies were first back.
My opinion: for concerts, it's all or nothing. Part of the appeal is having a loud, boisterous crowd there. And yes, unfortunately I agree with Dale ... either we have a vaccine, cure, or this virus just dies on its own (could happen), or summer 2021 will be another lost summer. I just can't imagine it. Virus fatigue is setting in. There has to be a way this battle gets won.
Nah, I kid.
"MAXIMIZE YOUR REFUND 150% CREDIT
If you have tickets to a show at Riverbend Music Center or PNC Pavilion that were purchased via Ticketmaster that gets cancelled, you can choose to receive a credit for 150% of your purchase (including fees) to be used for a future Riverbend Music Center or PNC Pavilion concert. So if you spent $200 on tickets, you will receive $300 in credit! All ticket holders will receive emails from Ticketmaster with their options beginning May 1."
They should be paying us to go see Nickelhack!
p.s. Okay, one good song — “Animal”
Endo, you sorta' bury the lead: that is the new Ticketmaster policy for all tickets sold via them. It is a good thing. But it was a long time coming for a lot of people, and there are still people waiting for that sort of thing to happen. They only did it because they were facing a backlash that was drawing in outside (read: government) interest.
Actually, Gary, no flaming (Cheetos or otherwise). I have noticed a trend in recent weeks (like, the last two) where the reporting has moved away from focusing on line-by-line counts of totals and towards covering the larger story of who is opening, how that is going, who is not opening, how that is going, etc., etc. When they do talk about head counts, the information is usually more general. Nothing scientific about my review of coverage, although I cast a fairly wide net since it is always good to get views from all sides. I see that shift in coverage as potentially good. That said, the next few weeks will tell as regards these reopening events, esp. in the weeks after Memorial Day. Near where I live, people have resumed business-as-usual in large part. That's their right. So we will see how it goes.
My hope is that we are _all_ over the hump with this. Like steverox said, fatigue is setting in for everyone. My other hope is that we can find a way to avoid having to deal with another case of fatigue if things go sideways again. I think Allyson preached the right message from the jump: be cautious; act rational; be considerate. Those are fairly easy to apply lessons if one is interested in applying them. Ah, that's the catch.
Great to see the number of comments. Keep 'em coming!
Nice to hear from you, Glamrockarchie. No hate here. Just a bit of fun. And I have mentioned that I appreciate what they do, even if I don't really care for them. The metal world is a diverse one. Plenty of room for everyone, right?
i am currently going through this with two "purchases".
First, I was the victim of a scam/fraud- straight up fraud, no doubt about it. It's a little embarrassing to say/explain this, but here's what happened. I'm posting this as a public service announcement and so that my fellow rockers can be aware. I have a friend from High School who has basically worked seasonally as a flea-markerter for the past 25 years. About 1-2 times/year, he contacts me and asks me to buy some of his flea market stuff as he's low on rent or something. I usually send him a couple of hundred dollars and keep it at that. In the past few years, he set up a PayPal account for his flea market venture and I've occasionally sent him money through this account.
A couple of months ago, he asked me, through Facebook messenger, to buy some safety masks for $150.00. I didn't need them, but I had just gotten the stimulus check and decided to send him $200.00. I messaged him back if I should send him the money through his PayPal account. I didn't hear back from him for a bit, but then I got messaged that I should send it to his GooglePay account (which I didn't know about). "He" sent an email address as to his GooglePay account. [Let's assume his real name is Freddy Fraud]. The email account was FFraud@gmail.com.
I didn't even have a Google account, so I went so far as to set one up and then transferred $200 from my account into this GooglePay account. I then got a message the next day from him that I should send the money to his PayPal account. I got off of messenger and texted him saying that I already sent the money to his Google account. He texted back that he doesn't have a google account. I screenshot the messages to him and he said he has no idea what I'm talking about.
I called my credit car company right away, reported fraud and deactivated my credit card asking for a replacement card ASAP. My bank complied and my account was reimbursed $200. Last week I received a notice from my bank that GooglePay is disputing my claim, that I voluntarily made a "purchase" through GooglePay and they can't determine whether I received the masks or not. Therefore, they were deducting the money back out of my account, claiming that it's a civil dispute between two parties. Interestingly, on the paperwork, I received the full name of FFraud. Her "name" is not Freddy Fraud, but Felicia Fraud, and her address was "blacked out" so I can't even contact her to try to dispute this with her directly.
I've contacted GooglePay. All of their phone operators are laid off, so I had to file a complaint on-line, which I did. I still have not heard back. I've called my bank twice more to file a complaint and explained, in detail, the situation, but they are telling me that "there is nothing more they can do"- that it's a civil matter between two people and that I twice clicked the "I accept" button on GooglePay to their terms and conditions. Case closed on their end.
Second situation: Not Fraud per se, but messed up....I was supposed to attend the M3 concert this year. Every year, I stay at the same motel_ Econo Lodge in Elkridge, MD. When tickets went on sale, I bought tickets and booked my motel room through Hotels.com. After Coronavirus hit and States were in lockdown, I waited to see if M3 was happening.
Once M3 was postponed to September, I contacted Econo Lodge and tried to cancel my reservation. At first I was told that they didn't have my reservation. I gave them the reservation code. They punched in the code and my reservation appeared, but I was told that since I booked through Hotels.com, I needed to cancel through them. I called the (800) number for the booking site and got a computer generated message stating that if you have a reservation in March or April, you should have already received an email with instructions with a link to cancel it if you cannot make it due to Coronavirus. If your reservation is in May (M3 was May 1-3), you will get the email at the end of April with a link to cancel if we are still in quarantine. I never got this email.
On April 27, I called Econo Lodge again and explained that Pennsylvania is still operating on a Stay-at-home order, that the M3 concert has been postponed, that I need to cancel my reservations and I haven't received an email from Hotels.com. I was told that it "shouldn't be a problem", but he cannot cancel my reservation until it's active in his computer on May 1 from Hotels.com.
On May 2, I got a phone call from Econo Lodge asking me what time I was arriving as I never came on May 1. I again called and explained the situation. He said "Ok" and hung up. I checked my credit Card statement online and was charged for all three days. Again, I called my credit card company, explained the situation and they credited my account...until, I just received a letter in the mail from my bank about how I didn't "conform" to the terms of the cancelation policy on time, per Hotels.com and Econo Lodge and therefore my credit card will be charged the entire amount.
Be safe, Be aware and B+, peeps.
Peace/rock on
And I think you beat me on the length Olympics (stop snickering everyone!)! People get bent outta' shape with my meandering missives. Yours was also epic. But it was worth the read. I hope you get all your money back.