LAST EDITED ON Jun-02-04 AT 07:18 PM (PDT)
 
first of all, the concert was great..but ..i paid full price (40 + 6 dollars fee) for the concert in advance ...only to find out that if i had waited a day or two..i would only have to pay 20 bucks!

but i thought to myself.. its okay, TMR concert is sooo worth it!

THEN.. i get this email from TOFU records about giving away free concert tickets and i realized that i din have to pay for me, my pals, my family way in advance.. i could have gotten ALL of us in for free...

but then i thought.. no.. TMR is definitely worth paying for...THEN...

when i was at the PMX registration paying for my admission before the concert.. i get this phone call telling me that my seats are already taken... O_O.......

i'm thinking.. there is no way that mine and my pals' tickets, which has a clear print of the section and seat number, can be duplicated....
but guess what?.. they were... and yes.. we were standing in the middle of the aisle trying to find other seats with the help of a staff member...

so after alot of waiting and standing around... we get to sit in these other seats a row closer but a different section from my family and other pals... but we were kewl with it .... until we realize later that we were sitting in SOMEONE else's seats... and were sent to the box office.. which we had to risk missing the opening of the concert..finally we were seated around the same section .. but even farther away from my family... ...and we could barely see over all the taller people in front of us..

and i thought to myself... TMR is worth it .. TMR is so worth it... TMR is worth it... BUT i did NOT pay full price in advance to stand around.. and have staff members look for open seats for me and my pals..

Number 1. What is the positive side of using ticketweb.com if these mistakes occured?... if nething.. we pay in advance to NOT go through these mishaps!

Number 2. There was a 50 percent discount!.. what the...?!??!!... no.. it wasn't... five dollars off.. or ten dollars off.. it was 20 dollars off!...
You would think.. that normally .. as we come closer to the concert date... the price would go up.. not down... still.. with all the ppl who got in for free.. honestly.. the concert should have been completely free..

Number 3. what was the point of the cd release party?!... for the VIPs to stand with TMR and Tamaki?... what the heck?.. what about the fans who paid full price for the concert, wait for hours for their panel AND autograph sessions..?!
I waited for over two and half hours for the cd release party to find myself in a mob of screaming fans... (so literally.. waiting was a SERIOUS waste of time).. in addition, compared to the VIPs.. i dun care how important they are.. the real fans were not in the VIP section... !

okay.. about Nami Tamaki...
first of all.. she was kewl.. i only knew of her because i watched gundam seed.. so having to see her in concert was great... but one problem was .. she onlee had one album out at the time of PMX.. so when this guy wanted her to sign the promotional dvd (which was also given out during her panel)... he was turned away..because it was not an official merchandise?.. i'm assuming it was Tofu records that turned him away.. but still!.. my friend had TMR signed that same promotional dvd and her sister got him to sign his pictures that were torn out of a magazine...
honestly.. i felt like Tamaki should have been more appreciative of her fans.. especially if she onlee came out with one album at the time.. i dunno.. but i was really disappointed to see that...

Thanks for reading,
~tif

LAST EDITED ON Jun-03-04 AT 00:15 AM (PDT)
 
There was a several issues with the concert. There were people sitting in the wrong places on purpose and those unsure where to seat themselves and did not ask for assistance. Unfortunately, we couldn't catch them all. As for having a promotional DVD to be autograph, the thing is Tofu Records wants Nami Tamaki's album to be bought. By limiting autographs for mostly her CDs, it would supposely increase sells. I apologize for what happened and hopefully it would be avoided in the future.