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| - I don't know about this place. For the uninitiated, here's what TFT does as its business model.
If a show is not sold out on a particular day, TFT asks the show box office about how many tickets they can have to sell, and the show box office sets aside tickets that they probably wouldn't sell to give to people who buy at TFT. So, right off the bat, you know you're getting seats that are by no means the best. Show box offices will give their worst seats, count on that, and will try to be conservative. Let's say they have 200 open seats, think they can fill 170 on their own. They give TFT 30 in the morning of the very worst in the house. Later in the day, they have 100 and feel pessimistic, so they give TFT 20 more of somewhat better seats.
From the customer point of view, here are the steps:
Cons:
1) You must be there early. TFT only has a limited number of tickets available per show.
2) You must stand in line, from 30 minutes to an hour at the TFT booth in order buy a voucher.
3) You must go as soon as you can to the box office of the show you want to attend, and get assigned a seat. This may entail another line, maybe 30 minutes again. This is somewhat hit-or-miss. You may get a better (less bad) seat if you come earlier, or you may get lucky and get a better (less bad) seat if you come later.
4) You must come back to the show venue again at the time for your actual show.
5) You only get half-off for the really terrible shows that have no hope of selling out. Top-of-the-line shows will range in savings from $10 to $30 at most, which is hardly half.
6) No refunds, no exchanges, they don't care if you're dying or got hit by a truck. Once they have your money, they don't give it back.
7) Ticket Offices will assign a name to each sale, and if you lose your tickets, they'll give you an emergency set. Lose your TFT voucher, and you're SOL, since they have no way of knowing who you are.
Pros:
1) Save $10-$20.
Show box offices are 1000 times more flexible with refunds and cancellations, you don't have to wake up early, you only stand in line once, they'll upgrade you if they have better seats, you get to choose any seat in the house instead of just the TFT block, and they probably have better discounts already because of the economy.
In my opinion, this service is a waste of time and money. Most people make more money in an hour than they'd save for the hour of lines and hassles of TFT. Besides, you're on vacation. Do you really want to get up early to save a few dollars on mediocre seats? Forget it.
Just a few discounts at Mystere, by Cirque du Soliel:
1) Senior Discount 25% off
2) Student Discount 35% off
3) Children 12 and under 50% off
4) Military 50% off
5) They have a daily hotel guest discount, from 10%, 25%, to 2-for-1
LOVE has a daily discount for anyone, as well, and Zumanity and KA both have 1, 2, and 4 above. Tix4Tonight is completely useless for Cirque Shows!
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