Mark
Do you think your post about a ‘financial disaster’ is hyperbole?
Surely if the financial ‘disaster’ was impending, they’d hold tickets back?
They go to the market direct, they aren’t hapless passengers, beholden to third party ticket sites. if they were worried, they’d just stop presales.
Name me another event that sold out and was a financial disaster?
There are huge benefits to pre-sales: certainty, staffing, cash flow, investment income, lack of weather impingement, to name but a few.