Free CD's for dual ticket purchases

[erknorea]

   What is this - sorry to be a moan all - but hey - does this mean that all of us who are going to the gigs on our own are contributing to the cost of the CD's which are free to people buying 2 tickets at a time -
YES is the answer...
Might be better giving out a redemption voucher for every ticket sold - would be a fairer deal and all could benefit - unless , like me, you have already paid out a stash of cash for the album already....  again -  not a happy bunny Mr Knopfler.....

[JF]

you just give me another reason to not give more money to record company 

I was not sure to buy "only" the std version, but now for sure, I don't have any regret

all this business makes me sick....

[dmg]

My take on it is that the people using the pre-sale on MK.com will already have the CD anyway so this will just be a spare copy.  Maybe one for the car, or one for a friend.  This may lead to another ticket sale if they like the album.  Maybe not, but it would spread the album around.

I am going to three concerts and bought 3 for one of them and 2 for each of the other two.  I didn't get codes for 3 free CD's but I'm not complaining!  It's a bonus, complimentary thing - they don't have to give away anything at all.  CD's are really cheap to produce anyway so cutting out the middle man cuts their cost dramatically.

[ds1984]

My take on it is that the people using the pre-sale on MK.com will already have the CD anyway so this will just be a spare copy.  Maybe one for the car, or one for a friend.  This may lead to another ticket sale if they like the album.  Maybe not, but it would spread the album around.

I am going to three concerts and bought 3 for one of them and 2 for each of the other two.  I didn't get codes for 3 free CD's but I'm not complaining!  It's a bonus, complimentary thing - they don't have to give away anything at all.  CD's are really cheap to produce anyway so cutting out the middle man cuts their cost dramatically.

Nope, you still have to pay for the rights and this is the most expensive part. So each time you receive a so called "giveaway" copy we actualy pay for it. The only copies that are not attached with royalties are "promotional items" (actually their cost is deduced of the royalties paid to artists).

[dmg]

My take on it is that the people using the pre-sale on MK.com will already have the CD anyway so this will just be a spare copy.  Maybe one for the car, or one for a friend.  This may lead to another ticket sale if they like the album.  Maybe not, but it would spread the album around.

I am going to three concerts and bought 3 for one of them and 2 for each of the other two.  I didn't get codes for 3 free CD's but I'm not complaining!  It's a bonus, complimentary thing - they don't have to give away anything at all.  CD's are really cheap to produce anyway so cutting out the middle man cuts their cost dramatically.

Nope, you still have to pay for the rights and this is the most expensive part. So each time you receive a so called "giveaway" copy we actualy pay for it. The only copies that are not attached with royalties are "promotional items" (actually their cost is deduced of the royalties paid to artists).

But we get the CD direct from Universal so that cuts out selling it to distributors and outlets like HMV, FNAC etc.  So that must save some money.

[3Strats]

If it helps, (and I'm sure it doesn't) when I booked my tickets it looked as if this offer only seemed to apply in the UK, and although I'm still waiting for mine, I didn't order my deluxe edition through MK.com so I didn't get the code to use to get "even better" tickets in the concert pre-sale.

[jabbathehut]

Actually i hadn't decided yet which to buy so was pleasantly surprised to be given a cd for buying 2 tickets.

[knopflerized]

If you don't want your free cd then you can send it to me ;-)

[Jules]

I was trying today to redeem the three codes I have because I bought six tickets for the RAH show and the Universal Site tells me that the codes are not valid, I didnt used them when received some weeks ago because I havent time, but now that I

[dmg]

I bought 7 tickets for 3 different shows but only received one code.  I'm not really bothered as I have enough copies but I could distribute among my football mates soon!  I just want to know if it's a maximum one code per person deal or if anyone has been given more than one code.

[Jules]

As far as I know its one code per two tickets. I received one code first, and then a week or two later two more codes, but all of them invalids...

[dmg]

As far as I know its one code per two tickets. I received one code first, and then a week or two later two more codes, but all of them invalids...

That's interesting because I've only received one code and it was valid!  As I said I'm not bothered but it would be nice to know just exactly what the rules are because the whole thing seems mixed up.

[Rkd]

Actually i hadn't decided yet which to buy so was pleasantly surprised to be given a cd for buying 2 tickets.

They have to get rid of all those extra CDs somehow that were supposed to go to the U.S.

[vgonis]

Have you dropped your tray with food while leaving the counter at a restaurant? Or dropped your ice cream cone just when you got it? They will usually replace it with a new one, no extra charge, even if the mistake was yours. It costs next to nothing for them, and they still have a pleased customer.
So even though I get the unfairness of this situation, it is their CDs and they can do whatever they want with them, give them away. If we could wait 6-12 moths the price of all formats would drop 50-75% and then we can buy it cheaply and not worrying that we would have paid for the other free CDs. Because, anyway I see it, paying so much money for various formats, shows and badges posters t-shirts, is what drives prices up.   

[Jules]

I contacted both Universal at the support e-mail that they have on their site and also to ticketline, the one that provided me the codes...

Universal didnt answered

Ticketline did very quickly

Looks like the problem is that they gave me codes thinking I