Parrot Heads Pissed In Florida

Jimmy Buffet

Parrot Heads, some of whom paid more than $10,000 for a pod of four seats to the Jimmy Buffett and Coral Reefer Friends tour kick-off at the Pavilion at Old School Square in downtown Delray Beach, just threw their money away, according to The Palm Beach Post citing venue organizers. 

Tickets for the upcoming Jimmy Buffett concerts in Delray bought through a reseller will not be honored.

Jimmy Buffett with Coral Reefer Friends to play May 13, May 14, May 17 and May 18 at the Pavilion Old School Square in Delray Beach, Fla.

Turns out, to get in the front gate on show night, your identification must match the name you provided at the time of purchase, said Carli Brinkman, public relations specialist with Old School Square. And tickets are non-transferable. 

Bottom line: If you bought your tickets through a reseller, you are out of luck, Brinkman said. 

"We are obviously warning people that is not going to work," she said, adding that the venue is equally angered over the situation. 

Tickets went on sale for the shows on Monday at 10 a.m. and were sold out in the first minute. Hours later, tickets popped up online through sites such as Vivid Tickets and Ticketsonsale.com., neither of which responded to requests for comment from The Palm Beach Post. 

Brinkman said she has no idea how those resellers got their hands on so many tickets, and that the venue did not have agreements with any company except Eventbrite. 

Customers were limited to one pod of tickets for one night only specifically to ensure as many fans as possible had access to tickets, she said.

“The cheapest pod of four seats was $3,889 for obstructed views,” said Diane Catalano of Boynton Beach, who got shut out Monday morning. “And the front was like $10,780.00.” 

According to the Better Business Bureau, Vivid Seats, out of Chicago, rates only one out of five stars. There were 1.643 complaints lodged against the company in the past year, and 2,239 in the past three years. 

Ticketsonsale.com, a website operated by Ryadd, Inc., also rated one out of five stars with the Better Business Bureau. Only two weeks ago on April 13, it was announced the company paid $183,450.67 as a result of a lawsuit to resolve claims of “deceptive trade practices.”