Small Question Regarding Concert Tickets

[Uemarasan]

Hi! This is a question I'm throwing out to the fans who've managed to buy concert tickets (official or regular tickets and not those from resellers and auctions) while they were in Japan. How risky is it buying concert tickets on a general sale day from PIA? Are mostly not-so-decent seats available if I buy then?

Here is the PIA website: info.pia.co.jp/et/promo/music/ayu.jsp

As far as my Japanese goes, for the May 19, 26, and 27 concerts, 3/30 to 4/9 is the pre-reserve time period. And then 4/22 is the general sale day Do I dare risk a general sale?

If anyone can help me, thank you so much in advance!

[Monana]

I think I did try to purchase ticket from PIA or some other official online website during the (mis)understood arena tour. It's pretty hard to get those pre-sale ones since they'r all gone under a minute they started selling...and I was then entered to a draw but sadly I wasn't picked.
No luck getting tickets on those general sale days as well. I was about to give up but then I remembered there's this 2nd hand concert/cheap movie/train/theme park ticket store (大黒屋) around Shinjuku and Shibuya. I actually got 2 tickets with lower price (I bought it a day or two before the concert...so i guess they'r selling them cheap).
Try to check the seat plan before hand...get an idea of what those # mean...section, rows, floors....and compare prices and seat. You might turn out getting a better deal then purchasing them online =)
I saw some people selling tickets on the site....not sure about the price thou

Good luck

[Uemarasan]

Thanks so much for the information, Monana

I guess I'll try to exhaust all available options: first pre-sale, then general sale, then finally the resellers. It's the first time I've come face-to-face with something like the lottery system! It's like pulling teeth from a shark.

[Monana]

No problem
Ayu's concert really do worth going thru all those trouble and efforts, haha
Hope you have better luck than I do =)