Desert Trip tickets selling for less ahead of first weekend

Still don’t have your Desert Trip tickets?

No worries, prices are coming down as we get closer to the event.

On StubHub, an online ticket vendor, general-admission tickets to weekend two go for less than $200 dollars. Practically half what the official website charges for them. The depreciation is causing problems for people planning on selling their tickets. That’s what happened to Elyssa Goldberg.

“When I had the opportunity to buy the tickets I didn’t want to pass it up, whether I went or not. I knew I had them so it was a security blanket and I knew I could sell them in the future,” Goldberg said.

Now, her plans are changing.

“Now that I’m hearing the second batch went on sale a couple weeks ago and I actually heard that they had more, I’m a little upset that my tickets are really not worth as much as I had paid for them so I’m probably going to use them and go to the show myself,” Goldberg said.

She said you need to roll with the punches with things like this.

“Things happen in the process and they probably from what I heard didn’t know the space was going to accommodate so many so you have to give a little leeway, too, for working out the kinks in this first venture,” Goldberg said.

Sites like Craigslist are full of ads for tickets ranging from $200 to $8,000. On Stub Hub it’s the same story. Even some tickets available on the official Desert Trip website.

But not everyone who bought tickets wants to sell. Wednesday, the box office and will call opened at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden for people to pick up their tickets. Aurissa Parsons picked up her tickets Wednesday with her son. She said even though some people can’t sell their extra tickets the majority are ready to rock and roll.

“For this side of the desert, it’s huge. It brings a ton of people. There’s an infusion of excited people it brings the big kids, I call them, they’re ready. Everybody is ready,” Parsons said.