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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Enjoywho]
    #19150621 - 11/17/13 04:42 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Enjoywho said:
:lol:

This whole thread is full of :whatever:



that's what we've been saying all along... scalping is a dick move, practiced & supported by circle-jerkers...


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: leon trout]
    #19150651 - 11/17/13 04:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

:rofl: 'ing at you guys.

Yes I'm definitely enjoying it.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Enjoywho]
    #19150687 - 11/17/13 04:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I've never had a problem getting tickets when knowing the date.

Obviously they can't be that good of fans if they don't even hear about it til a couple days before the show.





:facepalm: You need to work on your reading comprehension. This has nothing to do with knowing when the tickets go on sale. The problem lies with ticketmaster being shitty & tickets going to bots. For example, I knew about Phish's fall tour before it was even announced. There were two shows I could make to. I got one no problem, but tried from noon until 3 pm nonstop on ticketmaster attempting to get tickets to the other one, and it never went through. And that was happening for most people. I still wound up getting in for face value cause I know people, and I never get shut out. Not everyone can say that though.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Dark_Star] * 2
    #19150702 - 11/17/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

:yawn:

Phish sucks.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Enjoywho]
    #19150727 - 11/17/13 05:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

:whatever: Actually they're the best band in the world. :cookiemonster: But well done, insulting my musical tastes cause you don't have any other response.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Dark_Star]
    #19150740 - 11/17/13 05:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

:puke:

Same with the Grateful Dead can't stand them. haven't heard a song I like by either.


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"In the days of kings and queens I was a jester."

"And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies

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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Enjoywho]
    #19150927 - 11/17/13 05:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I went to one of the phish concerts that DS went to, but I didn't get to meet him cause I'm a dumbass who checks his email bi-monthly. Anyway, while the music wasn't really my cuppa, the overall thing was really fun. I was all high and shit.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Dark_Star]
    #19152273 - 11/17/13 10:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Concert tickets, yes. Scalpers keep real fans out of shows. Tickets are expensive enough as it is, then add in scalping. Not everyone can afford to spend $300 for a ticket.




That's a dick in someone else's ass :crankey:

If they really are dying to see the show, my couple tickets isn't like I tried to buy as many as possible in one phone call, but it's an upcharge for a hot commodity that would have been scooped up likely by a super scalper I migh as well take the gamble, I will at worst break even.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Cannabischarlie]
    #19152300 - 11/17/13 10:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I sold 4 tickets to the homestead race today for 350 including pit passes, parking passes, and acess to my skybox. Face value just on skybox tix not including anything else a 1000 a piece. Would that be reverse scalping?                                                   


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: magicbroncoride]
    #19152690 - 11/18/13 01:34 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Would that be reverse scalping?




it would, & i for one applaud you... it's good to do nice things for people...


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: magicbroncoride]
    #19152964 - 11/18/13 06:19 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I sold 4 tickets to the homestead race today for 350 including pit passes, parking passes, and acess to my skybox. Face value just on skybox tix not including anything else a 1000 a piece. Would that be reverse scalping?                                                   





How did you come into such tickets in the first place?


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Cannabischarlie]
    #19154740 - 11/18/13 03:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My company sponsors a car and no one ever wants to gothe races so they just give methe ttickets and a bunch of schwag to hand out. Dont ask me why the fuck you wouldn't want to go get hammered on the company dime and get paid for it. The family I sold them too had 2 kids and they enjoyed the shit out of it. I got the driver to come out and meet them and hooked em up with all kinds of signed schwag. Even had thier pictures with the car. My company dosent give a damn what I do when I get down there.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Enjoywho]
    #19154755 - 11/18/13 03:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Enjoywho said:
I've never had a problem getting tickets when knowing the date.

Obviously they can't be that good of fans if they don't even hear about it til a couple days before the show.




So now you have to be an absolutely diehard fan to not get a ticket for an over-inflated price?

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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Mush4Brains]
    #19155588 - 11/18/13 05:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Embrace the face.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Mush4Brains]
    #19158502 - 11/19/13 07:20 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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So now you have to be an absolutely diehard fan to not get a ticket for an over-inflated price?

K




I am a nicer guy than most and also not willing to gamble too close to the date of the show, so they would get a fairer price from me than other scalpers, but frankly this show isn't until very early March, MONTHS away and not really even at the most convenient time for ME to buy it. I am already getting scalped on convenience fees, I may even sell one ticket at the highest price I can get it and just go to the show with the other one.

Particularly if I can not get pushed down because someone would be buying both, but I can get someone willing to go more for one than someone on two, but that is unlikely,

Three seperate fees, one just to get it on paper, 10 bucks just to be able to hand off a ticket where I would usually will call instead and just show up at will call window, no tickets to lose. Obviously this is to more to cut into peoples money than mailing costs, otherwise I wouldn't owe it per ticket. It affects scalpers too, I can't pass off my information otherwise. So they pay.

Whoever knows when bigger acts go on sale? So few people catch it at the right time, especially when you don't expect it several months in advance like 4 and a half months is kind of advance.

I guess I was paying attention and just hope I can maybe find out when Nicki Minaj tickets go on sale, fuck those guys :lol


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Cannabischarlie]
    #19158821 - 11/19/13 09:34 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Generally artists go on tour after releasing a new album, so it really isn't that difficult to know when you should keep your eyes open for tickets. The whole experience of going to a live show is being scalped. $8 for a beer, $5 for a bottle of water, $20 to park, etc. . .


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: trampis] * 1
    #19163169 - 11/20/13 12:59 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

As it's been explained, it's not about "keeping your eyes open for tickets". There's been shows I was aware of months in advance and on the morning when I sat there on the Ticketbastard website a half an hour early refreshing the fucking page every few seconds as the hour approached, entered the goddamn captcha as fast as humanly possible once they went up, only to find that no tickets were available the same minute they went on sale, nor any in the minutes and hours to follow.

Then I've gone down to the venue the day of the show, hoping to buy one from someone on their way in, and seen a team of scalpers selling these same tickets for quadruple the price or more. This team of subhuman shitstain scalpers had a manager-scalper walking around with a clipboard to make sure they were fucking music lovers over to the fullest extent. Anyone who buys multiple tickets to a music performance with the intent of selling at an inflated price is a piece of shit.


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Viveka]
    #19182170 - 11/24/13 11:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Damn I never heard of such organized scalping

The same minute, I guess they had the inside track and gave everyone the shaft :crankey:

I am talking two tickets here, not a gazillion, and being part of a squad

I wonder if these are drug involved people, I know maybe they turn around a bunch of tickets to make some extra money with their crews or something by diversifying


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Viveka]
    #19182508 - 11/24/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

ticket scalping posse of shafting you in the ass :crankey:


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Re: Getting involved in ticket scalping [Re: Cannabischarlie]
    #19185114 - 11/24/13 11:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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