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Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
So my plans to sell the Montreal tickets and use that money for Camden tickets is probably a bust? $250 thrown away!

well, not necessarily a bust but not looking stellar either. the show will sell out, eventually, so at a minimum getting your money back should be do-able.

jules, you weren't thinking of scalping, now were you? tsk tsk… :p

Originally posted by sweetcell:
jules, you weren't thinking of scalping, now were you? tsk tsk… :p

I was going to resell them at market value and then use said proceeds to purchase Camden tickets at market value. I don't consider that scalping; I consider it trading tickets with a third party collecting a fee for facilitating such an exchange.

I guess the act of scalping takes place, but neither the intent, nor the result, fulfills scalping as we think of it.

Weird…I use the same theory to explain away my love of prostitutes :roll:

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
I was going to resell them at market value and then use said proceeds to purchase Camden tickets at market value. I don't consider that scalping; I consider it trading tickets with a third party collecting a fee for facilitating such an exchange.

I guess the act of scalping takes place, but neither the intent, nor the result, fulfills scalping as we think of it.

Originally posted by nkotb:
Weird…I use the same theory to explain away my love of prostitutes :roll:

No, no, no.

Look: when we think of scalping, we think of someone making a profit off tickets by selling them above face value. What ticks us off – morally outrages us – about scalping exactly? It's not the exchange of money for tickets, otherwise none of us would buy tickets ever because ticketmaster and tickets.com and the 930 Club Box Office would all be "scalpers." What outrages us is the making of profit, correct?

So with what I was planning to do, I wasn't selling tickets with an intent to pull down profit; the end result is me getting tickets to my local show and someone else getting tickets to their local show. It's like a three-way trade in sports where the Wizards send a player to the Sonics who send $$ to the Bulls who send a player back to the Wizards. Yes, a singular act that is part of scalping takes place, but the circumstantial details do not register the moral indignation of scalping.

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:

Originally posted by nkotb:
Weird…I use the same theory to explain away my love of prostitutes :roll:

No, no, no.

Look: when we think of scalping, we think of someone making a profit off tickets by selling them above face value. What ticks us off – morally outrages us – about scalping exactly? It's not the exchange of money for tickets, otherwise none of us would buy tickets ever because ticketmaster and tickets.com and the 930 Club Box Office would all be "scalpers." What outrages us is the making of profit, correct?

So with what I was planning to do, I wasn't selling tickets with an intent to pull down profit; the end result is me getting tickets to my local show and someone else getting tickets to their local show. It's like a three-way trade in sports where the Wizards send a player to the Sonics who send $$ to the Bulls who send a player back to the Wizards. Yes, a singular act that is part of scalping takes place, but the circumstantial details do not register the moral indignation of scalping.

it makes sense you'd be a hillary supporter.

Originally posted by BookerT:
it makes sense you'd be a hillary supporter.

You responded to a logical argument with ad populum statements without any real substance. It makes sense you'd be a HopeChange supporter.

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:

Originally posted by BookerT:
it makes sense you'd be a hillary supporter.

You responded to a logical argument with ad populum statements without any real substance. It makes sense you'd be a HopeChange supporter.

1) kucinich forever

2) i was just joshin'. going through any of this sort of hassle to see radiohead is much more offensive to me than a kinky three-way ticket exchange.

jules, as a potential way of avoiding all this might-be/might-not-be ugliness, why not seek a straight-up trade on a RH message board? don't cost a thing to ask, ya never know if someone can hook you up. ateaseweb and greenplastic are the two that i know of.

Kucinich is a fraud and a cranky little fucker. I cannot stand him.

appropriately enough, so is thom york.

Originally posted by sweetcell:
jules, as a potential way of avoiding all this might-be/might-not-be ugliness, why not seek a straight-up trade on a RH message board? don't cost a thing to ask, ya never know if someone can hook you up. ateaseweb and greenplastic are the two that i know of.

I probably will, but the odds of some Canadian holding New Jersey pit tickets in hopes of a trade has to be really slim.

i need two free tickets.

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
I wasn't selling tickets with an intent to pull down profit;

But you are making a profit. You're just choosing to spend your profit on other Radiohead tickets.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
I wasn't selling tickets with an intent to pull down profit;

But you are making a profit. You're just choosing to spend your profit on other Radiohead tickets.

who cares. let em scalp the damn tickets already!