I am so there. Who else?
Justin Timberlake roll call
Nobody :roll:
give me your extra ticket and i'll be there with you! :D
Originally posted by callat703:
I am so there. Who else?
hahaha nobody is going because nobody got tickets.
I wish I was going. There I said it.
Seriously, Sexy Back has been in my head for a week straight.
Seriously, Sexy Back has been in my head for a week straight.
Everyone tells my wife she looks like Cameron Diaz.
still looking for a spare ticket!
Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:Cameron Diaz has enormous clown feet. Does your wife? Because big feet = heh heh heh, if you know what I mean.
Everyone tells my wife she looks like Cameron Diaz.
would definitely like to go… anyone with spare tickets, let me know.
wow, worst roll call ever…
Originally posted by nkotb:oh no you didn't!
I wish I was going. There I said it.
Seriously, Sexy Back has been in my head for a week straight.
wow, worst roll call ever…don't blame us, i'd love to be able to add a "me too".
this sale was not designed for forumers. in fact, it appears that it was made especially for scalpers to make big bucks (for those who care, see rants at bottom of this page.) one person suggest that it's JT that doesn't care.
… and to think he once told me he loved me… *sob*
Oh yes I did. I can't help it, but I stop short of putting a pin-up of him on my wall. My office is another story.
Originally posted by walkonby:
Originally posted by nkotb:oh no you didn't!
I wish I was going. There I said it.
Seriously, Sexy Back has been in my head for a week straight.
Originally posted by sweetcell:how is a show "made" for scalpers? your average broker, despite what most people think, obtain tickets the EXACT same way everybody else does - by being on tickets.com or ticketmaster at 9:50 AM and refreshing.
wow, worst roll call ever…don't blame us, i'd love to be able to add a "me too".
this sale was not designed for forumers. in fact, it appears that it was made especially for scalpers to make big bucks (for those who care, see rants at bottom of this page.) one person suggest that it's JT that doesn't care.
… and to think he once told me he loved me… *sob*
the difference is, most brokers are better at pulling tickets because they do it every day. just like some of the forum members are better at bagging groceries, because hey, it's what they do every day (kidding, guys)
but seriously - everybody pisses and moans everytime a show sells out, because "scalpers scooped up all the tickets," as if scalpers have robots or computer programs to help them obtain 100 ro 150 tickets to a club show.
it doesn't work that way. if a broker wants to buy more tickets than the ticket limit, they have to go to a lot of trouble, which includes multiple credit cards, shipping addresses, billing addreses, tickets.com accounts, etc. and even then, nothing is guaranteed.
and even if professional brokers were somehow banned from even attempting to get tickets to a show like JT, do you REALLY think THAT many more common fans would obtain tickets, and actually use them?
c'mon. its all about supply and demand. and knowing how to get yourself through the buying process of ticketmaster and tickets.com
Originally posted by chokeychicken:
Originally posted by sweetcell:I think the difference is that individual fans can only make single efforts to get tickets, whereas the ticket brokers often employ teams of multiple users to log on and get them. For a show with such demand as JT or SOAD, you'll have numberous brokers with a dozen employees logging on at exactly 10:00. Particularly with a club of 1,000 capacity, where a good percentage of those tickets will be held back for promos, the chances for one person to get tickets gets very small.
[qb]wow, worst roll call ever…c'mon. its all about supply and demand. and knowing how to get yourself through the buying process of ticketmaster and tickets.com
Of course at its lowest level its about supply and demand, but if scalpers were not involved more fans would get tickets. The difference is the "professional broker" as you like to call them, are adding a middle man to a scenario that doesnt call for one. To stick with your grocery scenario, do you think its OK for "professional brokers" to buy all the milk at safeway and sell it outside for 5, 10, 20 times what safeway sold it to them for? Of course milk is a little more important then justin timberlake tickets, (to some perhaps) but pick the commodity, why is one price gouging, but the other acceptable practice? And we all are aware this topic has been debated ad nausem on this site, and your friendly forumites who are 100% capitalist will agree with you, but a "professional broker" IMHO is inserting themselves into a transaction they have no business being a part of.
Of course it's gouging, unnecessary and shitty.
But people are willing to pay it, because the product is scarce. If there were a milk shortage, and I was selling gallon's out of my trunk for 5 times the cost, you bet people would be buying it.
If you want to stop scalping, stop paying the scalpers. Until that happens, it's just a fact of concert-going life.
But people are willing to pay it, because the product is scarce. If there were a milk shortage, and I was selling gallon's out of my trunk for 5 times the cost, you bet people would be buying it.
If you want to stop scalping, stop paying the scalpers. Until that happens, it's just a fact of concert-going life.
Originally posted by saco:
Of course at its lowest level its about supply and demand, but if scalpers were not involved more fans would get tickets. The difference is the "professional broker" as you like to call them, are adding a middle man to a scenario that doesnt call for one. To stick with your grocery scenario, do you think its OK for "professional brokers" to buy all the milk at safeway and sell it outside for 5, 10, 20 times what safeway sold it to them for? Of course milk is a little more important then justin timberlake tickets, (to some perhaps) but pick the commodity, why is one price gouging, but the other acceptable practice? And we all are aware this topic has been debated ad nausem on this site, and your friendly forumites who are 100% capitalist will agree with you, but a "professional broker" IMHO is inserting themselves into a transaction they have no business being a part of.
Shit….there's a milk shortage? I better get to the store. My little ones love their milkie at wakey wakey and bed time.
I had a friend who was a ticket broker. He also ran a Ticketmaster outlet. He was most definitely not getting tickets "the EXACT same way everybody else does." At 10:00 AM he was printing out tickets like mad and keeping the best seats for himself for resale.
Online, scalpers use programs to circumvent the security codes, and its not hard to get around address and credit card restrictions.
And then there are the mom & pop scalpers who just buy extra tickets for popular shows so that they can hawk them on craigslist.
Online, scalpers use programs to circumvent the security codes, and its not hard to get around address and credit card restrictions.
And then there are the mom & pop scalpers who just buy extra tickets for popular shows so that they can hawk them on craigslist.
I've got Vitamin D, Vitamin D here! Only $50 a pint!
Originally posted by who the fuck are you?:
Shit….there's a milk shortage? I better get to the store. My little ones love their milkie at wakey wakey and bed time.