and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad

sonickteam2

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and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 06:15 PM UTC #

this guy is scalping the PASSWORD……

(yes i am buying Bulls tickets for my trip to Chicago this December)

this guy should burn in hell

sonickteam2

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 06:19 PM UTC #

upon further research, there are (23) different auctions easily accessible for various presale passwords!!!

in fact, there is a ebay username "password4you" where apparently all he DOES is sell passwords.

bags

Joined: October 30, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 06:43 PM UTC #

Isn't there a website somewhere that gives passwords out? I remember seeing it a few months ago….I must have gotten the link here.

Doctor Doom

Joined: April 23, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 07:05 PM UTC #

it's too bad there's not a way to restrict these things further… for example having a site that only accepts http referrers from inside the board, so that only people logged in to the board could get in….

ggw

Joined: December 16, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 07:08 PM UTC #

Capitalism rulez

palahniukkubrick

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 07:51 PM UTC #

yeah, scalping presale passwords is really awful and makes me sad. But look at the guy's username: smackdownprices4u. :)

vansmack

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 08:27 PM UTC #

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
smackdownprices4u.

Shit. You're on to me…..

bags

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Re: and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad October 06, 2004 at 11:07 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Bags:
Isn't there a website somewhere that gives passwords out? I remember seeing it a few months ago….I must have gotten the link here.

MoveOn and Pearl Jam's idea seems like a good one – personalized presale passwords that can only be used to buy 2 (or 4) tickets. If more than one person uses that code, both sales are cancelled. Doesn't stop scalping, but restricts the password really well.