Why you didn't lose Wrigley tickets to "Scalpers"

Foriginal SinForiginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,743
edited March 2013 in The Porch
Not only does stubhub show you how many sections have ZERO tickets available, more than any Cubs game ever, but this rethread http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=167407 proves it. Since last night over 50 people added there position to the map, yet less than 10 responded to the thread. Why, because some people, like me for 12 years, only came on the forum to view stuff, never really responding. I'm not a math major but based on this thread posted above just since last night, like only 18% of 10club members post on here. So when everyone was bitching about losing tickets to scalpers (still less than 1,400 on stubhub out of 42,000 plus tickets out there) they should have been connecting the dots that there are a lot of Pearl Jam fans out there that maybe just don't care to view the forum everyday. Hell I've written over 50% of my posts in the last 2 years and I've been viewing posts here since 1999. Oh and Inside Job is a fucking amazing song.
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  • ckravitzckravitz NJ Posts: 1,668
    Not to be argumentative but I have been a fairly strong complainer (haha) regarding scalpers. While your point is understood....that there are many lurkers in the PJ community.... the fact remains that thousands of tickets have sold* or are still on-sale for 3X + face value. This volume of tickets cannot be explained by PJ fans that changed their mind.



    * a month or so ago, a poster created a Stub Hub account and was able to confirm sales.
  • ckravitzckravitz NJ Posts: 1,668
    I think I just realized that you meant 10C tix didn't fall in to the hands of scalpers.... I fully agree with you about that.
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,621
    Also, stubhub is not the only source for the secondary market so just to count tickets on that site is lowballing the total by quite a bit.

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  • RE4790RE4790 Posts: 795
    Not quite sure what you are getting at but please remember that:
      -stubhub is not the only means of reselling tickets -there is no way of knowing that all or even a majority of potential secondary market tickets are currently for sale or have been sold

    Quite frankly I think the 10c did a good job trying to get as many of us tickets as possible even though we had to suffer through what are arguably the two most frustrating ticketing processes (lotto and waiting rooms).
  • front spacerfront spacer Earth Posts: 3,246
    RE4790 wrote:
    Not quite sure what you are getting at but please remember that:
      -stubhub is not the only means of reselling tickets -there is no way of knowing that all or even a majority of potential secondary market tickets are currently for sale or have been sold

    Quite frankly I think the 10c did a good job trying to get as many of us tickets as possible even though we had to suffer through what are arguably the two most frustrating ticketing processes (lotto and waiting rooms).

    This show is just that popular! Chicago in July at Wrigley is a greater draw than a weekend in East Troy in September.

    Scalpers scalp what they think they can scalp.....even everyday people that snatched up all the tickets they could and are now trying to sell for 300-400% over face.
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    Indy - 08.18.00
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    Milwaukee - 10.20.14 (The Yield Show)
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    Tampa - 04.11.16
    Lexington - 04.26.16
    Chicago - 08.20.16, 08.22.16
    Chicago - 08.18.18, 08.20.18
    Boston - 09.02.18, 09.04.18
  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,090
    Slow news day, eh? 8-)
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  • DURPDURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    Still with this?
    My butt itches!
  • CobCob Posts: 857
    If anyone know how Wrigley Field "handles" a large portion of Cubs tickets, especially when they are playing well, then they would know about the ticket "situation" for the Pearl Jam show.
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  • carly316carly316 WI Posts: 332
    Oh and Inside Job is a fucking amazing song.

    Hell fucking yeah it is!
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,136
    carly316 wrote:
    Oh and Inside Job is a fucking amazing song.

    Hell fucking yeah it is!

    fuck yeah..and Eddie explains why in the first seconds of the video..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUij90kZRUA
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  • BrianEngelBrianEngel Posts: 183
    PEARL JAM RULES!
    "Don't need a raincoat, I'm already wet!"
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