scalpers

simmo

So who won the lottery? if you did then fair play,if you didnt ,well it was a lottery,
you pays your money you take your chance.(i didnt)
Now the grizzle.
A ticket firm has e-mailed me guaranteeing tickets,i called them £251 EACH.
But definate tickets,it stinks how do these companys get the tickets?
What the f#~k is going on?
How can these rip off firms justify this?
do the band know?
would any of you fellow ten clubbers pay it?
Am i alone in being pissed off?

dimitrispearljam

simmo wrote:

So who won the lottery? if you did then fair play,if you didnt ,well it was a lottery,
you pays your money you take your chance.(i didnt)
Now the grizzle.
A ticket firm has e-mailed me guaranteeing tickets,i called them £251 EACH.
But definate tickets,it stinks how do these companys get the tickets?
What the f#~k is going on?
How can these rip off firms justify this?
do the band know?
would any of you fellow ten clubbers pay it?
Am i alone in being pissed off?

for sure you are not alone on this but 10c try to do the best.10c cant take all the tickets of the house.alot of companys always are in in concert,not just one

benjs

dimitrispearljam wrote:

simmo wrote:

So who won the lottery? if you did then fair play,if you didnt ,well it was a lottery,
you pays your money you take your chance.(i didnt)
Now the grizzle.
A ticket firm has e-mailed me guaranteeing tickets,i called them £251 EACH.
But definate tickets,it stinks how do these companys get the tickets?
What the f#~k is going on?
How can these rip off firms justify this?
do the band know?
would any of you fellow ten clubbers pay it?
Am i alone in being pissed off?

for sure you are not alone on this but 10c try to do the best.10c cant take all the tickets of the house.alot of companys always are in in concert,not just one

+1. I don't think you can find one person on here who isn't dead-set against this practice which is so damn wrong.

Get_Right

^ got it right

the 10C does what it can, but there still people with access to tickets whose sole intent is to scalp.

its the second oldest profession

Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid-1800s, scalpers, known as "sidewalk men," were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariahs and public opinion was against the practice, legal attempts to limit their activities were far from successful. Boston enacted laws as early as 1873, while Pennsylvania followed suit in 1884. Still, such measures did little good since some laws were declared unconstitutional and, for the ones that were upheld, the fines were negligible with jail time rarely served. Over the years, as moral objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as the practice became increasingly prevalent. By the 1990s, the capitalist mantras of free market and economic principles of supply and demand were even being used to justify the practice. This volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise, from performances by Jenny Lind to Billy Joel. Scalping, slowly gaining a more positive status, has become more accepted as part of the economic practice of free markets-unfortunately, its just not that important to legislators, especially in these times!!


But I blame the internet. When scalpers had to work the streets, the hoarding of tickets wasn't as bad.