Toronto Scalpers are Scum

pjam
pjam Posts: 102
edited August 2009 in Given To Fly (live)
A friend of mine and I decided to take a last minute trip to toronto and try to score some tickets to the show. I set out on what was supposed to be an 8 1/2 drive from CT. Due to traffic and other delays it took about 15 hours in the car to get there. Before I go on I admit that driving 8 hours or 15 hours without tickets is not the smartest thing to do. That being said we arrived in Toronto about 4 pm friday afternoon and went to the venue. I tried from 4pm till 10pm to score tickets and the cheapest I heard of were 300 for a single lawn seat. The scalpers in Toronto are the biggest group of A__holes I have ever crossed paths with. Besides the the prices they were just idiots. They were bragging how much they made for the night. They would tell you make them an offer then insult you for only offering 3 times face value. I have seen 30 something pearl jam shows and at least another 100 non pearl jam shows and never come across people like that. I'm proud that I didn't give in to those prices since I can't afford 300 for a ticket and still enjoyed hanging out on the side of the venue with some fellow Pj fanatics that were also shut out. Like I said before I know its my fault for going that far to a show without a ticket but since I hadn't been shut out before I did not see that coming. I just wish there was a way to stick it to those scalpers.
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  • Snoopy Died For Our Sins
    Snoopy Died For Our Sins Posts: 2,608
    You can go to the 10C window and point the scalpers out to 10C staff and have them picked up by security/police...
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  • JW0422
    JW0422 Posts: 170
    hopefully they got stuck with a lot of tickets because people didn't want to pay those outrageous prices they were trying to get for the tickets, maybe they were just bull-sh-ting about how much they made, I hope that was the case!
  • guitar101
    guitar101 Sutton, ON Posts: 398
    well that makes me feel a little better about not being able to track down a ticket. we were about an hour away and almost resorted to wandering around looking for tickets from scalpers on the street but decided against it as i was recently burned at another show w/ a fake ticket. Sounds like i missed one hell of a show ...but i decided that night to join the 10c so that it wouldnt happen again.
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  • LoveBoatAdmiral
    LoveBoatAdmiral Posts: 1,191
    Snoopy Died For Our Sins wrote:
    You can go to the 10C window and point the scalpers out to 10C staff and have them picked up by security/police...

    When I went to pick up my tickets around 5 oclock, there were at least 4 scalpers standing NEXT TO the 10C table offering me 250 a ticket. I drove 12 hours to be there, so I wasn't giving them up for 2500 a ticket, but the scalpers there were aggressive and there were A LOT of them. Most of them were trying to buy tickets, not sell them, so the popularity of this show might have caught even the scalpers off guard.
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  • Zillah13
    Zillah13 Posts: 135
    They're still a bunch of BASTARDS!!!!! I was one of those people waiting in line hoping that extra tickets were going to be released. And.... nothing! Those scalpers are a bunch of Aholes!!!! They wanted anywhere between $250-$900 for lawns!!!!!! UNBLEEPINBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't afford that!!!!
    All I wanted was to go & see my favourite band..... AND I couldn't!!!!
    Scalpers need to be shot or something. It's us...... the fans who in the end get screwed!!!!!!!!!!
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  • southp
    southp Posts: 307
    One scalper offered my $1000 for my 7th row 10C seats. I kindly refused his offer... there was no chance in hell I was going to give those up!
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,865
    I agree. Walking up to the 10c tables, I was asked every 25 feet if I had extra tickets.



    I looked for extra tickets since just after they were on sale. There was a few people I wanted to get into the show. I would check ticketmaster every day, tickets were never released. I also checked the secondary market sites regularly. I have never seen a PJ show with prices for the worst seats (lawn) that high. They never lowered.... even with sclapers outside the venue. Unbelievable
  • nevmiles
    nevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    LoveBoatAdmiral wrote:
    Snoopy Died For Our Sins wrote:
    You can go to the 10C window and point the scalpers out to 10C staff and have them picked up by security/police...

    When I went to pick up my tickets around 5 oclock, there were at least 4 scalpers standing NEXT TO the 10C table offering me 250 a ticket. I drove 12 hours to be there, so I wasn't giving them up for 2500 a ticket, but the scalpers there were aggressive and there were A LOT of them. Most of them were trying to buy tickets, not sell them, so the popularity of this show might have caught even the scalpers off guard.

    Yeah, literally SECONDS after I picked up my 10C tix, there were scalpers asking if I was selling them . . . I was like hell no!
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  • guitar101
    guitar101 Sutton, ON Posts: 398
    i also checked every day on ticketmaster for the last month as well as all day the day of the show and saw no tickets released at all. very disapointing, but i guess thats what happens when you dont get tickets right away.
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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,121
    I hate scalpers in general. They are usually the biggest assholes around. They treat you like shit and could care less about that particular band or sports team- I just wish they would get a real job
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  • Horse2345
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    I don't get it, Scalping is Illegal in Ontario why don't the cops just get rid of all the scalper scum? Would be pretty easy to at least minimize it there. Here in BC its legal so you can't really do anything about it accept not buy.
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  • chico mendes
    chico mendes halifax to the max Posts: 14
    we won the lottery in section 101 row g and i know the couple behind us paid $1500 for their seats which would be fan club seats. Kinda disappointing when fan club members sell their seats.
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    i understand the hatred of scalpers i was happy that i got a ticket to the show by a great 10 club member for face vaule. so many scalpers came to me to see if i needed tickets. do what i do everytime some one asks if i have tickets say yes but tell them that there was another guy who asked me if i had extras then point to another scalper and say he needs some. it is very funny.
  • JaneNY
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    Horse2345 wrote:
    I don't get it, Scalping is Illegal in Ontario why don't the cops just get rid of all the scalper scum? Would be pretty easy to at least minimize it there. Here in BC its legal so you can't really do anything about it accept not buy.

    I would guess the reason is resources and cops can't go after every little thing. Weed is also illegal there too but plenty of that around at shows (I don't use, but I don't care if someone else does).
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  • Gary Carter
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    LukinFan wrote:
    I hate scalpers in general. They are usually the biggest assholes around. They treat you like shit and could care less about that particular band or sports team- I just wish they would get a real job

    Don't blame the scalpers, blame people buying from them. As long as a sucker buys from them, the scalpers will have jobs.
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  • liquidsilver
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    As soon as I picked my tickets up I was offered $500 for a single by a scalper...I told him "hells no, you're in the wrong place to find people willing to give up tickets"
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  • keeponrockin
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    Yeah they were all offering to buy. I wouldn't have given up my seat for $1000. Especially after hearing the EV preset!
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  • NWOntario
    NWOntario Toronto Posts: 831
    I was offered $500/ticket at the TenClub window, then between $400-$900 later on; I have no idea how many Toronto concerts I've seen, but I have never seen the scalper market like this. Also, as people have pointed out, there weren't any drops (at least that anyone here could find). That's highly unusual as well. I guess Pearl Jam really was the hottest ticket in town this summer.

    As an aside, though, a friend of mine tagged along to see if he could find a single and he found one in the 400s for $140. That seems entirely reasonable to me, especially given the inflated market. Ultimately, if you're being offered $350 to sit on the lawn (which he was), it's up to you to say no (which he did, repeatedly), just like it's up to you to say no when you're offered $1,000 cash for your fan club seats.
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  • NWOntario
    NWOntario Toronto Posts: 831
    And one more thing: you should've seen my family's reaction when they heard how much money I turned down for my TenClub tickets. It was inconceivable to them that I wouldn't have even entertained the thought of selling. ;) At the Vic, I was offered $600 for my wristband and responded (I believe) with, "I start talking at $10,000." You should've seen his reaction (don't worry, I wouldn't have sold for all the tea in China).
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  • Sean1987
    Sean1987 Posts: 24
    When I was walking around around Molson Amp I heard $250 for lawn (guessing lawn) then as we got closer to the entrance it was $350 for lawns $500 for seats where, I have no idea. So many scalpers were asking if I was selling, Not a chance in hell even if I had an extra to sell its face value to a fan not some guy trying to make a quick buck...My dad kept telling me to sell them so I could get snow tires then the next day I was watching Immagine in Cornice at the end with Neil Young's Keep on rocking in the free world cover when it finished he started it from the start...so glad i got lucky on ticketmaster :D

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