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  • Bissy77
    Bissy77 Minnesota Posts: 475
    If this is true....that is seriously disgusting. They should get more then heavily heckled. Limits needs to be put in place.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,874
    Stopped by around 12:30, line far too long to jump into. Had to grab lunch and head back to office.
    Sad that they allowed folks to snap up all the pennants, pins. cards etc. with no limits.
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  • Rossum20
    Rossum20 Posts: 910
    edited August 2016
    pjalive21 said:

    Rossum20 said:

    Every time I hold out a sliver of hope that the 10c can handle the merch in a fair way (limiting purchases or actually supplying the demand), it gets worse. This time I expect everything show related to be sold out before the weekend. One less thing to worry about I guess -- silver lining!!

    10C tries to do a good thing by setting up shop early and then greed kicks in by those who purchase the items

    Right. But the question then is, how do you best curtail the greed? I would think limiting the posters to 1 (along with all show/weekend specific merch) would be a start. Selling the merch outside the venue encourages greed. Hell, fans are paying people to wait in line for them or getting groups together to go. Someone said someone had their grandparents in line today -- there was a Craigslist add for someone looking to hire people to wait in line to buy posters.

    Selling outside in advance cuts too many fans out of the equation. Even if I lived in Boston, I couldn't afford to take a day off of work to buy merch, and that is the case with most local fans as well I'm sure. Sell everything inside -- force people to carry what they want to buy, or don't buy it. Or sell them in advance to at least the 10c ticket holders. They did wristbands for 1 tour -- it was perfect! Didn't have to waste my show day in lines, and picked up a poster on my way out. I believe that was MSG 08. Selling merch 4 days in advance so when a large majority of the fans show up for the actual show, they can't buy any of the cool, show specific items. That's a good and fair way to do it? I don't think so. I lined up over an hour before gates at MSG, had to sprint to even have a shot at the poster -- I was 8th in line and they sold out by the 16th person. There was NEVER that limited of supply inside the venue for a show before they started to sell outside the venue. There were lines, posters sold out, but if you got there within 30 minutes of the gates opening, you could get one without having to trample a fellow fan.

    I agree that 10c is trying to do a good thing for their members (at least I would hope!), but it baffles me that this is the best way. I guess they just don't want lines forming in the venues or something, or people lining up before the show. I don't know. In the end it's about the music, so it won't ruin my time, but I love getting a poster for a show I go to.
  • JP218404
    JP218404 NJ Posts: 1,412
    This is not the person buying fault. They are being allowed to do that. It's the merch people's fault. And yes no business buying up the whole
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  • jerparker20
    jerparker20 St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,529
    Just say no to merchmania!
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Poncier said:

    Stopped by around 12:30, line far too long to jump into. Had to grab lunch and head back to office.
    Sad that they allowed folks to snap up all the pennants, pins. cards etc. with no limits.

    Ha! I did the same thing. We should've had lunch together!

    I peeked in the window at that time and saw that there were only two Steve Thomas posters left and maybe ten of each of the others.
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  • Pearlybaker
    Pearlybaker Posts: 217
    Don't believe some of the updates - I was in the #60s and able to get patches, stickers, buttons, posters - I think a couple sizes might have sold out on some stuff like 2XL sweatshirts but most things seemed still in stock.
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  • weinerdog
    weinerdog Posts: 54
    It's absolute idiocy. They know full well this will happen, yet they can't be bothered with setting limits or (better yet) putting up preorders so that EVERYONE can get what they want while they still make a killing. I guess if everyone got something it would actually devalue much of this merch which apparently isn't acceptable.
  • RP112579
    RP112579 Tinley Park, IL Posts: 3,388
    Maybe the people in front were just fulfilling the requests of all the people in this forum begging for shit?
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  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,564
    RP112579 said:

    Maybe the people in front were just fulfilling the requests of all the people in this forum begging for shit?

    Probably
  • Jay1187
    Jay1187 Wakefield, MA Posts: 130
    edited August 2016
    So I'm going to both shows all I want to do is pick up the baseball style shirt and a hat. Will I have a problem getting either of those in Fenway?

    I really though there wouldn't be too much of a rush today. I work in south Boston and thought about going over during my lunch break, I'm glad I didn't. Really shitty how they let those people basically buy everything up right away.
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  • droptheleash9
    droptheleash9 Posts: 1,468
    RP112579 said:

    Maybe the people in front were just fulfilling the requests of all the people in this forum begging for shit?

    This is true as well. Lots of people who aren't even going to the show either.

    I digress, there's got to be a better way.
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    RP112579 said:

    Maybe the people in front were just fulfilling the requests of all the people in this forum begging for shit?

    LOL, thats true too. All the threads with, "can you pick me up item XYZ while youre in line and I'l give you A"
    That stuff adds up too and is another form of fucking over others.
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  • RP112579
    RP112579 Tinley Park, IL Posts: 3,388
    Dr. Delight said:

    RP112579 said:

    Maybe the people in front were just fulfilling the requests of all the people in this forum begging for shit?

    LOL, thats true too. All the threads with, "can you pick me up item XYZ while youre in line and I'l give you A"
    That stuff adds up too and is another form of fucking over others.
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,998
    I totally forgot this stuff went on Sale today. I thought people were joking with the line statuses :lol:
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  • Redrumh2o
    Redrumh2o Boston, MA Posts: 296
    Every single item should be a limit of 2....nice and easy
  • lotsalemon
    lotsalemon Boston Posts: 2,739
    edited August 2016
    There were quite a few seasoned flippers in line. Had quite the operation running. Paying kids to sit in line, giving them orders for stuff, and holding a FAT wad of cash to hand to the kids when they ran out of money for all the shit they were buying him.

    I don't confront people very often, but I had to call this asshole out. And I''m sure he'll be there the other days as well pulling the same shit.
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  • Empty Glass
    Empty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    So glad I quit buying things that say "Pearl Jam" on them. This is crazy and I laugh, but does suck for the average person that would like a little memento of the show.
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  • Empty Glass
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    I will put in an offer of $5 for that box of cards on eBay though
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  • whoyouare72
    whoyouare72 Chicago IL Posts: 2,179
    I don't understand why they need to have the merch booths open for so many hours and days if they're just going to sell everything to the first few people in line and not put limits on stuff

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