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This fat f**k is the reason you couldn't get EV or PJ tickets!

WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,189
edited May 2008 in Given To Fly (live)
Notice how he won't even look at the camera or the interviewer! Nice haircut, too.

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3394568&categoryId=3060647&n8pe6c=2
If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Two BirdsTwo Birds Posts: 256
    What a rip=off...yes that guy looks like a complete pervert....free enterprise my A....
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  • i am a targeti am a target Posts: 808
    compared to what ticketmaster is considering doing i think scalping isn't that bad of a way to go.

    from what i understand for all major events will turn into auction based buying. thus the market will dictate how much a certain show is worth. it's going to be that way for sporting events soon from what i've read. ticketmaster is bullshit.
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,172
    theyre taking advantage of free market capitalism... anyone can do it.

    edit: now i see the automatic buying part- thats BULLSHIT!

    i thought it was just people buying some tix and then re-selling them- not in mass amounts like they actually are.
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  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    amazing
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    bastard, someone make sure you spit in his face if you see him
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    yeah, and who would have thought that ticket master would turn into the halfway decent good guy? i mean, at this point they are just trying to get in on the deal. but like the dude from ticket master said, they would rather not deal with automated brokers.
    take that for what its worth, but hell, at least TM is feeling our pain a bit.

    its all a scam.

    fuckers indeed.
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    I always thought they had the software beat the thing where you had to type in the names. People in India!
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  • SpreadtheJAMSpreadtheJAM Posts: 344
    Wow, thats cool. Wouldn't be so mad if you came up with it.
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  • et21et21 Posts: 112
    Thank god PJ's fan club has ways to keep that from happening to as large as an extent for fan club tickets.

    But this pissed me off. If only we could go back to having to wait in line. I'd go back just for this reason.
    I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    SpreadtheJAM wrote:
    Wow, thats cool. Wouldn't be so mad if you came up with it.


    you think its cool?
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,189
    meistereder wrote:
    I always thought they had the software beat the thing where you had to type in the names. People in India!
    Yeah, I still don't quite get the "people in India" part, but I know that's why I didn't have a chance for EV on Ticketmaster.

    So, I had to use TM's subsidiary, Stubhub :mad:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • boomhauerboomhauer Posts: 88
    meistereder wrote:
    I always thought they had the software beat the thing where you had to type in the names. People in India!
    that'd be nice... once they do figure that out, SPAM will finally go down, as thats now most of the spam is delivered these days.
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  • londonwprlondonwpr Posts: 293
    I bet you this dude pulls in tons of poo-nock...

    This story makes me sick...
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    londonwpr wrote:
    I bet you this dude pulls in tons of poo-nock...

    This story makes me sick...

    me too.
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    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
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  • londonwprlondonwpr Posts: 293
    the wolf wrote:
    me too.

    There are certain things I love about this country and other things I hate about it. This is definitely one of the things I hate. Some piece of sh*t profiting off of something he could care less about.
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  • samnationsamnation Los Angeles, CA Posts: 277
    This is another fine example of profit-motive ruining another experience. Free markets and capitalism are one thing, but now we're in a state of hyper-capitalism that is not bound by any sense of right and wrong. The profit-motive has attained almost religious-like status for people and the destructive force it's reaping on the world is everywhere. What should be a simple evening out to go to an event gets twisted into schemes and scams that frankly most Americans can no longer afford. And it further widens the gap between haves and have-nots. I'm all for free markets and letting the consumer decide where to spend their money, but it's all out-of-control and putting us all on a path of self-destruction.

    The scalper programmer dude is messed up, but Ticketmaster is almost worse because of their blatant hypocrisy. They do not care AT ALL about the consumer and "fans." They are a huge corporation that is only interested in the bottom line, like Sony and all the rest. I would not be surprised if they made a bid to buy the scalping programmer's company and fold it into their service. As someone pointed out, they already have their own scalping scam going on with TicketExchange - a blatant, no apologies, officially-endorsed scalping operation that takes a cut of all the marked-up rip-off tickets. The only difference between them and the scalping programmer is who makes the profit, plain and simple. Make no mistake, Ticketmaster has absolutely no problem selling you a $3000 concert ticket, as long as they get their cut. They won't knock the price back to $50 "for the fans."

    Thankfully Pearl Jam doesn't believe in the ugly profiteering that Ticketmaster flaunts. Fans of other artists are not so lucky. Madonna not only charges $350 for the good seats at her shows, she has just struck a deal with Stub Hub to get a cut of all the resold tickets from her 2008 tour! How greedy can you get!? On the one hand an artist should get a cut of the ticket price and not shut out, but on the other hand it is just blatant exploitation and gouging your fans.
    Sam
  • guacamolejoeguacamolejoe Posts: 2,396
    If only we could go back to having to wait in line. I'd go back just for this reason.[/quote]

    The scalpers in NY use to pay the homeless to sleep on line for them. There are always ways to beat the system.
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  • samnationsamnation Los Angeles, CA Posts: 277
    hobbes wrote:
    compared to what ticketmaster is considering doing i think scalping isn't that bad of a way to go.

    from what i understand for all major events will turn into auction based buying. thus the market will dictate how much a certain show is worth. it's going to be that way for sporting events soon from what i've read. ticketmaster is bullshit.

    I get what you're saying about the market deciding the price. But the problem with that is it shuts out people with lower incomes. The price gets dictated by whoever has got the most money to blow. Meanwhile the person working a job making $8/hr and has been a huge fan for 15 years gets priced out completely. Some may say "Well tough luck" but that's a sure way to have a lot of angry fans out there who are basically being told to get lost until they can give the band more money.

    It all depends on what you value more - making your music available to your entire fanbase or selling out to the highest bidder and saying "screw the fanbase."
    Sam
  • Eliot RosewaterEliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Man, that guy is such a slutbag. I have an overwhelming desire to kick him in the face.
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    the lot of them are scalping bastards! Ticketmaster included!
    even if you are lucky enough to score tickets, you seem to be paying a 20% service charge (for what????) and then inflated shipping charges!
    It is same the world over! here in australia, ticketek and ticketmaster both charge about $9 for registered post on tickets, GA tickets have to be sent registered. They charge $4 for normal post! In reality, registered post costs $2 and normal post costs 50 Cents!
    Surely they are the ones that are collecting the extra money from the Postage,
    not Australia post!
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  • NYbenbenNYbenben Posts: 1,020
    i watched this last night as well... this really pissed me off... seems like Ticketmaster really doesnt give a shit either cause they are making money on the front side as well as on the back when these fuckin scalpers are reselling tickets on TicketNow... another Ticketmaster company....

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  • kitfookitfoo Posts: 125
    I think there are a bunch of sites out there that work together. I noticed a "VIP" box #53 in section 202 at Camden is listed on Ticketsnow.com as well as Rockcitytickets.com. Makes me wonder which one actually has the ticket?
  • marker2727marker2727 Posts: 91
    I’m stunned . . . . that just makes me sick.
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    "people thought we were advanced and beat the system, we actually just hired indians from india to type really fast".

    What a fucking piece of shit. He says it so casually like he's doing good. I hope that fat fuck dies of cancer.
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  • ohbigboyohbigboy Posts: 34
    kitfoo wrote:
    I think there are a bunch of sites out there that work together. I noticed a "VIP" box #53 in section 202 at Camden is listed on Ticketsnow.com as well as Rockcitytickets.com. Makes me wonder which one actually has the ticket?

    It's the same broker just using mulitple sites... they'll remove them from the other sites as soon as they sell on one.
    Just waiting for my next show...
  • augustwestaugustwest Posts: 739
    samnation wrote:
    I get what you're saying about the market deciding the price. But the problem with that is it shuts out people with lower incomes. The price gets dictated by whoever has got the most money to blow. Meanwhile the person working a job making $8/hr and has been a huge fan for 15 years gets priced out completely. Some may say "Well tough luck" but that's a sure way to have a lot of angry fans out there who are basically being told to get lost until they can give the band more money.

    It all depends on what you value more - making your music available to your entire fanbase or selling out to the highest bidder and saying "screw the fanbase."

    Finally someone gets it !!! Thank you so much :)

    It just ain't Rock N Roll to charge any fan a $100 for a friggin rawk concert
  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    http://digg.com/software/The_reason_you_can_t_get_good_tickets_to_sports_concerts

    DUGG

    Everyone go digg it. Maybe we can get it to the front page.
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  • Fighting HellfishFighting Hellfish Posts: 3,166
    the wolf wrote:
    yeah, and who would have thought that ticket master would turn into the halfway decent good guy? i mean, at this point they are just trying to get in on the deal. but like the dude from ticket master said, they would rather not deal with automated brokers.
    take that for what its worth, but hell, at least TM is feeling our pain a bit.

    its all a scam.

    fuckers indeed.

    that's exactly what I thought. What a douche this guy must be to make TM look like the good guys. At least in comparison to him. I always just assumed TM was in bed with guys like this, giving them first crack at the tickets they want, for a markup.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,189
    Eliot Rosewater wrote:
    Man, that guy is such a slutbag. I have an overwhelming desire to kick him in the face.

    Do it!! I think they showed where he "worked."

    "Slutbag" - hehe :p
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  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    rewind to the summer of 1996 when we had to call Pearl Jam directly to get tickets. they were mailed. sure there were glitches. but it makes you appreciate the effort that went into how pearl jam tried to fight this sort of thing even without the internet.
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