selling tickets on Ebay - thoughts?

Pegasus

dunkman wrote:

jeebus woman... have you never heard of things called jokes.. or sarcasm? :rolleyes:

how on earth would i know you were Europes biggest?

i couldnt be that serious all the time... it'd hurt my head


so you think its ok to download music illegally, robbing the artist of income, robbing the company of sales... but not ok to sell on a ticket you have legitimately bought?

according to your sig i believe you need tickets to a show.. i hope you realise those tickets are non-transferable and shouldn't be re-sold... but you'll be face price i would think? good luck with that

I know you're pulling my leg..but not sure someone else would.

if I was trying to annoy people all the time I'd get a headache too :rolleyes:

EagleEar

PJ is in high demand. Brokers jack up the prices because people pay them. More power to 'em. If you are going to whine about it, go like a band that sucks. Brokers aren't flipping Journey tickets for 400 bucks. Or, get a better job. Or don't have kids. Buy a cheaper car. Live in a cheaper place. Make choices that allow you to pay what the market demands for PJ tickets.

Whatever you do, stop whining. If you were all my kids I'd slap you. Of course, I don't have kids, which means I can afford to buy scalped concert tickets.

jamie uk

This is a bollocking fuck pants of an occupation, and I'll never stop telling of that.

MF'S scooping tickets for resale on EBAY is a cancer, every snotty little wanker with a computer thinks they're a clever sod now they but up tickets and resell them...it pisses me off to the point where by I could drive to their house and piss on their kids corn flakes.
It's driving up the box office prices as we speak, it sure is.
And also I find it just completely immorral, and opportunist, and to be frank...the occupation of cunts and wankers.
Anyone who does it please send me your address, so I can come to your house and empty my bowells into your mothers ashes, and punch you square in the fucking eye!

Red_Dot

brianwp wrote:

One guy selling his extra tix and making a few bucks = not so bad
Scalper making a living off of screwing fans who can't get tix = scumbag

Well said!

jamie uk

EagleEar wrote:

PJ is in high demand. Brokers jack up the prices because people pay them. More power to 'em. If you are going to whine about it, go like a band that sucks. Brokers aren't flipping Journey tickets for 400 bucks. Or, get a better job. Or don't have kids. Buy a cheaper car. Live in a cheaper place. Make choices that allow you to pay what the market demands for PJ tickets.

Whatever you do, stop whining. If you were all my kids I'd slap you. Of course, I don't have kids, which means I can afford to buy scalped concert tickets.

Here's an idea piss pants, how about you leave the tickets where thay are, and when people who want to see the band in question come along...they can simply buy them from the box office for the original price, and not from some squallid little go between, sheister, opportunisic, cowardly little twat who wants to make a quick buck ? Brokers, My arse!!
Sound like a plan?
Bring on the slap buddy.....please do, be my pleasure.

Pegasus

jamie uk wrote:

This is a bollocking fuck pants of an occupation, and I'll never stop telling of that.

MF'S scooping tickets for resale on EBAY is a cancer, every snotty little wanker with a computer thinks they're a clever sod now they but up tickets and resell them...it pisses me off to the point where by I could drive to their house and piss on their kids corn flakes.
It's driving up the box office prices as we speak, it sure is.
And also I find it just completely immorral, and opportunist, and to be frank...the occupation of cunts and wankers.
Anyone who does it please send me your address, so I can come to your house and empty my bowells into your mothers ashes, and punch you square in the fucking eye!

way to go Jamie!

dunkman

Pegasus wrote:

I know you're pulling my leg..but not sure someone else would.

if I was trying to annoy people all the time I'd get a headache too :rolleyes:

you missed my other ponts

so you think its ok to download music illegally, robbing the artist of income, robbing the company of sales... but not ok to sell on a ticket you have legitimately bought?

according to your sig i believe you need tickets to a show.. i hope you realise those tickets are non-transferable and shouldn't be re-sold...

EagleEar

jamie uk wrote:

Here's an idea piss pants, how about you leave the tickets where thay are, and when people who want to see the band in question come along...they can simply buy them from the box office for the original price, and not from some squallid little go between, sheister, opportunisic, cowardly little twat who wants to make a quick buck ? Brokers, My arse!!
Sound like a plan?
Bring on the slap buddy.....please do, be my pleasure.

Nope, no dice. Quit whining.

Cowardly is hiding behind a computer and slinging insults.

It's supply and demand. The free markey economy is a wonderful device.

jamie uk

dunkman wrote:

you missed my other ponts

so you think its ok to download music illegally, robbing the artist of income, robbing the company of sales... but not ok to sell on a ticket you have legitimately bought?

according to your sig i believe you need tickets to a show.. i hope you realise those tickets are non-transferable and shouldn't be re-sold...

How can you relate down loading music to re-selling tickets sir? fair enough resell a ticket for a legit reason, but surely you get how much of a problem this bull shit is becoming?
File sharing...well, that's another debate, but these low lifes who hang around the ticket sites with their computers, waiting for 'on sales' then extort money, as some sort of glorified ticket agent...well, fuck me! It stinks! And you should all realise this, and wake up.
Let's be honest, these arseholes haven't got the knackers to be a proper ticket 'tout' or 'scalper', hang around a venue, take their chances.......they're taking the easy option, and it's becoming a problem cos it's too easy, and there's too many of them.
I'll personally kick everyone of them in the nuts if I get the opportunity.

jamie uk

EagleEar wrote:

Nope, no dice. Quit whining.

Cowardly is hiding behind a computer and slinging insults.

It's supply and demand. The free markey economy is a wonderful device.

No, it aint supply and demand, it's opportunism of the lowest kind. And I'll sling all the insults you want, I put my name to them all. What's cowardly is maybe being here without even the jacobs to light up your little green dot.

It's fuck all to do with the free economy, are you a simpleton? It's an illegal practice, it's the black market for Roberts sake!

EagleEar

jamie uk wrote:

No, it aint supply and demand, it's opportunism of the lowest kind. And I'll sling all the insults you want, I put my name to them all. What's cowardly is maybe being here without even the jacobs to light up your little green dot.

It's fuck all to do with the free economy, are you a simpleton? It's an illegal practice, it's the black market for Roberts sake!

I've often wondered why that dot is red. What does it mean? I don't see anyone else with one.

EagleEar

jamie uk wrote:

No, it aint supply and demand, it's opportunism of the lowest kind. And I'll sling all the insults you want, I put my name to them all. What's cowardly is maybe being here without even the jacobs to light up your little green dot.

It's fuck all to do with the free economy, are you a simpleton? It's an illegal practice, it's the black market for Roberts sake!

I've often wondered why that dot is red. What does it mean? I don't see anyone else with one.

JOEJOEJOE

restlesssoul wrote:

lots of good points here. scalpers are scumbags.

i have this guy that i know. he created a facebook group called "vancouver concert addicts". he goes to a lot of shows. as do i. now he is straight up advertising that he has become a scalper. he bought 10 tickets to oasis and has them all up for sale on this concert addict group. thats not what the group was/is about. should i tell him to get a life?

i think we are all getting the short end of the stick when brokers and scalpers raise the market value. its such a race for tickets, we lose sight of things.

Not to sound like an econ textbook, but if there is such a big profit margin for scalpers, it means that the face value of the tickets is too low. (and no, I would not advocate a shop keeper gouging people for water after a disaster, so keep that comparison to yourself!)


In many cases, you can get tickets from scalpers for much less then face value if they have overspeculated. As long as you only do this for sold-out shows, you win, the band has won (since the show is sold-out already) and the scalper loses!

EagleEar

jamie uk wrote:

No, it aint supply and demand, it's opportunism of the lowest kind. And I'll sling all the insults you want, I put my name to them all. What's cowardly is maybe being here without even the jacobs to light up your little green dot.

It's fuck all to do with the free economy, are you a simpleton? It's an illegal practice, it's the black market for Roberts sake!

Sweet, my dot is green now. Thanks for the heads up.

I don't think you can debate that it's supply and demand. If there were no demand, the scalpers would have no motivation to act.

I would suggest you change your light to RED, since you're talking like a communist.

EagleEar

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Not to sound like an econ textbook, but if there is such a big profit margin for scalpers, it means that the face value of the tickets is too low. (and no, I would not advocate a shop keeper gouging people for water after a disaster, so keep that comparison to yourself!)


In many cases, you can get tickets from scalpers for much less then face value if they have overspeculated. As long as you only do this for sold-out shows, you win, the band has won (since the show is sold-out already) and the scalper loses!

Ahhh some logic. Good points Joe.

JOEJOEJOE

EagleEar wrote:

Ahhh some logic. Good points Joe.

Thanks, I am cursed with an overactive sense of logic!

jamie uk

EagleEar wrote:

Sweet, my dot is green now. Thanks for the heads up.

I don't think you can debate that it's supply and demand. If there were no demand, the scalpers would have no motivation to act.

I would suggest you change your light to RED, since you're talking like a communist.

That's such bull crap, what is it with you guys and the communism thing? Grow up.
I'm all for trade, but this shit we're talking about isn't trade, it's extortion, it's racketeering, it's dishonest, it's theft...from buyer, from artist, from government......I can't blow about this any longer, you either act like a conciencious grown up, or you continue with the childish, naive train of thought you've been following.

jamie uk

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Not to sound like an econ textbook, but if there is such a big profit margin for scalpers, it means that the face value of the tickets is too low. (and no, I would not advocate a shop keeper gouging people for water after a disaster, so keep that comparison to yourself!)


In many cases, you can get tickets from scalpers for much less then face value if they have overspeculated. As long as you only do this for sold-out shows, you win, the band has won (since the show is sold-out already) and the scalper loses!

Oh god, you folks are full of idiotic ideas, and you slap each other on the back for it....no fucking wonder George W invaded Iraq...I despair at the intense lack of humanity that is sometimes shown by you folks, I really do...please, I will leave this thread now for fear of hearing anymore of your self indulgent, over blown cock shite.

jamie uk

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Thanks, I am cursed with an overactive sense of logic!

No, you're cursed with something else You so are.

JOEJOEJOE

jamie uk wrote:

Oh god, you folks are full of idiotic ideas, and you slap each other on the back for it....no fucking wonder George W invaded Iraq...I despair at the intense lack of humanity that is sometimes shown by you folks, I really do...please, I will leave this thread now for fear of hearing anymore of your self indulgent, over blown cock shite.

Wow, gotta love the generalizations!

Go get drunk at the pub, spill lager on your UB40, and then come home and forget to brush your teeth!

(FYI, I love the UK...been there 3 times in the last 5 years!)