NYC Scalpers Outside The Venues

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  • edvedder913
    edvedder913 Posts: 1,810
    Get_Right wrote:
    As my wife says

    EXACTRY!


    ohhhhh my! That deserves a big HA!
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Poncier wrote:
    Brokers would just reissue tix to customers, it might help with street scalping, but wouldn't solve other forms.

    True. But at the end of the day, if you must go through a scalper and get raked over the coals, the least you should be able to do is know that your ticket is real. Scalping, as bad as it may be, is legal. Selling useless pieces of paper on the streets of Manhattan (or anywhere else) should be punishable and enforced (but good luck with that as I'm sure it's pretty low on the polices to do list).
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,031
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Scalping, as bad as it may be, is legal.
    Not everywhere yet...still a sick bird here in MA.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • NOCODE#1
    NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Do not buy from these jackoffs!!! Last night I went to the Black Crowes show at Irving Plaza!
    there's your problem :)
    Let's not be negative now. Thumper has spoken
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    Poncier wrote:
    Brokers would just reissue tix to customers, it might help with street scalping, but wouldn't solve other forms.

    but brokers don't normally rip people off by selling fakes.

    Plus, it couldn't work if you had to show ID or use your credit card to enter. The brokers would only be able to go themselves and enter if they used their credit card
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Idea for new thread
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,031
    thunderDAN wrote:
    but brokers don't normally rip people off by selling fakes.

    Plus, it couldn't work if you had to show ID or use your credit card to enter. The brokers would only be able to go themselves and enter if they used their credit card
    What about folks who line up at outlets and the box office when tix go onsale and pay cash? (It does still happen)
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Exactly!!! I paid a bit more than I wanted to for my ticket, but it was from a powerseller on ebay with 100% positive feedback. As to the people being outside a venue without a ticket, I could never do that if tickets were available by some other means. This couple last night had a sign stating that they were from Atlanta trying to score two tickets. I'm sorry, but those folks are a little too spontaneous for my liking. Who the hell travels over a 1000 miles without a ticket?!?
    you realise that the guys outside the venues are also the powersellers on ebay?
    there was fake/stolen tickets at the Astoria as well.
    They would have been at the Vic if it hadn't been for the 10c system which made it impossible..though I heard of fake wristbands.

    the only reason I hate the front of venue scalpers even more than the internet ones is that they intimidate, even threaten, the people that try to sell at face to a normal person...I'm going to end up in a fight with them someday..
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Who the hell travels over a 1000 miles without a ticket?!?

    Did you forget where you are?
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    NOCODE#1 wrote:
    there's your problem :)

    HAHA :D
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"

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