NO ticket-NO merch

elvistheking44
elvistheking44 Posts: 4,553
edited July 2013 in The Porch
If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,023
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,553
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.

    Its certainly not fair to the guy who has tickets and stood in line behind the guy who bought the last of the merch, who only bought it in hopes of trading it.....
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    No offense but life isn't fair.

    I don't condone scalping or flipping but making this post doesn't help either.
  • London Bridge
    London Bridge USA Posts: 4,733
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.

    Its certainly not fair to the guy who has tickets and stood in line behind the guy who bought the last of the merch, who only bought it in hopes of trading it.....
    You have valid point.

    In the end, people suck, and it's a dog eat dog world.
  • En La Clandestinidad
    En La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,709
    Tickets get you in...where they sell merch!!
    Formerly Brew Crew Tix
    “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
  • WEAPONX24
    WEAPONX24 Posts: 133
    Brew Crew Tix wrote:
    Tickets get you in...where they sell merch!!

    Not in this case with the pre-sale
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,963
    All this is making me think about not caring about merch at all. Its not worth the stress of waiting in lines shoving toward rhe front, worrying about resellers, wasting time, money, etc. I might just retire from any and all merch
  • En La Clandestinidad
    En La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,709
    I am thinking the exact same thing. It's all fairly useless half the time. I like posters a lot, but it's always a battle. Had a friend help out already so that's good. But it is a mess
    Formerly Brew Crew Tix
    “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,023
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.

    Its certainly not fair to the guy who has tickets and stood in line behind the guy who bought the last of the merch, who only bought it in hopes of trading it.....

    Yes it is. That person's goal is to be inside the venue and to get merch. The same goals as you. You had better luck getting tix, they had better luck getting merch. I would take tix over merch anyday.

    With that being said, good luck finding what you were looking for (for a reasonable price- hopefully face)
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,553
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.

    Would you feel the same way if I scored 15 pairs of tix to a show, you were next in line and got none? To make it worse, I then traded my tickets for equal amount of polished stones? I collect rocks as well. Fair?
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,023
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    If you are buying up merch in hopes of trading it for tickets, you are just as bad as a flipper. Flipping for money, or flipping for tickets, youre still flipping.....

    I disagree. If the items add up to the ticket price, you now have an interesting deal that is fair for both parties.

    Would you feel the same way if I scored 15 pairs of tix to a show, you were next in line and got none? To make it worse, I then traded my tickets for equal amount of polished stones? I collect rocks as well. Fair?

    This is nonsense. If I were you, I'd be happy I was going to the show and would continue looking for a poster. To each his own though. I think its fair.
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    edited July 2013
    I just went and picked up my tickets about an hour ago. The merch lines are LAUGHABLE. I remember being as obsessed with PJ merch as anyone, but standing in line in 100 degree heat is fuckin batshit crazy. Glad I grew out of that 8-)
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  • RedMosquito02
    RedMosquito02 Posts: 2,560
    Flippers everywhere, unfortunately.

    Should be one poster (of each print) per person, well. I saw so many people with 8 effin poster tubes
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