Pearl Jam Unplugged for Black Friday RSD

Yeah, I have zero desire in lining up in the cold and dark either. If I wanted something bad enough to wait for hours in a line, I’m probably more willing to pay the extra $50 on eBay.

ryanphishes said:

mace1229 said:

Yeah, I have zero desire in lining up in the cold and dark either. If I wanted something bad enough to wait for hours in a line, I’m probably more willing to pay the extra $50 on eBay.

That's how most of my friends feel, and it's a big reason flippers flip.  It's a "convenience" fee to some, especially those whose time is worth more than the money.  The same friend would rather pay a lot more for his preferred seats than to take a chance in a Phish or Pearl Jam ticket lottery, and we all know it's pretty unlikely to land awesome seats with ticketmaster.  He often just uses stubhub to not deal with the hassle.  It must be nice I suppose.

When I was waiting in line for Phish posters in NYC, there were people getting paid to sit in line and hold people's places.  I think they were from a website, so there are companies making a cut on the whole thing too!

demetrios said:

ryanphishes said:

mace1229 said:

Yeah, I have zero desire in lining up in the cold and dark either. If I wanted something bad enough to wait for hours in a line, I’m probably more willing to pay the extra $50 on eBay.

That's how most of my friends feel, and it's a big reason flippers flip.  It's a "convenience" fee to some, especially those whose time is worth more than the money.  The same friend would rather pay a lot more for his preferred seats than to take a chance in a Phish or Pearl Jam ticket lottery, and we all know it's pretty unlikely to land awesome seats with ticketmaster.  He often just uses stubhub to not deal with the hassle.  It must be nice I suppose.

When I was waiting in line for Phish posters in NYC, there were people getting paid to sit in line and hold people's places.  I think they were from a website, so there are companies making a cut on the whole thing too!

It's messed up. Too bad the merch that is sold outside the venues had a tougher rule where you must show your ticket to purchase merch.

It's the excitement & joy of waiting to be there to score that item, then paying a reseller double or triple that price for the product online.

I rarely, if ever pay the flipper prices. I was just saying if given the choice I’d rather pay extra $50 than to wait in live several hours. Usually I don’t do either and go without.
This is actually the only RSD exclusive I own. This time I was able to show up after the line was gone and it was still available.
The tickets are a different story. There’s no waiting in long lines outside in the cold to join the lottery. I don’t know what hassle there is, it’s actually very easy. But if you have a high number you may get stuck with crap seats. Public sale of tickets is a bigger hassle. So in his case it isn’t about convenience, it’s about trying to get better seats. Arena shows I would stick with 10c, but after last tour I would do the public sale if I had a high number. My number is decent and I was very happy with me seats. But knew some people up in nosebleeds.

I'm still looking for this. Can't seem to find anyone who ships to US. 

I feel really bad for my local shops.  Stopped into one of them on Thursday and the owner figures “Pearl Jam Unplugged” cost him about $1500 in sales.  Not that he was going to sell that much PJ but people were not coming into his shop to get that and a couple other records that would’ve been grabbed as impulse buys.  He’s glad I was able to get a copy online but again that’s all I got.  Didn’t buy anything else from online vendor as I didn’t want record to get pulled from my cart.  So maybe that online vendor lost some sales as well?  

mcgruff10 said:

Isn't this against the spirit of record store day?  I mean a record store having an auction on eBay for a rsd exclusive?  Shouldn't record stores sell these to the public and not on eBay? I feel like stores are shooting themselves in the foot when they do something like this.  
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pearl-Jam-MTV-Unplugged-2019-Record-Store-Day-Black-Friday-RSD-Sealed-Vinyl/174113853738?hash=item2889fe912a:g:9qcAAOSwK~pd4aiU

It's a shame Record Store Day & Think Indie continue to ship RSD titles to these record stores.

Hope Ten club steps up to help get these in the hands of thankful fans instead of fair weather  entrepreneurs.
Ten club pressing needed all the flippers will re buy.All this for seven songs....

rattzey said:

CROJAM95 said:

Lot of these didn’t get to the record store shelves cause lot of these record store owners put these up on eBay to profit as much as they can

then they tell you they didn’t get any or only one or two

i didnt get one... still looking, but I’ve never paid thru the nose EVER for tix, posters, records.... not feeding these asshats 

I called my local shop here in Calgary and the owner said he had 7 and the he kept a couple for himself then he said “have you seen what these are going for on Ebay”  smh

Swell guy.

mookieblalock said:

rattzey said:

CROJAM95 said:

Lot of these didn’t get to the record store shelves cause lot of these record store owners put these up on eBay to profit as much as they can

then they tell you they didn’t get any or only one or two

i didnt get one... still looking, but I’ve never paid thru the nose EVER for tix, posters, records.... not feeding these asshats 

I called my local shop here in Calgary and the owner said he had 7 and the he kept a couple for himself then he said “have you seen what these are going for on Ebay”  smh

Swell guy.

Those "stores" and people suck, but if you keep an eye on ebay, there are usually some record stores that sell for the retail price even on ebay, probably because they're really small and don't get as much foot traffic.  If you search completed listings you'll see some.

igotid88 said:

MTV Unplugged (180g Vinyl/ Includes Download for $64.99 https://amzn.to/2LvrL1S

Doesn’t ship to Great White North