Posted By Mr. Scott
Hello Anon 168.143.220.130! - My fin is up in a salute to you!! You did not put anyone down while making your comments, unlike well duh and LIPH.
I will stand by my original statement: "How bad do YOU want to see Jimmy Buffett?"
I MISSED OUT...THANKS TICKETMASTER!!!
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Posted By Mr. Scott
LIPH - I don't want to fight with you or anyone else here. I just thought your comment about patting himself on the back and getting a sore arm doing it, wasn't exactly a compliment. Hey, no big deal. Actually sometimes I am a little thin-skinned. Fins up to you up there in Long Island. I'm gonna go watch the Oscars, but I'll check back.
LIPH - I don't want to fight with you or anyone else here. I just thought your comment about patting himself on the back and getting a sore arm doing it, wasn't exactly a compliment. Hey, no big deal. Actually sometimes I am a little thin-skinned. Fins up to you up there in Long Island. I'm gonna go watch the Oscars, but I'll check back.
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Posted By GABuffettFan Buffy
Mr. Scott - It seems as if you love to start something and then end up by aplogizing every single time. If you have ever read my posts, I try to be a moderate. To see both sides and to try not to be mean to anyone. Yet you have used my screen name in a deameaning fashion, have sent a rude email to a woman who is battling breast cancer the second time around and been a general pain in the butt. And each time you apologize or say that you were drunk. I genuinely feel sorry for you. Most of the people here are great and I have had the joyful opportunity to meet many of them and hope to meet many more in the months to come. I have tired being nice to you in the past, and all I got was my screen name smeared in your return email address. I don't know what else to do but encourage people to ignore you.
LIPH - don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed person......
Mr. Scott - It seems as if you love to start something and then end up by aplogizing every single time. If you have ever read my posts, I try to be a moderate. To see both sides and to try not to be mean to anyone. Yet you have used my screen name in a deameaning fashion, have sent a rude email to a woman who is battling breast cancer the second time around and been a general pain in the butt. And each time you apologize or say that you were drunk. I genuinely feel sorry for you. Most of the people here are great and I have had the joyful opportunity to meet many of them and hope to meet many more in the months to come. I have tired being nice to you in the past, and all I got was my screen name smeared in your return email address. I don't know what else to do but encourage people to ignore you.
LIPH - don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed person......
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Posted By Mr. Scott
Hello Buffy - I didn't apologize to LIPH about anything, just admitted that I can be thin-skinned sometimes. And there goes another put down. Maybe THATS why I smeared your screen name. We can still be friends, that's totally up to you. But when I see people getting put downs on here, I'm gonna step up to the plate.
Hello Buffy - I didn't apologize to LIPH about anything, just admitted that I can be thin-skinned sometimes. And there goes another put down. Maybe THATS why I smeared your screen name. We can still be friends, that's totally up to you. But when I see people getting put downs on here, I'm gonna step up to the plate.
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Posted By Anonymous
Mr. Scott - Thanks for the kind words. I've read many of your posts and agree w/ 98% of your views. I'll try never to get personal when I might disagree w/ someone's views. I think everyone posting here on these boards believes that they are a "real fan", although I disagree with most of their views regarding ticket brokering. I am more amused than anything else when I read the posts from those who blame everyone but themselves for being shutout in the ticket game. The answer to your question "How badly do you want to see the show?" has to be "Not bad enough to work a little harder".
Tickets are always available to those who work hard, do their homework, prepare and most important invest the time to be in the front of the lines. This takes longer each year. If Jimmy keeps touring, keeps gaining new fans, and keeps cutting down on the number of shows, expect it to get even harder. Someday maybe I'll have to camp out for 2 or 3 days before tickets go on sale. Who knows? I've been playng the ticket game for years, and have never been shut out in 23 years of Buffett shows.
By the way, the location where I by my tickets ( a secret I'll keep for now), is an A-1 operation. They did not do a lottery, and acknowledge and respect the list maintained by the first in in line (this year myself). The take advance preorders from everyone in line, so that when the tickets go on sale, they are franticly (sp?) pulling tickets as soon as they are available. They don't stop until the show is sold out (about 20 minutes). Only then do they begin collecting money from everyone.
The first 7 people on the list I maintained got pavilion seats. The first 50 people on the list got tickets, and most wanted the 6 limit maximum. So even the few people who put VERY little effort into it, i.e. showing up only about 2 hours before the onsale time of 10:00am got tickets.
I was well rewarded for my research and efforts (yes - patting myself on the back here) and managed to snare 2 tickets in the front row at Nissan. I know, there was luck involved here too, but hey, you create your own luck sometimes.
And the 50 plus people at the location I was at were also well rewarded for their efforts.
Mr. Scott - Thanks for the kind words. I've read many of your posts and agree w/ 98% of your views. I'll try never to get personal when I might disagree w/ someone's views. I think everyone posting here on these boards believes that they are a "real fan", although I disagree with most of their views regarding ticket brokering. I am more amused than anything else when I read the posts from those who blame everyone but themselves for being shutout in the ticket game. The answer to your question "How badly do you want to see the show?" has to be "Not bad enough to work a little harder".
Tickets are always available to those who work hard, do their homework, prepare and most important invest the time to be in the front of the lines. This takes longer each year. If Jimmy keeps touring, keeps gaining new fans, and keeps cutting down on the number of shows, expect it to get even harder. Someday maybe I'll have to camp out for 2 or 3 days before tickets go on sale. Who knows? I've been playng the ticket game for years, and have never been shut out in 23 years of Buffett shows.
By the way, the location where I by my tickets ( a secret I'll keep for now), is an A-1 operation. They did not do a lottery, and acknowledge and respect the list maintained by the first in in line (this year myself). The take advance preorders from everyone in line, so that when the tickets go on sale, they are franticly (sp?) pulling tickets as soon as they are available. They don't stop until the show is sold out (about 20 minutes). Only then do they begin collecting money from everyone.
The first 7 people on the list I maintained got pavilion seats. The first 50 people on the list got tickets, and most wanted the 6 limit maximum. So even the few people who put VERY little effort into it, i.e. showing up only about 2 hours before the onsale time of 10:00am got tickets.
I was well rewarded for my research and efforts (yes - patting myself on the back here) and managed to snare 2 tickets in the front row at Nissan. I know, there was luck involved here too, but hey, you create your own luck sometimes.
And the 50 plus people at the location I was at were also well rewarded for their efforts.
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Posted By Burgh Bird
Anon- I have to agree with you on one point. The outlets that prepare well- like the ones that take pre-orders while in line, and cash only places defintely get it. That process still works even with the lottery system- it at least moves the line quicker. I went to the place I always go and have never had a problem until this year. I didn't feel that I needed to do any more research. I guess I don't go to enough concerts anymore to have to find the best way to get tickets more than once a year- so I haven't found that perfect place yet. Looks like I'll be trying somewhere else next year. Maybe all outlets should take a look at the best and most efficient way to handle high demand shows.
Anon- I have to agree with you on one point. The outlets that prepare well- like the ones that take pre-orders while in line, and cash only places defintely get it. That process still works even with the lottery system- it at least moves the line quicker. I went to the place I always go and have never had a problem until this year. I didn't feel that I needed to do any more research. I guess I don't go to enough concerts anymore to have to find the best way to get tickets more than once a year- so I haven't found that perfect place yet. Looks like I'll be trying somewhere else next year. Maybe all outlets should take a look at the best and most efficient way to handle high demand shows.
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Posted By Anonymous
hey now! so you're wondering how all those tickets were sold so quickly in such a short time? look around your favorite amphitheatre the next time you attend a concert at all of the corporate logos that are the "official____" of that venue and you will have your answer. i know that when springsteen came to our town the other summer, a large beer company had 500 tickets to each show before they were ever on sale. once you get past the corporate partners that are paying the bills for these venues that MOST acts can't sell-out, there's not much left for the fans. just look at pro sports where the low level corporate seats are empty b/c they don't use their season tickets and the nosebleed section is full of families of 4. ain't that america...
hey now! so you're wondering how all those tickets were sold so quickly in such a short time? look around your favorite amphitheatre the next time you attend a concert at all of the corporate logos that are the "official____" of that venue and you will have your answer. i know that when springsteen came to our town the other summer, a large beer company had 500 tickets to each show before they were ever on sale. once you get past the corporate partners that are paying the bills for these venues that MOST acts can't sell-out, there's not much left for the fans. just look at pro sports where the low level corporate seats are empty b/c they don't use their season tickets and the nosebleed section is full of families of 4. ain't that america...
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