Enoughs enough with these prices

stingray · Post by **stingray** » March 17, 2008 5:36 pm

Ok I know theres alot on this topic, but I just saw on Stub-Hub 4th row seats to tha Saturday Mansfield show for FIVE Grand a piece!!

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » March 17, 2008 5:40 pm

stingray wrote:Ok I know theres alot on this topic, but I just saw on Stub-Hub 4th row seats to tha Saturday Mansfield show for FIVE Grand a piece!!

they won't get 5K apiece and if by chance they do, shame on the person who bought them....

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » March 17, 2008 5:46 pm

Are you kidding? Shame on any seller who would turn down $5,000/ticket. If I had two fourth row seats and was offered $10k for the pair I would personally deliver the tickets along with a gift bottle of tequila, compliments of the seller.

~~~~~ surfpirate

TommyBahama · Post by **TommyBahama** » March 17, 2008 5:54 pm

THERE ARE TICKETS POSTED FOR 11,000 AT ALPINE...OH!!! AND THAT IS A LAWN SEAT!!

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » March 17, 2008 5:55 pm

Some people have more money than brains.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » March 17, 2008 5:59 pm

LIPH wrote:Some people have more money than brains.

"same old story, more dollars than sense"...

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » March 17, 2008 6:00 pm

LIPH wrote:Some people have more money than brains.

Bummer. Why aren't any of those people my friends? My friends are all brainy and broke.

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » March 17, 2008 6:01 pm

surfpirate wrote:
LIPH wrote:Some people have more money than brains.
Bummer. Why aren't any of those people my friends? My friends are all brainy and broke.

The rich people are all too busy blowing their money on hookers.

Travis McGee · Post by **Travis McGee** » March 17, 2008 6:31 pm

If I have lots of money, isn't it my business what I do with it?
I don't understand how some people can gripe about not getting tickets, and then hammer someone who spends a ridiculous sum of money for tickets.
We just bought 4 tickets for Nissan for over $600.00
and that was the going rate. That seems pretty high to me, but you do what you have to do or want to do.

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » March 17, 2008 7:17 pm

Travis McGee wrote:If I have lots of money, isn't it my business what I do with it?
I don't understand how some people can gripe about not getting tickets, and then hammer someone who spends a ridiculous sum of money for tickets.
We just bought 4 tickets for Nissan for over $600.00
and that was the going rate. That seems pretty high to me, but you do what you have to do or want to do.

No. You have it all wrong. "Real fans" deserve the tickets:
1) cheap
2) with little or no effort to obtain

Or at least that's how I understand it. There are apparently exactly the number of real fans as there are seats in each venue so if we take brokers and rich stupid b@st@rds out of the equation, Ticketmaster phone lines will never be busy and every real fan will easily get a seat.

Or something like that. Let me go back and re-read a few dozen threads dedicated to this subject and I'll get back to you.

PackerPhan · Post by **PackerPhan** » March 17, 2008 8:07 pm

surfpirate wrote:
Travis McGee wrote:If I have lots of money, isn't it my business what I do with it?
I don't understand how some people can gripe about not getting tickets, and then hammer someone who spends a ridiculous sum of money for tickets.
We just bought 4 tickets for Nissan for over $600.00
and that was the going rate. That seems pretty high to me, but you do what you have to do or want to do.
No. You have it all wrong. "Real fans" deserve the tickets:
1) cheap
2) with little or no effort to obtain

Or at least that's how I understand it. There are apparently exactly the number of real fans as there are seats in each venue so if we take brokers and rich stupid b@st@rds out of the equation, Ticketmaster phone lines will never be busy and every real fan will easily get a seat.

Or something like that. Let me go back and re-read a few dozen threads dedicated to this subject and I'll get back to you.

I feel the same way. I got screwed by Ticketmaster a few years ago and didn't get tickets to Alpine. So I went on Ebay got two I needed and obviously paid more for them. Now I know I didn't buy them from a "real fan" as they were shipped from New Jersey for a show in Wisconsin but someone just looking to make a quick buck knowing someone like me who wanted to go more than anything would be stupid enough to them and pay more for a ticket and make them happy. I went to the show, and they made a profit, so everyone was happy.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » March 17, 2008 8:30 pm

if I remove emotional attachment (I WANT TO GO TO THE BUFFETT CONCERT!!!) and look at scalping as a business, I still don't like it, but I understand it.

Think of a group you REALLY don't want to see, but their tickets go like hotcakes. Hannah Montana, for instance. If I came into possession of Hannah Montana tickets, would I sell them on ebay over face? Wellll.... No... But I have to actually think about it. With JB tickets I'll simply sell them at face, probably to someone I know, without even considering making a buck.

Take out the emotion and it's far easier to see how someone is making a buck scalping tickets, without thinking much of it.

surfpirate · Post by **surfpirate** » March 17, 2008 8:35 pm

PackerPhan wrote:
surfpirate wrote:
Travis McGee wrote:If I have lots of money, isn't it my business what I do with it?
I don't understand how some people can gripe about not getting tickets, and then hammer someone who spends a ridiculous sum of money for tickets.
We just bought 4 tickets for Nissan for over $600.00
and that was the going rate. That seems pretty high to me, but you do what you have to do or want to do.
No. You have it all wrong. "Real fans" deserve the tickets:
1) cheap
2) with little or no effort to obtain

Or at least that's how I understand it. There are apparently exactly the number of real fans as there are seats in each venue so if we take brokers and rich stupid b@st@rds out of the equation, Ticketmaster phone lines will never be busy and every real fan will easily get a seat.

Or something like that. Let me go back and re-read a few dozen threads dedicated to this subject and I'll get back to you.
I feel the same way. I got screwed by Ticketmaster a few years ago and didn't get tickets to Alpine. So I went on Ebay got two I needed and obviously paid more for them. Now I know I didn't buy them from a "real fan" as they were shipped from New Jersey for a show in Wisconsin but someone just looking to make a quick buck knowing someone like me who wanted to go more than anything would be stupid enough to them and pay more for a ticket and make them happy. I went to the show, and they made a profit, so everyone was happy.

Umm. I was being sarcastic (and apparently not very effectively).

Post by **SMLCHNG** » March 17, 2008 10:40 pm

surfpirate wrote: Umm. I was being sarcastic (and apparently not very effectively).

I got it.

moeron · Post by **moeron** » March 17, 2008 11:04 pm

$6,000??????? I would go to Mexico, give some to Planned Parenthood. $6,000?????? WTF. Some people DO have more money than brains. Darwin was right....

indymiller24 · Post by **indymiller24** » March 18, 2008 12:05 am

surfpirate wrote: Umm. I was being sarcastic (and apparently not very effectively).

wait, you aren't a "real fan"? and i'm just writing really small now to make people look really, really hard. think this makes some people mad because they can hardly read it? i bet so. anyways, amen to your post about "real fans". they remind me of the people that say "us" or "we" when referring to a basketball/football/baseball team that wins or loses. sitting in front of a TV doesn't put you on the team. nor does it make you a real fan, no matter how much you complain about ticket prices or about jimmy not playing wdwgdas anymore. and where can I buy an avatar that makes me a "real fan" too? doesn't that give me a right to complain about ticket prices, availability, color, size, etc.?

ok, i'll stop now. it's been a long st. pattys night. thanks for your great sarcasm. i would imagine it will pick up a few more who actually think you're being "fo-real".

moog · Post by **moog** » March 18, 2008 12:18 am

I'm going to the win the mega millions, buy as many tickets as I can, and resell them for 300.00-5,000 each. So there.

parrothead216 · Post by **parrothead216** » March 18, 2008 1:21 am

moog wrote:I'm going to the win the mega millions, buy as many tickets as I can, and resell them for 300.00-5,000 each. So there.

Moog, if Judy and I won the mega millions, I'd put us in the same 2 seats for every show on the tour.

When Jimmy looked out and saw us in the same 2 seats, he'd send out Charleston, to ask us why we ae stalking him!

You can dream , can't you?!

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » March 18, 2008 4:30 am

This is AMERICA, where people have the right to be stupid, act stupid, and do DAMN stupid things with their money.
If some jacka$$ somewhere wants to spend $5000.00 just to go hear someone sing, I say get out of his way and LET the idiot be stupid.
Hell, there's actually people who think I wasted MY money when I bought my S.U.V. instead of a friggin' lawnmower with doors.
That sure as hell doesn't stop me from DRIVING my Jeep Grand Cherokee V-8 that gets a whopping 14 miles per gallon.
Let people do idiotic things with their money-it's the American way. We're in a recession, and the more money these schlubs spend, the better.

That being said, the day I spend $5000.00 to hear Jimmy Buffett sing will be the day HE spends $5000.00 to watch ME write parking tickets.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » March 18, 2008 5:19 am

I am glad to live in a country where there are no ticket brokers, you can only get tickets from Ticketmaster or Ticketek etc .... and you can only sell for face value on Ebay(AU) or they get removed ........

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