A Balding Fan wrote:I live near Alpine, and can give 2 craps if he plays alpine.
Alpine has the rudest staff on the face of the earth (harrassing people for standing and watching a show)
Oh, let me tell you about my experience at Alpine. In 2003, I carried three lawn tickets and one pavilion ticket that I could not use to the parking lot to sell. I held them up and started walking around where people were tailgating. Very quickly, I was approached by a man who wanted to buy one of my three lawn tickets. I told him it was $42 (what I had in them with the Ticketmaster charges). He gives me $45 and tells me to keep the change. I give him the ticket, and he goes on his way.
I am standing there sorting out my money and my remaining tickets when I'm approached by a group of parrotheads dressed in grass skirts and coconut bras. They ask what I have. I tell them that I have 2 lawn tickets for $42 and one pavilion ticket for $78. He says that he wants my two lawn tickets. As he is getting his money out, a man in street clothes gets in my face and says, "I'm gonna give you one warning and one warning only. You can't sell tickets here. It's a $1000 fine." I told him that I was sorry and that I did not know that. So, I put the tickets in my pocket and walked away feeling a little P.O.'ed that I now had to eat three tickets.
I turned a corner when I heard someone whistle at me. It is the group of guys who were trying to buy my two lawn tickets when we got interupted. They have chased me down because they still want to buy my tickets. Now, I was in a horrible situation. I had a group of people who were wanting tickets really bad, I had tickets, and yet I could not sell them. At the time, I felt worse for them that I did for me: Imagine if you needed tickets and found somebody selling them at face value, but you couldn't buy them. I nodded for them to follow me. I turned a couple of corners and went and ducked behind some cars. They came up behind me, and we swapped the money and the tickets. I then inched out of there hoping that I wouldn't get caught.
So, now I had my one remaining pavilion ticket. I wanted to try to sell it, but I sure didn't want to risk getting a $1000 fine. So, I walked up to the venue, found a uniformed security guard on a horse, and asked if it was legal to sell tickets here. He said that it was fine as long as they were for no more than face value.
Interesting!
So, I held up my pavilion ticket. I had trouble selling it, and I knew I would because who sits in the pavilion alone? Anyone who is alone will go to the lawn. I finally got rid of it for $50 to a lady who wanted it just so that she could get in and go to the lawn. I had an open seat next me during the concert for dancing. I took a small loss on the ticket, but it wasn't that big of a deal.
I had a great time that night. But, to this day, I have wondered who the heck that guy was and what he was doing telling me I couldn't sell tickets there, especially when I was selling for face-which I later found out was okay. I don't know if he was misinformed of the rules, thought I was scalping, or if he was just trying to be a jerk. And, surely, he didn't overhear the guy tell me to keep the $3 change on the first ticket that I sold and interpret that as scalping.
I don't know what the deal was with him. He may not even have been a staff member and thus was trying to be a jerk. But, whatever was up with him was really odd.
I can't wait till this year although, GW and Jones Beach may be the only shows I get too.
