Ticket scalpers can all go die in a fire.

[Initech]

Seriously these are the most outrageous ticket prices I've ever seen (cant believe I missed the on sale for these):

http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=nine+inch+nails+tickets+los+angeles&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

:yoiks:

[HopeHoops]

1. TicketMaster is nothing more than legal scalping.

Pissed the fuck out of me.

[Initech]

4. I will not argue that point, I agree 100%.

[Captain Hilts]

18. They're really turned me off going to concerts. It's been years now. nt

[MrSlayer]

2. Who knew they were still popular enough to command that kind of price?

The NIN/Jane's Addiction show didn't even sell out here let alone have people charging ludicrous amounts of money for GA tickets.

[Initech]

3. These are the last four final NIN shows. I'm pissed I missed out on the pre-sale.

[MrSlayer]

5. That sucks.

The pre-sales are practically the only way to get tickets for anything anymore. The agencies buy them all up when they go on sale to the GP. It's bullshit.

[Initech]

7. If I ever ran for office, my sole mission would be to put these places out of business.

Or at least force them to change their business practices. It's not fair to the ticket buyers. They buy the tickets then charge 1200% of the face value plus convenience fees and all that shit. It's like the oil industry - you cant give me supply and demand crap, this is plain fucking gouging, pure and simple.

[MrSlayer]

9. It is. And the sports teams collude with them now as well.

If you aren't a season ticket holder, you aren't getting tickets except off of those agencies.

[Initech]

10. Stub Hub can join those fuckers. They're no better than any of them.

[MrSlayer]

13. They and their ilk are the main culprits.

Stub Hub, Razor Gator and the rest all have deals with the major sports leagues and concert arenas.

[suninvited]

6. I know what you mean

I have looked for tickets to sold out events, and they are just ridicules. Is it still illegal to scalp tickets? If so, why does Ebay allow it?

[Initech]

8. I'm surprised eBay does allow it.

I asked a cop about scalping once and what they said is that it's not technically illegal if they only charge for face value. It's when they charge double or triple face value that they have a problem. And that's not even on the venue grounds. So I guess that eBay's prices sort of fall under these guidelines but eh it just really pisses me off that they can get away with charging that much.

[suninvited]

11. It made me mad, too

I was trying to buy my father tickets to see Jerry Seinfeld. The prices were more than 3 times the original price.

[NeoProtege]

12. Wow

Just nuts

[Initech]

20. That's an understatement.

[dana_b]

14. what is insane is that they probably won't sell most of them

$1,499 for one ticket?! hahahahahahaha - I hope they choke on it.

I hate scalpers too. I've been shut out of many concerts because of the bastards and then find out the tickets are at least three times or more than the original price on eBay. Too bad some people still patronize them.

[Initech]

19. Seriously, who the fuck can afford that?

Even A-list celebrities are feeling the econo-crunch. $1499 for a concert ticket is fucking ludicrous.

[GaYellowDawg]

15. I hate scalpers, too.

I have managed to screw one over. I was going to a football game and got there about 3 minutes into the first quarter. I held up one finger and a scalper came up to me and asked for face value (at the time, $29). I told him I'd give him $5. He said, "I'll eat this ticket before I sell it to you for $5." I said, "Hope it tastes good" and started walking. I got about 4 paces and "wait! wait! Damn, man, you KILLIN' me!" I got the ticket for $5. But you know he'd already won with the 10 or 12 other tickets he'd sold for $40 or $50.

[gmoney]

16. Scalpers can work for you...

I'd bought tickets WEEKS in advance to see Lewis Black, and had managed to get in the first couple rows, near the center. Great seats. Bought two.

The night of the show, a couple friends decide to go along... it wasn't sold out, so they figured they'd get last row balcony or something. My guest and I go in, feeling a little smug about the great seats. About 5 minutes before the show started, my other friends come down and sit in the very row right behind us, with tickets they'd gotten for face value from a scalper. They'd actually ended up paying LESS because they'd avoided Ticketbastard charges.

That was also the show were Lewis came out with his fly undone... it took us a while to notice and agree, yeah, it's open... probably 45 minutes into the act, there was some sort of prompt or pause where someone in the audience said "your fly is open" and he was just mortified. Said that was like every performer's nightmare come true, and us bastards hadn't said anything for all that time.

[AlecBGreen]

17. lol

"Ticketbastard"

Thats what I call em

I love seeing scalpers lose their shirt

[Initech]

21. Next time I go to a game...

Remind me to take a picture of the guy holding a sign up that says "I HAVE TICKETS" standing directly opposite the guy with the sign saying "I NEED TICKETS". :rofl:

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. Scalpers Die in a Fire?

You could sell tickets!

[haele]

23. We were a little late getting an official Comic-Con 4 day pass for the kidlet

Due to previous years of $500 ticket scalpers and other problems of faked tickets and overselling, they're now only allowing online purchases with a bar-code to be sent to a residence that can only be turned in for a ticket on opening day. Max of 2 adult tickets and 4 kids tickets per purchaser to try to keep people from scalping. No refunds were originally allowed, nor were you allowed to "sell" your ticket to someone else.
Needless to say, all the tickets were sold out within the first two weeks back in February. One month ago, the convention started allowing people to "release" tickets back to Comic Con organization, and they were auctioning the returns on e-bay from the only official seller for face price - $85.

We waited for the last auction and bought ours (6 tries) at the very last auction for the 4-day tickets, tonight - and the 20 or so 4-day tickets were sold out within 8 minutes. Since we live in San Diego, our barcode voucher should be here tomorrow or Wednesday, just in time for the bonus premier night opening.
Checking Craigslist, the 4-day passes that might be legit (as in, they meet you there and hand you the ticket at the counter before you hand them the cash) are going for around $300. And even then, the chances of them being legitimate are probably only 40%.
I guess if you're a geek who wanted spending money, buying a couple extra passes and selling them at the counter for just over twice face might be okay, but those who are selling them for over four times the face value - that's more than a bit scummy.

So after all the headache (because we did promise these tickets back in Feb and didn't jump on them when they became available), the kidlet finally has her ticket. And she didn't waste three or four times her money on a potential fake.

Haele