Why the Gouging ?

[jacksoncsplayer]

Allright, i'm probably gonna get ripped for this one but here it goes. I was watching the news this morning and I could not beleive that scalpers bought up a shit load of Hannah Montana tickets and are selling them for ten times the face price. A 200 dollar ticket going for 2 gs and so on. Now they're stealing from Kids? WTF? When is the GREED going to end? This seems like another form of molestation, and I personally think it's wrong. I'm not a Montana fan, as a matter of fact i've never even heard of her until today, but this is just Wrong. Hang the Fuckers in a public square!

[SouthPlatteDemon]

It's capitalism. It's not a bad thing. Let supply and demand, not lynching, decide what is fair. Couldn't really be stealing if they knowingly agree to the transaction right?

[jacksoncsplayer]

It's capatalism. It's not a bad thing. Let supply and demand, not lynching, decide what is fair. Couldn't really be stealing if they knowingly agree to the transaction right?

I agree, but doing it to kids? cmon.

[Outlander]

You don't really think that it's the 8 and 10 year old kids that are coughing up the 2 to 4 grand do you? It's poor mommy and daddy!

[scotty]

I agree, but doing it to kids? cmon.

+1

[rjohnstone]

It's capatalism. It's not a bad thing. Let supply and demand, not lynching, decide what is fair. Couldn't really be stealing if they knowingly agree to the transaction right?

No... it's assholes brokers bypassing the limits on Ticket Masters websites and buying up ALL the seats before the rest of the public can get them.

Ticket Master is actually suing several major brokerages (professional scalpers) for bypassing the systems controls on the web sites.

Even the artists are starting to get pissed about it.
Mainly because they are getting a piece of the inflated resale ticket price.

I suspect a lot of those shows are going to be pretty empty as your average parent can't afford $2k for a seat.

[fett]

This pencils out to about $800 per ticket. http://cgi.ebay.com/Hannah-Montana-a...QQcmdZViewItem I wouldn't pay that price to see Jimi rise from the dead.

[442w30]

I don't know who would pay those prices, but there's an ass for every seat I suppose.

I'd rather buy a 50" plasma and a case of decent wine, beer and tequila, have a bbq joint cater the event, buy the DVD when it comes out and have a local live impersonator play the party at my house before I lay out $4000 to have me and my family see Hannah (or any band) on the front row.

[skorb]

they should just cancel these shows, refund all the regular buyers, refuse the fraud-committing brokers a refund, revise their software to block out the broker bypass hack, and reschedule all the shows with new ticket sales.

[Joe_Steeler]

Capatalism?
What the fog is that?... really.

[fett]

There has to be kickbacks somewhere somehow.

[Joe_Steeler]

There has to be kickbacks somewhere somehow.

You bet your ass and the homies got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

[Nuclear Vampire]

My wife just got shunned from Bon Jovi tix here. They sold out 15,000 in 10 minutes. She was on Ticketbastard, logged in and ready to go 2 minutes before they went on sale. When they went on sale she was on it right away and still couldn't get tix. 10 minutes my ass, they were gone in less than 10 seconds. Apparently there's a few people who got fucked over today by Ticketbastard online. One woman bought 2 tix online, got her confirmation email and everything, went to pick them up from the depot and was told she only got 1. WTF? I think they are fucking scammers - that fuckers who work there are giving inside deals to friends (or brokers) who shoot them up on eBay right away for 10X the price. Fuckers.