Stubhub
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Tambourine Man
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Re: Stubhub
longhbornbaseball's thumbs? They type extra fast, allowing him to snatch up tickets to flip on stubhub for huge profits.
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slide_into_first
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Re: Stubhub
That is not stubhub's fault it is the promoter allowing ticket resellers first crack at tickets.go birds wrote:Basically...trying to get tickets for an upcoming show and since scalpers have already bought up all the tickets for every show (this band is putting on 3 shows), no one can purchase tickets without paying a 300% increase. And that's the cheapest! [expletive] [expletive].
How is this legal?
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wart57
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Re: Stubhub
The DH.
Reality TV
Fox News.
Reality TV
Fox News.
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Smith Corks One
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Re: Stubhub
Mumford & Sons?go birds wrote:Basically...trying to get tickets for an upcoming show and since scalpers have already bought up all the tickets for every show (this band is putting on 3 shows), no one can purchase tickets without paying a 300% increase. And that's the cheapest! [expletive] [expletive].
How is this legal?
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IMADreamer
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Re: Stubhub
They have better lobbyist then you?go birds wrote:Basically...trying to get tickets for an upcoming show and since scalpers have already bought up all the tickets for every show (this band is putting on 3 shows), no one can purchase tickets without paying a 300% increase. And that's the cheapest! [expletive] [expletive].
How is this legal?
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go birds
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Re: Stubhub
imadreamer youve been awfully snarky lately.
Anything we need to talk about?
Anything we need to talk about?
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IMADreamer
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Re: Stubhub
Sorry. Stress maybe. gf is sick, Dad is sick, sewer backed up into my basement which is going to cost me like 15k to fix, I haven't had a day off since Christmas. It's no excuse though. Sorry.
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OmahaCard79
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Re: Stubhub
Personally, I like Stubhub.
If anything, I think it's made the prices of scalped tickets go down signifigantly over the last several years. Heck, there was an article in the PD at World Series time where several scalpers were quoted about how Stubhub has driven prices down and there's little market for their services. You see, the fact that there's literally thousands of seats on Stubhub at any time removes the scalpers ability to manipulate the market and create false scarcity on the tickets to drive prices up. It's great.
Yeah, the fees suck, but I'm much happier buying online, picking from thousands of available seats, and having at least some sort of guarantee vs. haggling with some guy on a street corner outside the stadium who looks like he hasn't bathed in 6 weeks, is wearing the same team jacket I had 15 years ago in high school, and smells like weed. If my Stubhub tickets don't scan, I'm reasonably confident I'll get a replacement while the scalper guy has disappeared back under a bridge somewhere with my money never to be seen again. In this age of scanned vs. torn tickets, it's even more important to trust your source.
I know I wouldn't have gone to the World Series this year if I had to drive 7 hours and then trust handing hundreds of dollars to a scalper.
If anything, I think it's made the prices of scalped tickets go down signifigantly over the last several years. Heck, there was an article in the PD at World Series time where several scalpers were quoted about how Stubhub has driven prices down and there's little market for their services. You see, the fact that there's literally thousands of seats on Stubhub at any time removes the scalpers ability to manipulate the market and create false scarcity on the tickets to drive prices up. It's great.
Yeah, the fees suck, but I'm much happier buying online, picking from thousands of available seats, and having at least some sort of guarantee vs. haggling with some guy on a street corner outside the stadium who looks like he hasn't bathed in 6 weeks, is wearing the same team jacket I had 15 years ago in high school, and smells like weed. If my Stubhub tickets don't scan, I'm reasonably confident I'll get a replacement while the scalper guy has disappeared back under a bridge somewhere with my money never to be seen again. In this age of scanned vs. torn tickets, it's even more important to trust your source.
I know I wouldn't have gone to the World Series this year if I had to drive 7 hours and then trust handing hundreds of dollars to a scalper.
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go birds
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Re: Stubhub
Wishing your gf and dad well man.IMADreamer wrote:Sorry. Stress maybe. gf is sick, Dad is sick, sewer backed up into my basement which is going to cost me like 15k to fix, I haven't had a day off since Christmas. It's no excuse though. Sorry.
Harness that anger and join me in my quest to destroy Stubhub!