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What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 12:26:03 GMT -5

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Post by castlecraver on Feb 13, 2005 12:26:03 GMT -5

As early as a matter of hours after the fanclub presale went live, there were tickets for the Oasis gigs for sale on eBay. Is there any way we can try to figure out what sections/rows were part of the fanclub presale, try to locate online auctions (eBay), ads (Craigslist, StubHub, etc) and alert the fanclub? It's funny how many of these auctions even state that the tickets won't be sent out until a couple weeks before the show... it's so obvious. I know Oasis and their promoters want these tickets to go to real fans and try to mail them out close to the gig to keep people from scalping them, and it really hurts some fans who would love to have great seats but weren't able to get any in the presale, and now would have to pay $500 per pair (really). I read somewhere about the U2 fans alerting their fanclub to people scalping their presale tickets... is there anything similar we can do?

Oh, and MusicToday's TOS says that if they suspect you of purchasing tickets for resale, they can cancel your order.

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sal9389 RKid Posts: 45	What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 13:11:11 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sal9389 on Feb 13, 2005 13:11:11 GMT -5 some are outrageous on ebay.. someone has row a sec c on stubhub selling them for 1,000 each. for the most part ebay i have seen fair prices for the tix.
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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 15:30:04 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2005 15:30:04 GMT -5 unfortunatly nothin can really ever be done because brokers are legal in nj and conneticut so they buy blocks of seats..big biz sux
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What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 15:32:56 GMT -5

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Post by castlecraver on Feb 13, 2005 15:32:56 GMT -5

I know... uugh. I can't count how many basketball games I couldn't get into because of scalpers hoarding tickets in college. But if someone could alert the fanclub to people selling what appear to be tickets we got in the presale (we could compare sections and rows, and auctions stating the tickets aren't in hand yet are a dead giveaway), they could cancel their orders before the tickets got sent out.

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What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 15:33:37 GMT -5

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Post by Dominic on Feb 13, 2005 15:33:37 GMT -5

ill tell you a story , i bought a ticket for the dublin marley park show , but because i had to go to glasgow that weekend , i sold them to a "friend" , i made no profet , but simply asked that they bring me back a t - shirt or somethin , the fcker sold it on ebay 2 days later for £112

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What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 15:37:53 GMT -5

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Dominic said:

greedy basterd

..u should sort that twat out dom

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What can we do to screw the scalpers? Feb 13, 2005 22:53:22 GMT -5

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Post by mape on Feb 13, 2005 22:53:22 GMT -5

i remember actually working for a scalper when i was younger. Some friends and i knew a big scalper in Toronto, but since he was infamous at box offices, no one would sell him tickets. So he'd give us huge wads of cash to go in the morning to box offices and sweep up shit loads of tickets for him. We'd get like $40-50 for an hours work which was not bad at all. We did consider taking off with his wads of money sometimes... but it would have been cruel.

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