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    Darcy Foxx
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    Angry i fucking hate scalpers

    DAMMIT

    tickets to the Pink concert sold out in a matter of hours and i missed out.

    now all these goddamn scalpers are selling them on ebay at five times the original price!

    seriously, well over half the tickets would've been purchased by people who had no intention of doing anything with them other than selling them for a huge profit. most of the people selling them don't even live in this state!!!

    why is this legal? it's so fucking selfish and it sucks. now i'm going to either have to bid like crazy to pay $500+ for tickets, or just miss out completely.

    i fucking hate scalpers. i really don't know why ebay allow this shit

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    I thought that Ebay had limitations on what you could sell tickets for over the actual price of the ticket?

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    i don't think ebay australia do. when tool came to australia there were tickets on ebay selling for over $2000.

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    Default Re: i fucking hate scalpers

    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx
    now all these goddamn scalpers are selling them on ebay at five times the original price!
    Been there! 525$ for 2 Black Crowes tickets last june.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx
    i don't think ebay australia do. when tool came to australia there were tickets on ebay selling for over $2000.
    That's horrible! That sucks that there's not some type of regulation regarding this.

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    Default Re: i fucking hate scalpers

    While I hate scalpers for the actual concert tickets.. I LOVE them for after the concerts. When I saw Marilyn Manson back in '99, they wanted at least $75 for a good T-Shirt. I got the same one I wanted inside, outside from a scalper for $15.

    They suck with tickets, but everything else, they rock!

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    Can you email admin on ebay? that way they at least know it's an issue.

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    Default Re: i fucking hate scalpers

    This is one reason that I never go to concerts, and top demand sporting events too for that matter.

    As far as scalping on eBay goes, in many instances it is perfectly legal. There are only restrictions on it in jurisdictions where scalping is explicitly prohibited or restricted by law.

    eBay U.S. ticket resale policy
    http://pages.ebay.com/buyselltickets/rules.html

    eBay Austrailia ticket resale policy
    http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/polici...t-tickets.html

    And as much as I hate scalpers, it does need to be noted that they couldn't get away with what they do if people weren't stupid enough to pay those kind of prices. This is one reason that a lot of music acts have jacked up ticket prices from $25-50 a seat to $60-$200+ thinking that if people are willing to pay that much from a scalper, they might as well keep all that profit for themselves.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    Default Re: i fucking hate scalpers

    2 years ago I wanted to see Madonna and I think the scalpers bought ALL the tickets. But the irony was that towards the actual concert date, everyone that really wanted tickets bought them at their inflated prices...and there was a surplus of tickets out there that nobody intended on using and had to be sold at a loss.

    So you could go on ebay and get front row tickets for $200 and a few rows back for $80/each in the pit (which we did). You could get further back seats for like $10-15. it was ridiculous.

    So hold out if you don't want to pay their insane prices. You might actually get the ticket cheaper than face value.

    The scalpers on ebay know what they are doing. They will auction a pen with "FREE TICKETS!"....so you're technically not bidding on the tickets.

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