eBay scalping (again) by WhoIsRiver

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eBay scalping (again)

POSTED BY: WHOISRIVER
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 13:35
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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:15 AM

WHOISRIVER

Yep, a few hours after they go on sale, somebody has bought 10 tickets and put them straight on eBay...

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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:17 AM

RANGRBOB

I've stuck up for some of the sellers on ebay last time but this person is just a jerk who needs to have those tickets shoved up some place dark and painful.

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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:33 AM

SOUPCATCHER

Agreed. Special hell indeed. And they'll probably make a lot of money.

ziggyf posted last week about ways scalpers and scammers can use e-bay to bump up feedback and make it look like they are legitimate users. Please read if you're even remotely considering bidding on the tickets that will be auctioned off:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=9877#137072

Also, what worries me about this particular auction is that you are bidding on an e-mail confirmation letter that you then have to take to the theater to pick up your tickets. I bought my tickets online for the SF showing on the 5th. When I took the confirmation letter to the theater to pick up my tickets, they didn't even want to see it. All they wanted was the credit card that I used to make my purchase. So that whole email confirmation thing sounds fishy to me.

* editted to add: Although it could be a difference between movietickets.com and fandango.com in terms of policy. Just putting a caution flag out there.

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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:41 AM

LISSA

i think the cheese troll guy on the versal board posted something there about having bought 10 tickets and putting them up on ebay...under another cheese-related name that hadn't been banned of course. jerkface.

~lissa, spwhore

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Monday, May 9, 2005 10:57 AM

WHOISRIVER

Another one just went on eBay - $150 buy it now.

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Monday, May 9, 2005 11:18 AM

JCKNIFE

The guy selling 10 is going about it all wrong--he'd make much more selling 5 pairs. Oh well.

It's all capitalism and I still contend that I WISH I had encountered a scalper in Chicago at the May 5 showing (as a willing customer, I mean).

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Monday, May 9, 2005 12:06 PM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
auction is that you are bidding on an e-mail confirmation letter that you then have to take to the theater to pick up your tickets. I bought my tickets online for the SF showing on the 5th. When I took the confirmation letter to the theater to pick up my tickets, they didn't even want to see it. All they wanted was the credit card that I used to make my purchase. So that whole email confirmation thing sounds fishy to me.

*

I had bought mine thru movietickets too and it was the same deal, no credit card no tickets...
period.
they didn't want to see any confirmation numbers or printouts.

also eBay will not protect buyers from fraudulent sellers...if it is the cheese kid then he could by lying about the tickets.

personally I would buy if I was meeting someone at the theater w/the money (like if they had an extra ticket to sell to me) I would REALLY hesitate to buy thru paypal and hope to get anything in return.

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Monday, May 9, 2005 1:14 PM

BAYBREEZE1

Frankly, this really ticks me off. They should have a limit to the number of tickets people can purchase so "scalpers" can't jump in there and grab up all the tickets. I hate when people take advantage of other people, and that's exactly what this is.

I am one of the lucky ones that got in this time and got three tickets to the Washington, D.C. screening. The third person of my party may or may not be able to go. If that happens, I will post on this website about my extra ticket and the first person who posts back gets it, as my treat. As far as I'm concerned, that is the way that fellow Browncoats should treat each other. Ya gots to look out for each other out here in the Black, ya know?

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Monday, May 9, 2005 3:09 PM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
Yep, a few hours after they go on sale, somebody has bought 10 tickets and put them straight on eBay...

well so far he had had zero bids:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnathanQ5fknudson1ezb
so if he has paid over $100 (10 tickets at $10.50)
then he is screwed...
and if he is a liar and doesn't have 10 tickets,
then clearly he has failed to screw anyone else...

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Monday, May 9, 2005 5:46 PM

BELASERA

I called the Philly theatre today, talked to a really nice kid who told me of course that they were sold out.....because someone had purchased 195 tickets.
I have no idea what that person intends to do with them, but whatever it is, it is evil.
Eeeeevil!

"I'll be in my bunk."

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:29 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Quote:
Originally posted by belasera:
I called the Philly theatre today, talked to a really nice kid who told me of course that they were sold out.....because someone had purchased 195 tickets.
I have no idea what that person intends to do with them, but whatever it is, it is evil.
Eeeeevil!

Someone bought 195 tickets? That theatre employee can't have been serious. Who would buy 195 tickets???

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http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:34 AM

JCKNIFE

195 Tickets?!?!?

Wow, so far I've been on the side of the scalpers, but that is truly insidious.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:05 AM

PHYSCHICK

Whoa. My jaw dropped when I read that. I can't even believe someone would do that. I just... can't even believe it. Man. And I felt guilty for buying six!

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:42 AM

ZEEK

Wow. 195 is quite a gamble. I'm sure he'll make a pretty penny on them though.

I really can't say I feel too sorry for anyone this time around though. Joss posted well in advance to watch the site. Then he post once again far in advance of the tickets going on sale. If people really wanted to go they just had to watch the site closely for their chance.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:19 AM

NICOLACLARKE

195 really is a gamble. And, yes, wrong.

I defended the people who were selling one or two tickets for the previous screenings over at eBay, because (and I stand by that), it had the ring of genuine fans who couldn't make it. But there can be no doubt what 195 are intended for.

I still believe it's a natural progression of capitalism (corner the market and get more for your goods), but of course that doesn't mean I agree with it... hmm, Nestle and the milk for African mothers, anyone?

I'm just amazed that the theatre allowed such a transaction to go through. I thought most venues had restrictions on this kind of thing these days? When I bought tickets for Tori Amos's June gig in Manchester, UK, the online system only permitted a max of 4 tickets per person.* Okay, so I imagine there are ways round it, but you probably need a whole bunch of credit cards.

( * bizarrely, the only quantities you could buy were 1, 2 or 4 - irritating, since I needed three, and had to do two separate transactions, meaning that one of our tickets is several seats from the other two (the tickets were going fast). surely my friends and I can't be the only people in the world who tend to go to stuff as a 3? )

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:20 AM

KNIBBLET

Thank goodness for WarMaster.

I was on vacation - away from any computers for 5 days. I was way screwed out of getting my own.

Moral: No, not everyone would have seen Josh's heads-up nor would I even have been able to snag up a ticket had I known as I was on a plane when they went on sale.

"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:43 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
I really can't say I feel too sorry for anyone this time around though. Joss posted well in advance to watch the site. Then he post once again far in advance of the tickets going on sale. If people really wanted to go they just had to watch the site closely for their chance.

That would be true, if every browncoat that wanted to go badly had nothing to do all day long but monitor the computer for the tickets to go on sale.

The tickets went on sale in no semblance of order and Fandango & Movietickets.com were unreliable at best if even only half the posts on the boards are true.

I would also like to say that if the account of someone buying 195 tickets from the theatre direct is true, that stacks the deck against any Browncoat trying to get them online or over the phone.

Just sayin'.

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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:48 AM

JARED

Quote:
Originally posted by Knibblet:
Moral: No, not everyone would have seen Josh's heads-up nor would I even have been able to snag up a ticket had I known as I was on a plane when they went on sale.

true, but there are those that might argue, that if you are seriously calling him "josh" you don't deserve a ticket anyway.

http://festini.device-zero.de

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:16 AM

STILLSHINY

I may have an extra ticket for Dallas, I won't know for a few days. But I thought about making it available on Ebay & using a greater percentage of the profits like 30 / 70 for Hakens Site. But I'll probabaly just make it available here. Then again I may just make it available to someone who wants to go for a decent price. I want a Browncoat to see the movie, not line my pockets with coin.

However I am shameless when it comes to promoting my shirts. I even made a "Josh" Whedon shirt. Check it out. I might even post a pic of it here later.

http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/product/product.asp?cid=23
8187680745956238&caching=on&product%5Fid=235899725049577352&index=1

Check out my shop! Firefly & LOST products.
http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp
?cid=238187680745956238

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:29 AM

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

Quote:
. . .someone had purchased 195 tickets.

The word that comes to mind is. . .probably best left unsaid.

Quote:
If people really wanted to go they just had to watch the site closely for their chance.

Yeah, 'cause I'm sure no one has to go to work or school during the day. I'm glad that I was leaning towards saving myself until September, anyway, or else I'd be kind of pissed off.

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"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:44 AM

RHYMEPHILE

Well, there are a few people from the NYC Meetup group that got tickets, (not 195, tho) so I suppose the PA theatre is really big.

And like MohrStoutbeard wrote, some of us can't travel a 100 or more miles to make a 10 p.m. showing when there's work the next day. I live in NJ, work in New York City, and I'm not driving to yet another state to see the movie at 10 p.m., and be back in NJ to get up at 5:30 a.m., to catch a bus into NYC by 7!

I'll just be patient like other Browncoats, such as the poor people in Australia, the UK, the EU, those without cars, those who couldn't order tickets, those in the middle spots of the U.S., or even Haken, who is way out there in Hawai'i!

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"I've seen life on this planet, Scully, and that's precisely why I'm looking elsewhere."

-- Fox Mulder, The X-Files

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:29 AM

BELASERA

He was serious, said the guy had called as soon as they went on sale and snapped them up.
Buuut...if anyone wants to call the philly theatre, the same employee said they may be adding another show today. It turns out I can't go, so I haven't called to see if that happened.

"I'll be in my bunk."

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:09 AM

KNIBBLET

Gorram typos!

Hey, it's my first day back from vacation. Cut me 2" of slack.

Jared wrote:
true, but there are those that might argue, that if you are seriously calling him "josh" you don't deserve a ticket anyway.

"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:35 PM

EMBERS

removing rumors I heard but don't know are true...
sorry about that

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