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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
i sent this through the "ask a seller a question" section,I suggest all browncoats do the same.....

you suck......fuck you you should just sell these at normal price oh and dont worry im not bitter,i got tix and i got tix for my friends at NORMAL PRICE!


"Hamsters is nice."

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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
i sent this through the "ask a seller a question" section,I suggest all browncoats do the same.....

you suck......fuck you you should just sell these at normal price oh and dont worry im not bitter,i got tix and i got tix for my friends at NORMAL PRICE!


"Hamsters is nice."

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Define 'normal'. For me, I'd want any enthusiastic Browncoat to be sitting beside me enjoying the hell out of the BDM and not feeling like they'd just been raped. As there are more and more screenings, the novelty of all this wears a bit thin, ( especially in those original cities ) so there's less a need to make a quick $$. If one's going to charge a small fee, I'd say that anything over 10$ profit is really being contrary to the whole spirit of spreading the good word.

My $0.02 worth.

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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
i sent this through the "ask a seller a question" section,I suggest all browncoats do the same.....

you suck......fuck you you should just sell these at normal price oh and dont worry im not bitter,i got tix and i got tix for my friends at NORMAL PRICE!


"Hamsters is nice."

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Originally posted by Knibblet:
My intentions were to buy 8 tickets (knowing that one MN Browncoat gave me all his info to buy him 12 tickets and that way, he and our friends would be covered).

My 8 tickets were going to be for me, my spousal, my brother, my neighbor and then I'd have 4 tickets to "sell". My price was going to be one filled grocery bag for Second Harvest Food Shelf per ticket.

If there's a 4th round of previews, that is still my intention.

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

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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
i sent this through the "ask a seller a question" section,I suggest all browncoats do the same.....

you suck......fuck you you should just sell these at normal price oh and dont worry im not bitter,i got tix and i got tix for my friends at NORMAL PRICE!


"Hamsters is nice."

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Here's to hoping they report you and get you some nice ebay justice.

Leave the people alone. It doesn't matter if you like what they are doing or not. If the listing is illegal, report it. If you want to whine, stop and wait until you grow up to the point where you no longer want to whine. If you never grow up...too bad.

I'm tired of all the complaining about Ebay. Every item on Ebay is an aftermarket sale. If you want all of Ebay taken down that's great. It's not going to happen though. You'll just manage to annoy people and generate hate if you kick your feet and scream a lot.

I didn't get tickets this time around for the screening. I'll see if there are any scalpers for my screening and be very happy if I get tickets. God bless the scalpers.

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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:

normal is 10.00 a tix no extra fee,and youre all right i shouldnt have stooped to there level,it was a bad call(with poor grammar too! :D )
and it seems I shouldn't have because my ebay account has been suspended.mark 1 for the scalpers.


"Hamsters is nice."

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Originally posted by placidity:
where are you looking? I got an extra to Norfolk for the time being...

fox
firefly playa-haters

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Every item on Ebay is an aftermarket sale
I'll see if there are any scalpers for my screening and be very happy if I get tickets. God bless the scalpers.

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Every item on Ebay is an aftermarket sale
I'll see if there are any scalpers for my screening and be very happy if I get tickets. God bless the scalpers.

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There's a difference between buying things that then accumulate later or buying things that are available to everyone that will be an investment for later and buying things that are in short supply with the intention of depriving fans of them just so you can charge them more.

You don't think it's wrong for scalpers to push up the price for the general public? For fans that have tried straight away to get tickets and lost out to scalpers. If Joss or bands etc. didn't care about the fans then they could charge 100 quid+ a ticket easy and make money. But they don't and it's not their attention to put the prices too high because then the average fan can't afford it but they could if they wanted to. So what gives scalpers the right to buy the majority of tickets within the first hour and then charge massively inflated prices for them?

Ticket scalping is a not very nice thing to do. To charge someone 80 quid extra for a ticket just because you were 2 minutes before them in the queue. It's definitely a dishonourable thing to do .

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Heb,

You said that it is the scalpers that jack up the price. How are they jacking it up? I see most of the tickets that go on sale start at cost. It's the volume of people that want the ticket that causes the prices to go up until only one other person is willing to pay for it.

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Originally posted by Gophermuncher:
Heb,

You said that it is the scalpers that jack up the price. How are they jacking it up? I see most of the tickets that go on sale start at cost. It's the volume of people that want the ticket that causes the prices to go up until only one other person is willing to pay for it.

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That may be true in some, or even most cases, but when you also see auctions with a BuyItNow price of $120 for 2 tkts, how can you say that's not being jacked??

Captain Pete
"What can Brown do for you?"

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i sent this through the "ask a seller a question" section,I suggest all browncoats do the same.....

you suck......fuck you you should just sell these at normal price oh and dont worry im not bitter,i got tix and i got tix for my friends at NORMAL PRICE!

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Everyone had the exact same chance to get tickets as the next person. I could have not gone to lunch and been around when tickets went on sale. I chose to go to lunch. I obviously had my priorities set so that I would not get tickets.

Everyone also has a chance at those scalped tickets. Don't tell me that someone might not have as much money as the next guy so it's unfair. They made choices that put them in that position. Maybe they wanted to start a family and raise kids. Well there are sacrifices. Money might be one of them.

If I choose to spend my money on overpriced tickets on ebay, I'm not being taken advantage of. I'm buying something I want. It's not even something I need. It's just another choice.

All the scalpers are doing is delivering convenience at a price. So, someone didn't spend the time to refresh fandango every 30 seconds for a week. Instead they chose to spend their time working and making the money to pay a scalper. That's their choice.

I admit that it's not the nicest thing to do in the world, but it's not the hell on earth that some people are making it out to be.

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Originally posted by Gophermuncher:
Heb,

You said that it is the scalpers that jack up the price. How are they jacking it up? I see most of the tickets that go on sale start at cost. It's the volume of people that want the ticket that causes the prices to go up until only one other person is willing to pay for it.

If you took away the scalpers, what do you get? The same problem, too many people and not enough tickets. Except this time the only ticket holders are those few lucky ones who were present for that magical 10 minute window. The guy who wanted the tickets so badly that he would have paid 150 dollars for one ticket misses out.

Hell, if someone offered me 300 dollars I would probably sell it to them. Firefly is worth more than 100 dollars to me. If I didn't get tickets this round, I would have probably gone on ebay and bought one for 100 dollars and still think it was a good deal, because it's worth more than 100 dollars to me. However, it's not worth more than 300. It might be worth more than 300 to someone else who might think that the ticket is worth exactly or more than the money he paid me. That's what Ebay is for. Ebay sets up a free market economy where firefly tickets can go to the most needy person.

Remember, no one is making this person buy the tickets.

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Originally posted by heb:
Yeah but how about the people who did refresh fandango every 30 seconds for a week and didn't get a ticket because scalpers bought them all up? Some people did put in a lot of effort to get a ticket but still missed out.

And the whole point is that people wouldn't have to pay for the scalpers to 'do the work' to get the tickets for them if the scalpers didn't buy up all the gorram tickets in the first place.

The same thing happens over here with festivals.

A festival puts up tickets for fair price.

A few hours later all the tickets have gone - to Scalpers.

Every single festival fan who has just got in from work (which they need to do to be able to pay for a ticket)can't get tickets.

They now have to pay 100quid extra cause a scalper made a two minute phone call to deprive them of the tickets.

The festivals intention was to sell the tickets at a fair price to the average fan but the scalpers have abused the reason they were sold the tickets.

You can not tell me charging someone 100 quid extra is a fair charge for the 2 minutes or so of work it took them? And that deliberately buying up all the tickets to deprive fans is a nice thing to do?

It's maybe not a go and shoot somebody's granny hell on earth but it is in the economic world. It's just a dishonorouable way to make your money. Buying up large amounts of something sold at a fair price to deprive the market and put up your prices.

Heather

Ps. your comment about people having less money because they choose to is clearly wrong. Some people just couldn't afford that whatever reasonable sacrifices they made and not because they choose to have less money.

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
If you are going to be insulting, (and I don't blame you, I'm just as mad at the e-bay people as you are) try to do it with a little better grammer, punctuation, and panache.

Just a suggestion.

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Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
I'm sure other people have linked this, but if we want to get the scalpers, can't we nail 'em with Ebay policy? Here's the scoop:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/event-tickets.html

Seems they regulate this. For a 'regulated' state where either the seller or the buyer are the same state as the event, they won't allow bids past a very slim increase in cost (25% or so). Take Philly for instance (where I'm going):

Regulation: No more than face value plus the greater of 25% of the ticket price or $5

So, that's $2.50 more than around $10, or $12.50. Don't think a scalper's going to like that. If I'm in New Jersey (I am) and buy tickets (I won't!) from a scalper located NOT in PA, I guess we're out of luck - I could pay whatever. But if I'm IN PA, or THEY are, then it's a no-go.

Who enforces this on Ebay? They auto-check, I assume, but locations are flaky on the 'Net. Can we nail the scalpers at the site, by documenting and reporting to EBay? Or at LEAST let Ebay know that this is kinda rampant? I'd think a complaint from Universal would work...

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