Scalping concert tickets: ethical or not? (1 Viewer)

[Fish Sauce]

Originally Posted by fuckhole
No, I am taking tickets from people who want to go but cannot be bothered to get up in the morning, and reselling them to those people who want to go for a surcharge. Have a nice day, and please research the nature of consumer law

What an absolute tool.

Death be to scalpers!

Fuck I can't get rid of the italics.

 

[mr_brightside]

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What an absolute tool.

Death be to scalpers!

Fuck I can't get rid of the italics.
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I know. That remark pissed me of to no end.

ps. lol italics!

 

[sXcGuRl69aU]

italics are fairly awesome actually. you may have just started a new trend, fishsauce!

 

[katietheskatie]

there were scalpers selling tickets at the bdo gates last year, and everyone was walking past like hurling abuse and yelling fuck you and spitting on them and stuff, it was pretty lolworthy.

 

[Fish Sauce]

Everything I say looks important!

 

[ogmzergrush]

there were scalpers selling tickets at the bdo gates last year, and everyone was walking past like hurling abuse and yelling fuck you and spitting on them and stuff, it was pretty lolworthy.

I love seeing that shit so much. The best bit is you can tell they're only there because people on ebay fucked with them, so in a last-ditch effort to offload the tickets, they show up to be ridiculed and abused.

My most favourite of those was the scalpers trying to offload tickets the year the BDO released extras/magically found unsold stashes on the day, so you've got dickheads trying to offload them between the turnstyles at the station, and the ticket booth near the entrance. Good times, especially with the police wandering along asking them what they're up to. Good times.

PS: Alan, I can't quite tell what you're driving at. You're either setting up a ridiculous scenario and in doing so demonstrating the plainly obvious, or talking absolute shit. Either way, you have done little to enrich my life with that post.

 

[bazookajoe]

Provide a valid rebuttal to my argument or you STFU.

You can't rebut your argument because it has nothing to do with the original question, you're just saying why they're so expensive and then provide a way to "fix" the problem.
Dan's already pointed out why scalping is so awful

 

[iwannarock]

scalping doesnt bother me.

they waited in line for an item.

they bought the item.

they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. they can burn it if they want. maybe start www.burnmybdoticket.com

who gives a shit if they never intended to go to the concert.

its similar to the people that waited in line for the ps3 then sold it for profit.

people willing to pay 5x the price of the tickets are idiots too.

and also its not like they're guaranteed profit. they run the risk of not being able to sell them......and getting fucked.

and like dan said its breaching the conditions. but its obvious ebay dont give a shit.

but they're fixing it with the whole ticket is matched to the credit card that bought them thing that they have at some concerts now. so that stops scalping.

i can see why scalping can be annoying.........especially when you miss out on concerts because of it. but really.......i dont find a problem with it. if i miss out on a concert its usually my own fault.

but yeah.....i just dont understand why you cant sell something you bought for profit.

 

[groovewithjamie]

I think it is fine to scalp tickets because there is a risk for the scalpers and people who really want to see the show will pay to see it

 

[7th Sign]

buying tickets to JT and reselling them helped me buy textbooks this semester

lmaoooooooooo

we have a scalper on our hands people....

go jump in front of a bus please...

 

[7th Sign]

Nah faggot, I make HTML templates, upload them to shit domains I can get for cheap because they end in ICANN's-scrap-heap addresses, and yeah.

what ever dude go scalp some concert tickects on ebay to pay for your text books...

scalping tickets for text book money is LOWER then LOW

 

[icraig88]

i compare scalpers to people who download their music. scalpers exploit their fans to gain profit and people who download music exploit the artist by getting their music for free, support the music world, don't use it to gain profit.

 

[Fish Sauce]

i compare scalpers to people who download their music. scalpers exploit their fans to gain profit and people who download music exploit the artist by getting their music for free, support the music world, don't use it to gain profit.

I honestly don't really see the connection here.

 

[ogmzergrush]

i compare scalpers to people who download their music. scalpers exploit their fans to gain profit and people who download music exploit the artist by getting their music for free, support the music world, don't use it to gain profit.

Which in turn is a lot like child pornography, because those people are exploiting children.

Perfect analogy. Absolutely flawless, you are destined for great things.

 

[icraig88]

all of you are fucking morons can you not see they are 2 different people in 2 different scenarios using the music industry to their advantage.

 

[katietheskatie]

um not really, because its not like people who download music burn it onto cds and then go out and sell them for $50 to people who can't buy the cd anywhere else. dickhead.

 

[icraig88]

ok for the illiterate people here..

scenario 1. the scalper takes advantage of fans by making a profit. they are denying true fans the rights to see their favourite artists live.

scenario 2. the person who downloads the music is denying the artist of their money which they rightfully deserve.

i can't see whats so hard about that to understand. the relation between the two is pretty distinct.

 

[icraig88]

ok for the illiterate people here..

scenario 1. the scalper takes advantage of fans by making a profit. they are denying true fans the rights to see their favourite artists live.

scenario 2. the person who downloads the music is denying the artist of their money which they rightfully deserve.

i can't see whats so hard about that to understand. the relation between the two is pretty distinct.

 

[Fish Sauce]

i can't see whats so hard about that to understand. the difference between the two is pretty distinct.

Fixed it for you.

I think it's rather telling that no one agrees with you. We do understand what you're saying and we think it's wrong.

 

[ogmzergrush]

ok for the illiterate people here..

scenario 1. the scalper takes advantage of fans by making a profit. they are denying true fans the rights to see their favourite artists live.

scenario 2. the person who downloads the music is denying the artist of their money which they rightfully deserve.

i can't see whats so hard about that to understand. the relation between the two is pretty distinct.

Please enjoy this courtesy worksheet, with kind regards from the ogmzergrush school of grow a fucking clue already, please.