Theory?

[kev]

So, my wife started on this and I explained to her she was searching too deep for an answer.  Her theory is, and I will stay on the surface with it, that there are certain people who somehow have a connection or two and got the tickets early so they could sell them for a profit.  She had some other branches off this main theory.  

As I am searching eBay for tickets, I come across an auction for two of them in orchestra row AA at a buy it now price of $499.00 + $6.00 shipping.  That is fine and all but the sellers id is theticketpimp and they have other tickets for sale at other venues in other cities and I wonder how they were able to get such premium tickets?  His listing also says it is for the 5:00 show?  Thought it was 8:00.  Anyway, point being, anybody know how this can happen other than connections?  Not that I am pissed because I will get some tickets somehow, but just a little discouraged that after trying three times through the presales and regular sales, I could never get anything.  I felt like it was a pure luck thing.  

[thatswhatshesaid]

i would have to guess (because i have a similar theory too) that these folks are friends with record company execs, have friends at ticketfucker, etc. that get these tickets before they are offered to the public. they probably sell them and split the cash with the person who gave them to them. its a dirty, dirty game that unfortunately only hurts the true fans.

[ycartrob]

I have a hunch that certain people have the inside track on hot tickets (I guess most shows at RCMH are hot tickets). At the Ryman in Nashville, I have noticed on Ticketbastard that when really hot tickets (REM, Tom Waits, White Stripes when they were hot) go on sale like at 10 AM, I cannot get through until 10:03, whereas other shows it's right on at 10. I have bought enough tickets to enough shows to notice this pattern.

I contacted Ticketbastard when I couldn't get REM tickets (pairs sold out in 3 minutes), and, of course, they challenged me that something might have been wrong with my browser.

[kev]

Yeah, the more my wife and I discuss (complain to each other :) ) about it, the more we realize there are a lot of outside forces working here.  I got to give it to them about making every ticket the same price, even though most people who want them can't get them at face value!  

It's cool, after we get over it we will figure out something else.

What a difference a year makes; last year you had no problems getting tickets to see them at the orange peel and RCMH sells out in less than thirty minutes (according to the link someone else posted in another thread).  And that is with no new releases and no advertising and little to no radio play (at least not where I live).  Hell, most people I talk to have no clue who they are.

[sweatboard]

Well, my theory goes pretty deep but it wouldn't suprise me.  I think there are fuckers out there with super computer systems that slam in about 300 email adresses at the exact right time, score all the tickets and will eventually sell them ALL for more money than they paid for them.  It would not suprise me if they also had connections with TicketMASTER!  I bet you will see a shit load of tickets on ebay in the coming months.  They won't put them up all at once because A. It' fishy.  B. The more demand you create the greater the value.

I'm so fucking pissed off.  This is so much BULLSHIT!!! FUCK!  >:(

[kev]

I have to remind myself how really insiginificant this is in the grand scheme of things, but yeah, it sucks when you are on the outside looking in!  :'(

I emailed a person on ebay (who had a ticket selling themed user name and many different tickets) asking them how they were able to get such great tickets when I could not get a single one.  If you look on ebay at some of the tickets and the names of people who are selling them,  and then you see how they have tickets to all of these other shows, they have connections some how.  It doesn't make sense that if the band/management wants to sell all tickets at the same low price, then how are they oblivious to all of these scalpers/resellers getting front row tickets and charging exhorbant prices?  There is no way they don't know this is happening right off the bat.  

[ylwdog]

Kev..think of what happened prior to the World Series. Although I live in Boston and I'm a Sox fan I have friends in Denver that couldn't get seats to WS games being played at Coors....reason being someone (scalpers) had a sophisticated program that could beat the system and score most of the tickets. It's obvious to me that these shady hacker dudes  put some kind of program in place that fuks the regular folk trying to get tix. That is my theory (and Brian's) and I'm sticking to it!

[thatswhatshesaid]

Well, my theory goes pretty deep but it wouldn't suprise me.  I think there are fuckers out there with super computer systems that slam in about 300 email adresses at the exact right time, score all the tickets and will eventually sell them ALL for more money than they paid for them.  It would not suprise me if they also had connections with TicketMASTER!  I bet you will see a shit load of tickets on ebay in the coming months.  They won't put them up all at once because A. It' fishy.  B. The more demand you create the greater the value.

I'm so fucking pissed off.  This is so much BULLSHIT!!! FUCK!  >:(

apparently they dont care if its fishy or not. there are a couple hundred tickets on ebay AND craigslist right now. oh the audacity!