When I got my Eagles tickets, we had bought a couple of good seats together for my wife and mother-in-law, then bought four together in the cheap section for me and my friends.
I knew right away that having four tickets together was valuable, more valuable as cash than they would be for the experience for me. I decided right away I would scalp them.
How do you scalp tickets in Tulsa? I looked on ebay, but I was a little afraid of doing a transaction with some unseen bidder for a sale I hoped could be hundreds of dollars. I called the only scalper I know, he said he would buy them, but not for as much profit as I wanted.
You probably know this scalper. His name is Marc and he stands out in front of the concert and sporting events wearing a cloth bucket hat. I have bought tickets from him for years, usually for less than face value (If you want his phone number, send me a PM. He has tickets to every show and sporting event). I swear by him and would recommend him to anybody.
I decide to list them on a commercial website I had heard a commercial for. StubHub.com was a middleman website that sells everything and charges a 15% commission to the seller.
The tickets were $50 seats (really $61 seats with all the charges). My total investment in getting them was $244 and about ten minutes of my time. Listing them on StubHub took another took another fifteen minutes and I knew that printing out the shipping label and driving them to a Fedex site would take about a half hour. Total time, less than an hour and one gallon of gas.
StubHub was great. I listed them together starting at $229 each and they dropped the price slightly each day until they sold. I set the minimum at $150 and the sale to end the last week of August so if it didn't work I could quickly make other plans.
They sold today for $203 dollars a piece. My total outlay was $244 and my check after commission will be $690 for a $446 profit.
I followed all laws in buying the seats and selling the tickets above face value. I was able to recieve my tickets by mail and send them through Fedex easily.
Here is a link to the StubHub site for this Eagles show. If you need tickets or need to sell yours, it is an easy way. As of now, there are some good pairs of tickets (better than the seats I sold) available for $150 each.
http://www.stubhub.com/eagles-tickets/eagles-tulsa-bok-center-9-6-2008-674296/
Contribute them and take a deduction....
Or
Stand out front the night of the show and sell them for what they cost you
Or
Give them to a fan who can't afford the show
or
Donate them to Andrew Rice's campaign
or
put an ad on Craig's List
or
Put an ad in the newspaper
or
learn how to utilize ebay
Prices are starting to drop.....damn commodities market.
One gathers that ticket pricing are all relative to the level of excitement or perhaps the precieved prestige an event carries. The level of savvyness in the market and the "Golly Sargent Carter" effect seems to have a major influence on ticket prices at many events. Some artists can command upwards of $1,349 per ticket for around a 2 hour performance at a concert hall.
$1,349 a ticket? See the Eagles Tickets Online -
These are today's prices at the Ticketsnow outlet.
http://www.ticketsnow.com/InventoryBrowse/TicketList.aspx?PID=677329
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
When I got my Eagles tickets, we had bought a couple of good seats together for my wife and mother-in-law, then bought four together in the cheap section for me and my friends.
I knew right away that having four tickets together was valuable, more valuable as cash than they would be for the experience for me. I decided right away I would scalp them.
How do you scalp tickets in Tulsa? I looked on ebay, but I was a little afraid of doing a transaction with some unseen bidder for a sale I hoped could be hundreds of dollars. I called the only scalper I know, he said he would buy them, but not for as much profit as I wanted.
You probably know this scalper. His name is Marc and he stands out in front of the concert and sporting events wearing a cloth bucket hat. I have bought tickets from him for years, usually for less than face value (If you want his phone number, send me a PM. He has tickets to every show and sporting event). I swear by him and would recommend him to anybody.
I decide to list them on a commercial website I had heard a commercial for. StubHub.com was a middleman website that sells everything and charges a 15% commission to the seller.
The tickets were $50 seats (really $61 seats with all the charges). My total investment in getting them was $244 and about ten minutes of my time. Listing them on StubHub took another took another fifteen minutes and I knew that printing out the shipping label and driving them to a Fedex site would take about a half hour. Total time, less than an hour and one gallon of gas.
StubHub was great. I listed them together starting at $229 each and they dropped the price slightly each day until they sold. I set the minimum at $150 and the sale to end the last week of August so if it didn't work I could quickly make other plans.
They sold today for $203 dollars a piece. My total outlay was $244 and my check after commission will be $690 for a $446 profit.
I followed all laws in buying the seats and selling the tickets above face value. I was able to recieve my tickets by mail and send them through Fedex easily.
Here is a link to the StubHub site for this Eagles show. If you need tickets or need to sell yours, it is an easy way. As of now, there are some good pairs of tickets (better than the seats I sold) available for $150 each.
http://www.stubhub.com/eagles-tickets/eagles-tulsa-bok-center-9-6-2008-674296/
So that's Gilligan's name. He is in front of the arena for every TU basketball game and I can't stand him. After about 10 years of going to almost every home game, you'd think he'd know not to ask me if I want tickets.
"Dennis Hopper called from Easy Rider . . . he wants his jacket back, Tonto."
I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats. I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.
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Originally posted by Conan71
I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats. I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.
I like the guys in NYC...you can talk about everything while they wait for the right client. They know their sports.
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Originally posted by FOTD
quote:
Originally posted by Conan71
I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats. I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.
I like the guys in NYC...you can talk about everything while they wait for the right client. They know their sports.
Go see "Big Man". Tell him Conan sent you:
http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/
Is it true that only two of the original members are performing?
Depends on what era you care about. It is the 1977 lineup minus Felder.
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Originally posted by tim huntzinger
Is it true that only two of the original members are performing?
Great. I always dread that.
I once went to hear the Mamas and the Papas and got the Aunts and the Uncles.
Interesting. The great Zimmy performs here next week at The Old Lady On Brady. The reviewers as usual will say how awful he sounds and how none of the songs sound like the original versions. But for those that pay attention, the master will paint the scene upon the backbone of the "never ending tour" band.
On Miles of Aisles, Joni Mitchell rants of how no one would dare yell at Van Gough to paint another Starry Night.....
This may be the last time one gets to see Dylan perform in Tulsa. The greatest songwriter of a generation and the Eagles soar. You can't get a show like this by buying the CD.
Play it up for the Tamborine Man....the times are changing again.
Scalping tickets by those who serve on the city trusts and authorities rebukes the trust in those who have promoted the collecting the Widow's Mite, that they are being forced to pay on their measly income needed for affordable food and utilities, in and effort to sustain even the bare necessities of life, thus they are required to build an arena, ball park, convention center, against human nature and the laws of survival.
Any person, given the presumption as being a person trustworthy who would flaunt his ability to profit from the near borderline of a criminal act, standing on the shoulders of over a third of those living in Tulsa below the poverty level should resign from any positions in Trust or Authorities he holds as being held in fraud.
The scallping has come up before the Councilors and there was talk of how to eliminate it. This as it continues will degrade further the ability for the arena when person buy tickets to be sold at three or four times the cost set by the operators of public buildings being paid for including the Widows Mite, depriving the children and elderly a bare existence.
Should the councilors look into this out-of-hand scalping and pass an ordinance where the person who has been overcharged for a ticket be required to be be paid three times the overcharge by the scalper? In the real life the practice is no more than fraud and should be treated as such. One holding surplus tickets could return them to the issuer for a cash refund.
Time to promote Tulsa and take it off the corrupt list.
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Originally posted by shadows
Scalping tickets by those who serve on the city trusts and authorities rebukes the trust in those who have promoted the collecting the Widow's Mite, that they are being forced to pay on their measly income needed for affordable food and utilities, in and effort to sustain even the bare necessities of life, thus they are required to build an arena, ball park, convention center, against human nature and the laws of survival.
Any person, given the presumption as being a person trustworthy who would flaunt his ability to profit from the near borderline of a criminal act, standing on the shoulders of over a third of those living in Tulsa below the poverty level should resign from any positions in Trust or Authorities he holds as being held in fraud.
The scallping has come up before the Councilors and there was talk of how to eliminate it. This as it continues will degrade further the ability for the arena when person buy tickets to be sold at three or four times the cost set by the operators of public buildings being paid for including the Widows Mite, depriving the children and elderly a bare existence.
Should the councilors look into this out-of-hand scalping and pass an ordinance where the person who has been overcharged for a ticket be required to be be paid three times the overcharge by the scalper? In the real life the practice is no more than fraud and should be treated as such. One holding surplus tickets could return them to the issuer for a cash refund.
Time to promote Tulsa and take it off the corrupt list.
Theatre of the Absurd? Right?
Sorry shadows. I ain't resigning from my job just because you think I should.
I sold my tickets to an out-of-state buyer whom I assume is coming to Tulsa to spend even more money. I didn't take any food out of the mouths of the Tulsa poor.
I received no special treatment, broke no laws, and plan to spend every penny of profit buying tickets to future shows.
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
Sorry shadows. I ain't resigning from my job just because you think I should.
I sold my tickets to an out-of-state buyer whom I assume is coming to Tulsa to spend even more money. I didn't take any food out of the mouths of the Tulsa poor.
I received no special treatment, broke no laws, and plan to spend every penny of profit buying tickets to future shows.
What keeps America from a complete corporate take over. Bravo RM!
Now, what about barter?
Ticket Re-seller companies are everywhere in the U.S. They are classified as a service and are legal in the majority of states. Don't believe service oriented business can have cost controls unless they are subsidised by the government.
Typically an Invoice Price is what one party agreed to pay another party for a service or product.
Most these firms have a large data base of clients that have and will continue to purchase tickets to the hottest upcoming events. Most of the resellers clients make buys of front row and the good seats long before the tickets go on sale at the box office.
These are not the "On the Sidewalk" sellers. Majority of these firms cater to folks that earn large sums per hour for their services and contract or pay others a fee to perform jobs such as standing in line to buy tickets.
The devil gets a thrill from dealing with the "On The Streeter"...
over the years, i've been fortunate enough to briefly own many, many valuable that i would not be using (ou tx - 50 yrd line, raiders-chiefs monday night box seats, 3rd row u2 zooropa, two pairs of fanclub only tickets "in the heart" for two different u2 cities- las vegas and msg, a pair of radiohead tickets at the bottleneck, more wildbrew tickets than i can count, many sold out cains' shows)...
starting in college- i camped out, called in, logged in, bartered and stole what i could to get them... keep in mind, i also got ****ed over many times by ticketbastard and "the man" and ended up with no tickets despite my best efforts...
i've always held it as a point of pride that the only way i could stick it back to "the man" was to provide them at face value to some poor unfortunate ticketless soul...
it always surprises the hell out of them when i tell them what i'm asking and it makes me feel better... ****, i've been known to just give them (the ones i got for free) away outside a venue despite their inflated value...
sure, they might turn around and become a profiteer but pancakes? if i did not lose anything, i could not care less... and i'm not performing...
thats just me...
WOW Bruno.....altruism? And to see you write a sentence and a paragraph! Didn't think you had it in you.[;)]
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
Sorry shadows. I ain't resigning from my job just because you think I should.
I sold my tickets to an out-of-state buyer whom I assume is coming to Tulsa to spend even more money. I didn't take any food out of the mouths of the Tulsa poor.
I received no special treatment, broke no laws, and plan to spend every penny of profit buying tickets to future shows.
The poor, the widower, the children who go to bed hungry all must pay the same tax on the necessities to sustain life as you do to build the arena that seem to have become a scalpers heaven.. It must be assuring to the out-of-towners to know that Tulsa's members of suppose trust, use as a base to stand on to scalp, tickets that the unfortunate have scarified so much, going without needed drugs, in order to provide the source from whence the tickets originate. To further boast of the hundreds of dollars gained from the joint venture when the poor that they feed off of, spend another a sleepless night trying to determine where the food will come from the next day.
I hope you have a good night of sleep.
Tulsa I am sure is known as a friendly city
How could you possibly own two pair of shoes when there are Tulsans without shoes?
I think your use of the arena as the oppressor of the poor will fail to resonate. In your mind, the Performing Arts Center takes food out of the mouths of the poor as well. Why, the airport is paid for on the backs of those who can't afford to fly so anyone who has flown on a jet should be ashamed and give their possessions to you.
Every retailer has made profit by being a middleman. Target and WalMart must be banished for their exploitation of the poor for profit.
Actually the Ticket Re-seller companies, at events that are somewhat controlled to contain run-away ticket purchases, rely on many folks that live in downtown areas to perform the "standing in line" portion of these transactions. Thus, providing a needed service for the more fortunate who in turn are not hesitant to pay those folks, perhaps the less fortunate, for their time in line.
So there are numerous folks involved in this industry, from the foot soldiers in line that are paid to purchase the initial tickets, to the folks that handle the credit card transactions, those that author and maintain the point of purchase web sites, to the staff that handles phone calls and email requests.
Simply another service industry that most working Americans have come to rely on to save them time and the high cost of energy for travel expense, which to many is way more valuable than the added amount of money required for the service.
Actually if you disect this entire process, one would possibly come to the conclusion that watching the performances on television is a much more economical and practical method of obtaining the same information other than the effect of being there in person.
The advent of new High-Def Cameras, trick equipment for movement of cameras, angles, close up shots and additional data and comentary make many pre-recorded or live events much more enhanced when televised than in person.
They still have not found a way to carry the five human senses overall "live experience" through a digitized data stream. The movie Polyester came closer with it's scratch n sniff ordor-rama card that came with the movie. Home entertainment centers have simulated the 3-D audio, but fall far from recreating the ground pounding drive the worms out of the ground feel of a Top Fuel Dragster.
http://www.kulture-void.com/motion/swelter_in_vogue/polyester.html
The devil is a disciple of John Waters and still has his scratch and sniff card.....but the scents have sense dissipated.
It did not have a hint of hemp. And there's nothing like the feel of a good live concert.
"If the Grateful Dead came to town, I'd beat my way in with a f*cking tire-iron, if necessary."
-Hunter S. Thompson
"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "
-- Jerry Garcia
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Originally posted by AMP
Actually the Ticket Re-seller companies, at events that are somewhat controlled to contain run-away ticket purchases, rely on many folks that live in downtown areas to perform the "standing in line" portion of these transactions. Thus, providing a needed service for the more fortunate who in turn are not hesitant to pay those folks, perhaps the less fortunate, for their time in line.
So there are numerous folks involved in this industry, from the foot soldiers in line that are paid to purchase the initial tickets, to the folks that handle the credit card transactions, those that author and maintain the point of purchase web sites, to the staff that handles phone calls and email requests.
Simply another service industry that most working Americans have come to rely on to save them time and the high cost of energy for travel expense, which to many is way more valuable than the added amount of money required for the service.
Actually if you disect this entire process, one would possibly come to the conclusion that watching the performances on television is a much more economical and practical method of obtaining the same information other than the effect of being there in person.
The advent of new High-Def Cameras, trick equipment for movement of cameras, angles, close up shots and additional data and comentary make many pre-recorded or live events much more enhanced when televised than in person.
They still have not found a way to carry the five human senses overall "live experience" through a digitized data stream. The movie Polyester came closer with it's scratch n sniff ordor-rama card that came with the movie. Home entertainment centers have simulated the 3-D audio, but fall far from recreating the ground pounding drive the worms out of the ground feel of a Top Fuel Dragster.
http://www.kulture-void.com/motion/swelter_in_vogue/polyester.html
I thought most of the tix were bought on-line these days, not long lines at a box office.
RM Me thinkus that there is a confusion as to whether the apple and orange grow on the same tree. We seem to be comparing legitimate business ventures to shady performance of hiking the established price because of shortage. If these tickets have an established price of $50 dollars, can be sold for $150 dollars, then the citizens of Tulsa are being short changed by promoters selling the tickets at such a lower price whereas if sold at a higher price the difference could be used to pay off the revenue bonds much sooner.
They can advertise that the (ten) tickets for $50 dollars are sold out but there are some of the $150 dollars tickets still available for the big spenders.
The laws of Oklahoma are based on authority granted to do or perform. I have not read where scalping for personal profit is included in the written law.
Shadows...do you think anybody who buys and resells anything for a profit has committed a crime?
How about antiques dealer? How about used sports car dealers? How about a coin collector who sells his coins?
I bet when TickleMe Elmo flew off the Christmas store shelves you wrote the same complaint.
Speaking of apples and oranges, why do you think different stores sell produce at different prices at different times of the year? Supply and demand is a law that even you cannot change.
Accept what you cannot change, especially in large denominations.
Many event promoters require non-removable and bar coded arm bands which are distributed and placed on prospective ticket buyers wrists on one date, then they allow only people with those bands to stand in line the day the tickets go on sale. These procedures were iniitiated to protect against single sources from purchasing large bulks of tickets.
What ever types of protection one may use, there are always inovative ways to go around them.
There were very long lines of people at the Tulsa area Homeland stores service desks up to the hour the recent Eagles tickets went on sale.
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Originally posted by AMP
Many event promoters require non-removable and bar coded arm bands which are distributed and placed on prospective ticket buyers wrists on one date, then they allow only people with those bands to stand in line the day the tickets go on sale. These procedures were iniitiated to protect against single sources from purchasing large bulks of tickets.
What ever types of protection one may use, there are always inovative ways to go around them.
There were very long lines of people at the Tulsa area Homeland stores service desks up to the hour the recent Eagles tickets went on sale.
Huh, I just assumed ticket lines were a thing of the past with ticket bastard and other automated systems to buy online and by phone. I can't think where else there's still a Homeland other than 31st & Harvard.
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
Shadows...do you think anybody who buys and resells anything for a profit has committed a crime?
How about antiques dealer? How about used sports car dealers? How about a coin collector who sells his coins?
I bet when TickleMe Elmo flew off the Christmas store shelves you wrote the same complaint.
Speaking of apples and oranges, why do you think different stores sell produce at different prices at different times of the year? Supply and demand is a law that even you cannot change.
Accept what you cannot change, especially in large denominations.
I see in the morning world there are plenty of tickets available for sale through the regular channels. If one has scalped tickets by three time their face value, if I were them I'd get some dark glasses and a long black wig and stay off the streets.
I used my profit to buy more tickets. America is a great country.
I didn't see it anywhere, but Channel 6 says there is another big announcement on Tuesday. Possibly U2, Jay-Z or Madonna.
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8887772
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Originally posted by TulsaSooner
I didn't see it anywhere, but Channel 6 says there is another big announcement on Tuesday. Possibly U2, Jay-Z or Madonna.
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8887772
well, as much as i hate to jinx it...
according to the fan forums, u2 has prebooked (not announced) july-aug euro dates in 09...
most people bet on them having an early spring 09 US leg... so this would fit... plus, theyve played here twice before... im crossing my fingers that this is a smaller arena tour...
madonna has open dates so that is very likely...
jay-z would be very cool but monumental? not by tulsa's standards...
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Originally posted by brunoflipper
quote:
Originally posted by TulsaSooner
I didn't see it anywhere, but Channel 6 says there is another big announcement on Tuesday. Possibly U2, Jay-Z or Madonna.
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8887772
well, as much as i hate to jinx it...
according to the fan forums, u2 has prebooked (not announced) july-aug euro dates in 09...
most people bet on them having an early spring 09 US leg... so this would fit... plus, theyve played here twice before... im crossing my fingers that this is a smaller arena tour...
madonna has open dates so that is very likely...
jay-z would be very cool but monumental? not by tulsa's standards...
Twice? I just remember them playing the Brady summer of '83. I had free tickets and passed. I was taking summer school, had a major exam the next day and figured "They will be back" Yeah, then they released "The Unforgettable Fire", followed that up with "Joshua Tree" became big celebs, and have not been back in 25 years.
Did they play Cains before they played Brady?
As I recall, the Police played the Cains in '78 or '79 as did the Pretenders.
I might have to bow down to the scalpers if U2 comes back.
I believe U2 did play the Cain's back in 1981. I don't remember it at all, but saw an article about the Cain's that mentioned it. I think it was an Urban Tulsa article, but I am not positive.
This would have been very early for the band, Bono must have been 20 or 21 years old at the time.
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Originally posted by Conan71
Did they play Cains before they played Brady?
yes.
Boy Tour: North America (4th Leg)
1981-04-04
Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK
Setlist:
1. The Ocean
2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
3. I Will Follow
4. An Cat Dubh
5. Into The Heart
6. Another Time, Another Place
7. The Cry
8. The Electric Co.
9. Things To Make And Do
10. Stories For Boys
11. Boy-Girl
12. Out Of Control
encore(s):
13. A Day Without Me
14. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
15. The Ocean
16. I Will Follow
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Originally posted by brunoflipper
quote:
Originally posted by TulsaSooner
I didn't see it anywhere, but Channel 6 says there is another big announcement on Tuesday. Possibly U2, Jay-Z or Madonna.
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8887772
well, as much as i hate to jinx it...
according to the fan forums, u2 has prebooked (not announced) july-aug euro dates in 09...
most people bet on them having an early spring 09 US leg... so this would fit... plus, theyve played here twice before... im crossing my fingers that this is a smaller arena tour...
madonna has open dates so that is very likely...
jay-z would be very cool but monumental? not by tulsa's standards...
I still think it's McCartney, but a U2 show would be "monumental" indeed.
it is a "live nation" artist...
madonna 11/14/2007... you heard it here first.
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Originally posted by brunoflipper
quote:
Originally posted by Conan71
Did they play Cains before they played Brady?
yes.
Boy Tour: North America (4th Leg)
1981-04-04
Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK
Setlist:
1. The Ocean
2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
3. I Will Follow
4. An Cat Dubh
5. Into The Heart
6. Another Time, Another Place
7. The Cry
8. The Electric Co.
9. Things To Make And Do
10. Stories For Boys
11. Boy-Girl
12. Out Of Control
encore(s):
13. A Day Without Me
14. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
15. The Ocean
16. I Will Follow
I wore out my Boy, October, and War cassettes. I far prefer their music from before they were discovered by top-40 radio, though not saying the rest of their discography is pure **** either.
I just read a report that U2 is scheduled to release an album in mid-November.
A tour, naturally, would follow.
Sources: http://www.atu2.com/newalbum/
http://www.nme.com/news/u2/38885
So the plot thickens ...
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Originally posted by rwarn17588
I just read a report that U2 is scheduled to release an album in mid-November.
A tour, naturally, would follow.
Sources: http://www.atu2.com/newalbum/
http://www.nme.com/news/u2/38885
So the plot thickens ...
U2's north american tour will start march/april 09... U2 will not be announcing dates for a tour BEFORE the 11/17 cd release of "no line on the horizon"...
It's a second Eagles show. I Love All Access has already put up the Nov. 11 date.
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Originally posted by blindnil
It's a second Eagles show. I Love All Access has already put up the Nov. 11 date.
Maybe The Eagles could do a second show, but the NewsOn6 story said the city is "surprised the promoter could convince the act to come to Tulsa." The Eagles would not fit that description, since they are already booked to come in September.
I had not heard that McCartney was touring.
It may be that brunoflipper has called it right with Madonna. Tulsa Sooner mentioned her earlier as well.
Homeland on Hwy 97 near Prattville, also in Catoosa at 193rd & Admiral and 31st & Harvard. More in OKC area that handle tickets for events in Oklahoma. All Homeland stores service counters handle tickets for the Oklahoma State Fair events and the Fair in OKC.
http://www.homelandstores.com/locations/locations.html
Freaking Journey?
That's the big announcement?
Freaking Journey?
They dug deep into the bowels of youtube and dislodged a lead singer.
OK, I was wrong. It is the Eagles coming back apparently...sorry about that. I'm posting this to say sorry about the Journey thing. Still not sure why it's a big deal that the Eagles are coming back though.
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I bet when TickleMe Elmo flew off the Christmas store shelves you wrote the same complaint.
It annoyed me with the Wii. Luckily, as I have both technology and free time at my disposal, I had no trouble digging up a few for an hour or two of my time plus a couple gallons of gas.
Why did the Wii 'scalpers' annoy me? Two reasons. One, driving the price up to where folks without an excess of money couldn't buy them unless they got really, really, really lucky, and two, making me spend more time than really necessary to get ahold of the things for me and my Wii-desiring friends.
I guess I could have made boatloads of money on the things if I had wanted to, but I preferred to make a kid's birthday whose parents had told him that if he saved up half the money for a Wii, they'd pitch in the other half. Nice folks. I got a hug and profuse thanks out of the deal. Better than $100, as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, it's that attitude that'll have me slaving away for myself or the man until the day I die.
Maybe someday I'll understand the urge to profiteer. I guess it would help pay off the credit card debt. Not that I mind the credit card companies loaning me money for nothing in return and giving me free stuff to use their card.
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Originally posted by nathanm
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I got a hug and profuse thanks out of the deal. Better than $100, as far as I'm concerned.
I agree 100%, money cannot buy that hug and smile.
I have given away many a ticket to a sporting event and all I needed was a "Thanks, really you do not want any money?"
Not saying what Michael did was wrong or illegal, just not what I would have done.
Charging a service fee for performance of a service in a retail situation, other than in an declared national emergency, is simply doing business. No one is forced to buy tickets and pay the higher service fees from one competitive ticket outlet to another. Nor are there sanctions requiring a set limit of the service charge fee on any sale.
Because there are more than one box office/ticket outlet that seems to open the door to competition and allow most anyone to be a ticket seller. Seems to be the same type of transaction, only with a higher service fee when buying tickets from other sources.
Carson Attractions, Reasors, Homeland and other walkup and online ticket outlets tyically charge a service fee for the sale of an event ticket.
In definition event ticket sales are nothing more than the face value of the ticket plus an additional service fee.
Buy Low, Sell High. The Free Enterprise System.
Aloha and Lawzee:
Ticket scalpers are parasitic
pilot fish the trolling usery
pimps should all be taken out
and shot
hey scalpers here is a novel
idea be a man get a second Job
Aloha and Lawzee