King Tuts Ticket Scramble Thread

[tzb]

Originally Posted by Finn

Cheap at twice the price when you consider the pieces are held together with a mix of CoR tears and stitches made from strands of Nicky's hair...

Not to mention my own poo!

[Ben]

Originally Posted by tzb

Not to mention my own poo!

Ohhh, how VERY Chris Ofili. Marvelous. *strokes beard*

[Finn]

Well, after all the bodily fluids in the KYE cover art, it's a natural progression.

[curlyboa]

Originally Posted by tzb

Speak for yourself, I'm gonna buy 90 and frame them.

Originally Posted by BradfieldsLoveChild

And then sell that collage on eBay on February 19th...

Let me know when you list it, and I may just put a bid in!

[Bought In]

fuck sake, i knew this would happen, I just arrived in qatar, bastards

[Alexkid]

Originally Posted by curlyboa

And if people want to sell something (whether it be tickets or a pair of shoes) on ebay for more than they paid for it, then why not?!

Because it's selfish and mean-spirited? But I guess it's down to whether you think it's ok to do other fans who genuinely want to go out of tickets to make a quick, relatively easy buck at the click of a mouse. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Sorry if that sounds primary school.

[UEF]

It's OK if its any other rare commodity I guess, but it's all about the music, maaaan

[curlyboa]

Originally Posted by Alexkid

Because it's selfish and mean-spirited? But I guess it's down to whether you think it's ok to do other fans who genuinely want to go out of tickets to make a quick, relatively easy buck at the click of a mouse. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Sorry if that sounds primary school.

But that's like saying that shopkeepers should sell their products at cost! It's called business! I'm sure that any Manics fans that had spare tickets would sell them on here anyway!

No need to apologise... it didn't sound primary school at all.

[tzb]

No, it's like a guy buying selling something with a price printed on it at cost then selling it on at twice or more times that price in an alley.

Seriously, the prices the tickets are sold at originally aren't "cost", they already sell at a profit. The venues are the final sales outlet, just because some fucker decides to buy up some of the limited stock and sell them in the internet equivalent of the back of his van at inflated prices doesn't make it a legitimate business.

[Ben]

Originally Posted by tzb

ust because some fucker decides to buy up some of the limited stock and sell them in the internet equivalent of the back of his van at inflated prices doesn't make it a legitimate business.

Really?! Fuck! *rewrites business plan*

[tzb]

It has more in common with drug dealing than it does a shop.

[curlyboa]

Originally Posted by tzb

No, it's like a guy buying selling something with a price printed on it at cost then selling it on at twice or more times that price in an alley.

Seriously, the prices the tickets are sold at originally aren't "cost", they already sell at a profit. The venues are the final sales outlet, just because some fucker decides to buy up some of the limited stock and sell them in the internet equivalent of the back of his van at inflated prices doesn't make it a legitimate business.

But it is legitimate surely... otherwise it wouldn't be allowed on ebay would it?

[Takk]

Fuck 90, I'm buying 300 and using them to light my cigars...

[Alexkid]

Originally Posted by curlyboa

But that's like saying that shopkeepers should sell their products at cost! It's called making a business! I'm sure that any Manics fans that had spare tickets would sell them on here anyway!

No need to apologise... it didn't sound primary school at all.

Business is fine, if it is personal endeavour to make money through legitimate means which doesn't cause misery for other people. Say I started up a shop selling tins of baked beans, that would be a legitimate business. Touting is not OK because it causes misery for people who really want to go to that gig. The fact that it is easy, and you don't have to leave the house to do it makes it popular with the opportunistic.

Touting is not a legitimate business, and the fact that there is a push for revision of current legislation means that a lot of people are extremely hacked off with it. Drug dealing is highly profitable, and pretty easy, but you wouldn't do it because it is wrong and results in a chain of misery. If touting had the same level of legislative protection thrown at it, would you still do it?

[tzb]

Originally Posted by curlyboa

But it is legitimate surely... otherwise it wouldn't be allowed on ebay would it?

The government is currently (finally) investigating it. There are plenty of instances where ebay has blocked and removed touted tickets.