Posted on 11/28/2007 7:08:32 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
If people weren’t willing to buy from scalpers, they’d stop in pretty short order. Who wants to spend that kind of money on tickets to have nobody buy them? And it isn’t worth your time to sell them for what you paid.
The people buying scalped tickets are the ones contributing to the problem.
The people paying for those tickets are paying what they think is the value of those tickets to them. Nobody is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to pay those prices.
Elected officials are getting involved with Mr Achy Breakies little girl’s performances?
Good lord....there are more important things they should be doing.
OMG!! Hey Dan Gelber.....your little PRINCESSES are learning a HIDEOUS lesson!! You make me sick...a LAW because your little princesses can’t see Hannah Montana?????
“I thought it read Bill Targets Hannah Montana.”
Not a chance in hell.
Hannah Montana Ticket scalping was the focus of several letters to the editor and articles in my local paper as there was a performance here last week.
In every case, mommy or daddy were whining because poor little princess couldn’t go see the show while other, more affluent parents could afford scalper’s prices.
I’d hope Billy Ray would bust Bubba’s arse if he so much as leered at his daughter.
>>Gelber’s bill would not bring back the anti-scalping law, but it would make it a crime to use ‘’ticket purchasing software’’ to obtain tickets from a website. The legislation would also require companies that resell tickets to register with the state and post a $50,000 bond. Those who break the law could be fined three times the amount of the scalped ticke<<
What a dumbass.
“Ticket purchasing software?” I wonder how carefully he defines that.
And a $50,000 bond will leave only big brokers.
Not to mention its totally free enterprise.
Now what I would like to see is what Mel Brooks did with the Producers on Broadway - sell the premium tickets for a lot to start with so the money goes to the show not the scalpers.
That’s beside the point. If they willingly pay scalpers the prices they’re asking, they’re contributing to the problem. If there were no buyers, the scalpers would quit.
Really. How hard would it be for Ticketmaster to put in a software enhancement such that no more than X tickets may be purchased for certain events with any single credit card, or be sent to any single address?
I’d hope Billy Ray would bust Bubba’s arse if he so much as leered at his daughter.”
A Big Daddy doesn’t take “kindly” to these kind of things. He protects His “butterfly kisses”.
I love the show and am a big fan of Miley. It is hard to believe she just turned 15 last week - she does act her age, but she also delivers her acting lines like someone much older, certainly not the 13-year-old she was when she started the show.
She’s a good girl, too, and goes to church, doesn’t date. I hope it stays that way with her. I like her bubble-gum music, too - lol, she’s just an all-around cutie, I think.
I’ve been amazed at her widespread popularity, though, and this ticket price phenomenon everywhere she appears. Our rodeo here in Houston is a long, long-time high-profile annual event - think “Elvis” being one who performed here - and Hannah Montana set new records last year, outselling everyone who had ever performed here!
It was truly amazing - and she’ll be here again in March for it, and of course, some people are buying up the season tickets for the rodeo (all performers throughout the two weeks) just to get HM tickets for less than the scalping price. Incredible!
BTW like your tag and Green ain’t keen.
Anyways, no worries cause Bubba’s machine is broken these days.
Maile sounds like a delightful plant! Was the dog that nice? (Bet he didn’t smell like vanilla.)
Can you believe her HLSR records? Just amazing. I think Reba also got an award last year for being the first female artist to have performed for over 1 million people at the rodeo.
Any so-called 'parent' who would shell out the bucks demanded to either type of seller is going to have way more trouble with their 'princess' down the line than just the current raid on the champaign-and-brie fund. When working class parents tell their kids "No" to this sort of extortion, they build character instead of consumerism.
Actually, the dog is very sweet!
Bah humbug...didn’t you ever go to a concert when you were young? Parents would rather shell out hundreds of dollars so their children can see wholesome entertainment than pay less to see scantily clad women hump men on the stage.
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