Posted on 04/06/2009 2:25:50 AM PDT by DemforBush
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday unveiled a proposal aimed at giving fans a better chance to buy hot concert tickets at face value before ticket resellers scoop them up and raise the prices...
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I’m so glad we have “representatives” that are out and about the really important things our nation needs.
Chuckie is a smuckhead.
Is there a more obnoxious person in American public life? Is there?
I guess this makes it official.
There is absolutely no aspect of life in America they will not try to regulate.
(Before I clicked on the article I was sure this had to be satire, but I suppose that the aspiring grasp of these craven sots is beyond that.)
Sad and scary, isn't it.
That said the resellers are a pain in the wallet.
I used to pay for Pocono Raceway tickets but a few years ago the resellers jumped in and made it hard to get decent tickets directly and they charge too much (legally).
But now I go free (volunteer as an usher, see the race for free)so I don't care.
What about laws against people wiping from back to front? Isn’t that a public health hazard? Shouldn’t the government get involved?
(Just trying to come up with some additional “important issues” the dems haven’t thought to regulate yet.)
Time to move on to the most oppressive issue in America today: high concession stand prices. Those people are making EXCESSIVE profits on popcorn and soda. I’m sure that’s un-constitutional. Or something.....
They want to control everything... just like stalin, chavez, che and fidel.
LLS
Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Dodd,Obama five of the greatest dangers to American.
Whew! What a relief!
I’m so glad that, with the economy circling the toilet, my penny-pinching will be easier given I’ll be able to buy cheaper necessities like concert tickets, thanks to the foresight of my elected officials at the national level.
Just develop some taste and you'll never fork over $500 to watch Britney Spears lip-synch or Carrie Underwood desecrate country music ever again.
Ticket resellers are part of the financial structuring of an event and guarantee the sponsors/performers the necessary guarantees that the shows will be a financial success. Am I mistaken?
NO! This schmuck makes my skin crawl. He is an attention WHORE!!!!
What’s the most dangerous place in the world?
Between Smuckie Schumer and a TV camera.
The dirty secret is that these aren’t “resellers” they are tickets provided by the company that owns the ticket service. They withhold them from the computer to begin with. Then as the show date approaches and high dollar tickets remain unsold, they silently add them to the general pool of tickets concert buyers can buy from the primary service for face value.
It is a monopoly. What’s more the venues are often civic owned.
This is just masking the underlying problems (like the conflict of interest in permitting the ticket company to scalp their own seats without actually BUYING the seats).
But Chuck wouldn’t actually take on Big Media.
You can say that again. I saw Rod Picot and Amanda Shires Saturday night for $8.00 a ticket and I was ten feet from the stage. One of the best shows I've ever seen. And then after the show I sat and chatted with them for half an hour in a bar next to the venue.
Anybody who loves good singer/songwriters should do themselves a favor and check out Rod Picot.
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