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Cher
Apr-17-2011, 19:13 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Why would Paul let American Express scalp
tickets so that the real fans can´t afford the show? I thought he was charitable. Apparently not to his fans, I see them asking 15x as much as the original tickets. This should be illegal. It used to be illegal in some states but I guess Anything Goes.
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Proof
Apr-17-2011, 19:21 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Hey, you can be rich and also be a real fan. : ) |
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Bodo
Apr-17-2011, 19:25 GMT
Austria
 | Cher this has nothing to do with Paul Simon.
I know it is annoying, and I really hate that business of ´official´ ticket scalpers. (I think even if you try to sell your ticket for face value as a private person in front of the show because you can not visit it you can be arrested, is that true? - I have only seen that on TV movies or sitcoms so I am not sure...but it would not Surprise me).
But fact is, it is legal to buy the best tickets before the real fans can get it, and it is legal to sell those tickets for extraordinary prices. And in a time with more millionairs and billionares and more 3000$ seats (Neil Diamond was so cool!), and in a time with more poore people without even a room where they can sleep, the future will be a strictly divided audience. Millionaires in the first rows, rich people behinde, and the rest can sit at home and watch TV.
Concerts become something for a special group of people.
But anyway, forget what I wrote - I just say, it has nothing to do with Paul Simon himself. The way how tickets are sold is out of his business: Without one exception. He could create a fan-club and sell the first 10 rows of every show to registered members (send in your ID). 2 tickets maximum per person, only private people, no companies. Oh that would take a lot of money from those scalpers. |
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Cher
Apr-17-2011, 21:46 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| It was illegal in my state, but then I
think it was before the internet, in fact I am going to find out. Though I
still do not see that an entertainer would have no say so over this.Yes I do
believe James Taylor has a set up for his fan club members, I get videos from
him, I´m just on the mailing list,but
you sure are right. I´ve seen the future for fans and it is murder. Oops, I haven´t checked out L.C. |
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Carol
Apr-18-2011, 02:48 GMT
Unknown
 | Ticket scalping is illegal in every state as far as I know. If I have an extra ticket I can´t use I just give it to someone outside the front door -- not worth getting in trouble to make a few $$. I got an e-mail from American Express advertising a "special fan experience" -- I guess this is "official" scalping. Knew I couldn´t afford it and deleted the e-mail without reading! |
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Phil
Apr-18-2011, 04:26 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I have no head for legal matters - perhaps someone can back me up on this.
Several yrs ago the (US) courts ruled that ticket resale could be dictated by ´market demand´. In essence, legal scalping. If some one is willing to pay - you can sell. Prior to that you´d get screwy sales on stub hub for game tickets PLUS a box of chocolates for 5x the tkt price under the guise of selling ´more´ than the tkt. That foolishness doesn´t happen any longer - cause there´s no limit on what can be charged for tkt alone. |
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Scaaty
Apr-18-2011, 14:02 GMT
Ireland
 | At a leonard cohen concert last year one of our group had an extra ticket, there was a ticket master van there who said they couldn´t resell it, but to stand over to one side and try and sell it and we did! no hassle |
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Carol
Apr-18-2011, 19:45 GMT
Unknown
| Sorry, I think Phil is right on this -- should have checked my facts. I picked up an issue of Rolling Stone this morning while waiting for my daughter at the Nashville airport, and they had an article on ticket scalping. Apparently it has gone high tech and is a major headache for big artists playing smaller halls. I received an (optional) paperless ticket for the Nashville concert -- I thought it was just a convenience but is partly an anti-scalping measure because the ticket taker can check your ID to make sure who purchased the ticket. The people who are making a killing scalping tickets argue that it is their right to buy tickets and do whatever they want. Genuine fans of modest means, many of them young kids, are priced out of attending concerts, money goes to people who contribute nothing to music or musicians, and eventually the scalpers kill the goose that laid the golden egg because people get fed up and quit going to concerts. Too bad! |
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Bodo
Apr-18-2011, 20:20 GMT
Austria
| Very well sum up Carol. Exactly what I think.
Well, what the artists (concert promoters) did was that they raised the ticket prices because they saw how much people are going to pay anyway...
Strange isn´t it? Because others pay more, also most other fans have to pay more :-)
I have friends who say they will never go to any concerts of any of the big bands, because they already have enough money. And yes, you can have the same fun if you attend a small concert with only 40 visitors and a good young band... |
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Carol
Apr-18-2011, 20:29 GMT
Unknown
| I signed on to Ticketmaster website in Nashville at 9:55 (five minutes before tickets went on sale) -- glad someone on this website warned us about this because they were gone fast! The two I got were marked "obstructed view." |
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Cher
Apr-18-2011, 22:10 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| You know if only everyone out there thought like these wonderful people here, I Have given tickets away myself.
I did try Nashville, well what they saved is not much and I am presuming they are selling saved tickets. It would be impossible to find anyone I would pay this kind of money for, not even for the price because I can´t deal with pure greed. It´s like our baseball games, stand so many feet away from the stadium and you can do what you want, but I must
add, fans can get together with the coach and a few players at a resturant for free about each week. I
paid $15 face value to see Elvis and they did allow scalping at that time in Indiana. And I was close I couldn´t believe it. I just picked one guy who looked honest? to me.I think in this case it´s the very small venues Paul chose that caused it to get out of hand.And the I don´t want to say it when will he be back. |
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Carol
Apr-22-2011, 19:39 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Another fun experience with "authorized ticket resellers" today -- they wanted more than $1000 for 4 seats to see "Les Miserables" in Nashville with my daughters. Finally got hold of tickets (for $110) in the back row of the balcony in a block reserved for university students. Makes me glad I seldom go to concerts! |
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Bodo
Apr-22-2011, 19:52 GMT
Austria
| 110 is the price for university students?
:-D wow
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Carol
Apr-22-2011, 20:15 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| For all 4 of us. |
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