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Fiendish Thingy

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2. One of the main reasons I stopped going to big concerts was scalpers.

Reply to JimGinPA (Original post)

Tue Jan 26, 2021, 09:20 AM

Jan 2021

Prices were already too high for crappy seats, and I refuse to pay scalper prices when average Joe’s have no chance of getting decent seats at face value.

Have been going to club/small venue shows only for the past 10-12 years, and haven’t regretted it at all. I’m astonished when I hear about friends and coworkers paying $350 per mediocre seat to see Fleetwood Mac without Lindsey Buckingham!

My last arena show was Springsteen in , IIRC, 2010 (Clarence Clemons’ last tour); I had never seen Springsteen, so took the plunge. Great show, OK seats at an OK price ($75 IIRC) but that was the last straw for me.

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Three Ticket Brokers Fined $3.7 Million In First Use Of Obama-Era BOTS Act [View all] JimGinPA Jan 2021 OP

About fucking time. Lochloosa Jan 2021 #1

One of the main reasons I stopped going to big concerts was scalpers. Fiendish Thingy Jan 2021 #2

I Saw Them At Hershey Park On That Tour - I Even Made A Poster JimGinPA Jan 2021 #3