Comments on: Ace Ticket: “Great” Prices for Red Sox Tickets?

By: jack dempsey

jack dempsey — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:15:59 +0000

These arguments have been going on since the beginning of time. Scalpers are a way of life, just like the pushcarts outside the park. “Whatever the market will bear” is what controls their action. I still prefer to watch ‘em on a big screen tv at the club in an air conditioned room with very reasonably priced drinks AND have instant replay. Once game is over, I’m 5 minutes from home.

By: RS

RS — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:25:48 +0000

@K Leonard

I understand your point, but your example is a bit off.
Is it worth it for me to fly to South Africa to buy a diamond for $100 rather than pay someone here in the USA $3000 for it?
the problem is the “overhead” expense, which would cost about $3000 in flight costs, not including transportation on arrival and having to know where to look to get these diamonds, with no guarantee that I’m getting a real one. Add to that the time I have to take off to get there and it’s worth paying the extra “fee”.

When it comes to tickets, two things:

(1) going to a ticket booth will not usually give you any monetary discount, even though you think it would
(2) going there doesn’t guarantee that you get a ticket

Is it worth going out of your way for the same chance of getting a ticket at the same price?
Unfortunately, this is why ticketmaster has gotcha, through their strong-arm tactics against the entertainment industry.

By: K Leonard

K Leonard — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:49:34 +0000

How about people stop complaining and wake up at 10am and buy tickets when every body else does? People are lazy and refuse to wake up early on a Saturday morning to buy tickets. I’ve seen the ticket bot that Ace Tickets and others use, and it is actually much slower than a human in buying tickets. It only gives them an edge in simulating 100′s of humans. Just like most people are too lazy to fly to Sierra Leone and pan for diamonds, you pay somebody $1,000′s-millions of dollars to someone who has. The same goes for tickets, you pay for the service. You are too lazy to get it yourself so you pay somebody else to do it.

By: Bee

Bee — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:36:30 +0000

How about this, once an event ticket price is established, make
it illegal for that event ticket to be sold at any other price.
Arrest entities who sell it for more. Do this for every event.?

By: RS

RS — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:57:57 +0000

Well said Jasper.

Any impropriety is a big thing…it just that sometimes there are bigger things, like people’s lives in war zones, child labor zones, exported job zones, etc.