Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I just bought 2 bon jovi tickets for quite a bit on this site and now I read that people have tons of problems with this site when it comes to getting the tickets you actually ordered, or other problems.  Has anyone here ever used this site?  Should I be scared? (these tickets were very expensive)

First of all yes... I have no clue how much you are talking... But i'll tell you right now you over paid for Boy Jovi  :hihi:

As far as stub hub no clue...

Never had issues buying from stubhub. 

If the seller doesnt get them in the mail immediately, his creditcard is charged for the tickets and you are refunded.

i have no idea how stubhub is even legal. shows that aren't even sold out are on there for several times the face value of the tix. i wouldn't give a penny of my money to that company or any of the ticket whores selling on there. grrrr, they make me mad. don't support that shit  >:(

Well if you used a credit card than you should be safe.

The only draw back I see is that if they do screw up your tickets somehow that you may not be able to get new tickets in time to see the show.

I have been using totaltickets.com to snag shows I can't get decent seats in. It's rare that I use it, but some groups I am willing to pay the money. I understand that people hate this shit, but in my eyes it's a free market. If somebody is willing to pay the price, than so be it. In this case if you were willing to pay "X" amount of dollars, then that is now the market price for that item. Same with the money I plunked down for my Def Leppard tickets. To me, I was willing to pay the money for what I wanted-as a buyer I set the market price.

's reasonabe sentiment in principle, I guess. But you're only looking at it from the point of view of a person who can afford to pay those ridiculously inflated prices.


Able, to. Able. If a show is going to sell out, then it isn't enough to merely be willing to pay the price that is subsequently going to be designated by the sellers on for those tickets. It isn't the same as an individual being willing to walk five miles to see their favourite band. In this case, you have to be able to pay joke prices. By applying your free market morality (ha!) to it you're essentially giving preferance to the prawn sandwich brigade at the expense of other, potentially much bigger (not to say more loyal and devoted), fans.

To apply it to a slightly different situation, have you any idea how quickly festivals such as Reading and Glastonbury sell out over here? You could sell them out a couple of times over. The prices that some people are willing to pay are incredible, but hey... You know what, it ain't actually as much to them as it would be to most other people. Because the middle class, them fuckers can't get enough of it. A lot of the average Joe's in attendance were simply lucky enough to have their browser load quicker. If you put it up to auction (and lo!, you'd soon find your market price) you'd still sell it out... But at the expense of who? In short, the less well off. Aye, so it be true.

Don't get me wrong, no where did I say (or elude to) "market morality." Capitalism isn't always purdy, but if a person is willing...ahem, able to pay the price (which doesn't necessarily mean they are able, just willing, but that is another topic altogether IMO) then that is what the item is "worth." If that leaves people out, then that is a byproduct of the transaction. I see many items in life that carry a price tag that falls under "joke prices"-homes, cars, clothes, electronics etc. Other people may strive for those items and pay well over fair market value for them, because they must be first in line to have it. Most of those items I don't care about, and in no way would I pay a premium price for them. Others do, and that pushes prices higher (because they can-people willing to pay) and the next tier of consumers may get a little less of an experience because of it.

The three times I have used a ticket "scalper" I had access to seats prior, there were other seats to be had, but it was not where I wanted to sit. So I still could have gone to the show and had a good time, just not where I wanted. So I paid the price to get that location. I'm sure a house on the beach in raw materials is only 200k, but I can't buy the house for even 1/4th of that. I'd get a house maybe 4 miles from the beach for 200k (hypothetical here). I could still ride my bike over to the beach and enjoy myself, but if I wanted that beach location, I'd have to pony up the money. Nobody said it's fair, I know I sure didn't.

true.....its useless to bitch about the price that places like stubhub charge for tickets......if someone is willing to pay it they will charge it, if some people cant afford it thats too bad....i am one of the ones who would not be able to afford ridiculously priced tickets so im not defending them......but life sucks...and its not fair...no one ever said it was.

well i got the exact tickets 2 days after i ordered.  i am pretty happy except that they are printed off on a piece of paper and not the actual ticket.  has anyone ever printed off their tickets instead of having them come in the mail?  ive always ordered the actual tickets

That's a good sign. The company I bought my tickets from had my tickets Fed Ex'd to me the next day. As far as I'm concerned, if I pay an above premium price, I'd better get an above premium service along with it.

The printed tickets bothered me at first. The first question that arouse was "What is stopping them from printing off ten sets and selling all of them?" Of course you have to look at the history of the seller. Mine had a physical address (two) and wasn't going to go ripping people off like that. When I first got the paper tickets I was concerned and called them. They said they actually preferred them because if I lost my tickets, they could print me up another pair and fed ex them to me again. Which I had not thought of.

You'll be just fine I'm sure.

But hang on for a second.

When I print tickets from Ticketmaster, there's a warning on the ticket that says that the ticket scanner will only recognize the very first printed ticket.  If you print again, they'll scramble the bar code or something along those lines.

I've never seen that, although I don't doubt it. I still would not worry. I haven't had a real pair of tickets now for years.