phishin4mango Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 more shitty news........found this on http://www.musicgods.com/phish/ticketboard/ Hey great news to all of you in search of tickets....I had posted a company named Empire Tickets which has 47 tickets for sale, but guess what I found another outstandind company call Missouri Ticket Co. that has them beat. Get ready to puke fokes. Those bastards have 56 tickets for sale ranging in price from $800 up to $2500, check it out this is so disgusting. Please feel phree to e-mail them with your most personal thoughts as I have been doing all day to these theifs. Come on now 56 fucking tickets....what a joke. You have to take out a loan in order to see phish for an evening.....WHAT. This must be stopped. Do any of these ticket brokers realize what we Phish phans stand for? Kindness and respect through music. I am really glad to have a message board such as this to vent my feelings on this subject. This has been the worst day of my life. We must unite a battle these people. Who do they think they are trying to profit from us kind phokes??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay sanislo Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 we need to do something about this. scalpers probably dont even know who the helll phish is or never mind there fav tune or show. this really gets under my skin those fricin scalpers. They have no idea what we are about and they stand for everything we are against man after hearing that some of these places have something like 56 tickets for sale when i can think of 56 people on here that would of loved those tickets. Ok i cant talk about this anymore i think im about to cry in disgust about this. THE FANS MUST RULE those scalping bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 The shittiest thing about scalpers is that there always seem to be people willing to buy from them and support them in their efforts to rip off both the bands and their fans. Something has to be done, but I really dont know what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishin4mango Posted September 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 this dude is selling two tickets on ebay for MSG, 200 level, for at least $7100.00! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1382765473 his e-mail is below TicketsbyEmail@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishin4mango Posted September 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 ebay is full of tickets for sale, but why are people bidding on them.........gotta do something about all this~ hopefully phish is planning on monitoring ebay and not sending out the tickets that are being sold off through ebay? any other thoughts? i guess i should be pretty happy considering the fact that i am going to NYE and i only had to pay $49.50 US. pretty cheap ticket....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headygouda Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 I emailed phish tickets-by-mail regarding the ebay scalpers and ticket brokers. They said they will spend the next two months monitoring all of these avenues and cancel orders that match seat locations. I'm afraid that the brokers got their tix via insiders at TM, so there is nothing phish can really do about those tix - only the ones 'won in the lottery' can be dealt with! Damn ticketbastard...they're in on the conspiracy! Its good to know that the scalpers can't get a hold of taper's tix without phish cancelling them though... Scary to think that a show this big could potentially NOT get taped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 Man that's so brutal... The shows sold out so quickly, and the scalpers have tons of tickets... What's gonna end up happening is new years is gonna be half empty and scalpers are gonna be sitting with stacks of unused tickets... That's really sad. I hope all those that want to go, find a way... Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishin4mango Posted September 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 what can't ALL tickets for phish shows be distributed through phish tickets by mail??? i just emailed them asking them....hope to hear back from them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headygouda Posted September 21, 2002 Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 Here's some info sent to me that may shed some light on the numbers and why phish doesn't have ALL the tix: From: Jordan Geswein Subject: phish tix (nSCI) (nKimock) Sorry for the non-Cheese, non-Kimock post, but thought some of you might find this interesting. I called the Phish tix number provided by Aram, thanks Aram! Anyway I confirmed that I didn't get my tix, then asked them some ?'s as to how many requests they got, the lady said they received over 130,000 requests to enter the lottery, so figuring each request was for 2 tickets thats a total request of 260,000 tix from phans, of those requests they only had a total of 30,000 (11.5% of the total requested) tix to sell for all four shows! Hampton seats 11,226 for reserved seating concerts, so thats 33,678 seats for the hampton run. MSG seats ~19,763. That means there is only 53,441 total seats available for the whole NYE run. The band has 30,000 of those seats (available through the lottery), which means ticketbastard has 23,441 of them to sell friday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishin4mango Posted September 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2002 but why does ticket master even have to get ANY of those tickets??? is there some stipulation that ticket master has to be in charge? i am soooooo frustruated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezy Posted September 22, 2002 Report Share Posted September 22, 2002 From what I understand, Ticketbastard has deals with every large venue giving them a guaranteed number of tickets for every event thrown. Hence, their monopoly. This was the main reason that Eddie Vedder failed in his attempt to start his own ticket company to thwart the evil tactics of TB. CLICK HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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