Posted on 06/07/2007 4:35:24 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
My family lives on the North side of Indianapolis up by Fishers. Just down the road is Verizon Wireless concert arena. When we drive by on days of concerts, there are many people sitting in chairs off to the side of the road with signs stating "Need tix" while holding tickets in their hands, presumably for sale. What am I missing here (besides the Brad Paisely concert tonight)?
Arbitrage.
They want to buy your tickets....then re-sale them.
they are called scalpers.
Scalping is illegal but soliciting to buy isn’t maybe?
They NEED your tickets to sell at a higher price .You will sell them to them at below cost and they will turn around and sell them at a profit.
BTY, Paisley is a great concert . Don’t drink too much ALCOHOL!!
I guess I don't understanding the question...Do you need an explanation of how scalping works?
If you want ticks and don't even know how to spell them, you just might be a redneck.
I guess I must. I always thought scalping was already having tickets to sell at a ridiculous profit, especially if the show is a sell-out, but they rarely are at VW what with unlimited seating in the grass. I guess it just looked kind of stupid to be holding tickets while asking for more. I must be getting old(er). Thanks.
they left the question mark off their advertising for legal reasons......absent the Q mark, they are proclaiming they need tickets, but holding tickets up clearly shows their wares for sale..........just my guess
It’s called the Free Market. We believe in it.
It’s illegal to resell tickets above cost + a small profit. It’s illegal to solicit to sell tickets at above the (cost+ small profit). It is not however, illegal to solicit to buy tickets. Hence the situation occurs.
If you ever have the time, watch how the scalpers start far away from the venue, and in the last 30 minutes before the event starts, the scalopers play leapfrog inward towards the gates to try to not be the scalper furthest out from the gates.
Find the laziest scalper who is furthest out from the gate, and get tickets below cost 5 minutes before the event starts.
Take my advice and flea this escalating pun violence.
That would be a rash thing to do, and someone's likely to tell you to bug Off.
If it's a country music concert, these folks are probably
offering to either let some of their bodily parasites infest you,
or they are wishing to be infested by some of your own bodily parasites.
Country music fans have ticks and like it.
Fleas, too.
And if the Sabres or the Bills can manage a good year, it may just be one way for some poor schmucks to make enough money to stick around for another year or two while they keep job-hunting. Ain't capitalism great?
And, no. I don't know what the state tax code dictates about declaring ticket-scalping income -- but I've got a pretty good idea.
I thought I heard a mule bray!
I agree.
If you are dumb enough to pay me 200K for my Jeep Wrangler I will sell it to you. Heck I’ll even wax the dang thing!
What the heck is wrong with that?
What if there's a concert that needs wires? Where do they go?
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