Scalping my Eagles tickets...

[RecycleMichael]

When I got my Eagles tickets, we had bought a couple of good seats together for my wife and mother-in-law, then bought four together in the cheap section for me and my friends.

I knew right away that having four tickets together was valuable, more valuable as cash than they would be for the experience for me. I decided right away I would scalp them.

How do you scalp tickets in Tulsa? I looked on ebay, but I was a little afraid of doing a transaction with some unseen bidder for a sale I hoped could be hundreds of dollars. I called the only scalper I know, he said he would buy them, but not for as much profit as I wanted.

You probably know this scalper. His name is Marc and he stands out in front of the concert and sporting events wearing a cloth bucket hat. I have bought tickets from him for years, usually for less than face value (If you want his phone number, send me a PM. He has tickets to every show and sporting event). I swear by him and would recommend him to anybody.

I decide to list them on a commercial website I had heard a commercial for. StubHub.com was a middleman website that sells everything and charges a 15% commission to the seller.

The tickets were $50 seats (really $61 seats with all the charges). My total investment in getting them was $244 and about ten minutes of my time. Listing them on StubHub took another took another fifteen minutes and I knew that printing out the shipping label and driving them to a Fedex site would take about a half hour. Total time, less than an hour and one gallon of gas.

StubHub was great. I listed them together starting at $229 each and they dropped the price slightly each day until they sold. I set the minimum at $150 and the sale to end the last week of August so if it didn't work I could quickly make other plans.

They sold today for $203 dollars a piece. My total outlay was $244 and my check after commission will be $690 for a $446 profit.

I followed all laws in buying the seats and selling the tickets above face value. I was able to recieve my tickets by mail and send them through Fedex easily.

Here is a link to the StubHub site for this Eagles show. If you need tickets or need to sell yours, it is an easy way. As of now, there are some good pairs of tickets (better than the seats I sold) available for $150 each.

http://www.stubhub.com/eagles-tickets/eagles-tulsa-bok-center-9-6-2008-674296/

[FOTD]

Contribute them and take a deduction....

Or

Stand out front the night of the show and sell them for what they cost you

Or

Give them to a fan who can't afford the show

or

Donate them to Andrew Rice's campaign

or

put an ad on Craig's List

or

Put an ad in the newspaper

or

learn how to utilize ebay

Prices are starting to drop.....damn commodities market.

[AMP]

One gathers that ticket pricing are all relative to the level of excitement or perhaps the precieved prestige an event carries. The level of savvyness in the market and the "Golly Sargent Carter" effect seems to have a major influence on ticket prices at many events. Some artists can command upwards of $1,349 per ticket for around a 2 hour performance at a concert hall.

$1,349 a ticket? See the Eagles Tickets Online -
These are today's prices at the Ticketsnow outlet.

http://www.ticketsnow.com/InventoryBrowse/TicketList.aspx?PID=677329

[Gold]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

When I got my Eagles tickets, we had bought a couple of good seats together for my wife and mother-in-law, then bought four together in the cheap section for me and my friends.

I knew right away that having four tickets together was valuable, more valuable as cash than they would be for the experience for me. I decided right away I would scalp them.

How do you scalp tickets in Tulsa? I looked on ebay, but I was a little afraid of doing a transaction with some unseen bidder for a sale I hoped could be hundreds of dollars. I called the only scalper I know, he said he would buy them, but not for as much profit as I wanted.

You probably know this scalper. His name is Marc and he stands out in front of the concert and sporting events wearing a cloth bucket hat. I have bought tickets from him for years, usually for less than face value (If you want his phone number, send me a PM. He has tickets to every show and sporting event). I swear by him and would recommend him to anybody.

I decide to list them on a commercial website I had heard a commercial for. StubHub.com was a middleman website that sells everything and charges a 15% commission to the seller.

The tickets were $50 seats (really $61 seats with all the charges). My total investment in getting them was $244 and about ten minutes of my time. Listing them on StubHub took another took another fifteen minutes and I knew that printing out the shipping label and driving them to a Fedex site would take about a half hour. Total time, less than an hour and one gallon of gas.

StubHub was great. I listed them together starting at $229 each and they dropped the price slightly each day until they sold. I set the minimum at $150 and the sale to end the last week of August so if it didn't work I could quickly make other plans.

They sold today for $203 dollars a piece. My total outlay was $244 and my check after commission will be $690 for a $446 profit.

I followed all laws in buying the seats and selling the tickets above face value. I was able to recieve my tickets by mail and send them through Fedex easily.

Here is a link to the StubHub site for this Eagles show. If you need tickets or need to sell yours, it is an easy way. As of now, there are some good pairs of tickets (better than the seats I sold) available for $150 each.

http://www.stubhub.com/eagles-tickets/eagles-tulsa-bok-center-9-6-2008-674296/

So that's Gilligan's name.  He is in front of the arena for every TU basketball game and I can't stand him.  After about 10 years of going to almost every home game, you'd think he'd know not to ask me if I want tickets.

"Dennis Hopper called from Easy Rider . . . he wants his jacket back, Tonto."

[Conan71]

I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats.  I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats.  I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.

I like the guys in NYC...you can talk about everything while they wait for the right client. They know their sports.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

I have a personal policy of not dealing with scalpers in cloth bucket hats.  I far prefer dealing with grease-balls with mulletts and body odor.

I like the guys in NYC...you can talk about everything while they wait for the right client. They know their sports.

Go see "Big Man".  Tell him Conan sent you:

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/

[tim huntzinger]

Is it true that only two of the original members are performing?

[sgrizzle]

Depends on what era you care about. It is the 1977 lineup minus Felder.

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Is it true that only two of the original members are performing?

Great. I always dread that.

I once went to hear the Mamas and the Papas and got the Aunts and the Uncles.

[FOTD]

Interesting. The great Zimmy performs here next week at The Old Lady On Brady. The reviewers as usual will say how awful he sounds and how none of the songs sound like the original versions. But for those that pay attention, the master will paint the scene upon the backbone of the "never ending tour" band.

On Miles of Aisles, Joni Mitchell rants of how no one would dare yell at Van Gough to paint another Starry Night.....

This may be the last time one gets to see Dylan perform in Tulsa. The greatest songwriter of a generation and the Eagles soar. You can't get a show like this by buying the CD.

Play it up for the Tamborine Man....the times are changing again.

[shadows]

Scalping tickets by those who serve on the city trusts and authorities rebukes the trust in those who have promoted the collecting the Widow's Mite, that they are being forced to pay on their measly income needed for affordable food and utilities, in and effort to sustain even the bare necessities of life, thus they are required to build an arena, ball park, convention center,  against human nature and the laws of survival.  

Any person, given the presumption as being a person trustworthy who would flaunt his ability to profit from the near borderline of a criminal act, standing on the shoulders of over a third of those living in Tulsa below the poverty level should resign from any  positions in Trust or Authorities he holds as being held in fraud.

The scallping has come  up before the Councilors and there was talk of how to eliminate it.   This as it continues will degrade further the ability for the arena when person buy tickets to be sold at three or four times the cost set by the operators of public buildings being paid for including the Widows Mite, depriving the children and elderly a bare existence.  

Should the councilors look into this out-of-hand scalping and pass an ordinance where the person who has been overcharged for a ticket be required to be be paid three times the overcharge by the scalper?   In the real life the practice is no more than fraud and should be treated as such.   One holding surplus tickets could return them to the issuer for a cash refund.  

Time to promote Tulsa and take it off the corrupt list.    

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by shadows

Scalping tickets by those who serve on the city trusts and authorities rebukes the trust in those who have promoted the collecting the Widow's Mite, that they are being forced to pay on their measly income needed for affordable food and utilities, in and effort to sustain even the bare necessities of life, thus they are required to build an arena, ball park, convention center,  against human nature and the laws of survival.  

Any person, given the presumption as being a person trustworthy who would flaunt his ability to profit from the near borderline of a criminal act, standing on the shoulders of over a third of those living in Tulsa below the poverty level should resign from any  positions in Trust or Authorities he holds as being held in fraud.

The scallping has come  up before the Councilors and there was talk of how to eliminate it.   This as it continues will degrade further the ability for the arena when person buy tickets to be sold at three or four times the cost set by the operators of public buildings being paid for including the Widows Mite, depriving the children and elderly a bare existence.  

Should the councilors look into this out-of-hand scalping and pass an ordinance where the person who has been overcharged for a ticket be required to be be paid three times the overcharge by the scalper?   In the real life the practice is no more than fraud and should be treated as such.   One holding surplus tickets could return them to the issuer for a cash refund.  

Time to promote Tulsa and take it off the corrupt list.    

Theatre of the Absurd? Right?

[RecycleMichael]

Sorry shadows. I ain't resigning from my job just because you think I should.

I sold my tickets to an out-of-state buyer whom I assume is coming to Tulsa to spend even more money. I didn't take any food out of the mouths of the Tulsa poor.

I received no special treatment, broke no laws, and plan to spend every penny of profit buying tickets to future shows.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

Sorry shadows. I ain't resigning from my job just because you think I should.

I sold my tickets to an out-of-state buyer whom I assume is coming to Tulsa to spend even more money. I didn't take any food out of the mouths of the Tulsa poor.

I received no special treatment, broke no laws, and plan to spend every penny of profit buying tickets to future shows.

What keeps America from a complete corporate take over. Bravo RM!

Now, what about barter?