I'll be more bold - scalpers are blood sucking, bottom feeding assholes who
have no usefulness whatsoever. I can remember waiting overnight for tickets to
go on sale for shows when I was in college only to find scalpers had totally
unleveled the playing field. They do nothing except ruin the opportunity for
motivated people to get tickets to see shows that would add to their their
lives, and have turned concerts into something that often only the well-off
can afford. They add no value to anything. If he doesn't care about impressing
people, he has succeeded, as nothing impresses me less than someone who is
just a moneychanger with no added value to society.
Ron Soave
Roscoe, IL
"It only goes one way."
"Pay it forward."
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On Mon, 8/11/14, George <leavcast@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The Collective Wisdom of the Spridgets Group - No
LBC
To: "'Kirk Hargreaves'" <khargreaves2@gmail.com>, "'Spridgets'"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, August 11, 2014, 9:11 AM
Kirk,
Scalping is illegal in some areas...might want to check.
George C
1959-AN5, 1954-100
Flagstaff
-----Original Message-----
From: Spridgets [mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Kirk
Hargreaves
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 8:27 PM
To: Spridgets
Subject: [Spridgets] The Collective Wisdom of the Spridgets
Group - No LBC
I so appreciate the wisdom and insight I get from the group
. . so I want to
bounce this off of you as some of you may have experience in
this arena.
Greg is a young man who I run into at the Fresh and Easy
market.
He tells me that he made $28,500 last year selling event
tickets on eBay.
He does music events, no sports.
People do very well with sporting event tickets . . but most
people focus on
a market that they continue to be more and more familiar
with.
Why does Greg work for minimum wage at the market and then
make so much more
for his time selling event tickets? Hard to
understand. . . . . there does
seem to be a disconnect here.
Greg does not come off as the type of guy who cares about
impressing people
. . very reserved kind of guy. After talking to him as
much as I have I
lean towards Greg telling me truthfully what has been
actually happening in
his life.
One day at Fresh and Easy he was helping me and the subject
of eBay came up.
I was lamenting the fact that I had a large item to send . .
some motorcycle
parts I sold before our move. He chimed in about how easy it
is to send
event tickets O'night. That is how the conversation
began.
He tells me that he made $400 recently selling Paul
McCartney tickets.
The key is to buy early and buy good seats that sell out
fast. Because Greg
has bought tickets before, at times, he gets sent codes that
he can use on
the ticket site/s to buy before the public.
His profit on Celine Dion . . .. he spent $800 and pulled
back $2,400.
Myself with over 2000 eBay transactions I have seen many
times bidding wars
which drive prices past expectations.
He immediately lists the tickets, most often for a 7 day
listing.
I have spent time researching this. It appears that
there are many who do
very well with this . . no doubt those also who lose money.
Some people it appears have taken losses only to learn from
their mistake
and get back in to recover losses and make gains.
Thoughts?
Kirk
59 1275
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