Thursday, January 20, 2005
eBay Ticket Tout Alert
Remember Tom Waits playing in the Hammersmith Apollo, London last year? The hype about the venue selling out in 30 mins, how there was so much demand he could have filled Old Trafford for five nights? You ever even suspect Tom Waits had that much of a following (Admitedly, Mule Varations did sell over one-million copies, but that was worldwide)?
Maybe it might have been thousands of ticket touts which later sold for £600 on eBay, double that on the street. This has so enraged TV personality (And probable Tom Waits fan) Charles Kennedy that he wants the Lib Dems clamp down on the fiends.
Selling tickets on eBay is the worst crime, not only do you get less despite the larger market, its done by people who lack the aggro, quick wit and bartering skills needed to sell tickets succcesfuly, the dirty stop outs...
I deplore the action of these touts, and I certainly won't be waking up at 8:45 AM on Saturday to put on the kettle then try get my piano player fingers onto some Nine Inch Nails tickets for their first gig here since Glastonbury '00 (I was there you know, selling cans of Stella for £2.50 before their set started as I'd forgotten to bring money, food or a sleeping bag), the first to promote their new album, and I'm certainly not on their site now registering with the pre-order service...
So none of you, no rushing to places where tickets are avaliable to snap up tickets, not till I've got mine...
Incidently, the other Nine Inch Nails news site,The Meathead Perspective, is rather amusing.
Maybe it might have been thousands of ticket touts which later sold for £600 on eBay, double that on the street. This has so enraged TV personality (And probable Tom Waits fan) Charles Kennedy that he wants the Lib Dems clamp down on the fiends.
Selling tickets on eBay is the worst crime, not only do you get less despite the larger market, its done by people who lack the aggro, quick wit and bartering skills needed to sell tickets succcesfuly, the dirty stop outs...
I deplore the action of these touts, and I certainly won't be waking up at 8:45 AM on Saturday to put on the kettle then try get my piano player fingers onto some Nine Inch Nails tickets for their first gig here since Glastonbury '00 (I was there you know, selling cans of Stella for £2.50 before their set started as I'd forgotten to bring money, food or a sleeping bag), the first to promote their new album, and I'm certainly not on their site now registering with the pre-order service...
So none of you, no rushing to places where tickets are avaliable to snap up tickets, not till I've got mine...
Incidently, the other Nine Inch Nails news site,The Meathead Perspective, is rather amusing.
