Posted by Vincent at bg-tc-ppp131.monmouth.com on September 30, 2000 at 15:43:34:
In Reply to: Question for those who were selling V2K tixs posted by Banky the Hack on September 30, 2000 at 15:20:13:
: Did anyone who stiffed you guys on the e-Jay items try and get tickets?
: Just curious.
: Banky the Hack
Unless they had somebody else call and order the tix, no, none of the banned people called in.
Incidentally, remember when Kevin and I said we wouldn't condone ticket scalping, and if you had too many tickets and needed to unload one or found out you couldn't attend the event, you had to call us to cancel your tix? WELL, one enterprising soul thought he could get around our scalping ban- it turns out he had a little bidding war going on between 10 or so folks for one of his two tickets, and the price was up to $175 for his extra ticket. He assured his bidders to "disregard what Kevin said on the board" because he'd be picking up the tickets himself, and would make the money/ticket trade after he picked up his tix. Guess what? Kevin and I became privy to this scalper's activities, and he now has NO tickets to Vulgarthon- his order is being cancelled and BOTH of his tickets will be put back for sale late next week when we get all the cancelations in.
We feel that this goes above and beyond "when you pick up your tickets, do as you please" because the person in question had an active bid going on BEFORE he picked up his tix, and was hell-dent on selling off his extra ticket at an absurd profit. That's the only reason he bought two tickets in the first place, and now he's screwed because both of his tickets will be resold through us at the $55 each price. The moral of this story? Don't think you can get one over on us- this guy was trying to screw some fans out of a lot of money, and some of those fans were not pleased and informed us of his actions, and now he's out of BOTH of his tickets.
Vincent