Submitted by NC against Scalpers (not verified) on July 11, 2008 - 11:29am.
I can't believe the NC legislature is actually considering this bill. It doesn't help anybody but the sports franchises and the ticket-scalping leaches! Have any of these idiots been on TicketsNow or StubHub and seen the outrageous prices these sites charge? They claim these are market prices, but they use their computerized systems to hoard all the tickets and jack up the prices so the casual fan has no access. There's no way NC law enforcement agencies can enforce the part of this bill that prevents the scalper leaches from using their computers to buy all tickets within minutes.
The scalpers claim to offer the "service" of providing hard-to-find tickets to people. They don't tell you that they are the reason these tickets are hard to find.
The claim that ticket prices might actually go down is complete BS. Look on StubHub or TicketsNow and show me a single ticket that is lower than face value.
As for the few season ticket holders that will now be able to sell some unused tickets easier...this is a weak weak claim. I own season tickets and never have a problem finding people to buy my unused tickets. If a season ticket holder has too many tickets to get rid of, then he/she maybe shouldn't buy season tickets! Why does legislature need a law to help the priveledged few that can afford hundreds (or thousands) of dollars for season tickets? Protect the common man who can now afford to see a game a season, but if they're forced to pay scalper prices they won't get even one!
Legalized scalping helps nobody but franchises and leaches
I can't believe the NC legislature is actually considering this bill. It doesn't help anybody but the sports franchises and the ticket-scalping leaches! Have any of these idiots been on TicketsNow or StubHub and seen the outrageous prices these sites charge? They claim these are market prices, but they use their computerized systems to hoard all the tickets and jack up the prices so the casual fan has no access. There's no way NC law enforcement agencies can enforce the part of this bill that prevents the scalper leaches from using their computers to buy all tickets within minutes.
The scalpers claim to offer the "service" of providing hard-to-find tickets to people. They don't tell you that they are the reason these tickets are hard to find.
The claim that ticket prices might actually go down is complete BS. Look on StubHub or TicketsNow and show me a single ticket that is lower than face value.
As for the few season ticket holders that will now be able to sell some unused tickets easier...this is a weak weak claim. I own season tickets and never have a problem finding people to buy my unused tickets. If a season ticket holder has too many tickets to get rid of, then he/she maybe shouldn't buy season tickets! Why does legislature need a law to help the priveledged few that can afford hundreds (or thousands) of dollars for season tickets? Protect the common man who can now afford to see a game a season, but if they're forced to pay scalper prices they won't get even one!