“GRAPE Me
GRAPE me, my friend
GRAPE me
GRAPE me again
I’m not the only one”
(Drop the "G")
Penned and performed by the grunge initiators NIRVANA you can tell the
great songs by the staying power of their relevance and with the
NC Legislators current bill that will legalize ticket reselling above
the face value it’s the formalization of the fornication I keep getting
while purchasing around 90 concert tickets a year.
The marketing spin has been applied as it’s now painted with another
color being called “re-selling” instead of “scalping”. Maybe “scalping”
isn’t a politically correct term any longer but it was initially given
that name for a purpose, it hurt like nothing else you’ve probably ever
felt, painful, bloody, the excess removal of something and in this case
most of that was from your wallet.
It’s either a slow news week or this story has a base out there as being
something people are interested in since in its latest presentation was
on the front page of Section-A of the N&O.
Those that argue for it, which includes every single entity that is
currently making a buck off of it, are saying that it is to protect the
ticket buying public from counterfeit tickets. Oh yes, people that profit
from scalping tickets plus politicians banding together to save the common
people; we can be saved by the Legislature closing the short session and
getting a bus ticket out of town.
Newbie ticket sellers have not been appreciative of others ticket
purchasing software that second generation scalpers have been using to
grab seats yet that is the very creature ticket sellers seek to be and
have now become so this legislation bans the use of this software. That
makes it appear that they are looking after themselves, no one else.
As to the fact that second generation ticket scalping has been rampant
for years some notable quotes were:
“Law enforcement doesn’t have the resources to enforce the existing
scalping laws”.
“The internet is so amorphous that it prevents enforcement”.
Can’t you just feel the tide rolling, evidently all things that are on the
internet will soon be lawful to seek and enjoy. Ah Sodom, where is thy
Gomorrah.
What had me scratching my scalped head, besides the pain, was why this was happening now and as dead as people say the printed page of the newspaper is, there it was: it was all initiated by the crashing tsunami wave of Hannah Montana’s tour when mini-van loads of devastated kiddies could not get tickets. One NC lady bought a $56 dollar ticket for $350.00 and then had her lawyer husband sue Stub-Hub, E-Bay’s ticket re-seller.
Every story needs an Evil Villain and this one is riddled.
…fnLEE
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