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Old 03-25-2008, 06:04 PM   #141
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There's a double standard though where its okay for the big companies to overcharge for things and rip people off, but it aint cool for the little guy to take a piece for himself once in a while.
The thing with tickets is that you do not own the seat. The Flames organization owns the seats. What you are doing is buying a privilege to attend a private event and you are also agreeing to contract. There are conditions attached to it. Anyone who disagrees with the conditions has a right not to enter into the contract.
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Old 03-25-2008, 06:09 PM   #142
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Scalpers don't piss me off as much as ticketmaster. Man are those guys crooks.
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Old 03-26-2008, 01:36 AM   #143
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Scalpers don't piss me off as much as ticketmaster. Man are those guys crooks.
no kiddin, 4.50 just to email you your tickets so you can use your own printer to print them out at home and save them the time!????!
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Old 03-26-2008, 07:33 AM   #144
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Karma, eh? Well, you know how the Flames often find themselves on the short end of 5-3 powerplays that usually end up sealing their fate...
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Old 03-26-2008, 09:34 AM   #145
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Just to clarify, I was just pointing out how funny it is that you were complaining that you were ripped off, yet were ripping someone else off. The irony was funny to me.

Anyway, you're not and a$$hole for scalping the tickets, I just don't agree with it. Glad to see that you are okay. How did the exchange go?
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Old 03-26-2008, 10:48 AM   #146
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Flameswin, any updates on what happened? Did you meet up with her again? If so, were you surrounded by a gang on crotchrockets during the transaction? I'm interested to hear how the exchange went down.
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Old 03-26-2008, 01:06 PM   #147
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Oh for F*** sakes!!!! I sell half my tickets on Calgarypuck for below face value to be nice to my fellow Flames fans, give away a pair of tickets in a trivia contest in the main forum, then I sell tickets to ONE GAME out of the whole year for above face value to the Canucks game because moniey is pretty tight right now, and knowing before hand that it will likely be a Vancouver fan, and now I'm the lowest form of life on earth? Sorry I can't be as ****** perfect as you Rubecube!
...did you really sell all the other ones to be "nice to Flames fans", or is it because a Columbus game on a Wednesday night in November just doesn't fetch as much as Canucks game with playoff implications in March? ...I'm just saying...scalping is scalping, the karma hit you back, don't try to make yourself out to be the great humanitarian of all Flames fans by reminding us how you sell some tickets back to the community at face value.

...like I said scalping is scalping, and I'm not a fan, but if a nucks fan ends up having to pay $300 for $80 tickets, that's not scalping...it's a loser tax.

...still I will admit that giving away a pair in the trivia contest actually constitutes "being nice to flames fans", so good on you for that.

...finally in all the advice given...why did you not just go to your account online, reprint the tickets ("I left them at home or work") and sell that pair on CP for face value? When you reprint from the Flames account it voids the original tickets, so the lady woulda' been screwed...you shoulda' just taken the hundy, reprinted some new ones, and left the lady sitting outside the dome realizing that she was in fact the one getting screwed. Yeah I know hindsight, but I should've given this advice last week.
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Old 03-26-2008, 01:09 PM   #148
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