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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: monsterzero on June 09, 2011, 11:48:11 am
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Ok, I am new to this forum...good forum...just finished reading a thread about rich whiney hipsters in DC (one of my all-time favorite things to hate), and then a thread with pictures of cute things, and then I posted my first post, which was telling someone who was looking for Matt & Kim tickets about the massive crush I used to have on Kim when we were at Pratt. So hot.
So anyway, I've never been to the 9:30 club, but was googling to find a video of a Dodos song to send to my GF, and happened upon the information that they're playing this Sunday. Tickets are a mere 18 bucks, which is lovely for me, since we're completely dead broke and trying to save. I go to ticketfly to buy the tickets, and there's a $4.75 "service fee" for each ticket, plus a $4.00 "order processing" charge. Nearly the cost of a third ticket. First of all, that's some sheisty stuff, and secondly, can I presume that all this extra money is charged (instead of rolled into the cost of the ticket) so that its some chunk of revenue that the company doesn't have to share with the band? I can't imagine that any venue or ticket retailer is benevolent enough to give the full face-value of the ticket to the band, and these fees are the only revenue that the venue/ticket sellers make. Is that the case? If so, I'll buy the tickets right now...but I imagine that there are a lot of hands in that jar aside from just the band, and then on top of it, these places are charging more money separately. Its not that I'm SO broke that I can't afford the fees, its just bullski. And disappointing.
Don't get me wrong, I go to a couple dozen O's games a year, I know all about all the b.s. fees that places like ticketmonster and others tack onto the price of things...its just...disappointing. Greed, greed, greed.
I know it does not cost $4.75 to enter one line of information into their database to record the sale, and it does not cost $4.00 to print a tiny piece of cardboard with a barcode (do 9:30 club tickets have barcodes?), and so I'm not going, because I'm cranky and because if restaurants started charging a $6.00 "napkin fee" and a $5.00 "ice processing" fee, I would tell them to go piss up a rope, a la Ween. And yeah, I know, I pay $20 for a $13 steak, and blah blah...I can't imagine that for every two tickets sold ($13.50 in fees for buying two tickets), that the hundreds of dollars (thousands?) generated in fees is not excessive for the fact that I'm not dealing with a customer service rep that needs to be paid $12/hour, and the 9:30 club isn't paying $400/hour in electricity, and...its just greed.
Flame away as you may feel necessary. Its just a shame, that talented artists that are trying to make a living, are going to lose out on however much of the $36 would have gone to them for gas money or a late night snack, because of the greed of the venue and ticket-sellers. Instead, I'll be spending $36 on whatever of their merch I can find, and hope that they get a good cut of it...unless there's a $7.00 "cotton storage" fee for buying a tee shirt...
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You can go to the club and buy tickets in-person for only a $1 fee (or is it $2 now?).
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Woah. Really?
(Not sarcasm)
Redemption!
I wonder if they'd be sold out if I walked up on Sunday afternoon.
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I doubt it.
I wonder if they'd be sold out if I walked up on Sunday afternoon.
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you see, people like me who live in the outer zones . . . must use these ticket sites and pay their fees, because it is cheaper than driving to the venue's box office, and never ever wait until the show to walk up to box office expecting there to be tickets left, plus ticket sites rerelease tickets close to show dates, giving you chance to get great seats if you were shut out before. i like that. i like ticket sites. i'll pay their fees because i think the ends justify the costs.
plus . . . you did a correct thing by viewing my cute picture thread.
and i was positive, this thread was going to be about my bitchfest as of late. i blame a mid life crisis that premature ejaculated.
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Is their ticket office open daily?
Should I be researching this on this very website myself, instead of lazily asking others?
GF is taking the day off and driving down to DC tomorrow to hang out with her friend...wonder if she could go over in the early afternoon and buy tickets then, on-site.
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plus . . . you did a correct thing by viewing my cute picture thread.
Ha ha. Superb.
Yeah I'm in Baltimore, and for anything around here I try to do will-call or in-person, but I know when (for instance, going to DC) there are times that its worth biting the bullet...not sure why I balked so hard at this incident? Just, frustrating more than usual, for some reason.
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there is a Dodos show in Baltimore.......hold on......lemme check.....
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there is a Dodos show in Baltimore.......hold on......lemme check.....
I couldn't find anything closer than DC or Phila...I'll mail you a solid-gold nickel if you can find a Balmur show...
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You laugh at hipsters and like Matt and Kim?
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Baltimore show is not til September 11 at Sonar, on sale June 16
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You laugh at hipsters and like Matt and Kim?
If you read my comment (in the "looking for tix" or whatever that area is called), I noted that I still have yet to even hear one of their songs. I went to college with Kim, she was a year ahead of me, and I was totally obsessed with her. She was always smiling, and always incredibly friendly with everyone.
Anyway, I could very well love their music- I didn't say I have no contradictory aspects about me =) I listen to plenty of what-could-be-described-as hipster music. I just love hating on the affluent-by-way-of-birth, self-entitled, hipper-than-thou DC crowd (hipsters or not), bastions of gentrification and faux-soul. Per the title, I'm an old curmudgeon. I'm probably some kind of hipster myself with relativity to something or other.
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Vas Deferens, I owe you a tug, and a solid-gold nickel.
Thanks man! I'm going to this. Maybe I'll go walk-up to the show down there on Sunday too. This is superb though. Really, thanks =)
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Box office open 12-7pm daily.
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Actually the box office is open 12 - 7 Monday - Friday (and stays open until 11 if there is a show). Saturday and Sunday the box office opens one hour before doors open.
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I presume its walk-up only for the box office? (Can't call the box office and buy tickets directly from them- I'd be referred to ticketfly, or whatever-its-called?)
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You can call the box office and be directed to call Ticketfly, but you can't order tickets from the box office over the phone.
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I presume its walk-up only for the box office? (Can't call the box office and buy tickets directly from them- I'd be referred to ticketfly, or whatever-its-called?)
Are you really this obtuse in real life? Do you need your diaper changed while you're at it?
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Welcome to the board. The hazing ritual has already begun....
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I presume its walk-up only for the box office? (Can't call the box office and buy tickets directly from them- I'd be referred to ticketfly, or whatever-its-called?)
Are you really this obtuse in real life? Do you need your diaper changed while you're at it?
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Welcome to the board. The hazing ritual has already begun....
Only problem is...it never ends.
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Holy shit, in just five months I'll have been on this board for 10 years.
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OOF...mine is in August. I've wasted my life....
Holy shit, in just five months I'll have been on this board for 10 years.
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I too am hitting 10 years soon and - if it makes you two feel better - I have more posts than both of you combined.
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How did that happen? It seems like there was a period of a few years where you (ggw) weren't on here at all anymore. And frankly I'm surprised I have only ~2900 posts here. It's as if I have an inflated sense of my presence!
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Are you really this obtuse in real life? Do you need your diaper changed while you're at it?
Based on your stunningly emo-esque username, marginal grasp of the meaning of the big 25-cent word "obtuse", and adorably sophisticated choice of baby-reference insult, I can only presume you are an angry teenage girl who was having a bad day. As such, I'll overlook this little outburst, because good babysitting is hard to come by and who knows, maybe when you're a little older and more responsible, I could let you house-sit our dog and cats one weekend.
As an aside, dear, "obtuse" means "difficult to understand". I was in the office yesterday, and was relatively busy, and had a large bank of knowledge (the mostly-friendly users of this forum, who know the details of ticket office hours, ticket surcharges, etc) right in front of me. While I could indeed have made the telephone calls and done the investigating myself, it was helpful (and much faster) to ask these nice people a few basic questions on the subject of which most of them have extensive knowledge. I'm not sure what about that is "difficult to understand".
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ob·tuse/əbˈt(y)o͞os/Adjective
1. Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
2. Difficult to understand
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Monsterzero you sure use a lot of adjectives
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Monsterzero you sure use a lot of adjectives
I like to peruse the thesaurus while I'm laying on the changing table.
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Based on your stunningly emo-esque username
hilarious
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You can also buy tickets for the 930 club at the Merriweather Box Office.
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while we're navel gazing, has anyone else seen this:
http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?action=stats
i'd be interested to see stats going back five-six years, i think this board was a LOT more active back in the pre-blog era
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Whoa...most time online?!?!?! At 122d 13h 33m?!?!?!
I guess I never really log-out, but that seems insane!
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Dayumm NKOTB, my "Total time logged in: 11 days, 32 minutes"
Here's a post from 2008
Originally posted by ggw:
Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
Yes.
Weren't you sitting on Apple or something?
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Reading that would've been a lot more entertaining for me if it hadn't taken 15 minutes to remember her kid's name was Apple.
Dayumm NKOTB, my "Total time logged in: 11 days, 32 minutes"
Here's a post from 2008
Originally posted by ggw:
Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
Yes.
Weren't you sitting on Apple or something?
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My 10th year anniversary is coming up too.
Check out my exact time. All those ones!
October 28, 2001, 01:01:01 AM
We really should have an old timers anniversary forum party sometime this year. All the 10 year members could receive watches permanently stopped at 9:30. :D
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Whoa...most time online?!?!?! At 122d 13h 33m?!?!?!
I guess I never really log-out, but that seems insane!
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