and you thought scalping presale tickets was bad

[sonickteam2]

this guy is scalping the PASSWORD......
 
 (yes i am buying Bulls tickets for my trip to Chicago this December)
 
  this guy should burn in hell

[sonickteam2]

upon further research, there are (23) different auctions easily accessible for various presale passwords!!!
 
  in fact, there is a ebay username "password4you" where apparently all he DOES is sell passwords.

[Bags]

Isn't there a website somewhere that gives passwords out?  I remember seeing it a few months ago....I must have gotten the link here.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

it's too bad there's not a way to restrict these things further... for example having a site that only accepts http referrers from inside the board, so that only people logged in to the board could get in....

[ggw]

Capitalism rulez

[palahniukkubrick]

yeah, scalping presale passwords is really awful and makes me sad. But look at the guy's username: smackdownprices4u.  

[vansmack]

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
  smackdownprices4u.

Shit.  You're on to me.....

[Bags]

Originally posted by Bags:
  Isn't there a website somewhere that gives passwords out?  I remember seeing it a few months ago....I must have gotten the link here.

MoveOn and Pearl Jam's idea seems like a good one -- personalized presale passwords that can only be used to buy 2 (or 4) tickets.  If more than one person uses that code, both sales are cancelled.   Doesn't stop scalping, but restricts the password really well.