What's brooklynvegan?
Just kidding. Brooklynvegan, and the likes of web sites like them, upset me more than anything else and is completely different than the 9:30 Board. Brooklynvegan gives away passwords simply to drive traffic to their site via google searches, where they make money on advertising. They might as well be chokeychicken as far I'm concerned.
I think there's a very simple point that is being missed when passwords are posted in the public domain:
It means there's nothing special about having a presale. Absolutely nothing. It might as well be a public sale with much fewer tickets, so why keep doing them? And when they disappear, I'll be the first one here saying I told you so.
Kosmo brought up more intricate arguments like it keeps the 9:30 from increasing their volume subscribers and ways for the 9:30 to better reach their customers because there's no incentive, and all of those make sense from a business standpoint. But the simple fact is they'll go away as soon as the fans start complaining that they're not serving their purpose.
Hey, maybe MrNeil, who has sinse left the board, was lying about the fact that he thought it would sell out fast and wanted to increase ticket sales (I didn't even bother to check the NY ticket sales, so kudos to whomever did). Maybe he's a street teamer or their publicist - I don't know. But I like the way the board handled presale passwords through PMs in the past - it protected the uniqueness of the presale and allowed us to judge who, by virtue of their reputation here, was worthy of receiving the password from fellow boardies.
