Friday, September 12, 2008

loathsome ticket brokers

While I cannot believe that I have become one of those parents, who are willing to subject themselves to a concert involving thousands of screaming children, there are even more diabolic creatures out there. Ones that worm eating parasites that refuse to touch, gouging the price of the tickets to such said event, to astronomical heights.
I have just purchased 4 tickets to see the Wiggles Live. First, I cannot believe that I am paying the regular ticket price of $191.00 for these tickets. I was online, with all my Ticketmaster info already entered at 10:00 am. At 10:02, the best seats available were center section, row R. For those of you not handy with math, that translates to the 23rd row. UGH!! Really??? I tried and tried for better seats. After about 6 times, I got nervous and went ahead and bought the seats, figuring if I could score better seats, I would sell these for cost to some other despondent parent later. I attempted to reason with the computer. You know, when you put in how many tickets wanted and price limit, the secondary page with the scrambled words? I thought, "Oh wow, this is a long/hard word, these must be better seats!!" Um, nope. Their not.
I then went to other sites, like Stub Hub, Tickets Now, etc.. There were tickets for the show already posted. Center section, row C (3rd row for those mathematically challenged), $190.00 each. My wanting to take my sons to a Wiggles concert should not make me want to curse. At least, not yet.

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