StubHub will you please die in a fire?

The BBQ Pit
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First of all, I don’t even know how sites like this are legal since it’s essentially ticket scalping in a nutshell, but I tried to get One Direction tickets legit but they all sold out in my area in like 3 minutes and the best I could do was fairly crappy seats at the Las Vegas show, a delightful 9.5 hour drive away.

So, they announce the Madison Square Garden show (which apparently sold out in ONE minute) and people were plotzing because some douchebag has listed his tickets for $10,000: NINTH ROW. (The guy with front row seats is only asking $6,000 - COME ON!) I don’t know what came over me but I proceeded to check StubHub to see what they had available for the Oakland, CA show. Oh hai - there’s a front row center seat for ONLY $950. I regret to admit I was completely sober when I bought it. I print it out at work and there is much high-five-ing and “OMG what is wrong with you” and all is good.

Week and a half later [WEEK AND A HALF LATER] StubHub sends me an email “Oh by the way the seller cannot fulfill your ticket order, contact us for replacements. We can put you in row L.”

I first tried to call, but the phone tree kept disconnecting me, so I emailed saying “Oh I’m sorry, there must be some mistake. I purchased a ticket, a transaction transpired, I printed the ticket, I’m holding it in my hand: order fulfilled. I am going to take said ticket and sit in my seat in the front row I paid $1000 damn dollars for.”

Wait.
Wait.
Wait.

The NEXT DAY: missed phonecall “Oh this is StubHub, sorry I missed you but you need to call (bullshit customer service number) about your ticket - it’s no good.” Several missed voicemails and nasty tweets (in which they offered me a $200 credit, like I’m ever going to use them again) and multiple days later - I’m in row HH like a homeless person. FML.

They never explained WHY the ticket was suddenly invalid after a week and a half, or apologized for taking such a slow-ass time getting back to me every single time I contacted them. I better look down front and see President Obama in that seat or something I’m not even kidding I’m so pissed off.

#WhiteWhine #FirstWorldProblems

Feel free to start a separate thread about my disturbing ephebophilia, shitty taste in music, or poor money-handling skills. Let’s keep this confined to craptacular customer service and dreams dashed.

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Weren’t you agonizing over the cost of a pair of hundred dollar headphones just a couple of months ago? Christ, for a thousand bucks those kids better come out into the audience and give everybody happy endings!

FYI, I had to look them up because I never heard of them until this thread.

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And are you still paying $950 for seats in the suburbs?

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I may or may not have mentioned them in the headphones post (and to be fair I wasn’t AGONIZING over the cost of the headphones, just if there was a discernible difference from say, a $50 of headphones.)

They are the NEXT GREATEST THING EVER this week. Their 2013 tour dates are already sold out. We could all be dead by then (god willing!)

My shitty HH row seat ended up being about $650 I think. :smack:

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You have a problem that you should really seek help for. It’s not worth starting a separate thread for, but it certainly bears mentioning.

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How much have you paid to see a Justin Bieber concert? I’m trying to get, like, a scale of importance thing established.

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Or they could hit puberty by then. Disaster!

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Try calling the venue maybe? It sounds like you have a physical ticket, and it sounds like stubhub sold a second person a ticket for the same seat. I’d imagine if I was a venue owner I’d be pretty pissed if someone was double selling seats to my shows.

I to, hate it when people like things.

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Technically I have never been to a Justin Bieber concert. I have been to a Stevie Wonder charity concert that happened to include Justin Bieber, Michael MacDonald, The Gap Band and Little Anthony and the Imperials, among others. I think those tickets were around $150: last row. I had to watch with binoculars and it was worse than watching at home on YouTube.

For what it’s worth I’ve already seen 1D opening for Big Time Rush and KNOW I want to see them again. Lots. (BTR too, now that I think of it.)

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Of what?

Why!?

Was this because of the $200 credit?

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Ok I was considering this and now I might do it. My first thought was the guy saw how much tix were being listed for and he was going to cancel the transaction and re-list them at a higher price or something.

Ha! Fun things are fun. I’m not hurting anyone. (Everyone mentioned in this thread thus far is legal in the US. One of whom is extremely interested in older ladies - pretty ones, not me of course.)

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There’s a difference between liking a band and spending $1000 to see them.

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I understand that you want to see them before they get all tarted up like Justin has. :stuck_out_tongue:

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You might be better served by starting a perturbed MPSIMS thread because you can’t possibly expect people to not make a few observations along these lines. Sometimes I wonder if you like everyone freaking out over your unusual interests.

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I also hate it when people don’t know the difference between “to” and “too”.

I don’t care that she likes this band. I find it profoundly disturbing that a forty year old woman with professed marital, drinking, and money problems has chosen to throw all her energy and resources into pretending to be thirteen. It is Not Okay.

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“Freaking out”?

I seriously doubt anyone is “freaking out” (and if they are this board has SERIOUSLY changed since I signed up) and no that’s not my intention. In fact I’ve cut WAY back on my posting because of it because I am not about drama.

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I turned 41 last week, FTR. (I don’t have money problems, obviously. That’s the one thing I have going for me.)

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My apologies for that mistake. Now imagine how much more you could have going for you if you committed to adulthood.

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I save lives for a living and enjoy pop music on the side. You?

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Typo burn!!

Meh. Half the world has marital, drinking and money problems. As for pretending to be thirteen, half this message board is devoted to video games where people pretend to be vikings, groups of people that gather togeather to act out pretending to fight orcs and goblins, books about boy wizards, whether movies about giant transforming robots are adequately faithful to the original Spiderman cross-over comics and spaceships. Lots of spaceships.

If anything, Vogue’s crappy pop culture interests are a couple years older then the SDMB average.