# You know, I love Jerry Seinfeld, but.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330 "2002-12-17T14:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/1 "2002-12-17T14:17:57Z")
I cannot justify paying $168.00 for two tickets to see him in February. A HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS! That’s outrageous! The venue where he’s playing is a crap building with terrible accoustics. If you’re not on the first couple of rows, you’re out of luck. Granted, tickets for those rows are $75 a piece (not making enough cash on those American Express commercials, are you?) but then there’s $18 of TicketMaster service charges. (Since this is not the Pit, I won’t go into the whole TicketMaster thing…) I went to the webpage to see if there were tickets still available, and the only thing left is in the second balcony. Those tickets are $60 a piece, which comes to a grand total of $138.00. Which means I would be paying $138 to watch what appears to be someone the size of Mini-Me that I won’t be able to hear. Phooey on that. I’ll just save my money to go see **Slaptyback Fishtybuns**. Whoops! That would be **Englebert Humperdinck**. He’ll be here in February, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/2 "2002-12-17T15:20:50Z")
Ooooooooo, those service charges get my goat! I drove out to Blockbuster Pavillion or what the hell ever it’s called now a couple of years ago to buy tickets to see B. B. King. I bought them _at the box office window_ and wound up paying a “convenience fee.” I desperately wanted to ask the guy behind the plexiglas what exactly they thought was so convenient about driving halfway to Concord to buy tickets, but I restrained myself. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/3 "2002-12-17T16:16:06Z")
Acouple of years ago, I came in from work (offshore) and I heard that Neil Young was playing in town that night (solo, acoustic) so I thought to myself “self, this would entertain me briefly” so I am running errands and I stopped at my buddy Garys motorcycle shop and while I was there I told him that I was going to get some tickets, he laughed and asked if I knew how much they were and advised me to call, THEY WERE $125.00 EACH (plus matriculation fee or whatever), I was shocked and I railed against these outrageous ticket prices, Neil sold out two nights in houston, I was speechless, as afr as I am concerned, I have been priced out, I simply will NOT pay that much EVER. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/4 "2002-12-17T16:19:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*I desperately wanted to ask the guy behind the plexiglas what exactly they thought was so convenient about driving halfway to Concord to buy tickets, but I restrained myself. \*\* That you didn’t have to go to Gastonia? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/5 "2002-12-17T16:58:34Z")
:eek: WHEN IS EDDIE COMING? _pees her pants_ I might have to make a trip… (yes, I crawled out from under my rock…so you might not know me…lol) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/6 "2002-12-17T17:06:40Z")
I think Skerri means the _actual_Englebert Humperdinck. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/7 "2002-12-17T17:19:11Z")
I was afraid of that… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/8 "2002-12-17T17:24:15Z")
Exnay on the Englebertay. Saying it three times in the mirror might bringay backay deewarday ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/9 "2002-12-17T17:35:53Z")
No, alas, not Eddie Izzard… Although that would be fantabulous! Seriously, Englebert Humperdinck is coming to Charleston. Although, if you consult [www.izzard.com](http://www.izzard.com) Eddie is currently on tour supporting the “Dress to Kill” DVD release. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-i-love-jerry-seinfeld-but/143330/10 "2002-12-18T14:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by superbee \* > That you didn’t have to go to Gastonia? 😃 Gastonia isn’t inconvenient. Gastonia is punishment. 😉