Reply to: Oh Dear: They're planning more meddling...

Re: No Touting

Listen, comrades, market price controls in the only way to go in New Labour's one party police state (corporate slogan: "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear). This ticketing thing is just a pilot scheme for the inevitable day when we're all flipping burgers, stacking shelves, cutting hair and can no longer afford to pay the market rate for any of the products produced offshore in China.

We will all have a happiness quota as well.

Re: No Touting

tickets individual - tied to ID

Ah, I knew ID cards were good for something!

Re: No Touting

That's a flippant answer Spod and you know it !

I'm sure you are well aware that some services are considered to be essential, like water and electricity. Not buying these services is an almost impossible option for 99.99% of the population.

Don't blame me matey, I didn't post that, it was EXPAT!

Re: No Touting

Has nobody else realised that this is EXACTLY what the official sellers want so they can INCREASE the prices they get !!!!!

Once the scumverment has made tickets individual - tied to ID so that nasty, evil touts can't make money from them look then look out for the "closer to the day, higher the price" pricing model coming straight in entertainment tickets.

I am not Spod

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That's a flippant answer Spod and you know it !

I'm sure you are well aware that some services are considered to be essential, like water and electricity. Not buying these services is an almost impossible option for 99.99% of the population.

No, it isn't. The real answer is just a bit longer, but the principle is the same.

The market price is set by how much all potential sellers are prepared to sell for, and how much all potential buyers are prepared to buy for. That's why the price of necessities wouldn't become astronomical: you can always go to other sellers.

Of course, if the government doesn't allow that, you're faced with a racket. Can't help you there.

But if you can choose suppliers, then the price you pay is not way over the odds: if it were, some other seller would pop up with a better price.

And few things are necessities. Water is, but tap water is not. Electricity is not. Entertainment tickets certainly are not: you cannot be held to ransom over them. Just don't buy them if the price is too high.

Re: teoma

Ok, so it's probable that the market will avoid the business that charges way over the odds

To be more precise, if the market doesn't avoid it, then by definition it is not charging over the odds.

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anorak !

hello Mike how are you, been out with the caravan lately ?

Milan.

Re: permie

According to your profile, your last post was on (9/20/04 9:06 am) apart from the latest 2. HTH

permie

Blaster,

you could be right. I went Permie in Oct 2003...bloody hell....almost 2 years in one place! Bit of a struggle on my measly permie salary....better than sitting at home like I did for 9 months picking my nose though.

I see Atw has even surpassed Milan's posting volume...14,000 for chrisakes! Mind you...is Milan still posting under 38 different pseudonyms...combined he would probably reach that!

Re: ohmygod...the usual suspects!!!!

..hey Mike, I think longer than a year.

If I remember rightly you were posting in the Summer of 2003, then found a permie job...

never to be seen again... *ghostly echo* again...again

ohmygod...the usual suspects!!!!

Thought I would pop by to see how things were going after about a year away (can't remember the last time I posted....can anyone help with that?).
Its like an old pair of comfy pants....the usual suspects are still here, and as soon as I saw the "Oh Dear" trademark posting I didn't even have to look at who started this thread!!!

Re: teoma

Imagine I made a device which allowed you to roll back the last 10 seconds of time for you in your personal time bubble.

No need to imagine, just ask Threaded. He did that years ago.

I'm sure there's sense in this somewhere, I just have difficulty accepting that a ticket should be subject to different treatment to any other commodity. It's not like water or electricity, so why shouldn't it be like beans or radios? Otherwise it's "I have a ticket, I don't want it or can't go - too bad, chum."

Re: teoma

It's already illegal to sell tickets without a license in most cities. In Scotland it is illegal to tout. It's illegal to resell football tickets full stop.

So why should it be allowed in the Internet? Moreover, How many of these tickets are Genuine?

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Don't buy

That's a flippant answer Spod and you know it !

I'm sure you are well aware that some services are considered to be essential, like water and electricity. Not buying these services is an almost impossible option for 99.99% of the population.

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Well I think all the mechanisms are there to stop this kind of thing, just look at the massive court case against Microsoft.

BGG is quite right ocasionally a company becomes too powerful and needs knocking down to size, wasn't the telephone Bell corporation divided up?.

Usually if you have a new product you take out a patent that lasts so many years then all the competitors pile in, I'm not sure what the protection is on a patent, and I suppose the competitors pay royalties, anyway that's how pharmaceutical companies work.