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Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: binone on October 18, 2018, 06:36:59 PM

Title: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: binone on October 18, 2018, 06:36:59 PM
Something we have to be proud of, is the fight against scalpers that PC is doing nowadays.

Here an article about this fight against Ticketmaster.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-scalper-program-band-managers-1.4867652
Title: Re: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: quizzaciously on October 19, 2018, 09:40:35 AM
Amazing news, but frankly I don't understand the concept of buying tickets from someone else, it's like buying a used ticket. Or am I wrong?
Title: Re: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: jbaent on October 19, 2018, 10:17:49 AM
Amazing news, but frankly I don't understand the concept of buying tickets from someone else, it's like buying a used ticket. Or am I wrong?

It's like if you buy a ticket today, but tomorrow you discover you can attend the concert and sell it to other person, but in this case it's made by ticketmaster itself with fake buyers (brokers, they say) and each time it's fakely resell they get fees for the same tickets.
Title: Re: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: quizzaciously on October 19, 2018, 02:49:36 PM
Amazing news, but frankly I don't understand the concept of buying tickets from someone else, it's like buying a used ticket. Or am I wrong?

It's like if you buy a ticket today, but tomorrow you discover you can attend the concert and sell it to other person, but in this case it's made by ticketmaster itself with fake buyers (brokers, they say) and each time it's fakely resell they get fees for the same tickets.

In that case it's not Mark's manager who needs to write emails to them, but police! But I guess it's a bit like all these gambling websites for kids via computer games, you can't beat them just by calling police. Hats off then to Paul Crockford for fighting with these scammers.
Title: Re: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: jbaent on October 19, 2018, 04:16:35 PM
That's what I understood reading the article.

And that Ticketmaster are evil.
Title: Re: Paul Crockford fight against Scalpers. Well done.
Post by: Love Expresso on October 20, 2018, 12:15:30 PM
I will not praise him before I have seen ticket prices..  ;D

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