ph28kc@sdcc12.UUCP (ph28kc) (04/29/85)
I went through a period where I would buy as many tickets as allowed
(by the rules or financial restrictions) for every show, knowing
that my friends would probably need some and that I could always
sell/trade/give them away. It seemed like a great way to make sure
that all my friends would be able to get in, keep tickets out of the
hands of the scalpers, and just basically help
out people who didn't happen to have any money at the time tickets
went on sale. Lately I've come to see a problem with this plan.
There are many people whose decision to travel a large distance to
see a set of shows is based partly on whether they have tickets or
not. By buying up four or six sets of tickets for some set of shows
you may be cancelling someone's trip out to those shows. I've
started just ordering my own tickets and maybe one extra set.(to use
for enticing someone from around here into going and giving me a
ride in the process. Not noble, but practical ). Basically, while
its nice to have a lot of extras to turn on to people, its not fair
to deplete the pool of available tickets and thereby possibly deter
other people from going to the shows. 'Least that's the way it looks
to me.
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Ken Cluff
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