Comments on: Stick Your Tickets

By: standingcheese

standingcheese — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:53:53 +0000

I was just using that section as an example. There’s way too much jew in me to shell out $55 (plus fees) for my 8 year old to watch a game he’s not going to think twice about in a week.

Usually I’ll get upper reserve seats when I take my kid, or upper box if he’s been really good.

By: eebmore

eebmore — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:16:23 +0000

You buy your family field box tickets? Holy Toledo, I wish you were my dad. I sit my cheap ass exactly where my cheap ass father seated my ass, in Tuesday night Upper Reserve $8 seats. I’d be curious to see how much the Stubhub fees increase to costs of those tickets.

By: standingcheese

standingcheese — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:24:21 +0000

You know what gets me about Dooce? She made her online bones by being a hateful, unsympathetic, unsmiling bitch and for some reason people think that’s heroic and she should be admired for being fired from her job because she talked shit about and denigrated everyone she worked with. What the fuck.

Thankfully, I don’t read blogs much anymore so I miss out on all the mommybot drama. Lord knows the internet’s not big enough for everyone.

By: The Aitch

The Aitch — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:13:28 +0000

Funny how those 6 bloggers are all BFF’s too. The Elite 6. Oh yeah, When people heard dooce made 40k a month off advertising anyone with a keyboard signed up to make the same. I cannot believe how many give-aways and promotions there are at blogs nowadays. It’s insane.

Hooray for you for being classy. Although, I would have preferred otherwise.

By: standingcheese

standingcheese — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:31:35 +0000

God, girls can be dumb. And Sweetney is the leader of the dumb. But she’s right. There are only like 6 bloggers who can come up with ideas (and of course she’s one of them) and everyone else needs to stop trying to copy their awesome originality.

Even worse, there’s some dumb comment above yours written by some dumb whore who takes herself way too seriously and talks about how mommybots are developing brands and need to protect their intellectual property. This is the kind of bullshit nonsense housefraus get stuffed into their fat heads when they attend things like BlogHer.

(P.S. I almost called that commenter above you a cunt, but I decided to be a little classy.)

By: The Aitch

The Aitch — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:34 +0000

So, please tell me you are aware of the recent mommyblog drama involving everyones favorite blog superstar sweetney? Well, she was just being her regular bitch self and got called out on it. Of course now she’s doing her usually song and dance about how people should just get over it, because she’s just being snarky and don’t you know that she’s too hip/cool/alternative to be a bitch? Read here: http://plainjanemom.com/2008/07/02/why-should-women-always-have-to-be-nice/#comment-16827

By: standingcheese

standingcheese — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:02:30 +0000

Agrrl: What you call irresponsible capitalism others call synergy. Did you know that eBay owns StubHub, as well as PayPal, so eBay gets a ridiculous 10% “commission” from the buyer of an overpriced ticket on StubHub (based on the premium price, of course), then charges a 15% selling fee and another ridiculous percentage fee to the seller to get his money right away through PayPal rather than wait for a check, which could take up to almost two months? Corporations get you coming and going. (a $100 ticket sold through StubHub will cost the buyer $110 and the seller would get $85, so eBay gets $25 even before the PayPal fee, all on a ticket that probably has a 50% price premium on it to begin with.) But people are willing to purchase their tickets that way, so who’s the fool?

I don’t want to stick up for Peter Angelos, and I have no doubt he could have opted out or at least chosen not to publicize it, but I believe that StubHub’s deal is actually with Major League Baseball and the teams are following the league’s lead. But that makes it even worse, if you ask me.

You’re right about the fees creeping up on us. LiveNation is supposedly setting up its own ticketing service after its deal with Ticketmaster expires at the end of this year and there’s hope LN’s competition will force a reduction in fees, but I’m willing to bet LN will move up to TM’s model rather than force TM to move down to its.

Also, hi.

By: Agrrl

Agrrl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:50:57 +0000

This is one of the many faces of what I like to call irresponsible capitalism. I am all for people setting up a company to be their own boss as long as they are providing an actual service or product worth my buck, or bucks. I’ve never used Stubhub, but it sounds like the most recent in a exponentially growing list of “companies” that have no real purpose but to squeeze more money out of our increasingly tighter budgets (thank you Exxon Mobile, BP, Shell, Constellation Energy!).

Are you really surprised though that the O’s have sanctioned this praticular company and their “service”? I mean, this is the team primarily owned by Peter D’Angelo.

You know what is really sick is that we should have seen this coming like 15 years ago when Ticketmaster started their “conveniece fee” shit. They even charge them now for using a credit card when you buy tickets at the window. Like it is somehow inconvient, in this age of credit-mania, to swipe the damn card.

Actually, some of us did see this coming, but at the time, the fees were still so low, no one gave a shit. Bastards - each and everyone of them!

By: Daily Breather

Daily Breather — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:55:23 +0000

Oh thank you for this post. For ever loving fuck’s sake! Ticketmaster and Stub Schlub are raping us. I too am looking for 5 tix for the O’s Tigers on 7/20 for my dad’s birthday. He and my mom are true blue Tiger fans and I’m taking the family out for dad’s birthday. He’s never had the whole fam at once to a game. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna dish out an extra $30 in imaginary fees for nothing. And thanks for reminding me about walk-up tix…Duh! When tix are necessary I often have a need to make sure I have tix so I buy early. But hey, it’s the O’s and they’d be lucky to fill have the yard. I can walk up and save that $$ for a round of beers. And beers! $6.50 for a Miller Lite? But that’s the next blog…Cheers!

By: midwestie

midwestie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:51:41 +0000

The airlines are doing the same funky kinds of things with plane tickets. It just makes me say, raise the damn prices and be done with it. Either people will buy or they won’t. But don’t give some teaser rate and then jack it up. Reminds me of eBay and all the little BS add-ons for “handling”.