I visited Charlottesville’s craigslist ticket forum for last-minute Police tickets to tomorrow night’s concert. I’m not trying to buy– I just wanted to confirm that a ton of people suddenly woke up from la la land and realized tickets were overpriced. I was wrong. There aren’t a lot of tickets being sold, and not for the reason I thought.
Check out the other explanations sellers gave, and some pretty amusing posts:
How young are we talking? for $62
Everyone knows I is too young & has never heard of them!
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EVERYONE IN YOUR OFFICE SECRETLY HATES YOUR ALL-CAP EMAILS! for $25
I HAVE TO GET RID OF THESE EXTRA TICKETS, E-MAIL ME AN OFFER OR CALL ME
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Are you selling tickets or ruining the surprise for everyone? for $1
Message in the Bottle
Synchronicity II … (I don’t have it in me to post the rest of the list)
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What kind of “trade” do you have in mind? for $225
asking 225 each or make an offer. will consider trades as well
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u just realized the police arent worth the money and u have 2 get rid of ur ticketssofastucantevenfinishasen
please make me an offer @ face or below face.Face was
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Well I’m just jealous, actually. Have a good trip! for $200
Need to sell my Police tix as I’m headed to Beijing for work on the same day. Seats are fantastic, and I’m selling them at a discount to face.
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Wait, dijonbray is that you? Timm-ay?
Karma is a bitch…
I hope of all of you scalpers take it right up the backside!
Don’t buy until the prices
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Oh and maybe I’m a little jealous. Sting is HOT.
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Nope! not me!
wouldn’t mind a free ticket though… still haven’t seen a show at the JPJ.
i wonder if the morons posting their exact seat numbers realize that their tickets will likely be voided by the time they (or their unlucky buyers) make it to the show.
Why do you think the tickets will be voided, blanco?
Yeah, blanco nino. Ticket resale may void your ticket, but just posting that your ticket is for sale at a certain price doesn’t mean that it sells, and that its not you showing up for the show. I don’t think that tickets are voidable simply for offering them for sale… but like dijonbray I haven’t been to a show at JPJ yet, so I don’t have an old stub to check the fine print on.
And no, I didn’t post that listing, though I wish I did.
Plus, whose to say that someone else can’t post an add with your seat # by accident or typo? Then you show up for the show and they say sorry? I’d do more than throw an ashtray through the window…
some promoters have people who scour ebay looking for tickets to their shows. if they find tickets being resold that state the exact seat info (section, row and seat #), they void those tickets. even if they don’t sell, it’s still scalping (according to them) if the asking price is higher than face value. all i’m saying is, if you’re looking to sell tickets on ebay, craigslist, etc., posting specific info is a gamble.
Someone had a single ticket on ebay for $39. I offered the $12 for it just to see if they’d take it, and they revised their listing to $12, so if anyone wants a single ticket for $12 (thats hard to beat) here’s the listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Police-Tickets-11-6-Charlottesville-John-Paul-Jones_W0QQitemZ320178224883QQihZ011QQcategoryZ16122QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Have fun!
That’s the saddest thing ever. I still won’t even visit the link. Superfans, go go go!
What’s even sadder is that after the first few shows of the tour, drummer Stuart Copeland blogged about how embarrassingly bad the band was by virtue of nearly two decades of inactivity. And people still clamor for tickets. I’d rather see Scrantonicity…or Scrantonicity II.
No doubt The Police were a great band. But the operative word, here, is “were.” Just like Zep used to be a great band (before John Bonham died and Robert Plant lost his falsetto). Watching formerly young, coked-out rockers perform sober during middle (or old) age is too fucking depressing for words. How about ending on a high note with an ounce of vein-tapping self-respect?
Psst, BusRider.