OMG!!! Some people want to see Serenity real bad.
POSTED BY: Jeremy757
UPDATED: Saturday, May 7, 2005 02:00
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Originally posted by Calhoun:Quote:
rangrbob wrote:
Fans for the most part are well fanatical, if someone has some extra cash to spend and wants to see the movie early it doesn't mean that they have alterior motives it just means that they really like Firefly. I'm sure there are hundreds of people who frequent this site who would do the same thing if they had the cash. I would.
I'm right there with ya, Rangrbob.
well that's what I was thinking...
I've seen fans at Buffy conventions pay $2,000 to sit next to an actor at dinner.
And of course as we speak tickets to Broadway musicals have climbed to $200-300 to see shows like 'Spamalot' or 'The Producers'
I also freely confess to once paying a scalper $100 to see a day of tennis at the U.S.Open...
it doesn't seem that unusual to me.
So here:
http://search.ebay.com/Serenity_Tickets_W0QQfromZR4QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ130
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we can see that there are now listings for
Atlanta 1 ticket
Austin 3 tickets
LosVegas 3 tickets
Portland 4 tickets
Seattle 2 tickets
San Francisco 2 tickets
myself I would be more than a little worried about being ripped off, paying a lot of money and then not ending up getting in after all...
And I think the truer Browncoat was the one in Detroit who had an extra ticket for Chicago and didn't want money...altho he was looking for a cool Firefly T-shirt or something fun like that...
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i figured it had to be scalpers that snapped up all of the tickets that quickly.
hell, i live in las vegas. there aren't THAT many of us browncoats here to cause that kind of a ticket run. are there?
i want to see Serenity, but not bad enough to pay more than $10. (in fact, i pretty much never go to anything but weekend matinees so i don't have to pay regular admission.)
i'd've paid the $10 because it's an event, and to meet other vegas browncoats. if there isn't another set of screenings planned, then i can wait till september.
gorram scalpers.
"Take me, sir. Take me hard." -- Zoe
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Let's see:
$200 (orchestra seats) for Broadway production with live music and performers. Sure. I can see that.
$100 for a movie. A MOVIE that's being released a few months later anyway? No. Oh, HELL NO.
Please, people. Have some sense.
$200 just to say you "saw it first"? Just how tenuous is the grasp on your self-esteem anyway?
You people in other parts of the country who slammed the "Signal" site and bought up tickets in other cities where you don't even live and weren't planning to go? Thanks, from those of us in those cities who couldn't get tickets because your greedy a$$ snatched them up to sell them on bloody eBay.
"Take me, sir. Take me hard."
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I despise, loath, hate, detest, condemn and spit upon scalpers.
They are one of the lowest forms of cockroach in the universe - equal in low rank only with drug dealers and people who talk at the theatre.
Yes, scalpers buy up a product that isn't a life necessity (despite my 'need' to see Serenity, I realize that without it I won't stop breathing) but it doesn't make what they do any less reprehensible.
Would you be happy with someone who went to every grocery store in your city and bought up every carton of milk on the shelves ... leaving no milk for anyone else to be able to buy. Then this person turns around and charges mothers $20 a gallon because the mom now can't buy a carton of milk anywhere?
It's the same damn thing. Scalpers are skulking, nasty, disgusting predators and the only way we're going to get rid of their ilk is to make scalping illegal across the nation. Make it a federal offense and institute public whippings.
Get it now? I hate scalpers. They have no redeeming qualities and their method of making money is moral swampwater.
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Originally posted by cozen:
Yeah, but aren't these scalpers "misbehavin'" in the true profiteering spirit of the capitalist underdoggy? I posit that such folks are Browncoats in spirit, if not FF fans per se.
Anything for a buck.
"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
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Browncoats in attendance could watch the BDH's backs by keeping their eyes open for pirates in the audience at the screenings. You could then report or even confiscate 
if you were so moved. Do you think they might have tighter security to help avoid bootlegs? As rabidly as I am wanting to see the movie (didn't score tickets to the screening) and close to addict status, I would not purchase or download a pirated copy. Just ain't right.
ThereUR
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I have a ton of Browncoat friends who live in my city. Even if I personally didn't know a single other Browncoat, I'm involved enough in Firefly to know of this site and hundreds of others.
I'm certain that if I bought a ticket and couldn't use it, I could post a note here and have 50 responses before my keyboard cooled.
I'm not buying that lame theory.
Scalpers suck swampwater through a swirly straw. They deserve no respect - and certainly no defense.
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Originally posted by rangrbob:
For the most part I'm not sure how many of the tickets are actually being sold by scalpers and how many are just people who just couldn't go for one reason or another.
"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
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I actually don't have any trouble believing that there are enough Browncoats to sell out the screenings. On the Official Site there are over -30,000- registered Browncoats. Even if there aren't enough people in one specific city, I'm sure there are enough within a couple hours drive of each of these major metro areas to more than sell out tickets. The closest screening to me is 8 hours away, and I still thought about setting it up to make it.
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Originally posted by zoid:
Fellow Browncoats:
The thing nobody seems to have noticed in all this is that scalpers have become involved in this process. I was very concerned when Joss related that theatre personnel had been threatened by ticket requesters. I'm now inclined to believe that these were not the acts of over-eager fans, but of scalpers looking to make as big a profit as possible. My guess is that these people bought the maximum number of tickets and are now auctioning them off in various places, in order to victimize the fans and studio's good will.
If I were the studio, I would immediately cancel all the shows and give ticket holders a refund of the $10 face value. Then I'd rethink the process (say a limit of 1 ticket per person) and reschedule the events. It would keep people somewhat honest (which scalpers are not).
In any event, Browncoats should never bid on one of these tickets. It's profiteering at its worst. Make the scalpers eat their excess tickets. And as for the two tickets with excess proceeds going to charity: Yeah, right, and I'm the King of Londinium and wear a shiny hat...
Bravo!
Well said Zoid!
In looking at it, it is very possible that the individuals responsible for the unpleasantness at the theatres were in fact scalpers trying to get tickets to sell on Ebay.
I am as eager to see the BDM as anyone, but I would steer clear of these auctions. There is no way to be certain that the additional money will go to a charity, unless of course the seller is willing to provide documentation proving the donation was made, perhaps in the name of the Browncoat who wins the auction.
Me personally, I will wait.
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Originally posted by zoid:
cozen:
Guess it depends on whether you see the Serenity sneak tickets as TTJ medicine or geisha bobbleheads. I tend to see it as the former. The studio and Joss' intent was to provide them on a fair basis to them that needs 'em, meaning a regular movie-going audience. Not to have them all snapped up by some opportunists smelling a chance for exhorbitant profits.Quote:
BOURNE
You were truthful back in town.
These are tough times. Hard to
find yourself work. A man can get
a job, he might not look too close
at what that job is.
(to Mal)
But a man learns all the details
of a situation like ours, well
then he has a choice.
MAL
I don't believe he does.
Browncoats don't hold other Browncoats ransom for their love of Firefly...
Respectfully,
zoid
What he said.
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"Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDM'
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Yes indeed - shameful! Be strong and wait... wait for the $2000 tickets to the Big Damn Premiere!
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