OMG!!! Some people want to see Serenity real bad.
POSTED BY: Jeremy757
UPDATED: Saturday, May 7, 2005 02:00
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The real unfortunate thing is that extremeists are edging toward ruining a kind gesture by the studio and producers. I didn't get a ticket, and will not pay megabucks for one.
I suspect that if there are future movies in the Firefly vein, the rash actions of a few will prevent any similar prescreenings and such for the many more of us that have some sort of rational (or semblence of rationality) mentality.
However, I don't just blame the extremeists. The people that thought this up SHOULD have had the foresight to see this coming. There have got to be limitations set on everything.
The whole thing is leaving a bitter feeling in its wake, and that's not something I associate with Firefly ... well, other than the series being cancelled.
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Quote:I'll second (or third?) that, Rangrbob.
Originally posted by rangrbob:
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 guess I'm not understanding why this is such a big deal. No one's being "held ransom" here, no one's being forced to pay these prices. And many of you are assuming that the sellers are scalpers and not Firefly fans.
(Out of curiosity, who else knew about the sale for screening tickets other than those on the mailing list? Do scalpers join every fansite out there in hopes of scoring screening tickets just for scalping purposes? Possible, sure, but I don't imagine it's terribly likely.)
If I had a ticket and someone offered to pay me $250 for it, I'd sell it in a heartbeat. Call me Jayne, but I must be missing the shame in that. And if money meant nothing to me, I'd probably pay that to see it, just because I could. I think judging fans on how much they're willing to pay for their obsession is a bit harsh. And this hatred of scalpers...? Just supply and demand. It's not your money afterall, so why do you care? Just cuz you didn't get a ticket...? If it's illegal in the state, report it to eBay and have them cancel the auction. Of course, you'll ruin an avid FF fan's day, but hey... at least you stood your moral high ground. (That last bit is not meant to be a nasty jab, by the way.)
Cheers.
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I'm not going to let the nasty few ruin it for the wonderful majority of Flans. It's group dynamics. Statistically there has to be a few bad apples in the bunch.
I don't think Universal should have expected this. They weren't expecting this many fans to flock to the screening in the first place. They wanted to ensure the sneak previews were a sell out. I understand that they were going to run ads in newspapers in the ten cities announcing sneak previews on Thursday. Ads had to be pulled.
There are a lot more of us than we even know. we'll see on opening night!
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Well, if I didn't have a final review that night, I would have bought tkts at the Atlanta screening with a plan to fly there to see the movie. Of course, I would have tacked on a visit with some friends there so I wouldn't seem like a total crazy fan...but that was just my cover story...
More money than sense? Yeah, guess so...
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While I can agree with everyone's opinion that the scalping of tickets to the sneak preview is wrong, has anyone stopped and considered how little of it is actually going on?
Using the numbers posted by Embers, we can see that on auction are:
Atlanta 1 ticket
Austin 3 tickets
LosVegas 3 tickets
Portland 4 tickets
Seattle 2 tickets
San Francisco 2 tickets
Summed up, we have 15 tickets. There are 10 screenings across the country. If we estimate 300 seats per screening, we get 3,000 tickets sold. As a result, 15 tickets is only 0.5% of the total made available.
I perform this little exercise in mathematics to show that while a few bad apples seem to be doing what they do best, they represent a VERY small minority...similiar in size to those hooligans who threatened theater workers upon learning that the sneak preview was sold out. Therefore, it isn't really fair to say that these scalpers have ruined everyone's chances of seeing the preview for themselves...unless of course you happen to fall in the 0.5% category.
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Summed up, we have 15 tickets. There are 10 screenings across the country. If we estimate 300 seats per screening, we get 3,000 tickets sold. As a result, 15 tickets is only 0.5% of the total made available.
Well those are just the ones that are brave enough to advertise what they have to sell. Over on Cragslist.com there are a whole slew of Want ads asking for Serenity Screening tickets, so who knows how many more have been sold to those people. And Im sure there will be attempts in local newspapers and people trying to sell the tickets on the street near the theater the day of the showing.
But I agree its not a large number of people doing this but I think its larger then what you think. I can't say I blame them for doing this If they think they can make money off of a "sucker born every minute" then more power to them. Ill think less of them for doing it and Ill think even less of the person desperate enough to buy their goods. The Libritarian in me says that I can't stop these people from exercising their right to be stupid and illogical, but it doesn't stop me from think less of people who perticipate in either side of such ticket scalping skeems. But to some people making a buck or fullfing their addiction is all that matters.
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I'd pay that much, not because I want to prove I'm the hardest of all hardcode fans, but rather because when I say "I can't wait", I mean it. Unfortunately the 1000 miles of sea in between my home and those cinemas is too far to walk.
Some are hinting that this is exploitation by the sellers in some way, I don't know why it's any different to owning a grocers or hiring a cleaner. Unless, perhaps I'm misunderstanding where these tickets came from?
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Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
There's another thing which seems odd to me.
For those who don't know, the tickets come with the buyers credit card number printed on the bottom of the ticket. Since there's security for screenings this early, they may well demand to see the credit card produced to make sure you're the owner of the ticket (in which case they already have your address etc in case of trouble).
Buyers could well find themselves unable to get into screenings, which given the prices, worries me.
Edit: there's also now an auction with a $450 buy it now option.
Not to the Austin screening they don't. They have a code at the bottom but it's not a credit card number. That would be very identity theft friendly anyway.
Also for the record I'm half tempted to open an auction for one of my two tickets and just put the buy it now at $400. If someone buys it I won't feel bad and if it goes unbought then one of my converted friends gets to go with me.
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Boy! And here I thought $10 for a regular movie ticket was bad...that's real lame!
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