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for all you people that talk about solitary shell by DT, all it is, is salsbary hill Pt. 2 by peter gabriel.............lol megaboyd
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Ticketmaster to acution tix.
Three years after Ticketmaster introduced ticketFast, its
>online print-at-home ticketing service, consumers have so
>embraced it that the company now sells a half-million
>home-printed tickets for sporting and entertainment events
>each month in North America. Where ticketFast is available,
>30 percent of tickets sold are now printed at home, said
>the company, which is by far the nation's largest ticket
>agency.
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>But consumers - many of whom have complained for years
>about climbing ticket prices and Ticketmaster service
>charges - may be less eager for the next phase of
>Ticketmaster's Internet evolution.
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>Late this year the company plans to begin auctioning the
>best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.
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>With no official price ceiling on such tickets,
>Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and
>scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.
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>"The tickets are worth what they're worth," said John
>Pleasants, Ticketmaster's president and chief executive.
>"If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it's
>actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket's worth $1,000. I
>think more and more, our clients - the promoters, the
>clients in the buildings and the bands themselves - are
>saying to themselves, `Maybe that money should be coming to
>me instead of Bob the Broker.' "
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>EBay has long been a busy marketplace for tickets auctioned
>by brokers and others. Late last week, for example, it had
>more than 22,000 listings for ticket sales.
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>Venue operators, promoters and performers will decide
>whether to participate in the Ticketmaster auctions, Mr.
>Pleasants said. In June, the company tested the system for
>the Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko boxing match at the
>Staples Center in Los Angeles. The minimum bid for the
>package - two ringside seats, a boxing glove autographed by
>Mr. Lewis and access to workouts, among other features -
>was $3,000, and the top payer spent about $7,000, a Staples
>Center spokesman, Michael Roth, said.
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Wed Sep 3 '03 5:47:43 pm
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MegaBoyd
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Once the auction service goes live, Ticketmaster will
>receive flat fees or a percentage of the winning bids, to
>be decided with the operators of each event, said Sean
>Moriarty, Ticketmaster's executive vice president for
>products, technology and operations.
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>Along with home printing, auctions are central to "a new
>age of the ticket," Mr. Pleasants said. In the second
>quarter of this year, tickets sold online, with or without
>home printing, represented 51 percent of Ticketmaster's
>ticket sales. The rest were sold by phone or at walk-up
>locations.
>
>Ticket Forwarding allows season ticket holders for several
>sports teams (including the New York Knicks, Rangers and
>Giants) to e-mail extra tickets to other users, with
>Ticketmaster charging the sender $1.95 per transaction.
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>TicketExchange provides a forum for season ticket holders
>to auction tickets online. The seller and buyer pay
>Ticketmaster 5 percent to 10 percent of the resale price, a
>fee the company splits with the team.
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>In the case of the ticketFast home-printing service, buyers
>pay an additional $1.75 to $2.50 per order, with the fee
>set by the event operator. Home printing has won converts
>among people who want tickets immediately, instead of
>receiving them by mail or a delivery service or having to
>stand in line at a will-call window.
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>One satisfied customer is Brian Resnik, 29, of Tampa, Fla.,
>who says the home-printing fee is a bargain compared with
>the $19.50 that Ticketmaster charges for two-day shipping
>through United Parcel Service.
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>But some other users, who praised the convenience of home
>printing, objected to being charged an extra fee.
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>"It's kind of mind-boggling to me," said Joe Guckin, 41, of
>Philadelphia, who used ticketFast to buy tickets for a
>Baltimore Orioles home game last season. "You're printing
>up the ticket, on your printer at home, your paper, your
>ink, etc. - and you have to pay for that?"
>
>The company replies that home-printing consumers are
>helping to pay for the technology that makes the service
>possible.
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>Ticketmaster has spent $15 million to $20 million to outfit
>almost 700 stadiums, arenas, theaters and concert halls in
>this country and Canada with bar-code scanners that read
>and authenticate the tickets and computers that capture
>information such as which seats are filled and which doors
>have the most traffic, Mr. Moriarty said. In 2003, the
>company has sold 400,000 to 600,000 ticketFast tickets each
>month.
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>Some ticketFast customers, like Diane DeRooy, 52, of
>Seattle, complain that Ticketmaster assesses a lot of fees
>even before levying the print-at-home charge. A ticket to
>see Crosby, Stills & Nash on Friday at the PNC Bank Arts
>Center in Holmdel, N.J., for example, carries $13.80 in
>venue, processing and convenience fees, plus a $2.50 charge
>for the home-printing option. Without the fees, a ticket
>costs $30.25 to $70.25.
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>Many of those customers are skeptical about Ticketmaster's
>plans to auction the best seats to concerts.
>
>"The band's biggest fans ought to have the best seats, not
>the band's richest fans," said Tim Todd, 47, of Kansas
>City, Mo., who used ticketFast recently to buy tickets for
>a concert by the rock group Phish. Ticketmaster would be,
>in essence, official scalpers, Mr. Guckin said, voicing a
>sentiment expressed by some other customers.
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>Industry watchers agree that auctions will affect all
>concertgoers. Prime seats are undervalued in the
>marketplace, said Alan B. Krueger, a professor at Princeton
>University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
>International Affairs, who has studied ticket prices. He
>predicts that once auctions begin revealing a ticket's
>market value, prices as a whole will climb faster.
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Wed Sep 3 '03 5:48:26 pm
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Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert industry trade
>magazine, Pollstar, predicted that all ticket prices would
>become more fluid. After a promoter assesses initial sales
>from an auction, remaining ticket prices could be raised or
>lowered to meet goals.
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>The notion of ticket auctions is annoying, Mr. Resnik said,
>but he is resigned to them.
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>"I guess the capitalist inside me would say, `Hey, if
>that's what they can get for tickets, I guess that's just
>something I can't afford, like a yacht and a Learjet.' "
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Wed Sep 3 '03 5:48:38 pm
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ethn get offline & call me, or get on messenger now!, or I while hire carl & phil the monkey ninjas to destroy you.......that is all
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Sat Sep 6 '03 8:46:38 pm
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I like alot of falsetto, & different types of voices, I just cant stand eric martin, lol if you like him thats all good, but man he ruined mission on the rush tribute album, & I can't think of anything I liked of him.
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Sun Sep 7 '03 2:58:56 pm
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hey LIZARD, you out there man, I will be at all the jow shows coming up man, It will be cool to see you there & chill man, MegaboyD
to hamdo & austin, turning 21 is a big deal, you get to go to all the 21 + shows you were rejected out of before..... woohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mon Sep 8 '03 11:37:43 am
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MegaBoyd
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hamdo, I was at both those satch gigs you were talking about!, & I get to see joe 3 times next month woohoo!!!!!!!!
and on the opener tip, I will stray & say NOT OF THIS EARTH, from the second leg of the CP tour!!!
megaboyd out!
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Mon Sep 8 '03 10:52:45 pm
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stu clone, ah yes yes, many things we need to discuss, I am counting on friday aim day!
megaboyd
& what has to be part of your medley.......... Ann you stupid bitch I never wanna see your face again as long as I live...........................bitch
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Wed Sep 10 '03 7:57:31 pm
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refrigerador dominatrix, how come it has eluded me this whole time that you are a lefty, I guess since I just skim t2j now, I am in for these embarrising posts,
rock on brotha,
btw cant wait for rush in rio, it will be supercalifragigoodness
megaboyd
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Thu Sep 11 '03 12:17:24 pm
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MegaBoyd
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fretslayer, you playing any gigs around the bay area,
its funny how you said you didn't like the self titled cd cause it was raw, & I had that problem with the extremist, which is one you like, lol
megaboyd
p.s. my favorite song on SBM is eight steps
thats right EIGHT STEPS FOR G3!!!!!!!
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Thu Sep 11 '03 12:18:55 pm
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oh btw, fretslayer you seem to be into alot of guitarists, are you gonna make it out to slims in sf tonight for guitarevolution?
it will be a killer show
megaboyd
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Thu Sep 11 '03 12:38:12 pm
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fretslayer, it is guitarevolution, with marty friedman, chris poland & alex skolnick, at slims & for only 15 bucks
I will be there for sure,
have fun
Megaboyd
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