>"When the sale dropped, we took 496 in New York, 492 in Boston, 496 in LA," Lowson, the former CEO of Wiseguy Tickets, told me in one of our many phone calls over the course of the last six months. "They apologized on the Grammys because of us, and then they had a second round of sales to make up for it. We took all the good tickets in that second round, too."
He seems proud of this, this person has zero morals. He's scum.
>"We pulled so many tickets that really we had to choose which seats we didn't want," he said."
This is just unbridled greed. It wasn't enough to do this for handful of tickets, it had to be done for all of them.
I'm always suspicious of people that want to do the right thing only once their own morally questionable practices have run out of steam. I don't think what he's doing now is motivated by any sense of concern or common good.
he was scalping concert tickets, not price gouging on food or medicine here. a little perspective would help. this is leisure activities we're talking about.
Wait, because its concert tickets its less of a violation? So price gouging and depriving people of a good or service is OK as long as its not life essential? Where does that line stop?
Tell that to someone who was shut out of seeing their favorite band because 492 of the total 496 tickets that were put on sale went to this guy.
it's really hard for me to understand why you're talking to me like this, as if I personally did something wrong.
forgive me for being relatively unconcerned that sometimes concert tickets cost a lot.
my judgment absolutely does take into account the pragmatic concerns regarding harm. some bad things are less bad than other bad things. just like some good things are more good than other good things. do I need to explain that? I'm quite astonished that you're challenging me on that point.
murder is worse than stealing chewing gum. yes? price gouging on medicine is worse than price gouging on concert tickets. yes?
not every injustice in the world is really worth reacting to with such passion.
>"it's really hard for me to understand why you're talking to me like this, as if I personally did something wrong."
You want to pass judgement on people and then act all sensitive when someone responds to you? There is nothing disrespectful in anything I wrote. It's called a discussion.
>"not every injustice in the world is really worth reacting to with such passion."
Again, here is another judgement by you that music is not such an important thing. People are extremely passionate about music and their favorite artists. Music and more specifically a live show is a very emotional experience for fans. There are million of people in the world for whom music and their favorites artists are some of their most treasured things. Just because its not for you does not mean its not for someone else.
He seems proud of this, this person has zero morals. He's scum.
>"We pulled so many tickets that really we had to choose which seats we didn't want," he said."
This is just unbridled greed. It wasn't enough to do this for handful of tickets, it had to be done for all of them.
I'm always suspicious of people that want to do the right thing only once their own morally questionable practices have run out of steam. I don't think what he's doing now is motivated by any sense of concern or common good.