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Again, how is this not scalping?

Surfbum is easily my favorite alt/parody account. Florida Pickup Artist/Ticket Scalper/Self-Righteous Scuzzball/Amateur Magician. Fucking love it. If whoever is running this account outs themselves then drinks are on me at the next Roo.

Nope. I want no part of this. Undragging myself right up out of here. Though I'm definitely confused how what I do is anything similar to scalping. I can assure anyone while yes my "ticket" to the festival is free, I incur expenses at every festival I go to that more than exceeds the cost of a ticket.

You don't have to start an LLC to write off your expenses, you can just do it. It's so easy to start an LLC you should do it anyway though.

Rarely have I seen another human being so completely and utterly full of shit

Other facts about Surfbum I assume to be true:
Surfbum reclines his seat on short flights.
Surfbum pees on the seat.
Surfbum waves money at bartenders.
Surfbum wears Ed Hardy.
Surfbum tips 12%.

I never said you had anything to do with scalping. I said you worked for your tickets. That's the comparison. I also work for my tickets, in a different way.

And to say you have other expenses goes without saying. We all do. There is more to going to a show than just the price of admission when it comes to cost.

I assume you are talking about Horn

Apparently you have never encountered sarcasm before

You feel sorry for me because people are making bad assumptions and being judgmental about things they no nothing about?

Ya, ok.

It's funny to me that I have posted several good things I've done here in this thread that can be confirmed with well respected members of this forum if one was so inclined, yet all that is being done is people digging up old posts that could be misconstrued as me doing something shitty. When I present a truthful, reasonable and good explanation that is contrary to what they assumed, it goes unnoticed. Keep digging though.

Here is a true statement:

In the past 2 years I have sold one pair of tickets over face value, and it was for a very good reason and I hated doing it. Here goes:

I bought a pair of tickets to Macca in Jacksonville presale on the floor, center, 10 rows back. I was very excited about going. It got postponed. Prices were hovering around 1500$ a ticket for what I had, and I wasn't selling. Summertime came and I promised my kids a vacation. I hadn't been able to take them on a vacation for 4 years, since my youngest daughter (of 3 - of which I'm a single dad) got diagnosed with Leukemia. Well, my car broke down and I needed to buy a new one and I didn't have the money for both a vacation and a new car. So I sold the tickets to a very appreciative person for 800. Total. Not 800$ each (half of going price) 800$ total. He was so happy he was beside himself. So I got my new car and didn't disappoint my kids.


This is the last post I'm going to make on this subject. What I do isn't bad. It's not wrong. I too am a music lover and because of me being a single dad, without working different angles and avenues if never get to go to a show. But I always, ALWAYS, keep in mind what it's like to be a music fan and my frustrations with scalpers boosting priced by controlling supply and demand. I buy, sell, trade and otherwise broker tickets in a way that doesn't break any laws (tax laws or otherwise), doesn't add to the rising ticket price problem and keeps the music fan in mind when doing so. Like I said, I give away tons of tickets for free. Because I get them for free sometimes.

Stop pretending you know what I do or how I do it and attacking me based on your completely incorrect assumptions. It''s judgmental and bigoted.

I too recline on flights. I figure it is ok because I don't mind the person in front of me doing it, little give and take.

Well, as long as we are defining words, how about:
Inference - the act or process of reaching a conclusion about something from known facts or evidence.

I'd say what I did was infer that you were a scalper based on the known fact that you buy and sell tickets for profit.

Or how about:
Condescending - having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority.

As in, "Hey, your post that I quoted is unjustifiably condescending."

You said that instead of asking whether you charge crazy prices, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that you were a scalper. While I will agree that based on your admission that you "buy and sell tickets" for profit, I thought it was likely you were a scalper, I think that if you go back and look, you'll find that my first post in this conversation was this one:

While there's a certain amount of disbelief already in that post, it was pretty close to "scalping is shitty, are you charging crazy prices and screwing music lovers?" So when you say I didn't say that, I feel like you are wrong.

Regardless, my question opened the door for you to say something like, "well, I have a sweet hookup through my work, so I can sometimes get tickets at a reduced price, which I then turn around and sell at face value, so I still make a profit and everybody wins." Instead, you said



Now, first of all, "almost all" isn't all, so even accepting that everything you said here is true, you said that sometimes, you do scalp them. Again, not assuming anything, just inferring based on what you said.

But second, this response just screams bullshit. It's vague and self-aggrandizing. When you add in "No kidding, no exaggeration," well, come on, you might as well have said, "honest, I'm not lying." There's not a much quicker way to make people think you aren't honest.

Right. Because reclining a seat that was designed for reclining makes someone an ass. You must not have many friends with such a high threshold for "appropriate" behavior.

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