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I bought a $5 auto-pick once many years ago (one of about two times in my life I've bought tickets), and I had 4 of the six numbers. The first two numbers of the next computer-generated pick were the two I was missing. That very same drawing a guy I work with got 5 of the 6 numbers correct. That's my entire lottery history.

The one that cracks me up and is almost universally mispronounced (and I hear it every Sunday) is DEE-troit. It just sounds so hillbilly to pronounce it that way. I do kind of like the way the CBC hockey announcers call it Detroy-ut however.

Little known fact. I invented the drum pattern for that.

Geddy's left pinky movements give me migraines, bleeding from the ears, vertigo, athlete's foot, acid reflux, and a twitching in my left buttock. Fortunately, only on the videos made after 1974.

Seriously? You're the one complaining and calling a clearly legitimate business "criminal", and I don't particularly see anything wrong with it.

No, I'm a capitalist. I'm trying to figure out a way that everyone can make a bid on the seats. Start a company and sell the idea to the arenas of the world. Hey dude, you mad? If I pissed you off, please let me know, and I will apologize . No. Displeasure with the status quo is the genesis of many businesses.

Why would you assume TM is doing that? Maybe the arena is doing that. If so, they have every right to sell tickets however they like. If TM is doing it, and it's allowable in their contract, they have every right to do it also. It certainly can't be called criminal without specific and detailed knowledge of the contracts.

Absolutely the only possibility. Just like an empty seat means no one owns the rights to it.

Those two points are not compatible. The chance to have the seats is to go to YYZfinity Wireless Arena and buy a luxury box or maybe just buy season tickets for their WNBA team. He wants premium goods for pedestrian prices. (Have you read the thread title?) Ok, so TM should show an interactive map of the arena showing which seats are and are not available to be bid on. If they want to. The evidence suggests they don't want to. Plus, availability will likely change. There are probably entities with options to buy N tickets at P dollars. At a certain date those options expire and more tickets may or may not become available. Likely, probably, and maybes are the problem. People simply want to know the truth and how they can bid on a seat. If T Bone Pickens gives $1,000,000 to Rush, and he gets 10000 seats at the arena, then they should tell everyone why those seats aren't up for grabs. What other business do you demand to know their inventory management strategies? When I buy something, I only care what they have available and at what price. TM supplies that info pretty much like any other business. I don't know what it is about this business that makes people feel entitled, but for some reason people seem to think they have some kind of right to information that is none of their business. No, Slack Jaw, they don't tell you which seats are available. You're making a false statement to say otherwise.Like I previously stated, entire rows ahead of me were completely empty during the show, but I wasn't given a chance to bid on them. Yes, I agree with you that 2 tickets were offered and I had a choice to take them or not, but, TM clearly lied when it said those were "the best available" when it turned out that they weren't. You mentioned entitlement. Welfare recipients feel entitled. It is not entitlement for people to want the opportunity to make a bid on a seat. What if I get cancer and I only have 3 months to live and I want a front row seat to Rush. I might just outbid ole T Boon Pickens on that seat. I know that's a hyperbolic hypothetical, but I'm trying to make a point. Assuming an empty seat has no owner is like assuming an empty car has no owner.

No, I'm a capitalist. I'm trying to figure out a way that everyone can make a bid on the seats. Start a company and sell the idea to the arenas of the world.

Those two points are not compatible. The chance to have the seats is to go to YYZfinity Wireless Arena and buy a luxury box or maybe just buy season tickets for their WNBA team. He wants premium goods for pedestrian prices. (Have you read the thread title?) Ok, so TM should show an interactive map of the arena showing which seats are and are not available to be bid on. If they want to. The evidence suggests they don't want to. Plus, availability will likely change. There are probably entities with options to buy N tickets at P dollars. At a certain date those options expire and more tickets may or may not become available. Likely, probably, and maybes are the problem. People simply want to know the truth and how they can bid on a seat. If T Bone Pickens gives $1,000,000 to Rush, and he gets 10000 seats at the arena, then they should tell everyone why those seats aren't up for grabs. What other business do you demand to know their inventory management strategies? When I buy something, I only care what they have available and at what price. TM supplies that info pretty much like any other business. I don't know what it is about this business that makes people feel entitled, but for some reason people seem to think they have some kind of right to information that is none of their business.

Those two points are not compatible. The chance to have the seats is to go to YYZfinity Wireless Arena and buy a luxury box or maybe just buy season tickets for their WNBA team. He wants premium goods for pedestrian prices. (Have you read the thread title?) Ok, so TM should show an interactive map of the arena showing which seats are and are not available to be bid on. If they want to. The evidence suggests they don't want to. Plus, availability will likely change. There are probably entities with options to buy N tickets at P dollars. At a certain date those options expire and more tickets may or may not become available.

Is this socialist Bizarro-AikenRooster posting this?

Those two points are not compatible. The chance to have the seats is to go to YYZfinity Wireless Arena and buy a luxury box or maybe just buy season tickets for their WNBA team. He wants premium goods for pedestrian prices. (Have you read the thread title?)

Why don't you complain about Ferrari squeezing out the "little guy"? If you want premium stuff, you may have to pay premium money. Those are all local ordinances and have nothing to do with TM. Most cities have a bunch of money wrapped up in their local barn. They are trying to protect it. I'd be interested in a business like this, but you don't seem to believe it's OK to make money at it, so I wouldn't want you as a partner.

You all are raging against a business model that you invented in your own mind, but does not exist in the real world. ...because they have contracts with venues to act as their box office. It's not that tough to understand. If you go lease a luxury box for 6 or 7 figures at No Name Wireless Arena, you'll have options to buy (or probably freebies) to the front row of any act you want to see. Those good empty seats you see probably are the discarded property of some company that has a luxury box to watch NBA games. I'm not defending TM at all other than to point out they have, very obviously, every right to enter contracts to sell tickets with arenas. Every major arena in North America has gotten out of the box office biz, so I assume TM can do it cheaper than the arenas can. Create a ticket service that keeps more money in the pockets of the venues, and sell it to them. They'll buy it.

That seems like proprietary information that probably varies based on the venue and the act. They have no obligation or responsibility to make that information public.

A question clearly not on the test: If I start a thread touting an IQ more than 4 standard deviations above average, I will get ____________ responses.

I've never seen TM (or any ticket seller) advertise what you claim. The venue can sell whatever tickets they want to whomever they want for whatever price they agree to. Clearly, The Big Money buyers of luxury suites and season tickets in the venue (and many others) are probably going to have access before the general public. What idiot businessman would not allow that?

So was Witch Hunt (per the Taking Center Stage DVD), so just because something started as a "production number" doesn't mean it will always be that way.

Whatever they sell the ticket for is, by definition, the retail value. (I'll avoid the meaningless and misleading term "face" value). Plus, you are not providing a contracted service for the venue and/or performer. That being said, anyone should be able to sell their property to anyone who wants to purchase it.

So the crime is not offering you exactly what you want for the price you want to pay?

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At the risk of being Mr. Obvious and Mr. Redundant all in one, it's the signatures. My load times go from a few seconds to near infinity when I enable signatures. The TRF load times can be no better than the (at minimum) 3 photobucket images that get loaded on nearly every page of every thread.