BuckyB93 wrote:I'd buy one for a buck fiddy (not a big fan of Elton John's music but respect him as a musician and stuff)
Scalping a ticked one, I'd prolly sell it for $200.
This reminds me of my one and only “scalping” experience.
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” tour in 1980.
Through a rigged in-store contest, I won 2nd place in a free concert ticket “competition” between the sales clerks. Sponsored by CBS Records (…it wouldn’t be sold to Sony for a few more years…), I won 2 tickets to any 3 concerts of my choosing. First place was 6 set of tickets.
Anyway, I had used two sets for, I don’t remember who, but kept the last one for the rumored (…see what I did there?…) Fleetwood Mac appearance. But, while FMac was the #1 music act at the time, I wasn’t into the Stevie Nicks - Lindsey Buckingham line-up. Since the “white” album, customers would walk in and request us to put on their music while they shopped. Got sick and tired of listening to them.
Thought my girlfriend would want to see them so requested tickets for their show. Got the tickets and told my GF. Slightly shocked when she said she didn’t want to go. None of the other clerks wanted to go either so I asked Kathleen, the 1st place winner, since she was also going to the same show, to sell my tickets. Face value was $12.50, she sold each for $25!
Used the $50 to buy gas a month for my 1968 Plymouth Road Runner.