77percent™

so I got my tickets for the cat empire (friday night at barrymore’s) yesterday and I’m very glad to say that I bought them, in cash none the less, at the bar of the venue (barrymore’s) and not through ticketmaster or, as we (the revolutionaries) will now refer to them, the most evil mofos on this planet.

[23:46] Olly“: how much did the tickets come down to by the way?
[23:47] ‘jeevs,: just $17.50 per head
[23:47] Olly“: ok cool
[23:47] Olly“: keep the change : )
[23:47] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:48] ‘jeevs,: it was a great excuse to go to barrymore’s afterschool (ben came along too)
[23:48] ‘jeevs,: and I’m pretty sure it save me whatever ludicrous fees ticketmaster would have charged me
[23:48] Olly“: yeah i’d think so
[23:49] ‘jeevs,: yea ticketmaster is the devil
[23:50] ‘jeevs,:

they would have asked four bucks per ticket convenience charge + another couple dollars just so that I could have the pleasure of printing them out

[23:51] Olly“: so you could waste your own ink too
[23:51] Olly“: hehe
[23:51] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:51] Olly“: and kill more trees!
[23:52] ‘jeevs,: yea so that’s like $14 more in fees just to ticketmaster
[23:52] ‘jeevs,: y’know the people behind ticketmaster …
[23:53] ‘jeevs,:

one day they woke up and said y’know what if I got a five bucks for every single person who went to any concert in N.America that’s not in someone’s basement … I’d be filthy rich

[23:53] Olly“: well it works out
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:54] Olly“: its a good business
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: no it’s a monopoly
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: a sickening grotesque vat of crap
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: evil crap none the less
[23:55] Olly“: dont they say that the lady that does voice message on phones gets a penny every time its played? she’s got a good salary too
[23:55] ‘jeevs,: no she’s just annoying I think, so people made up a reason to hate her
[23:55] Olly“: well that too
[23:56] Olly“: the thing is though if there is no business like yours and you create it and since you’re unique you’re a monopoly, its not really your fault is it? And its clever what they do. its convenient for some.
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: that’s not the case though
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: there are some ticketmaster competitors
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: and they’re probably better at what they do
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: but it’s cyclic
[23:57] ‘jeevs,: everyone sells through ticketmaster because everyone buys through ticketmaster
[23:57] ‘jeevs,: it’s so set in stone , that it’s going to take some big boulder to get dropped on it before it gets replaced
[23:58] Olly“: why dont you buy ticketmaster and fix it up for them ? : P
[23:59] ‘jeevs,: no.
[23:59] ‘jeevs,: I will destroy them
[23:59] ‘jeevs,:

I will start (have started) a ticketmaster boycott

[23:59] ‘jeevs,: and hopefully they won’t notice until it’s too late
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: and then they’ll wander where all their slavelings went
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: wonder
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: and it’ll be too late
[00:00] Olly“: sounds like a plan
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: sounds like a paradigm shift !
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: the revolution starts now
[00:01] Olly“: we will be remembered, in, history! as those who took down ticketmaster!
[00:01] ‘jeevs,: or yesterday, rather, when I chose to skip the convenience charge and the print-out-your-own-ticket, and actually walked to my bar&venue to buy my tickets with my beer
[00:04] Olly“: you should make a facebook group. spread the revolution
I will now proceed to pretend that I didn’t hear you say that Olga, and I will pretend to be too cool to use facebook to start a revolution, but then I will likely conform to the masses (my only weapon against the ticket master) and then leverage them through their own facebook to achieve my goals

let the revolution begin,
may ticket buying never be the same again
I woke up one day and said I will keep my five dollar bill, thank you very much mr ticket master, and I will walk the extra half dozen blocks to my venue … and, even more importantly, I will save others the pains of ticket-buying with ticketmaster by buying more tickets than I need and then reselling them at the price that is already printed on the ticket and maybe a beer or some other payment-in-kind.