What Are You Doing Right Now

JaredBusch

Getting ready to head to St Louis for a morning meeting. Then back to Chicago by tomorrow night.

RojoLoco

To paraphrase the great Tom Segura:

"We’re not gonna agree on everything. Okay? But we should agree on this. If you buy tickets at face value and then resell them for a profit, you’re a piece of shit. "

Today I call for the public torture and execution of any and all ticket resellers, aka SCALPERS, because they are the layer of odious filth that profits by robotically buying all the tickets to events they have no interest in, then gouging fans who couldn't get tickets through legitimate means and making hundreds or even thousands of percent profit. There is a special layer of hell waiting for them, but honestly, I'd rather have a hand to hand combat arena set up for the fans to wail on the scalpers. Whoever wins the fight gets the tickets. Pushing sharp objects and other weapons into the ring would be welcomed. I've been working on my "hang you up by your achilles' tendons and skinning you like a catfish" style. It would only take 2 or 3 of these events to stop scalpers from wanting to resell tickets. Fucking scum of the earth... I literally put them at the same level as paedophiles and politicians (in that they all deserve to be publicly tortured and left to die).

(impetus for this post - there is a scumbag, piece of fucking shit, ticket reselling fuckbag that works in my office. I'd pay a large admission price to see him strung up and beaten by people who couldn't afford the scalper tickets to this or that event, myself included. Ticketmaster and Stubhub are now all kinds of blocked on the office network. If you engage in this type of activity, I suggest not mentioning it on this forum, I might take some time off and hunt you down...)

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"We’re not gonna agree on everything. Okay? But we should agree on this. If you buy tickets at face value and then resell them for a profit, you’re a piece of shit. "

I've never understood this. It's just normal reselling. Why do we call one scalping, but another reselling? To the point that most people feel resellers are a positive thing, and like the discussion yesterday, vendors actually promote them. What makes it good in one case, and bad in another?

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

"We’re not gonna agree on everything. Okay? But we should agree on this. If you buy tickets at face value and then resell them for a profit, you’re a piece of shit. "

I've never understood this. It's just normal reselling. Why do we call one scalping, but another reselling? To the point that most people feel resellers are a positive thing, and like the discussion yesterday, vendors actually promote them. What makes it good in one case, and bad in another?

In the case of tickets, the resellers flood the online presale and on sale dates with traffic, they buy up all the tickets at full price (retail), then mark them up ridiculously. That way, the real fans of $band or $sportingevent have no way of getting retail price tickets when they go on sale, they are forced to pay an upcharge mandated by a motherfucker who hasn't ever even heard the band or roots for the team. If they got a discount and sold at face value (full retail), no worries. What you refer to as a "reseller" (in the IT world) I would assume is paying a wholesale/dealer price and working above/below the "retail" price. But that's comparing apples to trucks. In regards to event tickets specifically, the scalpers have been the ones driving up prices far past the point of ludicrous for decades now. Most of the concerts I saw when I was under 25, I was forced to pay over face value because of scalpers artificially raising the demand by making the show sell out in 30 minutes. Now they control the price, a monopoly on the market of _____ in concert, so everyone who actually lined up to get tickets because they are a fan get screwed. I'm not talking about anything here but event tickets, concerts and sporting events. Tech gear, shoes, building materials, whatever else you're going to try to compare has nothing to do with this post.

Last year, I saw nearly 1,000 true fans get dissed at the Tabernacle in Atlanta for a Ween show... a show to which they all bought tickets on pre-sale... that were left stuck outside the venues, with the door staff claiming "we're at capacity". That was because it has been shown many times that Live Nation / Ticketmaster routinely over sells concerts in Atlanta (and everywhere else) by 50% and more. If the potential profit from all those extra scalper tickets wasn't so great, they would only sell the correct number (fire marshall capacity) of tickets. If ticket reselling were punishable by my standards, it would cease immediately. leaving those precious few tickets for smaller venues shows to the fans, not to the profiteers.

If you (any of you) don't understand why ticket scalping is a bad thing, I bet you're the type to buy all the plywood at your local home depot and take it to the latest hurricane damaged spot to sell for $200/sheet. Which, by the way, is scumbaggery.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco that's all very true, but isn't that essentially what all retailers do to everyone as well? It's less that scaling isn't bad, it's more that we are oddly accepting of that behaviour in so many other places.

scottalanmiller

Installing TimescaleDB

DustinB3403

Compressing some folders with really long file/folder paths.

siringo

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My wife just called me to find out if I was asleep in my office.

Jared, you just have to be my long lost twin, we have too much in common.

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My eight year old just did a google search for herself on the Internet and found herself. lol

Not sure if that's a good thing?

If I Google myself, I find others with the same name and they're all richer, smarter and better looking. I hate them all.

scottalanmiller

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My eight year old just did a google search for herself on the Internet and found herself. lol

Not sure if that's a good thing?

If I Google myself, I find others with the same name and they're all richer, smarter and better looking. I hate them all.

Just Googled myself and found a picture of me that I don't know...

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/image-2-200x200.png