Anyone Been Berated In Rush Ticket Line By Al Hirschfield Ticket Personnel? — Page 2

somethingwicked - Ok, the parents made a mistake but that is no excuse to have somebody pointing their finger in your face which obviously got the father upset. Can you tell us if that happened because that to me is another issue?

The people in question's backs were to me during the exchange, but I never saw the line monitor put his finger in anyone's face. In fact, at one point, the original poster's father put his hand on the monitor in order to move him back some and the monitor made a point to stop and say, "You can't put a hand on me, sir."

Needless to say it was an uncomfortable situation for everyone in the vicinity.

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somethingwicked - Thanks for clarification. Like you said, it must have been very uncomfortable situation. Would be interesting to see if OP responds to your post.

i will bet he/she won't. As with the movie Rashomon there are always three sides to and event, Yours, Mine and the Truth.

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I've never been in a line that wasn't okay with trading off. I just always mention to the person behind me (and a few after them) that that's what we're doing.

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And THIS is why I prefer Lottery! Haha! I guess lottery is not as convent for out of town-ers/tourists with limited time though. It's easy for me as a New Yorker because I can come back as many times as I want until I win. But I agree, It sounds like the employee could have handled the situation better, but your parents probably could have as well. This is funny to me because I walked up to Kinky Boots (Given it was before the Tonys, and it was a Wednesday...but there still was crazy hype about the show) about 3pm one day, and bought a Rush ticket no problem! So crazy. Guess I lucked out. But I just think Rush is too much. I prefer lottery. I wish Pippin would switch to lottery.

I've also never met anyone who has a problem trading off, since (as previously stated) it has no effect on the ticket status behind the people switching. Just make sure the people behind are aware long beforehand of the plan so nobody starts any drama for nothing.

It is the rush system that is at fault. When there is no one to monitor when the people got there, how they organize themselves, etc. they will always run into these kind of situations.

And it is cruel and unsafe to have people wait from 1, 2, 3am just to be first in line.

I can't believe nobody has imposed a lottery system on all theaters.

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Updated On: 6/30/13 at 07:46 PM

Personally, I prefer a rush system. Even if it means getting in line in the wee hours of the morning, I like knowing that there's a guaranteed way of getting tickets as opposed to the uncontrollable fate of a lottery.

That being said, I do wish there was a way to cut the scalpers out of a rush system, but I guess the only way to do that would be to make it a student rush (and even that's not entirely un-exploitable).

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Updated On: 6/30/13 at 07:57 PM

Oh yeah, I know. I was stalking you back in January, that was cold. But hot.

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Didn't someone get beat up at Jersey Boys a few years back by a scalper? Granted it wasn't in the middle of the night, but still, an unfortunate incident.

The fact that we need line monitors because people are so untrustworthy is sad.

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I've always thought that the best way to prevent scalping in a rush situation would be to give people a receipt at the time of purchase and then not release their actual tickets to them until fifteen minutes prior to curtain with a photo ID. Either that or just give the people who purchase the tickets a wrist band that they'd have to wear in conjunction with the ticket when they entered the theater later (one of those cheap paper ones with a logo on it that you couldn't take off and transfer to someone else).

Kelly2, before they eliminated it, didn't MATILDA try some system of limiting how many times a month people could rush?

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Updated On: 6/30/13 at 08:13 PM