FOR SALE: 2 Tickets to GROUNDHOG DAY First Preview (3/16)- Page 2

[djoko84]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:33pm

That was awesome!!! Bravo Jujamcyn!!

[BroadwayBeebe]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:35pm

This thread makes me even more excited to see it on Friday! 

DAMN!

[canadian fan]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:37pm

Well wasn't that fun :)

Karma....

 

[Wick3]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:37pm

I didn't know ticket resale wasn't allowed for these lottery tickets. 

I hope any tickets found on stubhub will also be made void. 

From stubbub site as of 3:30pm EST, I see the following seats being sold for Thu Mar 16th Groundhog Day performance:

orchestra M14-16

orchestra O10-12

orchestra C111-112

mezzanine right B2-4

orchestra G16-18

 

Updated On: 3/13/17 at 03:37 PM

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 3:41pm

Hopefully the tickets don't go to waste.

[10086sunset]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 4:00pm

Best thing to happen on this site in ages.

Love it!

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 4:04pm

<3

Karma, y'all. What the producers did with free tickets to the first preview was awesome and generous to the theater community. People taking advantage of that isn't cool. 

[wish i were here2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 4:29pm

This is everything! I too hope these tickets don't go to waste! I'd love to go! *hint hint* 

[MyLife]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 4:30pm

For anyone foolish enough to purchase first preview tickets from a third party site, I hope their purchases are protected so that they're not out money because of the greedy lottery winners who decided to sell them.

 

Bravo to the Jujamcyn management for making the right move on this!

[Actor2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 6:52pm

This is a huge error on my part, and I don't have any excuse. I apologize to GROUNDHOG DAY and Jujamcyn and would like to offer a few clarifications that I hope will begin to make things right:

1) Yes. I won these tickets in the contest. I'm sorry if my original message seemed like I was hiding that. I was not. I was just in a rush when I made my post.

2) I earnestly, absolutely wish that I could make the show. I was over the moon when I won and am extremely disappointed that I cannot attend as this is one of my most anticipated musicals of the season. I have a very important personal obligation that has recently come up that I cannot change.

3) I honestly thought that there were a few remaining tickets on sale for this preview. I should have checked. I didn't. I did not read the rules and terms fully upon realizing I could not attend. I just wanted to find these tickets a home and did what I would normally do in a situation like this. However, these are special circumstances. And I was wrong. Please know that this was not "the plan". I have no excuse, and I am sorry.

4) @MinnieFay: If you or someone from your office or Jujamcyn would like to contact me directly, I would like to make it right in any way that I can. Is there a way for me to officially furnish my tickets back to you? I truly don't want them to go to waste, nor do I want any bad blood for what, I admit, was an unacceptable mistake on my part. It is incredibly generous of the producers to do something like this, and I sincerely wish an amazing full house for you.

Again, I sincerely apologize for and incredibly embarrassed about my error. There was truly no malicious or devious intent.

I understand being made an example out of. I made a mistake. I feel very stupid. I'd like to make it right if I can.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 6:59pm

They said they cancelled the tickets. So they've been furnished back. 

I'm not sure how trying to sell tickets you got for free can be interpreted as anything other than malicious intent. If it wasn't malicious, you would have offered them for free to someone else. You tried to sell them. 

Updated On: 3/13/17 at 06:59 PM

[Actor2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 7:09pm

I'm aware how it looks, and I'm very embarrassed. I was in a rush, did what I would normally do in a situation like this on autopilot, and made a big mistake. There isn't an excuse. Perhaps there is not anything I can do at this point, but I would like to make things right.

And I would like Groundhog Day, Jujamcyn, and you all to know that I recognize what I did. It was truly an accident. It was wrong. And I'm sorry. That may not be worth much of anything, but it's true all the same.

Updated On: 3/13/17 at 07:09 PM

[LesWickedly]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 7:57pm

I feel like that even in a rush, you would realize these tickets were given to you for free.

[rangersrule132]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 7:57pm

The only logical thing to do is to buy all of broadwayworld tickets to second preview.

[@z5]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:07pm

What if this Minnie person though actually doesn't work for jujamcyn or Groundhog Day and just played a great one on the fool who tried to make $300 off of free tickets. 

[Actor2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:14pm

@LesWickedly: Of course I did. Though I did not explicitly write it in my message, I never implied that I purchased these tickets. Again, I was on autopilot when it came to finding a new home for them. I understand being made an example out of, but this was in no way active maliciousness/subversion. It was an error in judgement.

@z5: It's possible. But the message is still true. And I will hopefully be able to transfer these tickets back to Jujamcyn/Groundhog Day (rather than them just being voided) so that two people will be able to attend in my place.

[ahhrealmonsters]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:16pm

"What if this Minnie person though actually doesn't work for jujamcyn or Groundhog Day and just played a great one on the fool who tried to make $300 off of free tickets."

That was my thought. It's a little weird that the message didn't come from an official Jujamcyn account.

[@z5]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:27pm

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:30pm

@z5 said: "What if this Minnie person though actually doesn't work for jujamcyn or Groundhog Day and just played a great one on the fool who tried to make $300 off of free tickets."

As delicious as this whole thread would be if Minnie does indeed work for either entity, I'm not so sure myself.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:31pm

"I never implied that I purchased these tickets. "

Yes you did. I would stop while you're behind.

Your literal post: Face value for all the other previews is $159 each, so I'm looking for $318 or best offer. No fees if you get them from me instead of Ticketmaster.

Posting the cost is implying you purchased them, and you also mentioned no fees. As if you'd purchased them. 

[Actor2]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:48pm

@neonlightsxo: I wrote "for all other previews". Not "for this performance" or "for these tickets". That said, I do understand why the inference was made. Again, I sincerely apologize. 

[annang]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 9:47pm

If you hadn't gotten caught, would you still be sorry? Would you have pocketed the $300, or would you have refunded it, as soon as you weren't in a hurry and remembered that you had gotten the tickets for free? Would you have offered the buyer a refund if he came back to you after the show and pointed out that everyone else had gotten for free?

[@z5]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 10:02pm

Also for being in such a hurry you seemed to have time to research the full price of tickets for multiple other preview dates.....unless you arbitrarily came at the number of $159 each plus fees. 

[Andy51]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 10:18pm

I'm not seeing the moral failing on Actor 2's part.  If I win a prize and that prize has a fair market value, what is morally problematic about my seeking to get that value from it?  I might, for example, enter a lottery to win a new car.  Would it be legitimate to complain if I decided to sell the car for its fair market value just because I got it for free?  I don''t think anyone would have a problem with my selling it.  But what distinguishes the case of selling the free ticket from selling the free car?  (I recognize that the theatre has a rule against selling it, and that's sufficient to undermine A2's right to sell the ticket.  But rules and morality don't always converge, and, in any case, the violation of theatre policy doesn't seem to be what is giving rise to all of the indignation here).

Updated On: 3/13/17 at 10:18 PM

[KitKatBoy24]

Posted: 3/13/17 at 10:34pm

If anyone in this thread is at the first preview, will you PLEASE take a picture of the two empty seats in Orch row C. I NEED to know if this is real or not Hahahaha