PThespian said: "happydude said: "Cape Twirl of Doom said: "happydude said: " I chuckle at some of the hoodwinkism dressed up on this board. Getting someone to wait for you for 36 hours for a $177 ticket?!!???? Cute. That's a rather lopsided deal if you ask me. I don't see anything pure about that. "
I can see how this can be a pretty good deal for someone who was going to wait for a ticket for themselves anyway, since this way they'd get a free ticket out of it and they were already going to put in the time no matter what. Or if they're a college student with nothing else to do. If you just want to see the show for free and don't care about making extra, it seems like a good deal.
"But...weren't the boohoo birds crying last month about how unethical it was that people who never waited in line got to see the show while the poor proletariat classes suffered in wait? Now, its ok, huh? Like I said, very curious change of standards. The funny thing is, the result looks just like the last result. Longer wait times and some folks crafty enough and deep-pocketed enough to avoid the grind. It's even worse now, because now you can exploit someone else for less dough to cheat the system. Atleast "cheaters" in the past, had to sacrafice SOMETHING.
I have no vested interest in this discussion at all. I saw the show, honestly didn't care for it, and am going to be re-selling the other tickets I have for it on TM.
However I think it's unfair to call someone a "cheater" because someone else waits in line for them.
The person waiting in line goes through everything everyone else in line goes through. Their reward? They get to buy two tickets to the show.
How is that cheating? I mean the reason they want those tickets, and who uses them, is irrelevant. They did what was required to get them.
"Cheating" would be cutting the line, "cheating" would be bribing a RR employee, "cheating" would be getting tickets from the cancellation line without waiting your turn for as long as you need to....
As long as all rules are being followed no one is "cheating." Just because they are getting in and other people aren't doesn't mean they should be reviled or found to be lacking moral standards.
The tickets are there for the taking by anyone who fairly does what is needed to get them. Getting paid for doing that, either in cash or with a free ticket, in no way makes them a chest and, quite frankly, is no one's business but their's and the person they are waiting for.
"You're misinterpreting my stance. If you'd been following this particular discussion for the last few pages, you'd know I'm not saying waiting for someone, be they line sitter or regular patron or patron who pays said line sitter, is cheating. The reason why I put the word cheater in quotation marks. What I am pointing out is the hypocrisy of the whole controversy that forced the new cancellation policies. I don't care what another person on line is doing, but a lot of people do care. That's what all the line policing is about. So your screed bares no relationship to what I was talking about. Read before responding.
