The Thread for HAMILTON Fans/Obsessives [SPOILERS AHEAD] — Page 25

There's a profile of Jeffrey Seller in this upcoming Sunday's NYT; piece is online now. I found many parts of it fascinating, but would love to dissect this for a second:

 

Early this year, Seller says, a single bot purchased 20,000 “Hamilton” tickets. Even when the brokers’ methods are discovered, he says, “they figure out a new way to hack the system. It’s frustrating, and it’s infuriating.”

 

The RR seats 1,300, so say that one bot bought up all seats in a performance, that would be slightly over 15 performances where one bot owns all the tickets in the house. So, if bots are such a problem, and they ("they" = Seller, et al) can see enough to be able to see that one bot bought 20,000 tickets, how can they not just turn this bot off/deny the bot access/void the bot tickets? Or is this a case of they can only see that one bot bought 20,000 tickets when numbers are being crunched months later after the fact or something?

Updated On: 4/5/16 at 12:55 PM

Blockhead24 said: "Ham4ham update https://twitter.com/hamiltonmusical/status/717400230019395584"

 
Here's the whole message over the five tweets:
 
We love how accessible our digital #Ham4Ham lottery is - it allows so many more of you to have the chance to win a $10 ticket. BUT. We miss seeing your shining faces in front of the Rodgers. SO. Starting tomorrow (4/6), live #Ham4Ham shows & lotteries are back for Weds matinees ONLY. Start entering @ 12:00, drawing @ 12:30. otteries for all other performances (except Weds mat) will remain digital at http://hamiltonbroadway.com/lottery . AND, heads up – we won’t have a lottery next Wednesday afternoon (4/13), because we’re launching our #EduHam program w/1,300 students! 

 
And according to Lin, they'll only have the #Ham4Ham show live for Wednesday matinee (no online show), unless certain circumstances appear.

https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/717403549282467841

Updated On: 4/5/16 at 02:11 PM

Lin apparently hurt his voice last night going "from zero to Hamilton" following his vacation, and just posted that doctor's orders are telling him not to go on for tonight's performance, since he was just diagnosed with acute laryngitis.

I wonder if Javier or Jon or somebody else will go on tonight. Any info?

BroadwayConcierge said: "Lin apparently hurt his voice last night going "from zero to Hamilton" following his vacation, and just posted that doctor's orders are telling him not to go on for tonight's performance, since he was just diagnosed with acute laryngitis.

I wonder if Javier or Jon or somebody else will go on tonight. Any info?"


Well, it's certainly one or the other... don't know about the "somebody else". However, it would be kinda interesting to see maybe Daveed play the role.

It's Javi, BTW. (https://twitter.com/JMunozActor/status/717420372593885186)

Updated On: 4/5/16 at 02:41 PM

Sorry, never mind!

Updated On: 4/5/16 at 03:24 PM

Blockhead24 said: "Does it really matter why? 

 

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Well, yeah. That's why I asked. 

Hellob said: "Blockhead24 said: "Does it really matter why? "

Well, yeah. That's why I asked. "

It matters to him, his friends, family, and co-workers. Are you any of those?

 

LizzieCurry said: "Hellob said: "Blockhead24 said: "Does it really matter why? "

Well, yeah. That's why I asked. "

It matters to him, his friends, family, and co-workers. Are you any of those?

 

 

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I am just curious about it because he's disproportionately out. There was a whole thread about Brightman but I can't ask this? Ok, I got the message. 

The whole bot thing is really infuriating. And in that piece, Sellers didn't seem too concerned with finding solutions to scalpers except for raising the base price for his own gain. I can't see why they don't do what the Harry Potter play has done in London - everyone who bought a ticket has to collect with ID from the box office. That sold out extremely fast for almost a year of performances - if they can do it, Hamilton can do it.

oncemorewithfeeling2 said: "He's been filming a pilot. He's mentioned it in his tweets.

 

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Thank you so much! I'm not on Twitter much. :)

Because those same people would just sell them on Stubhub?

mariel9 said: "When I wanted to sell my ticket to the David Bowie tribute, I wasn't able to resell it on Ticketmaster, which makes me wonder if venues or producers can opt out. If they can, why hasn't Hamilton?

 

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The best guess is that they know they are being resold no matter what so opting in may cut down on the fake SH and CL tickets? Does anyone know if the venue gets any of the TM resale fees because they are fairly higher than SH. It seems like they should be less because they have no risk since they are basically only transferring 100% valid tickets between users. SH does have some risks because the tickets could be fake and the seller can easily cancel their cc before SH tries to recoup. 

 

The Bowie tickets also couldn't be sold on stubhub. There are, of course, other sites, but I thought it was interesting that reselling on the two biggest(?) sites isn't inevitable.