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Started by DC
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:05
Blizzcon 2008 tickets on eBay - uh-oh!
Author: DC
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:05
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:05
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WoW Insider http://atu.ca/f8b4 : It's probably not helpful to hundreds (thousands?) of customers who suffered the slings and arrows of BlizzCon ticket purchase, but scalpers are already selling tickets on eBay http://atu.ca/BlizzconTickets Blizzard's rules for BlizzCon are set up to mitigate scalpers' ability to resale on eBay and other internet venues. The ticket pickup rules, from the official BlizzCon website say: "Tickets and badges must be picked up at the Anaheim Convention Center; Blizzard Entertainment will NOT be mailing the badges out. To pick up your tickets, you will need to provide the credit card used to make the purchase. There are no exceptions to this." And as one eBay scalper says in his auction, he'll have to deliver the tickets "near" the convention center. So, the buyer should beware. You don't have any assurances your scalper will actually show up, and you could find yourself out a grand or two pretty. Of course, you'd kind of be bringing it on yourself anyway.
Re: Blizzcon 2008 tickets on eBay - uh-oh!
Author: PV
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02
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DC <nobody@pseudo.borked.net> writes:
>Convention Center; Blizzard Entertainment will NOT be
>mailing the badges out. To pick up your tickets, you will
>need to provide the credit card used to make the purchase.
>There are no exceptions to this."
Which means the only way to get the tickets is the day of the event,
AFTER the scalper has picked them up. Yeah, I am SO running out to ebay
right now to make that deal.
Hopefully blizzard will get ebay to trash the auctions. Let's make the
scalpers take a bath on this and not buy from them.
Also note: the area around the convention center is NOT safe for waiting
around. Anaheim, like a lot of LA, has developed a bad crime problem in
recent years. I don't visit the area anymore - I wrote off the place after
during one visit to the beach one of my skate wheels had a needle stuck in
it. *
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* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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