It wouldn't stop person to person sales, but it would put a huge dent in the hardcore asshole scalpers, if you remove the ability to re-sell them through places like ebay and stubhub.
I disagree. That won't stop hardcore asshole scalpers. They're HARDCORE.
I remember two years back, shitheads were scalping radiohead tickets that were limited 2 per person, will call only, and you had to immediately enter on pickup.
Motherfuckers were buying 2 tickets, selling 1, and standing on line with the schmuck they were in the process of fleecing. I was actually disappointed no one was beaten and robbed.
So how would they get around having to provide a name for each ticket, non-transferable? They don't show up with state-issued ID with that name they can fuck off. Allow returns of the tickets less some fee if Bob Smith can't go.
That system is beyond fucked. Haven't you ever had something come up?
That would be the "allow returns" part to deal with that. They could resell returned tickets at the door with the demand that PAX has been showing.
Oh that's cool. Instead of going with the friend / girlfriend I bought the ticket for I could go alone...
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I'm just glad they made the ratio in cost between whole-convention passes and single day passes better. It used to be cheaper to get a three day pass than two single day passes. Now a four day pass costs slightly more than three single day passes which is a lot more equitable and guarantees the people buying the four day pass are likely going for all four days.
One thing to consider. When money fails to procure the tickets, potential congoers may resort to . . . other means:
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An appropriate punishment for scalping tickets would be scalping... scalps
I wish that had been around when I was at an age to have been able to go. I would have really loved that.
by the time of first pax I had a kid and there was no way I'd be allowed to head on down there for a weekend without bringing the family. which would be torture.
I'm actually excited to bring my little guy once I think he's old enough to handle it.
going somewhere with a kid, even an older one (my boy is 11), is fun but is a totally different thing than going yourself.
cause then it's about watching them and making sure they have a good time and not being able to do stuff yourself unless they can participate too and such.
True. Being in my 30s myself I don't really care to wait in line and play games and haven't for many years, I just like to go, see the spectacle, attend a few panels, and maybe bunker down in the tabletop building for some downtime. If I went with my kids I think I'll be happy to follow them around from place to place because I won't feel like I'm missing anything.
It wouldn't stop person to person sales, but it would put a huge dent in the hardcore asshole scalpers, if you remove the ability to re-sell them through places like ebay and stubhub.
I disagree. That won't stop hardcore asshole scalpers. They're HARDCORE.
I remember two years back, shitheads were scalping radiohead tickets that were limited 2 per person, will call only, and you had to immediately enter on pickup.
Motherfuckers were buying 2 tickets, selling 1, and standing on line with the schmuck they were in the process of fleecing. I was actually disappointed no one was beaten and robbed.
So how would they get around having to provide a name for each ticket, non-transferable? They don't show up with state-issued ID with that name they can fuck off. Allow returns of the tickets less some fee if Bob Smith can't go.
That system is beyond fucked. Haven't you ever had something come up?
That would be the "allow returns" part to deal with that. They could resell returned tickets at the door with the demand that PAX has been showing.
The could do what we do with comedy. Allow full refund returns, incumbent on the ticket selling to someone else.
I'm just glad they made the ratio in cost between whole-convention passes and single day passes better. It used to be cheaper to get a three day pass than two single day passes. Now a four day pass costs slightly more than three single day passes which is a lot more equitable and guarantees the people buying the four day pass are likely going for all four days.
One thing to consider. When money fails to procure the tickets, potential congoers may resort to . . . other means:
the R/R paper is bullshit but most of the layman responses don't get it either, which is annoying
oh well
They're acting/sounding like political operatives.
no, not really. I think they just really wanted to believe it, and the derivation is so mindbogglingly simple that almost nobody bothered to doubt whether it was real. the flaw was discovered when people finally got fed up at not being able to replicate it, and R/R cheerfully volunteered all the data and the original spreadsheets used to construct the argument. this doesn't suggest any deliberate manipulation
the thing is, in macro it is normal to observe patterns like this and then make strong statements. this is because (1) there is a strong prior in favour of the absence of patterns, particularly across countries, so any apparently strong pattern at all is surprising (2) moving from strong correlation empirics to weak causative theory is normal since a certain J. M. Keynes legitimized the practice. the term of art is "stylized fact". this is normal practice.
the idea is that it's actually pretty darn difficult to construct plausible stories that line up with all the stylized facts we know of - certainly harder than laymen think it is - so identifying good stylizations does half the work. the inflation-unemployment tradeoff got to drive policy for five decades including today, for instance.
the "ha ha, what a bad way to back up macro policy" thing is grating because almost all macro policy is like that, including the policies you like! where does everyone think favourable multiplier estimates come from?
PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
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PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
Should be trivial to cancel multiple orders made with the same auth token, right? Or at the very least look into cases of 32 passes shipping to the same address.
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It wouldn't stop person to person sales, but it would put a huge dent in the hardcore asshole scalpers, if you remove the ability to re-sell them through places like ebay and stubhub.
I disagree. That won't stop hardcore asshole scalpers. They're HARDCORE.
I remember two years back, shitheads were scalping radiohead tickets that were limited 2 per person, will call only, and you had to immediately enter on pickup.
Motherfuckers were buying 2 tickets, selling 1, and standing on line with the schmuck they were in the process of fleecing. I was actually disappointed no one was beaten and robbed.
So how would they get around having to provide a name for each ticket, non-transferable? They don't show up with state-issued ID with that name they can fuck off. Allow returns of the tickets less some fee if Bob Smith can't go.
That system is beyond fucked. Haven't you ever had something come up?
That would be the "allow returns" part to deal with that. They could resell returned tickets at the door with the demand that PAX has been showing.
Oh that's cool. Instead of going with the friend / girlfriend I bought the ticket for I could go alone...
awesome.
....or you could sell back both. Anything else and you get that Ebay/scalper shit.
Your edge case totally means we should make it so everybody has to deal with giant dicks.
PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
Should be trivial to cancel multiple orders made with the same auth token, right? Or at the very least look into cases of 32 passes shipping to the same address.
should be. But in the past they've been remarkably lax on not enforcing this kind of stuff despite having the means to do so.
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PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
Should be trivial to cancel multiple orders made with the same auth token, right? Or at the very least look into cases of 32 passes shipping to the same address.
PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
Should be trivial to cancel multiple orders made with the same auth token, right? Or at the very least look into cases of 32 passes shipping to the same address.
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I don't have the child problem. But I enjoy the cons that I still attend pretty much the same way I did in my 20s. I just don't go to so goddamn many. Used to do almost every major anime con on the east coast. Now I'm down to just Dragon*Con and AWA.
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Oh that's cool. Instead of going with the friend / girlfriend I bought the ticket for I could go alone...
awesome.
One thing to consider. When money fails to procure the tickets, potential congoers may resort to . . . other means:
It's so shitty!
True. Being in my 30s myself I don't really care to wait in line and play games and haven't for many years, I just like to go, see the spectacle, attend a few panels, and maybe bunker down in the tabletop building for some downtime. If I went with my kids I think I'll be happy to follow them around from place to place because I won't feel like I'm missing anything.
The could do what we do with comedy. Allow full refund returns, incumbent on the ticket selling to someone else.
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no, not really. I think they just really wanted to believe it, and the derivation is so mindbogglingly simple that almost nobody bothered to doubt whether it was real. the flaw was discovered when people finally got fed up at not being able to replicate it, and R/R cheerfully volunteered all the data and the original spreadsheets used to construct the argument. this doesn't suggest any deliberate manipulation
the thing is, in macro it is normal to observe patterns like this and then make strong statements. this is because (1) there is a strong prior in favour of the absence of patterns, particularly across countries, so any apparently strong pattern at all is surprising (2) moving from strong correlation empirics to weak causative theory is normal since a certain J. M. Keynes legitimized the practice. the term of art is "stylized fact". this is normal practice.
the idea is that it's actually pretty darn difficult to construct plausible stories that line up with all the stylized facts we know of - certainly harder than laymen think it is - so identifying good stylizations does half the work. the inflation-unemployment tradeoff got to drive policy for five decades including today, for instance.
the "ha ha, what a bad way to back up macro policy" thing is grating because almost all macro policy is like that, including the policies you like! where does everyone think favourable multiplier estimates come from?
They were live, the four days were gone, and that is all.
Some shitty PAX East knockoff is currently open for registration, apparently.
PAX Prime just went on sale. 4 day passes sold out in minutes. From a technical point of view, the software / server system being used to sell them is a piece of shit. IE: people can buy their limit then refresh the page and their auth token is still valid so they can buy their limit again etc...
Dang, already?
I sure hope I'll be able to snag passes for PAX East 2014... Stupid passes, so quick to go...
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Maybe wife will watch babby while I go Pax East
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
East is a lot bigger, so it should be easier.
I would be unhappy if seattle wasn't on the opposite side of the country
They've made the pricing much better so it's only worth getting the all-convention pass now if you're really going to go for all of the days.
Should be trivial to cancel multiple orders made with the same auth token, right? Or at the very least look into cases of 32 passes shipping to the same address.
Oh, good...
I was nervous there for a sec.
I had such a good time this year.
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Don't! IT'S A TRAP!
....or you could sell back both. Anything else and you get that Ebay/scalper shit.
Your edge case totally means we should make it so everybody has to deal with giant dicks.
should be. But in the past they've been remarkably lax on not enforcing this kind of stuff despite having the means to do so.
Stop undermining the free market, DK!
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No big deal, I'll just have to make it from scratch from here on out
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