Four Wiseguys Indicted in $20M Online Ticket Scam

[anamaniac]

I hate scalpers...

 

[officeguy]

Those guys were smart... NOT

 

[pharge]

[citation][nom]twisted politiks[/nom]honestly, they arent doing ANYTHING different than ticketmaster does to the u.s. every day. personally, im sick of huge companies taking advantage of consumers, then suing an individual or group for doing the same thing. if these guys get charged, then ticketmaster and other companies doing the same thing should be charged as well.[/citation]

yea... but at least the ticketmaster does not make your computer a dummy and buy thickets for them... and that is what those guys were charged for.

 

[jtm33]

I think a sentence to be forced to attend 12,000 Miley Cyrus concerts would be effective.

 

[overclockingrocks]

These guys are asshats. Although they are only doing on a grander scale what those fucktards outside the arena yelling "tickets tickets who wants tickets? I got ticketes right here" are doing. Going to major concnerts grew sour on me when the "service charge" and "convienience fee" for ticketmaster pushed the price of a $37.50 ticket to a Metallica concert to damn near $100,granted the concert was well worth it and they put on a hell of a show but holy christ when the service fees and such make the ticket almost 3x as much as the actual face value? That should be a crime right there.

 

[kingnoobe]

Sorry, but theres no way they should get 20 years for this. They didn't hurt anybody. They didn't sale anything fake. They simply bypassed certain rules. Drug dealers, molesters, rapist..etc Have gotten less jail time, and all far far far far worse then what they guys did.

 

[Guest]

They are looking at far more time than 20 years. It is 20 years PER Wire Fraud charge. That does not include the other charges that have fines and possible jail time PER Charge. They may go away and never be heard from again...

 

[george21546]

You know if one group is doing it how many others are still doing it and haven't been caught.

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]skippy27[/nom]If I am not mistaken, it is illegal to sell the tickets for greater than face value on the ticket.[/citation]
I live in Alberta,Canada..
Your statement is true in Alberta, but if you cross the border to B.C. they are allowed to sell tickets @ any price. I believe this law is only provincial/state based and not Federal. It really depends where you are selling them, and where the event takes place.