Scalpers Have Stolen Spiderman No Way Home Tickets

[Cannot think of a name]

the whole point is that you sneak food in and then picture yourself as cool for doing so

Tbh with the combo of Covid and streaming it’s likely you’ll have the theater to yourself

How is it we're simultaneously talking about tickets that are in such demand that people think they can list them for $30k* and be writing the obituary for movie theaters?




*(again, looking this up, it's just people listing their tickets at that price with no real indication that anyone has actually bought one, auctions with actual bids are more in the realm of $100-200 for two tickets. More than I would spend as a diehard Spider-man fan and a little silly considering that at least by this afternoon there were still tickets available for showings including the 3:30 first showings.)

[Great Algerstonia]

I think this is yet another example of how capitalism makes you evil and greedy and we need to nationalize the movie ticket industry to stop capitalist scalpers

The fast food industry also needs to be nationalized because I just received terrible McDoubles. If the fast food industry was government-owned the McDoubles would be perfect because the government loves me and wants to help me

[Ifreann]

Tbh with the combo of Covid and streaming it’s likely you’ll have the theater to yourself

How is it we're simultaneously talking about tickets that are in such demand that people think they can list them for $30k* and be writing the obituary for movie theaters?




*(again, looking this up, it's just people listing their tickets at that price with no real indication that anyone has actually bought one, auctions with actual bids are more in the realm of $100-200 for two tickets. More than I would spend as a diehard Spider-man fan and a little silly considering that at least by this afternoon there were still tickets available for showings including the 3:30 first showings.)

I should list a pair of socks on eBay for a cool million, see how much buzz it generates.

[Valentine Z]

If I'm paying USD 100,000 for a movie ticket, that better damn well come with an ownership for that entire movie theater.

I'll also settle for a lifetime supply of nachos and hotdogs.

[Big Bad Blue]

Twitter was hit with the news that there was a massive outage and lag on online movie ticket sites yesterday. Apparently, Scalpers have nearly stolen all the tickets for Spiderman No Way Home and are now selling them from $10,000-30,000 online. This has many people upset because now there's no way for some people to see the movie when it debut in theaters.

Scalpers have gotten worse throughout 2020 and 2021 from scalping the Playstation 5, the Xbox Series X/S, Video Game Beta and Alpha codes, Home Depot Supplies, etc. And no one is doing a thing about it

What are you thoughts and opinions on the situation?

Alert the media. Film at 11.

[Cereskia 2]

Oh well, my father and I were going to see the movie cause my dad LOVES Spiderman, but...
Fuck those Scalpers.
I hope theirs enough for everyone by the time it's in theaters.

no one is doing a thing about it

Agreed, fuck them.

But are the scalpers responsible for this being tracked down now?

[Thermodolia]

If I'm paying USD 100,000 for a movie ticket, that better damn well come with an ownership for that entire movie theater.

I'll also settle for a lifetime supply of nachos and hotdogs.

You are lowballing that offer. You at least need some chocolate chip cookies too

[The Black Forrest]

I never understood this effort to be first for tangible things.

Being at a movie debut usually had rewards like the actors being present (granted a long time ago).

I remember reading an article where people pay 10’s of thousands of dollars to get the new playstation off the line……why?

[Saiwania]

There isn't much that can be done if people are free to resell anything they want to. Some actions can be taken but its hit or miss as to whether it really resolves the problem. For any subscription based game that has a "free to play" tier for example- there usually has to be a cap on in game currency for non-paying players to prevent goldminers from being able to find a way to make real money from hoarding or gaining more in game currency than is usually possible in a given time frame.

What people should do is not buy the tickets at the inflated price. They can always see this production later or in some other form if they can't see it at this event.

[Cannot think of a name]

How is it we're simultaneously talking about tickets that are in such demand that people think they can list them for $30k* and be writing the obituary for movie theaters?




*(again, looking this up, it's just people listing their tickets at that price with no real indication that anyone has actually bought one, auctions with actual bids are more in the realm of $100-200 for two tickets. More than I would spend as a diehard Spider-man fan and a little silly considering that at least by this afternoon there were still tickets available for showings including the 3:30 first showings.)

I should list a pair of socks on eBay for a cool million, see how much buzz it generates.

Buzzfeed: Socks Are New Megacraze with Pairs Demanding $1 Million on eBay
CNN: Millenials Won't Buy Mayonaise But Will Buy a Pair of Used Socks for $1 Million
Fox: Biden's Economy Makes Used Socks a Big Commodity

[The Black Forrest]

I should list a pair of socks on eBay for a cool million, see how much buzz it generates.

Buzzfeed: Socks Are New Megacraze with Pairs Demanding $1 Million on eBay
CNN: Millenials Won't Buy Mayonaise But Will Buy a Pair of Used Socks for $1 Million
Fox: Biden's Economy Makes Used Socks a Big Commodity

I knew a guy who had a friend list a playstation box on ebay. It was just the box. He is a social media guy with a million or so followers so he got an early version. He listed it and said it was just and empty box. There was no playstation included. The bidding went to 300 dollars.

[Wizlandia]

Twitter was hit with the news that there was a massive outage and lag on online movie ticket sites yesterday. Apparently, Scalpers have nearly stolen all the tickets for Spiderman No Way Home and are now selling them from $10,000-30,000 online. This has many people upset because now there's no way for some people to see the movie when it debut in theaters.

Scalpers have gotten worse throughout 2020 and 2021 from scalping the Playstation 5, the Xbox Series X/S, Video Game Beta and Alpha codes, Home Depot Supplies, etc. And no one is doing a thing about it

What are you thoughts and opinions on the situation?

Don't have a problem with scalping in and of itself. In fact, if anything I'm somewhat pro-scalping as an institution.

That being said, if one or a very small number of scalpers manages to form a monopoly (say if one dude or company manages to buy 80% of the tickets using a bot), then it becomes an issue. I don't believe this is the case for most incidents of scalping though.

I also can't see prices staying at $10k+ for long.

[Cannot think of a name]

Buzzfeed: Socks Are New Megacraze with Pairs Demanding $1 Million on eBay
CNN: Millenials Won't Buy Mayonaise But Will Buy a Pair of Used Socks for $1 Million
Fox: Biden's Economy Makes Used Socks a Big Commodity

I knew a guy who had a friend list a playstation box on ebay. It was just the box. He is a social media guy with a million or so followers so he got an early version. He listed it and said it was just and empty box. There was no playstation included. The bidding went to 300 dollars.

Spend $300 on box, put later version in older version box, list 'first edition playstation, retire to Jamaica.

Nah, I don't get it either.

I kind of wondered this during the Hostess hysteria, if you'll allow me a shade of tin foil hattery. That the $10,000 listings aren't all just people really overestimating their thing but in fact part of the process. You have a bunch of headline grabbing listings for a thrillion dollars, a few content mills write about it like it's actually a thing, then people find the 'real' listings and think "Well, $300 isn't that bad in light of $10,000. I could just relist this and profit $9700."

I mean, I don't know how coordinated eBay sellers really are to do something like that, but if they were it works.

[Lord Dominator]

I mean, scalpers bad and all, but I highly doubt this is the first movie this happened to. Also of course, because it’s a movie (unlike a concert, or similar) scalping isn’t exactly the most viable tbh.

You really can't stop scalping. You can come up with security measures to counter bots or programs or whatever the scalpers use to buy up tickets in large numbers, but it's an eternal arms race and even if they lose that advantage, they can still just buy up tickets the old fashioned way. They'll make less money but that's never stopped anyone before.

But honestly, I don't think ticket vendors even want to stop scalpers. They make their money either way.

And all of capitalism is a pyramid scheme, it's just more obvious in certain cases like this one.

While many of the specific traits of scalping/etc are going to be unique under capitalism, I don’t think the ultimate cause (a scarcity of tickets/seats/entry whatevers) is at all because of that - scarcity of seating/etc for movies/concerts/etc isn’t going to vanish without truly wasteful economic planning to prevent it.

Uhhhhhhh, people spoiled Harry Potter as it came out. Before anyone else could read it. Ruining the fun.

If spoilers ruin a book or film for someone it means that the thing has no rewatch / reread value.

In your opinion at least - I suspect many people value having their first watch/read/listen to a given media property happen without pre-existing knowledge of what happens.

[Wizlandia]

This is a great test example of the theory that, in a free market system, the price of any product will naturally tend to reflect not its cost to the producer, but its value to the consumer, and so will rise to the level which the consumer can bare. The cost of airfare during holidays is a great practical example of this.

In this case, the stink is being raised become some randos took it upon themselves to bet in and make the price adjustment themselves, cutting some Big Studio out of the money that they should rightfully have been gouging on their turf.

If the "price adjustment to load capacity" theorem (also known as the "make the peasants work as much as possible despite conditions of industrial surplus" theorem) was being tested and proven by Industry itself, as in 99% of cases, and not by interlopers, it wouldn't even make the news. You would just be paying more for airfare, or for anything out of a naturally monopolizable industry, and not even wondering why.

Could you clarify what you mean?

[Ithalian Empire]

Considering the fact scalpers have in the past also targeted essential goods, such as vaccines, and even medical supplies, there should be laws against doing it.

I have no idea why it's Spiderman that got OP pissed off, as this is only a minor effect of a real problem and the movie probably sucks.

Yeah, sorry, dont care about that right now.

I have no idea why it's Spiderman that got OP pissed off, as this is only a minor effect of a real problem and the movie probably sucks.

Because Marvel is the peak of consumerist "culture" and anything that keeps the consumerist for consuming is bad, even when its something as temporary as a movie no one will talk about in a week.

[Bear Stearns]

more scalping here than at the lakota raid on new ulm

[Mercatus]

I’ll just wait for some Vietnamese man to put up a dvd with the pirated movie for sale on eBay.

[Valentine Z]

I’ll just wait for some Vietnamese man to put up a dvd with the pirated movie for sale on eBay.

Complete with moving silhouettes, missing epilogues, very compressed sounds, and maybe even cropped!

Source: Living in Burma, I have been using and watching pirated media for a decade until I get to Singapore. It was... it was certainly an experience.

[Infected Mushroom]

If Spider-Man were real, he wouldn’t approve of these scalpers.

[-Astoria-]

I’ll just wait for some Vietnamese man to put up a dvd with the pirated movie for sale on eBay.

Complete with moving silhouettes, missing epilogues, very compressed sounds, and maybe even cropped!

Source: Living in Burma, I have been using and watching pirated media for a decade until I get to Singapore. It was... it was certainly an experience.

Not to mention one where the film is divided by a menu into parts.

[Arvenia]

Although I am not interested in going to cinemas nowadays, I absolutely hate scalpers ever since they scalped many new consoles back in 2020. We need to outlaw scalping ASAP!

[Ifreann]

Twitter was hit with the news that there was a massive outage and lag on online movie ticket sites yesterday. Apparently, Scalpers have nearly stolen all the tickets for Spiderman No Way Home and are now selling them from $10,000-30,000 online. This has many people upset because now there's no way for some people to see the movie when it debut in theaters.

Scalpers have gotten worse throughout 2020 and 2021 from scalping the Playstation 5, the Xbox Series X/S, Video Game Beta and Alpha codes, Home Depot Supplies, etc. And no one is doing a thing about it

What are you thoughts and opinions on the situation?

Don't have a problem with scalping in and of itself. In fact, if anything I'm somewhat pro-scalping as an institution.

That being said, if one or a very small number of scalpers manages to form a monopoly (say if one dude or company manages to buy 80% of the tickets using a bot), then it becomes an issue. I don't believe this is the case for most incidents of scalping though.

I also can't see prices staying at $10k+ for long.

How can you be pro-scalping?

[Cannot think of a name]

Still tickets available at the theaters I. My dense LA county location. IMAX sold out but they added a 2am showing.

Even the 3:30 pm 3D show has seats available. All regular price.

[Polomon Islands]

If this thread gets locked outta the sudden, I swear...