Blizzcon Tickets going on sale in 2 days!! - Page 9

On May 17 2009 09:25 CharlieMurphy wrote:

fuck when did they start allowing that? That is huge for ticket scalpers. I bet half the ones sold today are up on ebay right now,,,..


lol.... http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZblizzconQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ

On May 17 2009 08:42 FuDDx wrote:
Looking for honest fun roomys to share hotel with. Would like to find the same hotel the majority of people will be at or close.

also if interested Im inviting anyone who wants to come to the maigc castle.Had 9 spots down to 6 left suit,tie,id showing your 21 or older and some spending money for dinner and drinks.

heres a bolog of mine that talks a bit about the Magic Castle.

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=89949

Still unsure what day Ill be heading to the Castle Thursday, Sunday or Monday.

On May 17 2009 09:59 So no fek wrote:


Pretty much, I remember last year you had to enter the ticket information at the time of purchase, which I figured was a move by Blizzard to stop scalping of tickets. When I saw the information on the Battle.net site, I was like "Holy shit, this just encourages scalping." Let me see if I can find the exact wording on the site.

"The full name of the attendee must be specified in the fields below. For each attendee, you will receive an e-mail containing a bar code to print out approximately one month before BlizzCon. Each attendee must print and present this bar-code email, along with valid photo ID matching the name on the bar-code email, to receive a badge at BlizzCon. If you are uncertain of the names of any additional guests, please enter your own name for each unknown attendee, and pick up all of the badges yourself. ***Note that a badge cannot be claimed at BlizzCon without photo ID matching the attendee name on the bar-code email!"

Okay, it's not as bad as I thought (I thought it was "if you don't know the attendee's name...", but it can still be seen as more than a "if you don't know how to spell the attendee's name"), but that's still tremendously bad, and basically Blizzard's way of saying "We don't promote scalping, but we'll allow it."

I've thought about selling tickets before, and it would be tempting to buy up a few and make up the cost of the trip, however, I wouldn't do that when there are actually TL.netters who want to go, and are screwed because scalpers get a better spot in line than they do, and buy up all the tickets.