GDT: ECF Game 1: Panthers @ Hurricanes | 8:00 p.m. on TNT

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Bojangles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 7 parking lot brawls and a cheerwine later, I am ready for tonight.

I skipped breakfast, had some sausage gravy and biscuits for lunch, and I've got a rack of ribs smoking for dinner.


These is the times.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

That’s a huge part of it. Say I have an $85 ticket (which is what the cheapest seats are right now), I also have to pay taxes on that which comes to $91 and change. Say I go to sell that on Ticketmaster for $100, they’re going to take $10 of fees out of the the sale. I end up with -$1 on a ticket that went up in value by $15.


People that have never resold a ticket before… read that paragraph again. My ticket increased in value by nearly 20%, and I lost money between taxes and Ticketmaster fees.

Meanwhile, some guy comes along to buy my ticket. He’s paying $100 for the ticket, $7 in taxes, $11 in service fees, and a $5 processing free for a total of $124.

So the buyer is paying $124 for an $85 (or generously $91) ticket… but none of that extra $41 went to the reseller. In the series of transactions, the buyers paid $17 in taxes and Ticketmaster pocketed $26.

You want to know why there are empty seats at playoff games, this is why. It will be called a sellout because the tickets were actually sold to somebody, but they remain empty because there’s no resale market whatsoever at these price points. It’s not the scalpers that are the issue here, it’s Ticketmaster acting like a scalper while having (by their own measure) only $5 worth of actual investment in the process.

Congress should have broken up this bullshit a long time ago. TM is the most blatantly anti-competitive, anti-consumer entity since the big cable companies.

The problem is deeper than that, because there's collusion between TM and the venues. A lot of the fees you pay to TM are essentially kickbacks to the venues. I'm amazed that there haven't been actual investigations.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Nice work.

 

[Sigurd]

Here's a question for our group.
Would any one of McDavid, Marner, Matthews or Nylander be an asset
to the 'Canes winning a Cup 'cause of Slavin and Company?
In other words, if Jaccob was playing for the Oilers or the Leafs would they
still be in the running for a Stanley Cup?

With our injuries, missing Slavin would most likely be the nail in the coffin for Carolina's playoff success this year. If not by now, then in the ECF.

On the other hand, if Slavin was playing for either the Oilers or Leafs, I think they'd have a higher chance of getting to at least the semi finals. Both teams need to improve their defense and lower the GAA. Slavin does all that and more.

 

[zman77]

Projected Line-Up Tonight:

Forwards:

Noesen - Aho - Jarvis

Martinook - Kotkaniemi - Fast

Teravainen - Staal - Necas

Drury - Stastny - Stepan

Defense:

Slavin - Burns

Skjei - Pesce

Gostisbehere - Chatfield

Goalies:

Andersen

Raanta



Injuries:

N/A

Injured Reserve:

Jake Gardiner (Upper-Body)

Ondrej Kase (Concussion Protocol)

Max Pacioretty (Torn Achilles Tendon)

Andrei Svechnikov (ACL Injury)

Scratches:

Dylan Coghlan

Calvin de Haan

Mackenzie MacEachern

Jesse Puljujarvi

 

[LakeLivin]

Repeating this hoping to add more positive juju to the gdt:

Spoiler

What do Summer Rose's bowling teammates say when it's her turn?

 

[Identity404]

The problem is deeper than that, because there's collision between TM and the venues. A lot of the fees you pay to TM are essentially kickbacks to the venues. I'm amazed that there haven't been actual investigations.

Ticketmaster owns Live Nation, who own a lot of event venues, so most of thos kickbacks are still going to themselves.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The problem is deeper than that, because there's collision between TM and the venues. A lot of the fees you pay to TM are essentially kickbacks to the venues. I'm amazed that there haven't been actual investigations.

They’ve already been busted giving discounts to the bulk-resellers to keep the charade going.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Nice work.

I mean, it looks way better than WASH ME.

 

[Svechhammer]

It's swine time in Raleigh

 

[MinJaBen]

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It's swine time in Raleigh

BBQ is going to be a bit longer.

 

[ndp]

I hope I’m not offending anyone by any means. But what the hell is going on with this guys hair?

 

[Svechhammer]

I hope I’m not offending anyone by any means. But what the hell is going on with this guys hair?

It's a grey haired wet curly mullet

I can't make up my mind if it's awesome or totally awesome

 

[chaz4hockey]

That’s a huge part of it. Say I have an $85 ticket (which is what the cheapest seats are right now), I also have to pay taxes on that which comes to $91 and change. Say I go to sell that on Ticketmaster for $100, they’re going to take $10 of fees out of the the sale. I end up with -$1 on a ticket that went up in value by $15.


People that have never resold a ticket before… read that paragraph again. My ticket increased in value by nearly 20%, and I lost money between taxes and Ticketmaster fees.

Meanwhile, some guy comes along to buy my ticket. He’s paying $100 for the ticket, $7 in taxes, $11 in service fees, and a $5 processing free for a total of $124.

So the buyer is paying $124 for an $85 (or generously $91) ticket… but none of that extra $41 went to the reseller. In the series of transactions, the buyers paid $17 in taxes and Ticketmaster pocketed $26.

You want to know why there are empty seats at playoff games, this is why. It will be called a sellout because the tickets were actually sold to somebody, but they remain empty because there’s no resale market whatsoever at these price points. It’s not the scalpers that are the issue here, it’s Ticketmaster acting like a scalper while having (by their own measure) only $5 worth of actual investment in the process.

Congress should have broken up this bullshit a long time ago. TM is the most blatantly anti-competitive, anti-consumer entity since the big cable companies.

GREAT POST.

Cynic side of me thinks that Government hasn’t acted because beyond lobbyists working on their side, Governments are the co-benefiter of this rip-off by taking in the $17. Those are the least costly seats…

Plug in a couple of $250 seats and Ticketmaster/Government really makes out for same effort.

 

[zman77]

 

[HydratedByStormBrew]

It's a grey haired wet curly mullet

I can't make up my mind if it's awesome or totally awesome

man y'all are missing the cargo shorts. there is a 97.87634 probability there is an unrecognizable scratch off from 2007 in the right cargo pocket. those shorts have seen 4 presidents at least.

 

[hblueridgegal]

In honor of our Southern final 4 had a pork chop with Cheerwine BBQ sauce with Pimento Cheese grits and greens for dinner at Root & Vine in Morganton. So tasty.

They have 42 taps if you’re into the brewskis.

Is it 8 yet?

 

[LakeLivin]

man y'all are missing the cargo shorts. there is a 97.87634 probability there is an unrecognizable scratch off from 2007 in the right cargo pocket. those shorts have seen 4 presidents at least.

Real men don't throw away good shorts because they're "out of fashion".

 

[cptjeff]

Here's a question for our group.
Would any one of McDavid, Marner, Matthews or Nylander be an asset
to the 'Canes winning a Cup 'cause of Slavin and Company?
In other words, if Jaccob was playing for the Oilers or the Leafs would they
still be in the running for a Stanley Cup?

If you added Slavin to either the Leafs or Oilers, they wouldn't just be competing for Cups, they already would have won at least one. Zero question in my mind.

As Rod said recently, he may just be the single best defensive player ever, not just in the league right now. That's something you dismiss when a fan says it, it's impossible to reliably quantify, but when a guy who has been watching, competing in, and coaching in the NHL for more than 40 year says it, you really have to take note. Add that to either of those lineups? Of course they're still playing.

His name needs to be on the Cup. Let's f***ing win this thing.

 

[HydratedByStormBrew]

Real men don't throw away good shorts because they're "out of fashion".

i didn't say they should. i have a pair in my drawer that's been going strong for 2 decades. but, they have never seen the depths of PNC Arena.

 

[WreckingCrew]

As stated, I will miss tonight...win it for HELLOWEEN (obvs huge Caniacs)

 

[ndp]

It's a grey haired wet curly mullet

I can't make up my mind if it's awesome or totally awesome

It’s obviously totally awesome.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Burns in a suit with a hunting backpack on going into the stadium. Lol

 

[Canes]

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It's swine time in Raleigh

Hamilton is why I picked up a pound of brisket from my favorite spot on the way home from work.

Poor Hamilton, probably smelling his ancestors going through the parking lot.

Save a pig. Eat brisket.

 

[HydratedByStormBrew]

Poor Hamilton, probably smelling his ancestors going through the parking lot.

never gave your dog chinese food?