Today, Muse cancelled their upcoming show in Oslo. I bought my sold-out tickets on the black market for double the retail price, and have no way of getting my money back. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after taking various trains to get to Marseille to see Bruce Springsteen in concert, whom I've been waiting about 30 years to see, I found out only a few hours before it was supposed to start that the gig had been cancelled due to The Boss having "vocal issues." I'd even spent 50€ on a t-shirt. I actually cried. FML
Today, I arrived at work to find an email from the manager whom I had bought concert tickets from the night before. He said he had actually sold those tickets to someone else. He still expects to be paid. FML
Today, the arts company I work for cancelled our 8 pm sold-out outdoor performance at 7:30 due to rain, and will have to reticket 550 patrons. I'm the only person in the office trained in ticketing. It stopped raining 10 minutes after we cancelled it. FML
Today, to be kind, I gave away my tickets for an electronic music event I could no longer attend to a Facebook stranger. Later, they told me they were refused at the door. Turns out the pdf I'd received from the ticketing system contained some placeholder values and invalid QR data. And this happened on April 1st. FML
Today, I was supposed to be going to Edinburgh to see my favourite band live. I was expecting to be picked up at 8 a.m. for the drive there, but I woke up to a text saying my friend bought tickets for the wrong city. The show he paid was for 2 days ago. FML
Today, I remembered that the concert I bought tickets for over a month in advance was yesterday. FML
Today, someone tried to scam me by selling me a ticket to a Chris Cornell concert. FML
Today, it was the concert of my life. I had bought tickets the minute they went on sale, and I'd anxiously waited until the concert date. Thirty minutes before the show, my friend got so drunk that we weren't allowed in, and I was stuck babysitting her all night in the hotel, completely missing the show. FML
Today, I was going to a big concert at my university. I paid around a hundred twenty bucks for my ticket. Outside the venue, people were handing out the tickets. For free. FML
Today, I drove six hours with a friend to see one of her favorite bands in concert. We were turned away at the door because the online site didn't say we had to be 21 to enter. I drove six hours back with nothing to show for it but an empty gas tank and useless tickets. FML
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thisispointless 2
that's why you don't go to the black market
newbiehere99 6
1- Good thing you said that. For a minute I thought OP was blaming me. Phew, glad that's cleared up.
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Comments (154)
gun6slinger9 9
Just do something called planning next time. Buy the tickets when they get released from an official source. Also to recoup your money you can wait for the next big concert that is guaranteed to sell out and buy extra tickets to resell.
Zebediabolical 45
If they're fake tickets, you're screwed. If they're real you can very likely get the face value back.
DocBastard 40
I don't find this story very amuseing.
VorpikeII 17
Ha. Nice Doc. But I find that pun causes me some Madness, and I think your Supremacy in the pun department needs to be brought down a notch.
VorpikeII 17
That really sucks. I love Muse, so I know how you feel.
fenixtorador1 11
That's why it's the black market OP..
twinkiefeets 17
I bet this is in some way Kate Hudson's fault.
xcountrygirlx 8
And this is why it's never a good idea to buy things off of the black market. you always get screwed over somehow.
GovernorGeneral 8
Sell it back on the black market. Duhh.
simoncat 11
Scalpers and cheaters never prosper.
charvisioku 22
Yeah they do. How do you think capitalism does so well?
KiddNYC1O 22
So come on!