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RE: Somethin' for nothin'



>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:34:54 -0500
>From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>

>Listen, I'm a firm believer in allowing the market to set prices, but to
>give/sell tix to brokers makes an assumption that all of those tix will
>eventually go to fans that are willing to buy them at market value as
>determined by the brokers.
>Let the fans establish what market value is, not brokers.

??? The fans DO set market value.  Come on, brokers can't just set a 
price and be assured they'll get it.  If they could why would they be 
asking only $1,000 for front-row Vegas seats? Why not require and be 
assured of receiving $2,000?  or $5,000 or $100,000 per seat?  The 
$1,000 price is testing the market.  If they don't sell be assured 
they'll come down.

>Again, do we *really* know that TM and brokers are in collusion?
>Is this a fact?
>Why then an 8 ticket limit?

I believe this is a device to prevent brokers from "snatching all the 
good ones", as kevin mc puts it.

Cheers,
-- 
Alan
"That's unbelievable, if that's true."
    --Howard Stern, 5/25/00