#$&&^%$ Scalper on Ebay

[Skubes]

I remember having to check a box when entering the lottery that states I will not re-sell for more than face value.  You have to check this box in order for the entry to go through.

Also, this is from the Telluride Shop Tickets page on bluegrass.com:

"Children 12 and under are free for festival and camping with a paying adult. Tickets are refundable according to our refund policy. Please note: Resale of Telluride Bluegrass Festival and NightGrass tickets for more than the initial value is extremely un-festivarian and strictly forbidden."

[AnythingAtAll]

So, not having the exact language of the check-boxes, I decided to go a different route in responding to the scalper's question: "Do you have a picture or invoice for this commemorative vehicle pass that you are selling?"

Apologies to Landshark and others (this is not brief), I hope ebay will post the Q/A on the listing...

"Thanks so much for your question, yes I do. 

As I recall, this was emailed out by Planet Bluegrass in December of 2015 as a .pdf attachment.  I was so happy to have received it, and the winter was so cold and snowy that year, I printed out dozens of copies and lined my private outhouse in the wilds of eastern Kentucky with them.  Not satisfied with seeing them only a couple of hours per day, I printed out more copies, sewed them together and made a quilt, which helped to keep me warm for the duration of the winter.  Come spring, I printed out even more copies and fashioned an entire menagerie of origami creatures, many of whom I now consider dear friends. 

Later that spring, I was visited in a dream by my spirit-guide, he's the eagle that's drawn on bottles of Eagle Rare Bourbon, and he reminded me that I don't have an RV or a trailer.  He said that the destiny of this vehicle pass was that it should be used by a FESTIVARIAN that truly needed it.  I asked how I might find such a person, but before my spirit guide could answer, he was summoned away by Pappy Van Winkle to a cask emergency in FORUM, Arkansas. 

So began the quest to find the rightful owner of this pass, turns out I was just its interim caretaker.  So I had to search high and low, from the webbed valleys to the capped peaks and the obvious clues I had left myself.  Finally at my destination, I asked the Ticket Goddess, "Ticket Goddess", I says, "who needs this pass?"  And she answered that it was some guy that shared his name with a character in a popular Beatles song, which is rather redundant, I thought, seeing as how most Beatles songs are popular.  I had seen him around a time or two, but didn't know his name before that, so that is how I met him.

Anyway, he was real happy to buy it from me for what I paid for it, as that's the festivarian way of doing things and it's what I signed up to do when I applied for the pass in the first place, being the honorable sort.  So, now you know a bit of history."

[AnythingAtAll]

His (or her) almost immediate reply:

"That's a great story. I like the one much better circulating the festivarian forum right now about my listings for sale. I find the envy of my listings flattering!! I hope you 2016 festival was super fun, too bad you had to sleep in a tent."
-nohannnohann

[TellurideTom]

nohannnohann will make a perfect politician.
After all, politicians take what they can from other people for their own advancement.
Isn't the definition of Politician: greed?
 

[landshark]

So, not having the exact language of the check-boxes, I decided to go a different route in responding to the scalper's question: "Do you have a picture or invoice for this commemorative vehicle pass that you are selling?"

Apologies to Landshark and others (this is not brief), I hope ebay will post the Q/A on the listing...

"Thanks so much for your question, yes I do. 

As I recall, this was emailed out by Planet Bluegrass in December of 2015 as a .pdf attachment.  I was so happy to have received it, and the winter was so cold and snowy that year, I printed out dozens of copies and lined my private outhouse in the wilds of eastern Kentucky with them.  Not satisfied with seeing them only a couple of hours per day, I printed out more copies, sewed them together and made a quilt, which helped to keep me warm for the duration of the winter.  Come spring, I printed out even more copies and fashioned an entire menagerie of origami creatures, many of whom I now consider dear friends. 

Later that spring, I was visited in a dream by my spirit-guide, he's the eagle that's drawn on bottles of Eagle Rare Bourbon, and he reminded me that I don't have an RV or a trailer.  He said that the destiny of this vehicle pass was that it should be used by a FESTIVARIAN that truly needed it.  I asked how I might find such a person, but before my spirit guide could answer, he was summoned away by Pappy Van Winkle to a cask emergency in FORUM, Arkansas. 

So began the quest to find the rightful owner of this pass, turns out I was just its interim caretaker.  So I had to search high and low, from the webbed valleys to the capped peaks and the obvious clues I had left myself.  Finally at my destination, I asked the Ticket Goddess, "Ticket Goddess", I says, "who needs this pass?"  And she answered that it was some guy that shared his name with a character in a popular Beatles song, which is rather redundant, I thought, seeing as how most Beatles songs are popular.  I had seen him around a time or two, but didn't know his name before that, so that is how I met him.

Anyway, he was real happy to buy it from me for what I paid for it, as that's the festivarian way of doing things and it's what I signed up to do when I applied for the pass in the first place, being the honorable sort.  So, now you know a bit of history."

 

[Debbiefromtucson]

Sure wish PB could track this guy/gal...
Debbie

[Jamin]

Check out the amount of tickets available for both Telluride and for Rockygrass that are being sold via StubHub! I'm shocked that they were able to get so many. No wonder there are no return sales....