too bad i don't have anymore vacaton days to make this trip

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - You can't always get what you want when the
Rolling Stones are set to play a small Montana city and you're
trying to unload your concert tickets.
The Stones performance set for Wednesday in Missoula was a
sellout right after tickets went on sale in August. Less than a
week before the show, though, the ticket tale is a sad one. People
looking to resell theirs, even at less than face value, are
struggling for buyers.
``I hope I don't eat them all,'' Andy Mefford said of the four
tickets he's trying to unload after spending around $1,000 for the
lot.
Forty-six classified advertisements to sell Stones tickets
appeared in the Missoulian newspaper Thursday, and tickets were for
sale on eBay, where one of the sellers tried what amounts to a
poignant appeal in Montana. ``Need money for hunting rifle,'' read
the posting for row 35, seats 9 and 10 at the University of Montana
football stadium in Missoula, a city of some 60,000 residents.
About 21,000 of the stadium's seats were designated for the
concert, with ticket prices and related fees ranging from $77 to
$377, and on-stage tickets priced higher.
Monte Jenkins, an aspiring actor being laid off as an airline
baggage handler in Missoula, said he paid $2,100 for 10 tickets
that he expected to resell profitably. Jenkins' introduction to the
so-called secondary market has been jarring. He said he sold seven
of the tickets, two at a profit and the others at break-even or
losing prices.
``I'll get whatever I can out of them,'' Jenkins said of the
remaining tickets. He expects to end up $500 to $800 in the red.
Using a ticket himself isn't much of an option, he said, because he
doesn't like the Rolling Stones.
Longtime fan Sharon Hawke of Polson, about 70 miles from
Missoula, has attended Stones concerts in Seattle, Phoenix and
elsewhere, and plans to be in a party of four at the show. Hawke
has advertised one unneeded ticket, bought for $353, and had no
takers Thursday morning.
``Most people, because it's during a work week, can't go,'' said
Hawke. ``Other people have no interest in seeing them. They said if
it was Toby Keith, they'd do it.''
It may be there is a surplus of tickets for resale because true
Stones fans bought theirs immediately, and the market has been
satisfied without resale, said Gary Bongiovanni of Pollstar in
Fresno, Calif. The company publishes news tailored to the music
industry and maintains a concert database.
Stones tickets typically are in demand wherever the group
performs, said Fran Curtis of Rogers & Cowan, an entertainment
public relations firm that speaks for the Stones concert tour. On
Wednesday, people still were searching for last-minute tickets to
the Stones concert that night at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford,
N.J., Curtis said.
Stones tickets were also selling for a premium in Kentucky
nearby Churchill Downs, the site of the Kentucky Derby, where the
group is playing Friday. Tickets with a face value of $300 sold on
eBay this week for hundreds of dollars more.

*&$(#* the people who buy with the intent of reselling them at a profit...

inopeng Wrote:
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> *&$(#* the people who buy with the intent of
> reselling them at a profit...

PRECISELY ! F*** 'em and f*** 'em AGAIN ! Bastards !!

So long as the PLEXIGLASS is there, nothing else matters.

"Monte Jenkins, an aspiring actor being laid off as an airline
baggage handler in Missoula, said he paid $2,100 for 10 tickets
that he expected to resell profitably. Jenkins' introduction to the
so-called secondary market has been jarring. He said he sold seven
of the tickets, two at a profit and the others at break-even or
losing prices."

``I'll get whatever I can out of them,'' Jenkins said of the
remaining tickets. He expects to end up $500 to $800 in the red.
Using a ticket himself isn't much of an option, he said, because he
doesn't like the Rolling Stones.


That fellow Monte Jenkins in the article above is a bit of a cockmunch isn't he? Serves him f***in' right. I hope they repossess his trailer, his car, TV, dog, wife.

Anyone who goes to Missoula and meets him, do me a favour and tell him serves you right scalper scumbag!!

Ta

NickB

Interesting artilce however the only ones the get @#$%& are the Ticket Resellers, that show sold ver well, remember there are only waht 60,000 people in that town. Good for the Stones on this one, bad for the Resellers.

GREAT NEWS!!! Die scalper scum!

JR

Let Monte keep the dog, for the dog's sake!

the Plexiglass is looking forward to the show.

Anyone who goes to Missoula and meets him, do me a favour and tell him serves you right scalper scumbag!!

Will do you a favor and do this, Nick B.

Praise the Plexiglass!


tim fr Plxgls, mt

I hope they eat the tickets.......

I agree about the scalper, and yes tickets are easy to come by here. I moved here from Chicago three years ago and could not believe how easy it was to score tix. I was actually the ninth caller in a ticket giveaway from 98.5 from Kalispell and won a pair :-)That was even cheaper than the 9.50 I paid to see them at the Chicago stadium in '75. If anyone is interested in getting tickets go to the missoulian (newspaper) webpage and check the classifieds, you can probably get them for face value.

.... im disappointed im not going to make that show, , its a special envirement up there.. have hunch the show will be a little extra,,

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