Report second-hand ticket buyers/sellers here

[GeometriX]

Thanks cc4Spawn for the idea to create a dedicated thread for this.

As you may realise, selling and buying second-hand tickets to the NAG LAN @ rAge is seriously frowned upon. Please report anyone attempting to do so here, or PM me if you'd like to remain anonymous.

I'll repeat what I've said before: if you have extra tickets that you need to get rid of, please contact Lauren Das Neves (lauren at nag dot co dot za) and we'll happily buy them from you for their original price plus shipping/delivery. We will then sell those tickets back to willing buyers for their original price.

[cc4Spawn]

Just doing my part for the gamer community GeometriX :D

Yes let us all unite and get rid of these scalpers trying to get there hands into the gamer community's pockets.
If you are buying tickets from scalpers then you are surly not a true gamer and a epiC fail to life.

[H@vOk]

But the original seller still makes money?...
And the Rage still gets it customers?...

Did not know this was not allowed, never done it before just saying.

[GeometriX]

It's fair to ask, so I'll answer. This isn't a discussion though, since we have already gone through this before.

In the general sense of this whole thing, we don't want our customers to be ripped off. It's against the spirit of gaming and damages the industry as a whole.

In more simple terms, if a LANner is coming to rAge short of the money he spent on a ticket sold at an inflated price (let's call it R600 for the sake of argument), then he arrives at our LAN with R300 less to spend on cool stuff at the expo. Obviously, that's bad for everyone. Instead, a scalper has an additional R300 in their pockets for doing absolutely nothing but taking advantage of a situation. A situation that they did not contribute to in any positive way.

In short, scalpers are the bottom of the capitalistic food-chain, and serve no purpose in economics other than to fatten their own wallets and drain money from the industry.

We are strongly against them for a number of reasons, and I personally think that what they do is disgusting. We'll never stamp them out completely, but we'd rather spend time hunting down any inflated ticket sales than have some poor kid who's been saving their pocket money all year but can't afford to attend rAge because some idiots don't have any decency.

[Insomniac]

The head of Frag LAN is selling tickets at a profit, what a douche! http://www.frag.co.za/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1770

[FF-Freak]

Someone posted this in another thread :
http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/24837...n_tickets.html

LAN Tickets on BidorBuy

[SL1C3R]

I found this on Bid Or Buy as well,its another inflated ticket price

http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/24907...rAge_2010.html

[Jer1cho]

http://johannesburg.gumtree.co.za/c-...AdIdZ221412977

http://capetown.gumtree.co.za/c-Even...AdIdZ221580163

These people really **** me off.

[TwinKY]

Hi its my first post,
Um cant you see the details on the ticket if he used a 3rd party program like paint or photoshop by removing effects or something like that, also another thing i think nobody should buy those tickets because that will mean they lost R300 of their own cash.

[willbeonekenobi]

Hi its my first post,
Um cant you see the details on the ticket if he used a 3rd party program like paint or photoshop by removing effects or something like that, also another thing i think nobody should buy those tickets because that will mean they lost R300 of their own cash.

As far as I know there is no way to 'falsify' a 'computicket' ticket. Because they use a paper that is quite thick (but not as thick as thin cardboard) and aslo they have those 'holo' stickers on them.

So if people buy these tickets are ripped off prices then they are stuck with names of people on them that they do not know.

[$|W@R|TV@!K]

Heya Every1, hope I'm not reposting a suggestion, but is there not some way to sell NAGLAN/RAGE EXPO tickets like they sell airline tickets? The way i understand it, 'Every Man For Himself' or 'Free For All' so to speak, i.e. you can only buy a ticket for yourself, and any extra tickets you buy gets connected to a valid South African I.D. number. So the only way you can use the ticket, is if YOUR I.D. number is on it. In turn you won't get lame %$#*^)@ reselling tickets, makin tons of dough and stealing an epic xperience from those who really wanna go to RAGE!! Please don't hestitate to correct me if I'm in anyway wrong, but i reckon this could actually work??

Greetings to all fellow gamers.......

[H2O]

http://www.junkmail.co.za/v-pretoria...38QYEdQX201032


Tickets on junkmail

[MEKILL]

http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/24907...rAge_2010.html

[Chevron]

But the original seller still makes money?...
And the Rage still gets it customers?...

Did not know this was not allowed, never done it before just saying.

Also every year the tickets sell out, yet every year there are empty seats from scalpers that couldn't find buyers for their inflated prices.

[{G}Zulu]

Like I said in another thread. All those tickets sold do not have butts to fill them with.

[CLAN_DiCE]

I'm normally the go-to friend in my group that buys tickets for the group... but I'm willing to fore go the helping out of friends in future if the process to buy a ticket for rAge gets to the point whereby I can only buy 1 ticket.

In other words... if the system gets changed whereby I'll need an ID or parent to buy the ticket for me in order to screw over the scalpers... I'm for it!!!

In the past where I bought tickets and a friend could not make it... I would sell that ticket for the price of what was printed on the ticket and not for a cent more.

To the scalpers... may your Internet connection be slow and your children will never move out of your house.

[$|W@R|TV@!K]

Like I said in another thread. All those tickets sold do not have butts to fill them with.

So true been to RAGE for like the last three years and every year you will find by the saturday there are open seats, it doesn't mean its necessarily tickets that wasn't sold by scalpers, but i'm betting 90% of those tickets are due to scalpers that couldn't get there tickets sold at a 300% markup!!

[H@vOk]

Ah, got a much better understanding now. thanx guys.

[ECHO FALCON]

http://capetown.gumtree.co.za/c-Even...AdIdZ221580163
Scamming douchebags! Here's my daily bit of help to the great NAG.

[phant1m]

If you do catch these people will it be possible to sell the tickets to us forum members that need?