I think selling the tix this far in advance makes it easier for the brokers/scalpers to sell their tix. If the artist truly wanted to circumvent the brokers/scalpers, they would devise it so that the person who actually ordered the tickets would have to show their credit card in order to pick up the tix on the day of the show. on 11/18/03 5:46 PM, Maggie White at mwhite@gw.smbsd.k12.ca.us wrote:
I am QUITE happy with my fanclub fee!! It just kills me that brokers can sign up too, (it's a free world) and then screw "real" fan club members out of good seats (brokers have high speed internet and a dozen people working for them buying tickets simultaneously the second they go on sale.) It's hard for the person at home with a modem to compete.
Maggie