Sold out immediately given people could purchase unlimited quantities, but then I see tons on ebay. I don’t know much from the tickets and entertainment industry but isn’t this unethical (ticket sculping, bots etc)?
“Pokemon GO is a dead game lol who plays it anymore”
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I do 
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It’s a joke as everyone seems to be saying that yet look how quickly the tickets sold out 
Tickets?
I have 5,000 tickets for sale. $300 a pop. I accept PSA 10 cards or super rare booster boxes ^_^V
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@elam18 lmaooooooo
TO BE FAIR, in a market run by scalpers (ticket market) anything like that will sell out insanely quickly if people think they can make a buck. I see it around here with the museums and special exhibits all the time.
I don’t think Ticket Master sold these, I got mine directly from Pokemon Go’s website. I think through their website Front Gate Tickets provided the service.
I didn’t say ticketmaster, I meant in all types of ticket sales. Its a massive reseller market.
Not trying to argue with you @joetehman , cause trust me, when the website was lagging I looked everywhere to see if Ticket Master was one of the actual sellers because when the countdown stopped on their website it took a few minutes for the website to show the tickets for sale. Either way, I see how it can be frustrating but we as collectors should be used to these types of situations. It always reminds me of that 90’s movie “Shingle All the Way” with parents who messed up start blaming everyone else for not getting presents in time. Those informed that do their homework ahead of the launch of a product do better and those who don’t do their homework are the ones who tend to be the most affected. It’s no different with the Wii Release back in 2006, Black Friday stuff and so on. Even here in the forum with exclusive releases that sell out. We live in a world with capitalism, sometimes it sucks but those who prepare for the opportunity tend to do a bit better.
This is in no, way, shape or form similar to anything you claimed. “Waiting to last minute” and “blaming others for not doing their research” are unfounded statements. The mere fact that people were on the site at launch time and didn’t get tickets, disposes of each of theses theories. From what I heard, they sold out in 6 minutes with unlimited quantities available for purchase. Not only do ticket scalpers use bots that flood the sites causing normal users to time out, but these had unlimited quantities as well? Online releases of ANY product are luck of the draw. Did you get the request in at the right time when someone else was declined, congrats items to you and not them. Horrible planning and execution like this just screams for the scalpers to use their time and resources on these tickets. Situations like these can be avoided, but the Hype is what they are looking for, not making sure people actually secure tickets.
And for the record, I have zero interest in the tickets, so this isn’t some sort of “OMG I DIDN’T GET THEM” post.
I don’t have interest in the tickets either, but the issues are multi faceted. In trying to make any limited entry event “affordable” you will have issues. Be it a concert, PoGo event, or whatever else. They think they are doing a great thing making it $20 so anyone can go, while mainly they are enriching scalpers. Especially since the main issue of this was the unlimited ticket purchase. Should have been limited to 2 or 4 or something similar as I am sure there are several who purchased hundreds and are making thousands of dollars in a week or two off this with little work.
The other half of the problem are those that pay the scalped prices. Same goes for concert tickets, sporting events, nintendo classics, hatchimals, wiis etc. Anytime somebody knows that someone else out there will pay a higher price for an item, they will buy as many as possible for resale. If nobody paid the exorbitant prices, they would end up selling for less. It is way worse when it comes to consumer goods that will eventually be back in stock like switch etc. because that is just impatience. I can see more folks paying scalped prices for an event like this or a concert since if you miss out then tough luck there won’t be more of this event down the line (not this exact one anyways). We do live in a capitalist society so these will all sell for whatever people will be willing to pay for them which is really only a fair way to go about it, I just think it is more appropriate when purchase limits are instated and scripts/bots whatever that buy things up automatically should be blocked somehow.
People who get pissed off and think everyone is entitled to getting a ticket for $20 though just aren’t living in reality. At face value there is more demand than supply. Prices have to go up. This will likely cause some would-be attendants to sell their tickets and take the cash instead (I would have if I bought some with intent to go at these current re-sale prices). There isn’t really anything fair or unfair about that part of it, it is just a reality.
If the demand is truly that great, the price should go up closer to event time. If it was just a price gouge, they should start dumping tickets up closer to event time.