In hope that I might remotely be in the states around Expo date I asked friends about the chances of booking tickets: the idea of seeing it in the US as it came out really appealed. They said at the time that there didn't appear to be a chance of booking in advance. I rather assumed that it was an American thing of not doing advance booking, as several people were surprised I thought such a thing was possible.
As for scalpers: what are they? Are they what are referred to as ticket touts in the UK? People who buy up all the advance tickets and then sell them at a profit to people who then can't get tickets? I assume so. I hadn't realised that the US was -quite- so prone to this: it happens for music gigs and sports events here, but for cinemas?? Wow.
ObReminiscence: I remember queuing for hours for Star Wars when it came out (yes, I'm old..) I also remember, years later, queuing for tickets for Queen, who were playing at the local football (soccer) grounds. The way it was handled there was that -even if you were there in person-, you could only buy six tickets. This was an anti-tout measure. If US cinemas do go for the 'only selling to people on the day' approach, is such a scenario of limiting ticket numbers likely? Knowing that would be handy.
"The same old Kant and Khun stuff we did before we were even script kiddies"?
That remark was well worth reading! I realise that a link between interest in computers and interest in philosophy isn't new (I imagine from my non-technical viewpoint that the simple link is 'logic') but that was a definite double-take comment:)
I look forward to error messages of "Target does not exist -- except...(insert appropriate references here)" when getting things wrong at the prompt in the future!
Telsa, who suspects that she's managed to log herself out of her brand new account, since her last comment was from AC. Damn cookies.
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As for scalpers: what are they? Are they what are referred to as ticket touts in the UK? People who buy up all the advance tickets and then sell them at a profit to people who then can't get tickets? I assume so. I hadn't realised that the US was -quite- so prone to this: it happens for music gigs and sports events here, but for cinemas?? Wow.
ObReminiscence: I remember queuing for hours for Star Wars when it came out (yes, I'm old..) I also remember, years later, queuing for tickets for Queen, who were playing at the local football (soccer) grounds. The way it was handled there was that -even if you were there in person-, you could only buy six tickets. This was an anti-tout measure. If US cinemas do go for the 'only selling to people on the day' approach, is such a scenario of limiting ticket numbers likely? Knowing that would be handy.
That remark was well worth reading! I realise that a link between interest in computers and interest in philosophy isn't new (I imagine from my non-technical viewpoint that the simple link is 'logic') but that was a definite double-take comment :)
I look forward to error messages of "Target does not exist -- except...(insert appropriate references here)" when getting things wrong at the prompt in the future!
Telsa, who suspects that she's managed to log herself out of her brand new account, since her last comment was from AC. Damn cookies.