Patrick Stump hates scalpers. And so do I.

[ladyfoxxx]

So Patrick Stump tickets went on sale this morning. And myself, dancinbutterfly and jenepel were ON it. We were a well oiled machine. By 8:45am we had Ticketmaster and Seetickets windows open and we were fucking READY. We had chat windows open in gchat, with our battle plans and we were waiting for 9:00am to come around so we could purchase tickets for the London show for ourselves and xclusiveantonym, kopperblaze and bebunny

Three of us, online at sale time, buying for six of us. That is totally reasonable to expect some degree of success, right?

Want to know how many tickets we managed to get?

One.

One sad little ticket, and I only got that one because I'd just started randomly searching for single tickets because it all just WASN'T WORKING.

jenepel got ALL THE WAY TO THE CHECKOUT before being told "We're really sorry, but unfortunately it looks like we ran out of stock while you were entering your payment details"

ARE THEY EVEN ALLOWED TO DO THAT?

You guys, I have done so many Security Check captcha's I'm going to TURN INTO a captcha. (Also, WHY THE FUCK do they not use real words? And why are they SO hard to read? /endwhinge)

So, I did what all grownups do. I complained to Patrick on twitter. Because I honestly thought it was sold out because he was playing a rather small venue and he has lots of enthusiastic fans who love him. Wow, am I naive.



And then I got a direct message notification from the man himself:



And then he messaged me AGAIN.



So there you go. My darling Hardwire Harlots, I'm sorry we don't have tickets to see Patrick, but if it makes you feel any better he's aware of the situation and very unhappy about it.

I'll leave the final word to him.



EDITED TO ADD: BUT THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY!

I'd just posted this entry when THIS HAPPPENED:



PATRICK STUMP ADDED A SECOND SHOW. A SECOND SHOW YOU GUYS.

AND WE GOT TICKETS TO IT. I clicked the link and GOT THROUGH, and typed my details with my heart beating OUT OF MY CHEST and I got the confirmation and WE ARE GOING TO SEE PATRICK STUMP, YOU GUYS. Because he's amazing and loves his fans and ADDED A SECOND SHOW. What godawful time is it where he is anyway? How many people did have to wake up to make that happen? HOW AWESOME IS HE?

Way to extend the middle finger to the scalpers Patrick. We love you. See you in May!

Comments

[josiemus-prime.livejournal.com]

HOW IS HE THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL? Happy you got tickets, darling!

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

THE MAN IS MADE OF RAINBOWS AND PUPPIES. Except when he is talking about scalpers in which case he is made of thinly veiled rage. Thanks bb!

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAYYYY! It's a Twitter fairytale. :)

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

It got a happy ending after all! YAY US!

[piratesunk.livejournal.com]

Haha This is awesome. Glad you managed to score tickets. :)

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

Thanks for listening to me whinge about it. God I feel sorry for my twitterlist. So much drama. :D

[kopperblaze.livejournal.com]

patrick stump is made of gold, seriously.

and thank you so much for going through this odyssey for us, hon! *hugssohardandtackles* <33333333

haha i'm now gonna miss all my revision lectures/seminars that week because of pstump and panic, but do i caaaaaaaaaaare????? NO.

are you okay with me crashing at yours for so much longer than planned though? :/ i feel a bit bad about it...

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe. Can he just be virtually made of gold, not literally? It would make him hard to hug.

I'll talk to the bf about the extra night. I'm sure it'll be fine. If worst comes to worst we can always Harlot-ise an apartment like we did in Manchester. That was fun.

[liescontinue.livejournal.com]

haha this is amazing! i'm with patrick, fuck scalpers!

glad you managed to get tickets though, hope you have a great time! :)

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

How cool is he? All I can think now is there's gonna be all these scalpers out there with tickets to sell for the Tuesday show and we're all gonna be like HAHA saw him on Monday!

I'm sure it'll be a blast. :D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

That is so fabulous!

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ \o/ Heee.

[crazybutsound]

This is where I'm happy we live in France so I had no trouble getting four tickets to his show in a 200 capacity venue. Still, the man is the most awesome of all and I am SO GLAD y'all finally got tickets. \o/ FUCK SCALPERS seriously.

[manuanya.livejournal.com]

hee, don't actually live in france but i'll be going to the paris show as well :-D

[manuanya.livejournal.com]

fuck scalpers, seriously, that upsets me so much and i wish, i really wish, someone would start doing something against it. it can't be that hard to make a difference on ebay between "this person sells ten tickets for twice the face value because he's a fucking scalper" and "this person sells one ticket for face value because her friend can't come anymore". so upset!

however HOWEVER i am so so SO SO SHAPPY THAT YOU GOT TICKETS AND THAT YOU GET TO SEE HIM!!!

♥

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

I'm really keen for them to introduce the law where you can't re-sell over 110% face value. I just want all those fuckers to have to go out and find real jobs. Every time I go to a show in London they are EVERYWHERE with a stack of tickets inches high, and I want to punch them in the face.

YAY PATRICK! YAY EXTRA SHOW! YAY TICKETS!

[aneas.livejournal.com]

I think I'm in love. And my heart has no place whatsoever for another crush! I'll die!

Damn lovely bandom guys... they're irresistible.

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

How is he so awesome? Dude, I was already vaguely aware of his awesomeness but that was obviously only the tip of the iceberg.

Go on. Get a crush!

[xclusiveantonym.livejournal.com]

ok i'm on my shitty internet connection phone but GOOD GOD what an expedition for tix! But i love your refusal to GIVE UP, you did it for us FANS and i freaked out at work, nearly broke my elbow- it's a good job the people i work with think i'm weird anyway. PATRICK STUMP. You legend. OK must dash but ahhh thank you so much bb!

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

oh bless his heart! i saw his 'fuck scalpers' tweet. that's wonderful that you guys are getting to go. <3

[coricomile.livejournal.com]

Can we talk about how great PStump is? Because he's pretty much the greatest.

I'm going to the Chicago shows, and the only reason that's happening is because a friend thought to call and sit online at the same time. The US shows were mostly through Tue venue sites, and most of them crashed as soon as tickets went on sale.

I don't know what I'm going to do once I realize he is, in fact, a Real Boy.

[never-coming-bk.livejournal.com]

I'm happy you got some in the end.

I'll have to go to the next one, I'm going to too many gigs as it is.

♥

[sparklyfiend.livejournal.com]

I was able to get a ticket relatively easy through TicketWeb, though that's probably cos I only needed the one, and because nobody normally tries with TicketWeb, because it is made of straws and falls over all the time.

It sold out STUPIDLY quickly though, and I'm sick of scalpers over here - I'm looking at £150 on a £75 ticket for something for Mother's Day, it's disgusting.

The moral of the story, though, is YAY Patrick, and I'm so glad you guys are getting to go :D Bless Patrick for not thinking the Water Rats would sell out quickly, though. He needs to realise that he's really kinda popular :3

[siobhan-w.livejournal.com]

Yay! So happy you were able to get tickets. And seriously, scalpers should really end up in Dante's fourth circle of hell.

[turlough]

I'm so happy you managed to get tickets for you all in the end! Patrick Stump rulez!!

[defect-no9.livejournal.com]

SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!! This story sounds painfully familiar to the time I had to buy tickets about a month ago. He sold out Joe's Pub THREE TIMES. I managed to get tickets to the Sunday show. ALSO BY SOME MIRACLE MY AUNT BOUGHT ME TICKETS TO SEE HIM AT THE TROC IN PHILLY. NEXT WEEK.

I'M TRYING NOT TO DIE BEFORE I SEE MCR IN MAY BUT PATRICK IS MAKING MY ARTERIES QUIVER IN ANTICIPATION.

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

SCALPERS GIVE ME RAGE BLACKOUTS OMG. RAGE. BLACKOUTS.

But awww, how adorable is Patrick?? And I'm so glad you finally got tickets!

[halfeatenmoon.livejournal.com]

Awww, Patrick's such a gun! But who the hell was running those ticket sales? They're doing it wrong. >:(

[phelixstar.livejournal.com]

He is the darlingest! I had a slight spazz when he DM'd me and my email said I had a message from Patrick Stump. lol. He told me he'd forfeit if he went up against Pete in MMM. <3

So happy you get to see him! <3

[the-mourning.livejournal.com]

Man! I love how much he cares~ :D

Totally just made my day

[ina-pok.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is awesome!!! He rocks!!!
I wish I could go and see him play. He's even playing in my hometown (and in one of my old high school haunts, too. :-D Honestly the venue is one run down beautifully dingy place of epic small concerts and sticky floors), but I'm still stuck in college and it's right during exams, so I can't fly over to go and see it :-( I am sort of hoping he might be doing more gigs in the coming while. We'll see!!

But either way, I am happy to hear he showed up the scalpers. And you guys got tickets. I'm sure it'll be amazing!!!

[bebunny.livejournal.com]

He is made of such sparkly things. You didn't tell me he had sent you a DM!

Also, am very glad we're going, May's gonna rock.

[weekendgothgirl.livejournal.com]

Ugh that's annoying, I hate them.

Lucky you getting tix to go! ^.^ Tell us all about it XD

[x_dark_siren_x]

I feel the need to scowl and be pissed at the fact that the bigger venues won't have him. (Or he thinks they won't have him.) Don't they know what they're missing?

But oh man. *__________________* Patrick. I love him, and I love Twitter. Screw those who say it's good for nothing.

(Also, I need an up-to-date icon, because he looks amazing right now. And that's only a little bit of my hearteyes over this guy. Damn you and your limits, lj! *shakes fist*)

*waves* Hi, just rereading some fic before crashing in the wee hours and I noticed you'd updated. I'll be out of your hair now. :)