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Patrick Stump hates scalpers. And so do I.

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!

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

YAAAAAAAAAYYYY! It's a Twitter fairytale. :)

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!

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

It got a happy ending after all! YAY US!

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

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...

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

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

That is so fabulous!

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.

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!!!

♥

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

also i'm excited so it's totally okay to spam people that don't know me! sorry for beeing a creep ;)

Dude, spam all you want! I'm super excited about this and NOBODY ON MY FLIST IS BEING SUFFICIENTLY ENTHUSIASTICALLY EXCITED BACK right now so I don't mind finally sharing the excitement with someone! Au contraire! :-)

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.

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.

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

\o/ \o/ \o/ Heee.

i really want to hug him! maybe we can in london >.>

haha i already see myself typing up emails "dear tutor, i'm sorry but i won't be able to attend the seminar. i have better things to do and shall be rocking out in london. ta ta!"

cool :) either way it means only one day in lancaster for meeeeeeeeee before i see you guys, which makes coming back in may so much more awesome :DDDDD just gotta book a train ticket earlier this time in order to NOT sit in front of the toilet again -.-

Well I'm from Australia originally and scalping is illegal there. It still happens but they have to be more careful about it, so this level of scalping - where you can't even get a TICKET buying on the day of sale - is pretty new to me.

Fuck scalpers indeed. :D

Have fun at the Paris show!

YOU BOTH KNOW ME SO IT IS NOT CREEPY! just pretend i introduced you ;P

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!

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!

HAVING THIS LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT IN MY COMMENTS MAKES ME MORE EXCITED! WHEEEE!

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!

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