All is well everyone. I think chief was just frustrated and just needed to vent. Sometimes we just gotta do that.
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Girl? A 17 year old girl? Girls are way better grammarians than boys!
This went sideways rather quickly. In my humble opinion chief4db was referring to someone at the top of the book event, not Mr. King or Ms. Mod. That being said, I have seen GNTLGNT interject in the past and he is usually bang on in his assessments, so I could be wrong here. As far as the 17 year old girl comment from Machines Way, that was rather uncalled for. You could have sent GNTLGNT a side post showing your support, rather than the insult. We are all fans of Mr. King and also, from what I have observed, a unique collective of big-hearted, humble, compassionate, and sympathetic folks who are quite accepting of others. All the best to all of you. Peace, mal.
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I was teasing him last week when I was giving him an update on the Nashville event and letting him know about the others selling out and told him he was a rockstar.All I can say is some people are just flatass crazy. I was talking about getting tickets in the comments of a FB post from local media about the event, and now my FB message box is full of people offering ridiculous amounts of money for my second ticket. Not going to happen, of course, but why the heck would anyone think it was appropriate to throw money at a stranger for a ticket?! Mr. King is a rockstar--lol. (BTW, in reference to the comment on the other thread about kids not being interested in Mr. King's books: almost all of the messengers are mid-20s or younger. Maybe kids had a hard time realizing that deadlines ARE real and you CAN miss out by not being on time )
Silly OoO I would sell you soup
Has anyone driven past in a silver/grey Mercedes? I'd for sure BOLO for that if I was in that line. Some folks will do anything to get better seats. Sorry, but my sense of irony got the better of me.After all the years of doing this I've come to the realization that no matter what we do or how a book tour appearance is set up, there will be complaints so pretty much let them roll off. As others pointed out, on line ticket sales wouldn't have necessarily been any better opportunity. The Tulsa event with an 1,100 seat venue sold out in about 2 minutes. The Nashville event with 2,400 seats only took a little over 20 minutes. Granted no one had to drive to the venue but as mentioned, a little research into other event ticket sales and discussion here could have saved the travel time or made clear that expecting to show up 2 hours before an event and get a ticket was not likely.
We do ask for some things but for the most part let the local venue run it as they see fit for their community. In this case, Penguin Bookshop was hoping to have as many local people as possible attend since it was a smaller venue and this was a once-in-a-lifetime event for them. Here's a pic of what the line looked like at 10 PM the night before so you can imagine what it must have looked like two hours before tickets went on sale:
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Has anyone driven past in a silver/grey Mercedes? I'd for sure BOLO for that if I was in that line. Some folks will do anything to get better seats. Sorry, but my sense of irony got the better of me.
All I can say is some people are just flatass crazy. I was talking about getting tickets in the comments of a FB post from local media about the event, and now my FB message box is full of people offering ridiculous amounts of money for my second ticket. Not going to happen, of course, but why the heck would anyone think it was appropriate to throw money at a stranger for a ticket?! Mr. King is a rockstar--lol. (BTW, in reference to the comment on the other thread about kids not being interested in Mr. King's books: almost all of the messengers are mid-20s or younger. Maybe kids had a hard time realizing that deadlines ARE real and you CAN miss out by not being on time )
I was teasing him last week when I was giving him an update on the Nashville event and letting him know about the others selling out and told him he was a rockstar.
I noticed that the OP of this thread is offering to pay quite a bit more for a ticket in the Buy/Sell thread.All I can say is some people are just flatass crazy. I was talking about getting tickets in the comments of a FB post from local media about the event, and now my FB message box is full of people offering ridiculous amounts of money for my second ticket. Not going to happen, of course, but why the heck would anyone think it was appropriate to throw money at a stranger for a ticket?! Mr. King is a rockstar--lol. (BTW, in reference to the comment on the other thread about kids not being interested in Mr. King's books: almost all of the messengers are mid-20s or younger. Maybe kids had a hard time realizing that deadlines ARE real and you CAN miss out by not being on time )