Comments on: Come to a free show, but you cant come in.. http://plankbashing.co.uk/2009/01/come-to-a-free-show-but-you-cant-come-in/ random stuff from the mind of Simon Wicks Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:28:37 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christine http://plankbashing.co.uk/2009/01/come-to-a-free-show-but-you-cant-come-in/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Christine Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:02:45 +0000 http://www.plankbashing.com/?p=212#comment-37 What a shame. I live in Virginia (USA) and I have never seen an Eddie Izzard show but I tried to see if any spots were close enough to drive. So, I checked out ticket venues. It seems as if there are countless scavengers out there swooping up these tickets to sell them at incredibly high markups. It use to be illegal in various states, but not anymore, it seems to me. <br><br>Unfair, yes. Rotten, yes. <br>So all I can do is wait for someone to put up a bad youtube video to catch snippets of a show. I've bought all the Izzard DVDs available in this country, but "Stripped" probably won't be out for several years.<br><br>Eddie seems to be a very decent person but I doubt that he can do anything about the situation. What a shame. I live in Virginia (USA) and I have never seen an Eddie Izzard show but I tried to see if any spots were close enough to drive. So, I checked out ticket venues. It seems as if there are countless scavengers out there swooping up these tickets to sell them at incredibly high markups. It use to be illegal in various states, but not anymore, it seems to me.

Unfair, yes. Rotten, yes.
So all I can do is wait for someone to put up a bad youtube video to catch snippets of a show. I've bought all the Izzard DVDs available in this country, but “Stripped” probably won't be out for several years.

Eddie seems to be a very decent person but I doubt that he can do anything about the situation.

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