The Beach: Social Concert Series: Dave Matthews Tickets For Free (Almost)

Social Concert Series: Dave Matthews Tickets For Free (Almost)
Thursday, July 26, 2007

It looks like the crew behind the Social Concert Series is feeling a lot more social all of a sudden—and it's not going to make the folks who spent $15,000 for their tickets to the concert series too happy. A very thoughtful tipster just forwarded us an email, headlined "EXCLUSIVE FOR ROSS FAMILIES AND EMPLOYEES" that went out to the "Ross School community" offering them the chance to take part in a Dutch auction for Saturday night's Dave Matthews concert. The email reads in part:

"As you know, the fee for individual concert tickets is $3,000 apiece, based on a passport price of $15,000 for all five concerts. However, Bulldog has decided to give everyone @ Ross the chance to experience the Social at a very special price. Bulldog has made available 200 tickets that they will sell exclusively to the Ross Community using the Dutch auction online bidding method."

Suddenly wishing you were paying $20,000+ a year to send your spawn to Ross? Yup, you and every ticket scalper on the East Coast.

So how is the auction working?

"You will be bidding on packages of 2 tickets, with a maximum allowance of 4 tickets (2 packages) per bidder. We are using the lowest high bid method for this auction. Send an email with the highest price bid you will pay for 2 tickets. Remember that the top 100 bidders are obligated to buy either at their bid prices or lower, as the purchase price will be determined by the lowest of the top 100 bids. For example, if the prices of the top 100 bids range from $400 to $1,000 for 2 tickets, each of the 100 top bidders will pay only $400 for their 2 tickets."

How very diplomatic. Bidding closes at noon tomorrow so you have just over 24 hours to procreate and enroll your kid at Ross. Good luck and a big thanks to our tipster. And if anyone gets their hands on some tickets let us know.
· Social Concert Series
· The Ross School

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