Tickets at added value prices
Right now, I’m glad to be where I am. In term of weather, at least. Slight cloud cover, slight breeze, slight decrease in the temperature from the afternoon peak of 27C. Elsewhere (in the province of QC, for example, where eighteen people have died due to the heat wave), too much of any one thing can be bad. Right now, the dog is happy to have a cool tile floor as his lazy place.
Not much else of note here. I’m homebound, and the biggest excitement of the afternoon was watching round two of the spud hilling. We’re behind other areas in growth, obviously, but with the (expected) late autumn, it will mean a longer stretch of work in the potato warehouses. Simple.
This won’t affect me, but in ON the proposed law to limit the ticket scalpers just got declawed. No clear reason why given (they have a new premier, who may not understand why the original act had value for his constituents). I’m quoting from a summary on CBC: certain tickets to an upcoming Taylor Swift show have gone from the face value of $325 to a whopping $66,000 which requires a facepalm as a salute. That price hike is exceptional, but there are other cases cited for colour. Bruno Mars has some of his $100 seats now on offer for $13,893 and Sir Elton John has gone from $221 to $1,878 (it hurts to be a senior performer, obviously).
Locally, I haven’t seen any gaming of the ticket market, but I guess that fiddle shows don’t pack the same “punch for the dollar”.
