Phish Fan Uses Twitter to Get Band’s Attention on Scalpers

With Phish having sold-out all four nights of their upcoming Madison Square Garden New Year’s Eve run, plenty of ticketless fans were shut out. In the wake of the sellouts, unsurprisingly, auctions for tickets started popping up on eBay. Phish fan Dave Ginsberg (@youenjoyme) started taking note of the Phish Tickets by Mail auctions and sent tweets to @Phish alerting the band of the mail order tickets being scalped.

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The persistence may have paid off. While Ginsberg’s requests for having the offending tickets transferred to him may or may not be fulfilled, he certainly got Phish’s attention.

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With a promise to investigate the auctions and a request for further notification of similar attempts at scalping PTBM listings the band gave a glimmer of hope to their ticketless fans not wanting to pay extra hundreds of dollars for tickets.

Ginsberg remains vigilant, responding to the band’s request with another tweet calling out a would-be scalper.

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Meanwhile, another fan found a different way to have fun with scalpers:

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If you come across a listing of a scalper trying to sell Phish Tickets By Mail tickets, send a link to bettyfrost@phish.com. This all comes down to one thing – fuck scalpers (#fscalpers).