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"A lot of times the concerts weren’t sold out at all, but we pretended it was. It was just a lie. Pretty much 100% of our traffic came in through AdWords, peopl
by robtaylor 5y ago
"A lot of times the concerts weren’t sold out at all, but we pretended it was. It was just a lie. Pretty much 100% of our traffic came in through AdWords, people would search “Something-something concerts tickets”, got an ad from us, and be duped in to buying them at ridiculous prices."
Sounds very scummy.
- 73gfg 5y agoGoogle censors YouTube in the name of protecting people from their own stupidity, meanwhile profiting from the same phenomena through AdWords.
- whack 5y agoIt gets worse > At one point I learned that one company we connected with would literally just invent concerts: they would guess “they’re probably doing a tour next year” and start “pre-selling” tickets for it at extraordinary prices.
- Bayart 5y agoHey now, it's just branch prediction !
- spicybright 5y agoYou should get into marketing!
- vitiral 5y agoMarketing to geeks
- shortlived 5y agoThe author agrees “I very much regret working on this First job, insecure about your career prospects and whether you’re able to get a new job, and it becomes easy to rationalize these things to yourself.”
- andi999 5y agoThe scam works because they put you under time pressure and the refund laws for internet purchases have an exception for concerts/events. So you think it is almost sold out and you can just get your 2 tickets you want for 200 bucks, you order, afterwards you realize... Wait a minute... There are official sellers... but that's it, you have to pay. Let's hope karma exists.
- tinus_hn 5y agoIt’s not like the big promoters don’t have a taste for this just as well. Welcome to the machine!