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Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
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Sorry Sam, they're not. I was just there after I got McCartney tickets (late Dad's day gift).
Posted by: Sturmy | June 26, 2009 10:25 AM
They were. Seems they went even faster today.
Posted by: JD | June 26, 2009 10:35 AM
Got mine!
Posted by: MelissaE | June 27, 2009 10:04 AM
I couldn't get any and I was on right at 10am. I'm a little mad actually.
Posted by: JB | June 27, 2009 10:29 AM
yeah they're all sold out
you would think that ticketmaster would release more tickets for the non-virgin mobile users.
Selfless bastards they are!
theres a possibility of more tickets being released. I'm hoping to get 2 of them.
I wsh u luck
Posted by: T_Whitlatch | June 27, 2009 11:01 AM
And so it begins... the hundreds of Virgin Freefest tickets up for sale on Stubhub, etc. One of these users says they have up to 39 tickets available!
I'm glad I got mine, but if I didn't I would be extremely pissed about this. Check it out:
http://www.stubhub.com/virgin-festival-tickets/virgin-mobile-freefest-columbia-merriweather-post-pavilion-8-30-2009-853160/ebay/?gcid=C12289x184
Posted by: BL | June 27, 2009 5:10 PM
I didn't get any, and I'm pretty pissed about it. It's pretty neat that they've got free tickets on sale for $190, none of which goes to any of the bands.
Posted by: joe mama | June 28, 2009 3:52 PM
On the ticketmaster.com site, it says if you don't comply to the 2 ticket limit, they may revoke all your tickets. I wonder if they will enforce that. None of the people on StubHub could have the tickets in their possession at this point. Not that I would pay 100+ for FREE tickets. Some people posted their tickets for $600 each...what?!
Posted by: KMM | June 29, 2009 11:20 AM
As of this moment the highest price ticket on stubhub is $695.00.
This is ridiculous.
You know if you didn't pay any these cretins anything more than 15% the face value, or these $50 as they were free, they go away or at least be less greedy.
Personal, if I was interested in going and couldn't tickets for free I'd boycott and bitch to Virgin about how their ticket sellers operate.
Have any of you complained to Virgin or someone who remotely can do something about this?
Posted by: GDA | June 29, 2009 12:05 PM