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Comment by th0br0 | Hacker News Reader

Looks like "ticketsforless.com" got some great free PR (if they manage to spin the media on this) - from the FB comments:

  Jason Durbin · VP of Ticket Operations at Tickets For Less

  Jesse Sandler – I’m the VP of Ticket Operations at Tickets For Less. We’ve    reached out to TheLeadSports.com and are trying to contact you. We have four seats for you in section 106 for Kobe’s last home game. Please contact me or our President Dan Rouen at 913-685-3322.

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Stubhub also said they'll get him to the game. No mention of changing policy so that it doesn't happen again. Next time it wont go viral and they wont have to fix it.

https://twitter.com/StubHub/status/684906796813697024?

Well, they're only writing about Jesse and not his 3 friends though. ... bad reaction IMHO, given that he bought 4 tickets initially and not 4.

For what it's worth, I'm at least one person who bought tickets on Tickets for Less instead of StubHub because of this. This kind of goodwill PR works.

Not exactly free if the tickets are going for $6,000 each, but still a genius move.

If I remember right, take into account its from the comments, the president of the company purchased the tickets. I doubt at 6k a ticket though.

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