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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by robtaylor on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:15AM (#27577522)
"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.

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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by whack on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:22AM (#27577840)
It 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.

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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by Bayart on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:31AM (#27578179)
Hey now, it's just branch prediction !
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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by spicybright on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:45AM (#27579086)
You should get into marketing!
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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by vitiral on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:14AM (#27579972)
Marketing to geeks
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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by shortlived on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:51AM (#27577971)
The 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.”

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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by andi999 on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:45AM (#27578263)
The 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.

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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by tinus_hn on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:09PM (#27580569)
It’s not like the big promoters don’t have a taste for this just as well.

Welcome to the machine!

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Re:How to end up with 500k commits in your log by 73gfg on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:21AM (#27577557)
Google censors YouTube in the name of protecting people from their own stupidity, meanwhile profiting from the same phenomena through AdWords.
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