Originally Posted by
luv2ctheworld
I tried participating in the deal. The directions were clear not to buy reseller tickets. I wound up not able to because the only tickets left were from resellers. This was pretty obvious if one took time to look at the ticket options.
There was a lot of room for improvement on the way PFS handled this. But blaming them for not being clear on avoiding reseller tickets is not one of them.
I know of a couple of people that were able to get the tickets and were paid face value.
That is a good deal for not having any shipping of merchandise.
There were NO explicit directions on not to buy reseller tickets... they even admitted that, and said that "I should have thought of it myself".
If you've never bought tickets like that before, plus you're in a HUGE RUSH because you think tickets will be gone in seconds (just like coins), then it's impossible to take time and think of what they SHOULD have asked for or WOULD like, instead of just focusing on the actual directions provided.
And I disagree that we should expect losses. I agree it unfortunately does happen (like in this case), but it should not. The ones assuming risk are them, not us. We are hired for a very specific job, with a very specific pay. We are not gambling, they are. There is no reason we should have high risk if we are not part of the high reward.