There’s a concert coming up soon at one of our local theaters. I saw it advertised on a billboard along the freeway. It’s one of those billboards that lights up. It’s a picture of Neil Diamond and it says “concert” or something like that. I assumed it was a Neil Diamond tribute concert. But I saw a friend of mine at a restaurant Friday night and he said it was the real guy, that Neil was coming here to perform. Now Neil’s 83 years old, but hey, I thought, Frankie Valley is still performing in Vegas at 91.
So I did some research, and no, it’s a Neil Diamond tribute thing. But the tickets are like $118! That’s where they fool you. Here’s their strategy: if you price the tickets high enough, we consumers think it’s the real guy and we buy the tickets. I think this is brilliant – Why didn’t I think of this?
These tickets, if used as a Christmas present, could prove to be a problem however. I could see this one sided conversation happening: “No, instead of giving me a diamond for Christmas, he gave me Neil Diamond tickets. Only it’s not even the real Neil Diamond.” Be careful.
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