“Thank you very much for getting the tickets here on time…I really enjoyed doing business with you…” – Edward P, Fort Lauderdale FL
“I am a repeat customer. I used your site for Yankees tickets this season. You did a great job and had them delivered to the hotel, it was a great experience…” – Sharm S, Provo UT
“You guys so rock! My boyfriend loved the show! I’m a loyal customer forever…” – Adela B, Grand Prairie TX
Somewhere, American journalist/essayist, H.L. Mencken, is smiling—ear to ear.
After all, he was the prickly gent that said that “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
After coming across Ticketjew.com, a website designed to sell tickets at (har! Har!) cheap prices, it is clear that the cantankerous writer couldn’t have been closer to the truth.
As a Jew—hell, as a member of the human race—you walk through your days, bathed in the comfort of what is known as the status quo.
We wake up, do our jobs, eat our meals, and go to bed—not knowing that somewhere, maybe even right next door, someone is hating you, your people, everything that you stand for…if, that is, you stand for anything at all.
The people quoted above are actual customer testimonials, taken from this disgusting site, which, adding insult to injury, sports as its logo an utterly charming ticket with the name of the site, as well as a yarmulke and peyos (side locks) to boot!
Well, heck! All it needs now is a yellow Star of David patch on its shoulder (Wait! Do Jewish tickets have shoulders? Gosh, I guess the brilliant ad wizards missed what must be, to them, a glaring opportunity to make yet another stereotypical jab!), in order to make the whole thing kosher (get it?! Ha…ha…ha).
It’s hard to believe such clear-cut anti-Semitism exists, and goes unanswered for, but hey, let’s face it: How often do we let a quick Jew joke pass our ears without notice? How many times do we make jokes about our own religion, at our own expense? “Self-deprecation,” we call it. Hey, black people call each other “the ‘n’ word” all the time. Why shouldn’t we be able to do the same? I mean, isn’t it okay to make hateful, stereotypical statements about ourselves, about each other?
Sure! But it doesn’t make it right.
This website, as far as I’m concerned and as far as you should be concerned (hey, no pressure!), is a travesty. It’s an insult to Jews, all around the world, as well as a giant gob of phlegm in the face of those Jews who we’ve survived.
The main culprit in question, for those interested in contacting your nearest Anti-Defamation League (and we urge you to please—pretty please!—do!) branch, is one Steve Masterson, the company’s President—er— führer. Does the man have a First Amendment right to have such a filthy, obscenely offensive website? Sure! Hey, this is America, The Free Country™, where just about any ignorant prick has the right to make a buck from a schmuck, even if the yuck-yuck (emphasis on “yuck”) marketing campaign is at the expense of a whole people.
But as Jews, we owe it to ourselves to stand up against it. We owe it to ourselves to expose hate mongers like Masterson for what they are: Little men with even smaller things on their mind.
Ya know, being a film buff certainly has its perks, especially when it comes to having an arsenal of quotes on hand, for nearly any occasion. At this time, I can’t think of a better one than the following:
“At my order, unleash hell.”
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If you e-mail [email protected], this fool will respond right back.
Let’s put an end to this nonsense.
Looks like he operates out of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Here is a link to that regional office of the ADL:
http://regions.adl.org/eastern-pa/
You have to admit, the logo is pretty funny. I am Jewish and have a bit thicker skin and sense of humor about these kind of things I guess..
Yes, Mosha I would say you do have thicker skin about such things than some. To each his own. I find it offensive. I’ve contacted the ADL and I feel that others might consider doing the same.
I don’t have to admit a damned thing, Mosha. Use your head, man! There’s a difference between being “thick-skinned” and thick-skulled. That logo is meant to be hurtful to our own people and, with your “pretty funny” endorsement of it, you’re just giving anti-Semites like Masterson exactly what they want: more fuel for their fire. Think about it!
Hal, I think you and we all are due for more “surprises” of American anti-Semitism.
Sometimes it’s so “casual,” you almost miss it. Just the other day, a prospective client complained that an insurance agent “jewed me down” to a fraction of the benefit the caller was hoping for. (I didn’t take the case.)
Such stuff really is all around us.
For those interested, here is a note I got from the ADL the other day:
We recently corresponded regarding the website, http://www.Ticketjew.com. I wanted to let you know that ADL’s National Office has written twice to both the owner of the website and the ISP that hosts the site. As of yet, there has been no response. Hopefully that will change – if so, I will be in touch again.
My aunt tried to buy tickets to a small local venue online from the venues website and somehow was re-routed to Ticket Jew. She bought two general admission tickets that have a face value of $58. Her total visa charge was $249. We only discovered it when she was a week away from the event and still no confirmation email for her to print the tickets. And you can still buy tickets at face value for the event. How she was re-routted I’m not sure. Call it being a senior or being used to paying high prices for tickets it’s just horrible. We only found out by searching her Visa statement. We were like-who’s ticketjew.com? The fact that they charged over two times the value of the tickets is just sad.
Well, I can tell you all that the owner isn’t some jew hater out there to offend anyone. There’s plenty of jokes told about Jewish people and money, so should we bring up charges on them? You can focus on the name but looks like it’s doing good at grabbing attention and looks like free advertisement by having posts like this. The owner of this site has donated countless $$ to charity, he has donated his time, venue, and money on numerous occasions to help veterans and others in need – including Jews. I understand where you’re slightly offended but we live in a world with mass shootings every other week and we’re worried about a ticket stub?
That you, Steve-o??