More and more people are hiring professional line sitters to help score hard-to-get tickets in a job that’s “worth the wait.”
When a hot new item drops, like the new iPhone or popular concert tickets, the most stressful part of the process is often waiting in line in hopes of scoring that impossible to get ticket or item.They're known as"professional line sitters," and Robert Samuel built his own company based off the practice.
“Some of the other lines that we've waited for in New York City include Shakespeare in the Park, a lot of sample sales, autographs, bars, concerts. We've done the Macy's Day Parade, restaurants. We've actually even waited for a free picnic table to let somebody watch the fireworks.” “One of the major misconceptions that people have about line sitters is that especially when we wait in line for tickets, that we're scalpers. But the main difference is that we're not selling tickets. We are actually purchasing tickets on behalf of a customer that has booked us in advance and paid in advance,” he said. “So you'll never see us on a corner, you know, trying to scout tickets, trying to sell them or unload them.
“The toughest line we have encountered is Hudson River Park. They have free tennis courts,” he said. “We're just waiting for our party, and I think the anger is more directed at maybe the customers, like, 'How dare they hire someone to do their wait?' But because the customer is not there — we're there for two, sometimes three hours for courts — then they take it out on us.”
“I wasn't waiting in line. I was waiting just sitting in a chair. I was in a 14th or 15th century church during an art festival, and I was there to represent them through their final days. So it was really emotional, and I didn't think it would affect me because I didn't know them, but [it was] very powerful. Will never forget it. Never thought line sitting would take us halfway around the world.
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