Not sure why, but every time I need to "sneak" in somewhere I always send an e-mail first (expecially if it's an event that required prior booking) and it always works. When i get stopped and they ask me why I have no reservation or something else I just say "I sent an e-mail and I got the reply from x that it's okay. I can show it to you". And not once I was asked to show the email. This works well in small-medium events, and if it happens in a particular moment.
I suppose this wouldn't work with paid events, but it works extremely well with university-related stuff.
The first time I did this it was because I was desperate to attend this event organised by my local university but all the spots were already taken, so I sent an email to the organiser explaining the situation and stuff. The organiser's reply wasn't useful at all, she just told me good luck, but when I got there and I was stopped because I had no booking, as soon as I said that I emailed that person they let me in.
My friend is a huge queens of thr stone age fan and wasnt able to get tickets for a concert, so on a whim emailed Josh Homme just saying how awesome he thought they were and some random nerdy guitar technical questions about some of theor work he has wondered about. Josh sent back answers to his questions and a backstage pass to the concert the next day. My friend was working as a studio musician guitarist so knew his stuff and he genuinely just wanted to geek out about music and apparently it came through in his email.
Making friends with crew is a “hack” that can work. There is a folk singer I like, not going to name her. Through her fan board I got to know the name of the person who staffs her merch table. We’ll call her Sally. So when I went to my first concert of this folk singer and went to the merch table I asked who was Sally and chatted with her for a bit. The next concert in my town was after the pandemic and I saw Sally at the merch table again. I said hi and started chatting with her. Officially they had told everyone that since the pandemic, the singer no longer came out and greeted fans after the show. But Sally told me if I didnt have to leave right away, to hang out for a little bit and she might come out. She did and I was one of maybe 10 people who stuck around and got to see her, chat and get photos with her.
W sally!
Sally, that girl.
Knowing the artistes' email is the real hack - how did he get the email?
The old man told me to take any rug in the house
Well enjoy, and perhaps we’ll see you again sometime, Dude.
That’s Marvelous
What?
The Big Lebowski
Finger in your butt
Ok, now what?
😏😏😏
Whats the point of actually sending the email, when you're just banking on them not checking said email? If they actually check, they'll see the response email denying you
Gets you a name to use though.
I had assumed if you know they're email you know their name? Who is handing out their email just like "oh yeah but I'm not giving you my first name son good luck sucka"
Some places will have a general customer service email any number of people could be using in the company. They might use a signature or otherwise identify themselves in the response.
For some places, emails like this go to a group and are handled by individual people. We have a general inbox for some stuff at my work, and we all have access to it. Whenever one of my staff responds, their email signature is on it. The response comes from the general inbox but their signature is usually at the bottom. We do too much stuff to constantly be bothered with removing our signature for this when it should be in 3/4 of our emails.
I work in a university and it's very common for the contact email for a department, group, program, etc. to be "program@universirt.edu" and then a person respond to those emails with their real name.
I think I started sending e-mails as a way to see the "vibe" of the event. For example if I get a reply that says "Not sure what to do, but try to still show up" I will show up feeling pretty confident that they'll let me in. If the event is not paid there is a good chance that my writing the right email they'll be nice to you. For example, for that university event I wrote that I was very eager to learn and apply to that particular course and that I had scheduled to book a spot for weeks but that a family situation stopped me from doing so in the right time frame.
I think it's mostly about reading the room. And yes you could photoshop a reply if the real reply is negative, but I think that would only work in a low-stakes event
I think you’re just in university and experiencing manufactured exclusivity and poor planning but it’s being vapor distilled in to a sense of ActLikeYouBelong.
You can sneak in to most university events by just turning your head as you walk through the door while maintaining an intentionally animated conversation.
I mean if you're a student and attending a free university event the level of scrutiny is as low as it gets, and rightfully so, just don't look like you're homeless or something.
Public universities are just that - public. The general public is allowed at damn near any event or building.
95% of it is confidence. My uncles got back stage at a show they didn't even have tickets to because security stopped one, and the other goes "hey, he's with me" and walks right past security.
I go to the Renaissance Festival for free because I dated a girl that worked there and she showed me where the employee entrance was. You just walk through like you work there, nobody's gonna recognize everybody
Yeah I went to a couple of guest lectures that I 100% had no right to go to. Just walked in and took a seat. Unless it is some very fancy guest there won't be any special security or anything. They have more problems getting people to turn up to lectures, people sneaking in is rarely a concern.
Because you don’t want to lie. You sent an email requesting entry to the event. Whether they wrote back saying you can come is a different question.
You could very easily just photoshop a response.
Then we're right back to why email in the first place if the response isn't real either?
Send email to generic email, receive response with name, leverage name for entry.
I basically do this. "Oh I sent an email to so and so/the organizer" and usually only because I know that name (which I find online sometimes) they don't question me.
Or just set the display name of another account and send it yourself. I doubt in this situation of "let me show you the email on my phone" that anyone is gonna be inspecting too closely to see the actual email address it was sent from.
Do be sure to copy their email signature though.
Insurance.
because this post is made-up lol
“Ultimate hack” doesn’t come with caveats and limitations
That's what I thought too but I was surprised by how many times I used this things and how useful it is
I’m interested to hear how this applies to non-scholastic functions
Good luck trying that with any real credentialed production/show.
Yeah I emailed taylor and she said it was cool to just stop by.....
You mean Taylor Swift?
Yeah
Ok go on in
My old boss (let’s call him Patrick) had this trick that he encouraged us to use:
He would approach a table full of handouts or buffet or interesting books. He always conducted himself like someone who belonged there. When he start to take one, someone might suddenly notice him and fail to recognize him.
“Can I help you? Those books are for the suchandsuch department…”
“Yes, I know. Patrick said I could take one”
“Oh, alright then”
It wasn’t foolproof but a very high percentage of the time, the interaction ended there. Sometimes Patrick would linger and mingle and shoot the breeze. Gather more information about the event. Sometimes he would just make an unremarkable exit right there and then.
RARELY, ever, did anyone question Patrick, “who is Patrick?” 🤣
[edit: trick, not truck]
Of course just turning up is going to work for free events. 50% of booked attendees are no-shows for free events.
Did you say “expecially” on purpose?
No, English is not my first language. Someone pointed that out already.
I quit reading at "expecially". That's not even a word.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Thank you for embiggening my vocabulary
Ok going to reenergize with an expresso after reading this.
This is going ‘immensely’
Cromulent also leads my brain to Oliver Cromwell.
O no he swapped one letter, everything else he said must be useless
That’s pacificly the issue.
It’s fine, he sent an email axing to get into the event
English is not my first language, I'm still learning. How many languages do you speak?
What a charming reply. MiseryGuts is the compound word that seems to apply to you 🙄
You can almost always sneak into a large concert venue by wearing all black and coming in the back door, looking like you know where you’re going. A small venue (like a club) will be harder because the crew is smaller.
This also works for catered events. Just bring another brightly colored shirt to change into once you’re in.
Email first and showing up with a ladder could get you into Fort Knox
Especially*
I’m basically out all together, shifted to soccer
Omg not only do you say eXpecially not you she’ll it like that too?
English is not my first language
Oh! Also, if you hear people say eXpresso that’s also incorrect. It’s espresso.
Fair. It’s pronounced like it’s spelled, like this: especially.
I hope this helps (for real not sarcastically 🙂)
So is expecially wrong? Because I never got corrected over it, not even in school essays
Yes, it's not a word.
As you can see from my downvotes ppl hate being corrected. Most ppl don’t take it well. I was trying to be kinda flippant but often even if I’m extremely nice ppl get angry. Yes, expecially is wrong. It’s especially. A lot of ppl say it wrong.
You're getting downvoted because your original comment is incredibly sarcastic and rude. There are nicer ways to try to teach someone how something is said/spelt. The way you tried to correct OP was just downright condescending.
I'm waiting for another "ultimate hack" post in the anti grammar nazi subreddit, where you talk about "just saying English isn't your first language" and people literally give you all the grace in the world. With Zero verification. Brilliant honestly.
I mean a good amount of OP’s post history is in Italian…
No, you see, I just posted a lot in Italian for years so that I could make mistakes in English and later "trick" people by saying that English is not my first language, which is something people do apparently
Man people around here really dont get a joke
Wie beschränkt muss das eigene Weltbild eigentlich sein um zu glauben, dass jeder Poster angelsächsisch als Muttersprache spricht?
Apparently a lot of people think like this. Very sad and closed off mindset
The whole world is using English as a lingua franca and you have the privilege that it's YOUR first language. I really can't think of any nationality besides the French and the American that would berate someone for making a mistake in their language. I hope you never plan on moving abroad
Christ.
Bro jokes arnt aloud?
Step 1: be obnoxiously rude
Step 2: get called out on it
Step 3: call it 'a joke' even though there is no satire, wit or basic punchline
Bull shit.
*allowed
Sorry for my bad spelling, as English isn't my first language.
OMG this is fucking brilliant.