Meet the New Yorkers who will wait in line for you – for a price
Adonis Porch and Brian Patterson — who are both line-sitters for Same Ole Line Dudes LLC — set up camp outside a Chelsea storefront shortly before midnight during the city’s first heatwave of the summer, with the intention of staying overnight. They were armed with a tent, a chair, a neck pillow, fully charged phones and a pizza loaded with banana peppers.“We all just talk, giggle and have a good time,” Patterson said. “And then, the sun shows up and we all just go about our days.
The process is simple: a client without the time or desire to stand in line can submit a request to the service and wait until a team member bites. After the client pays in full, the line-sitter will let the client know when they’ve posted up at the spot. He ended up selling more spots in line – and milk crates for people who were desperate to sit. He left that night with more than $300 in cash – and a lasting impression of how far customers will go to get what they want.
Although the business has no trouble attracting customers, it’s also attracted criticism from businesses and the people waiting in line alongside the professionals. Broadway even attempted to halt professional line-sitters from getting standby "Hamilton" tickets – but customers got around it by buying tickets for the line-sitter and themselves. Hiring the line-sitters to wait in line for last-minute discount tickets became a “relative bargain” compared to buying resale tickets, as Samuel explained.Some on his team members have seen the musical multiple times now.
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