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WWE Press Release via PWInsider:

Trump Gives Money Back

STAMFORD, Conn.---In the fact or fiction world of WWE®, it is a fact that Donald Trump held a press conference today in Green Bay at Austin Straubel Airport. As the new “owner” of Monday Night RAW®, Trump announced that all ticketholders to tonight’s RAW event at the Resch Center will receive a ticket refund. The total value of all ticket refunds is approximately $235,000. RAW will be presented commercial free live tonight at 9 pm/8pm CT on USA Network.

Tonight’s main event will be WWE Champion Randy Orton® versus Triple H® in a Last Man Standing match.

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Thats pretty awesome.

What the hell?? :wtf:

Ticket refunds too? That's pretty crazy. I wonder how much money in total they're going to lose tonight. They still have to have some money come in that isn't from merch... I wonder how and where they're getting it for tonight. Maybe t-shirts are going to be $10 000 each.

Only thing they can add now is a free t-shirt for everyone, really.

That, and free concessions.

Later on, Trump announced he would be doubling the price of tickets for next week's Raw.

Next week, all bald men in attendance get a free donald trump style toupee.

Austin shows up and hilarity ensues?

well damn...

can we expect free merch at The Bash?
(pleasepleasepleaseplease let this happen)

Two words: pay toilets.

No, but seriously, it's common to give things away to promote them.

Though I question the wisdom of refunding tickets this close to the event. Earlier would have possibly led to an increased attendance.

Just wouldn't be complete without a *YR South Park grab.

Yes I know the 'K' is missing. SOMEONE STOLE IT!!!

Maybe now the WWE won't get pissed at Justin TV for streaming...

Would be awesome as hell if someone found out about the refund before the show....and then quickly went and purchased a front row ticket....

Its weird that they are all gonna get a refund but I wonder how they get it....mailing something in?......standing in line after the show...because you know if they have to stand in line some people wont wanna wait that long.

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*sobs* not only did Vince take "The Donald"'s job back from him, but *sob-sob-sob* "The Donald" took Santina's job:'(...ironically, on the night we would find out mere seconds later that all this time it really WAS Santino's twin sister...hope VKM finds it in his heart to take her back...

WWE must have finally realized what crap that they have showing for a while now and felt this show was no different. Lucky people in attendance got a refund.

When Trump announced the ticket refund you could practically feel the joy and relief in the audience. It was a really awesome thing to be a part of.

And I'm sure there were a hand full of people saying "Damn it, I knew we shouldn't have gotten the cheap seats!"

<--- this guy here

Boxy Brown?

RAW is coming here in July and I haven't bought a ticket yet. I heard him say that "from now on, ALL RAW'S ARE FREE!" and I'm like, holy shit, start looking online for the most expensive tickets I can find.

Then I stopped myself and I was like "wait, this is way too good to be possible." And then Vince came out.

You know, from a business standpoint, I could almost see a gimmick where a company would say "Buy tickets in X section by Y date and we'll refund your money after the event," then take that money and bank/investing the interest until the date of the event, plus anyone that missed the cutoff or just didn't jump through the right hoops = even more profit. They'd probably also raise the rate on the other tickets to help offset the discrepancy.