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UPDATE:Class Action Lawsuit: 'I'm getting ripped off': A look inside Ticketmaster's price-hiking bag of tricks https://www.cbc.ca/news/b...-1.4826914
Buying a ticket for Saturday's Bruno Mars concert in Toronto was probably never going to be cheap, but what many of the star's 17,000 fans who scored a seat might not realize is it wasn't just scalpers driving up prices.
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These days,I won’t pay a fortune to see anybody.My price limit is $100 or less.I love concerts,but the ticket price has to be reasonable.I refuse to pay scalper prices for *any* show and shame on Ticketmaster for their dirty tricks | |
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If the artist is coming to my city. I just go to the box office ahead of the actual day or week of the show and purchase tickets and avoid Ticketmaster's ridiculous online processing fees. You know a lot of the old school acts you and I would go to see are far less than what a Bruno Mars or a Beyonce would charge. I paid 86 dollars for 2 tickets to see Janet back in August. I'm glad it was outdoors at an amphitheatre versus an indoor venue. The indoor venues tend to charge more as well. Don't laugh at my funk
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yep,it's wise to go the venue and purchase tickets there.They only charge you the price of the actual tickets and not all those ridiculous "service charges" that Ticketmaster adds on.And yeah,one advantage to seeing old school artists is the prices are much cheaper than the tickets to see a current "hot" artist like Beyonce.Plus,they have better music to perform anyway | |
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I have bought almost every concert ticket through Ticketmaster since the god damn 1980s. I actually appreciate that there is a long standing brand I can rely on for reliable seating, consistant pricing, and customer service. | |
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UPDATE: A U.S. law firm is seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit on behalf of fans who purchased inflated resale tickets through Ticketmaster, alleging the company runs a professional scalper program that may have violated consumer rights. The effort by Hagens Berman follows a CBC News/Toronto Star investigation that found Ticketmaster representatives at a Las Vegas convention were recruiting professional scalpers to use a web-based sales tool called TradeDesk to resell millions of dollars in tickets............. Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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The answer would be personalized tickets. That would curb ticket scalper with a quickness. But that would mean effort. Effort no one wants to invest. That would also mean, that theys would have to take tickets back, should the patron not be able to attend the concert. Again hassle and (in their mind) possible loss of money.
But really, the problem is: Nobody gives a shit. Artists get paid. What the fans will have to pay doesn't concern them. As a solution to curb scalpers they most likely prefer to sell expensive tickets themselves. Just look at the various Platinum ticket offers, where you pay anywhere between 400 and 1500 for floor seats. | |
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Don't delude yourself into thinking you're not having to pay any fees there as well. Most of them are partnered with Ticktmaster or Live Nation or AEG. And they all have their pre selling fees. Also you're dreaming that only current artists charge outragous prices. It's most likely the old school artist, that charge those prices, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Madonna, Char, Janet Jackson... to name a few. [Edited 9/23/18 16:19pm] | |
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Its one of life's little joys trolling scaplers on Stub Hub ... if I'm bored I wait for a big show to go on sale on the Friday morning, then as soon as the tickets re-appear inflated on Stub Hub or one of the other scalper sites an hour later I pick one of the greedy f*ckers and bombard them with questions, or purchase them drag my heals on paying. www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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Fuck Ticketmaster. But I’ve kinda figured them out. When the Prince Piano tour tickets got released, I tried to buy straight away. I didn’t get through at my price range. An hour later both shows are “sold out”. In the days that followed, I kept an eye on ticketmaster. Tickets start popping up again. I hear of desperate friends who snapped up very high priced tickets in panic. About a week later there are tickets available in my price range and I grab a pair. When they say sold out, don’t believe them. They are pulling some generated hype/demand shit. Be patient and keep your eyes peeled. If all else fails, turn up outside the venue with cash on the day, people always have spare tickets from people who couldn’t make it or they bought too many. Ticketmaster are fucking snakes, not to be trusted. Music, sweet music, I wish I could caress and...kiss, kiss... | |
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2. FANS buy the best seats [Edited 10/12/18 9:18am] | |
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AGAIN.
Ticketmaster has been pulling this shit as long as I can remember. Tired cheat steal-in asses need to be shut down.
Luckily free park and festavils/ street concerts now abound in Chicago, though out the summer. I saw my girl Jill Scott for FREE. this summer/ | |
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Great for the artist but sucks for the fans with less disposeable income. Back in the day when people would line up outside the venues to buy tickets, the one thing they all had in common was their love for the artist they wanted to see. It was a great social experience and everybody was paying roughly the same price for a ticket, give or take a few 10s of bucks. A lot of people on this very site have shared many stories of meeting other fans and making friends in this way. The next-level hustling that takes place nowadays is criminal (literally) and disparages fans who don't have a large amout of money. You shouldn't have to choose between your rent and some artist you want to see. Young adults shouldn't have to miss out on the experience of seeing the artists they are fans of because they couldn't save enough from their minimum wage jobs to go to the show. Personalizing tickets prevents gouging but takes work. Your idea works for the artist but not so much for the fans. If capitalism is going to be the sole motivation for touring, then artists deserve to lose fans over it. This is part of how they control the industry and the recycling of artists. Artist announces show. Ticketbastard starts the ticket hustle. Fan pays inflated ticket price. Fan goes to show; doesn't feel like they got what they paid all that money for. Fan is less enthused about paying that much for going to see that artist again. Artist's popularity fades. Ticketmaster refuses to book the artist at larger venue due to lack of interest. Artist does smaller venues. Next artist with new experience comes along...rinse and repeat. As long as AEG and LiveNation have control of bigger venues, they have a foothold on who plays where. The solution is artists having a management team book their own big venue shows with the venues but that ain't gonna happen in this day and age. [Edited 10/22/18 3:47am] | |
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Which is the most important thing about a concert and thus your idea bullshit. Only the ones with deep pockets get good seats and on top of that you can't even choose where you are going to sit. Fuck that. | |
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Ticketmaster is not booking anything. Their only job is to sell tickets. At a price Live Nation and AEG dictates them. Live Nation and AEG are the ones booking artists.
But you're right, and as I said before, the only way to sell tickets at the price they were meant to be sold are personalized tickets. Everything else is bs and doesnt't work. | |
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Still, considered one of the best flamenco guitarist in the world. | |
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KISS is charging $1000 tckets... | |
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