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Why are Ridiculous booking fees still legal? Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket despite it only being one booking. I recently bought 6 tickets for Bruce Springsteen  and I was charged £36 ($50.78) in booking fees! What a rip off!  How are they getting away with this?  [Edited 3/7/09 0:34am] | |
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NewSystem said: Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket despite it only being one booking. I recently bought 6 tickets for Bruce Springsteen
and I was charged £36 ($50.78) in booking fees! What a rip off! How are they getting away with this?
[Edited 3/7/09 0:34am] yeah thats some bullshit!!! or convenience charges. I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.
I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back. I am not european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there. I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish. And I am | |
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I got 4 U2 tickets yesterday and I was charged an astonishing £8.50 per ticket! £34 all in. $49. Daylight robbery! | |
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isn't that where the ticket broker makes it's money?
they aren't going to do it for free, you know. | |
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ugh i know. i just paid for tickets to this concert for $89... only to be slapped with a $11.50 convenience fee  | |
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NewSystem said: Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket despite it only being one booking. I recently bought 6 tickets for Bruce Springsteen
and I was charged £36 ($50.78) in booking fees! What a rip off!  How are they getting away with this? Because you have groups like Ticketmaster and Live Nation who run virtual monopolies in the concert arenas and collude together to rip off concertgoers. Ticketmaster uses its monopoly power to crowd out competing ticket services, and Live Nation makes exclusive venue deals with Ticketmaster to see that competing venues can't book big-name acts like Bruce Springsteen, Prince, etc. Back in the 1990's Pearl Jam tried to book a summer concert tour to get around Ticketmaster's monopoly practices but found out that nearly all of the major arenas in the country had exclusive deals with Ticketmaster that shut out any performers not dealing with Ticketmaster from performing in that venue. As a result, they only played about six shows in fairground parks, VA halls, and one show at Soldier Field, which I just happened to go to.  
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NewSystem said: Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket despite it only being one booking. I recently bought 6 tickets for Bruce Springsteen
and I was charged £36 ($50.78) in booking fees! What a rip off! How are they getting away with this?
[Edited 3/7/09 0:34am] Bandits don't wear masks anymore. | |
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its a fucking joke. I booked two tickets to michael Jackson £75 a piece + £18 booking fee!!!!! | |
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NewSystem said: Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket[/b]
That's cheap! You can get a band to play for less than $10 !?!  test | |
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PFunkjazz said: NewSystem said: Ok a modest booking fee is fine for each booking, but £6? ($8.46) What really gets me is they charge you £6 ($8.46) for each ticket[/b]
That's cheap! You can get a band to play for less than $10 !?! Ha! you're a Brit! Still haven't figured out the internet is transglobal, have I? test | |
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