Probably because ticketmaster holds back tickets to sell on the secondary market at a huge markup because the fees aren't enough
maybe we should break up these ticket monopolies who do very little but add fees onto our ticket purchases and steal from the artists
I literally go to concert box offices to buy tickets now because I don't want to pay 225 for 2 tickets to a red rocks show when the box office will sell me two tickets for 140.
The biggest problem with the Swift presale was that Ticketmaster allowed everyone to join the queue for the presale, not just those who had a code. So the site crashed, queues were hours long, and most of the people on the site couldn't even buy a ticket because it asked for the code at the end. How hard would it be to make it so you have to put in the code BEFORE joining the queue? Seems insane.
If I drove to Bridgestone box office right now, it would cost $10 gas, $20 park, 2 hours of time. $170 is still cheaper than $220 . For some it may be more. I also can't take off work all the time for concert ticket sales where sellouts are common.
Issue is if you go to a Live Nation venue box office, say a House of Blues, they’ll still charge you all the fees they would as if you bought the tix online.
oof, that's terrible bruh, gas and meter parking does not account for the gigantic fees. on top of that, most places have secondary box offices (such as at grocery stores) to avoid this cost. You don't need to go to bat for Live Nation
I'm not going to bat for anyone. Where in Nashville do they have secondary box offices? I haven't seen a Ticketmaster in a Kroger in forever.
there are options for venues. like the Ryman: Tickets for events at Ryman Auditorium may be purchased at the following authorized points of purchase: in person at the AXS Box Office at the Ryman or the Opry House Box Office you aren't spending 30 dollars to drive and park at one of these locations unless you live in Portland TN
I am too spending $30 if I left to go the Ryman box office right now. I've purchased plenty of tickets there on my lunch breaks when I worked downtown. Bridgestone too. And some people do live in Portland that want to go to these concerts.
It would be curious to see everyone's one. Where exactly are the convenience fees going? I get artists staying in line with the venue monopoly. But how much are their pockets being lined.
Next he is going to remind me the Exit/In box office is actually at Marathon Music Works. RIP Exit/In
I’m sure she’s getting extra kickbacks or part of the resale. She’s def not getting stolen from especially after she complained about Spotify and that guy that bought her album rights.
This is actually untrue, your account had to be connected. I wasn't selected, I tried, and was kicked out
I bought tickets for a Bob Weir presale on Wednesday. As the tickets were vanishing they were then immediately reappearing as resale tickets for 5x face value. Ticketmaster is such a scam its unreal.
That Bad Bunny thing made me go from "Ticketmaster is standard-issue greedy and incompetent" to "Ticketmaster is actually evil."
I have a ticketmaster story from this morning. I went on to try to buy NFC Championship tickets, wait in line for my turn and then when I'm let in I go to buy tickets really quick. all of a sudden I noticed the prices are crazy high. Ticketmaster just took everyone waiting for what they could only assume were face value tickets and fed them their "certified resale" tickets instead. and they had a 40% fee markup on top of that already high resale market prices.
maybe I'm lumping taxes and something else in with it, but the tickets were listed $2650 and the price for 2 of them was over $7600. I backed into the ~40% using those numbers.
Interesting. I get 6500 and some change for 2652 tickets for the Eagles. I wonder if what you selected had a package fee or something else. It’s all bullshit regardless.
yea it could have been something like that. I really didn't study it because I jumped back out to see if I was losing my mind and that's when I saw they were all resale.
Ticketmaster is charging $3000 in fees alone for 2 Super Bowl tickets. Nearly $14k for the public to get a pair of nosebleeds right now.