So I order tickets from Ticketbastard for an event happening in June almost 3 months ago. I check online today and there are better seats available for the same price I paid back then. When I ordered I was supposedly getting the "best available". I call today to complain and they blame it all on the promoter. They say they can only sell what the promoter makes available to them. Mind you they are charging about $15+ in fees for me to buy these tickets. Apparently they are completely powerless in all of this. I actually ordered during a so-called "pre-sale". I'm just kind of pissed that someone could come in today and get better seats than I could for the same price 3 months ago. Ticketbastard just sucks. In case you were wondering, yes, I mad.
that sucks man...part of the reason why I dont go to as many live events as I used to is because of them. Their "convenience" fees are outrageous and its a joke that they have a near monopoly on the ticket business. Whenever possible I go to the box office and purchase tickets to save myself that fee. seriously 10-12.50 "convenience?" thats BS how is that convenience or even a proper surcharge sometimes thats 50% of the ticket value and thats absurd. The surcharge should be a set percentage like 10% of the ticket value. The profit that they make is ridiculous
Right now I'm better off getting tickets from Ticketbastard. The problem is I've already bought tickets from them. Unless I can sell them for face value + the $15 markup, I lose. Of course that's not possible, since better seats are available right now for the same price. Btw, great pic DoD. That pic should be the face of Rocket basketball right now.
There's lots of reasons to hate Ticketmaster, this isn't one of them. This is the fault of the guys who run the show. They control when/where the tickets get released.
I hear you Freak - I just bought 2 tickets as an anniversary gift through them for a concert in August. Not bad seats but about 75 bucks a piece. I can probably get better seats at a better price through ebay but I didn't want to take that chance. Now I remember why I don't go to too many concerts these days. And please don't ask me who we are seeing - it is embarrassing.
If that's the case then what additional value am I getting from that 45 bucks EXTRA for 3 tickets? They can't even get me the best seat per ticket price for 45 additional bucks? I don't think "the guys that run the show" are charging me $45 extra. Why should I just accept that?
They do suck, but that doesn't mean they are totally in the wrong here. Those seats may have been blocked off for something else and then that changed and they opened up. Those fees are bull, but what are you going to do? It's not like you can take your business elsewhere. That is why Pearl Jam sued their asses years ago. Unfortunately they lost.
I'm pretty sure the fees/charges you pay per ticket are the same for pre-sale as they are for regular, or later released tickets. Are you talking about the dumb little "convenience" fees, etc? Those are always a perfectly good reason to hate Ticketmaster. But even if they did charge you a higher fee for the pre-sale tix, that is something the show managers signed off on (they choose the ticket distributor, no?), and for all we know, they could actually be seeing a cut from that... so it's not like they don't have blood on their hands, too. If you're not talking about those BS fees, sometimes you can be forced to buy add-ons, especially if it is a limited release of tickets or an early sale. That's how they exploit the uber fans... but I don't think that's Ticketmaster's issue either.
This a post from reddit about how ticketmaster is actually the scapegoat. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/...lars_in_fees_including_a_455_delivery/c1ortyh Also The Simpsons knew way before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDSDGg1rc8
I don't know what show it is, but if the promoter is Live Nation, then Ticketmaster are actually also the ones who run the show...same company. The whole ticket business is full of scalpers, and by that, I do not only mean the actual scalpers, but also the concert promoters and the primary ticketing companies.
