Originally Posted by Bearcat:
I probably had 10 or 15 of their dumb vouchers expire a couple years after the last settlement.
"Sorry we gouged you on fees for years. We're going to keep doing that because **** you we just spent a bunch of money on legal fees ourselves, but here's $2.50 off your next 20 concerts. Only one is valid per concert and you can't use them for anything popular, so just other stuff you wouldn't go to anyway. And you have two years to use them all. It's literally the least we could do, **** you."
If I offer you tickets at $500 no fees or $400 with $200 of fees, which do you want?
Try buying tickets on Craigslist without getting fucked or scammed.
I'm no fan of monopolies but lets be real, tickets for all events are ridiculous and the fees are just salt in the wound, not the root cause of the bigger problem.
The athletes and entertainers are being paid crazy sums. [Reply]
Between the fees and the ticket costs themselves, I've pretty much been priced out of live events. They're simply not worth the cost of admission, no matter what the performance is. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Between the fees and the ticket costs themselves, I've pretty much been priced out of live events. They're simply not worth the cost of admission, no matter what the performance is.
Yeah I took my buddy to the home opener last year. I had to go to see the banner drop. The tickets were so goddamn expensive. I think it was like $1500 just to sit in the lower 3 rows of the upper deck. I'll never do that again.
Which sucks. I'd pay $350 easy to do it this year again. But at the current prices, it goes down as "life experience," not "weekend entertainment." [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Between the fees and the ticket costs themselves, I've pretty much been priced out of live events. They're simply not worth the cost of admission, no matter what the performance is.
Yeah, I pretty much have to ignore the final price of events I really want to attend after all the fees and bullshit or else I'd never attend anything... and there are still plenty of fairly priced concerts out there before fees, it just sucks when that $40 ticket becomes $120 for a pair after fees.
There's definitely a tug of war in my mind between "Fuck TicketMaster" and allowing them to dictate never seeing a decently priced show (or a not so decently priced sporting event) live again.
Hell, just take away the double dipping of 20% secondary market fees and that would be a huge step forward. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Between the fees and the ticket costs themselves, I've pretty much been priced out of live events. They're simply not worth the cost of admission, no matter what the performance is.
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Between the fees and the ticket costs themselves, I've pretty much been priced out of live events. They're simply not worth the cost of admission, no matter what the performance is.
Big EDM concert this weekend with lots of nudity and lasers. You in? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco:
I want government to step in when the situation is unfair and the practices of Live Nation are unfair and not in good faith.
So, yeah.
Are you being forced to buy tickets?
Is anyone?
Are sports and music events mandatory and you HAVE to attend?
It's everyone's right to decide if they want to attend or not and spend the price.
Originally Posted by scho63:
Are you being forced to buy tickets?
Is anyone?
Are sports and music events mandatory and you HAVE to attend?
It's everyone's right to decide if they want to attend or not and spend the price.
None of the governments business.
Complete overreach
I'm not being forced to buy tickets but when I buy tickets I am forced to deal with that entity, That's the problem and the whole point of the Sherman antitrust act. [Reply]