Ticketmaster, Van Halen and Scalpers scam fans

Jeanwah

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Had Pearl Jam done the same thing......I have a feeling 90% of the responses here would be.....


I am so glad that Eddie vedder an Pearl Jam have found a way to make additional money scalping their own tickets. Why should the scalpers make all the profit? Pearl Jam has given so much to their fans over the years, and donated so much to charity, its about time they took some of the profit for themselves. As a fan i would be willing to spend $1000.00 a ticket, if I knew 30% of the proceeds go directly to Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.


Anyone disagree?

Yup, many people would actually say something like that...

Gary Carter

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Had Pearl Jam done the same thing......I have a feeling 90% of the responses here would be.....


I am so glad that Eddie vedder an Pearl Jam have found a way to make additional money scalping their own tickets. Why should the scalpers make all the profit? Pearl Jam has given so much to their fans over the years, and donated so much to charity, its about time they took some of the profit for themselves. As a fan i would be willing to spend $1000.00 a ticket, if I knew 30% of the proceeds go directly to Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.


Anyone disagree?

I totally disagree. This would be the last straw for me. I'd have to finally unveil my parody of "Habit" called "Sell-out"

+1

Jeanwah wrote:

While everyone is busy ripping Van Halen to pieces and praising PJ for not doing something like this, re-read a very important paragraph...

The scam was said to be the brainchild of Van Halen manager Irving Azoff, who also now serves as Ticketmaster's CEO. Azoff is also behind the scheme to merge Ticketmaster with Live Nation, which is under review by the Justice Department. Critics and members of Congress have said that the proposed merger would create a monopoly over almost all aspects of the music business.

PJ has to go through Ticketmaster, so we're all at the mercy of possible scams, knowing the brain-child of VH's money making scheme is now in charge of it ALL. I find it extremely ignorant that people would rather not read the entire article and not understand what it means for all of us. It's not just about Van Halen.

Not to mention, how does everyone here know that this very same scam is not being practiced without our knowing, with many bands? Just a question to throw out there. We are all too trusting; us die-hard music lovers.

well pj could go back to doing club tours or play in open fields if this ticketmaster scam gets really bad


I'm sure many bands that we all know and love are doing this

SolarWorld

JLevy423 wrote:

...and upgraded ourselves...

So they had plenty of empties to upgrade into? What does this mean?

pjfan021

i just wish that a large group of rock acts who actually have clout, PJ included, would try and fight this again. I mean i know it's probably just wishful thinking, but i think with all the bs that we've seen within our economic structure and how NO regulation leads to terrible consequences...maybe people would pay a little bit more attention to this. I know to a lot of politicians it's "just music" but it's evident that there's something highly wrong with this...



...too bad Rahm Emmanuel's brother is one of the big shots over at TM.

Aber1985

I have a feeling all bands are well aware of this because they are the ones people are paying to see. When bands set up tours, their promoters don't just pick prices themselves...the band knows what they will actually make. All the bands have to do is get together and do something about ticketmaster and live nation jackin' the prices. Even for this series of concerts in philly i was on stub hub and also spoke directly with a wannamaker agent a day or two before they went onsale and you could pick the seats i wanted. so I think everyone in the music industry is in on (or atleast aware of & not doing anything about) the high prices and scams. its just something we have to deal with as concert goers or stop going to concerts all together.

given2fly23

shocking :roll:

the bigger surprise is that this story is not getting more attention.

Cob

This kind of crap has been going on for a while now and it's not just the music industry, do a little research and find of what a SCAM that the Chicago Cubs front office does with their tickets, you basically can't buy Cubs tickets from the box office, they give them to the "ticket brokers" who have their little ticket booths that look like a box office and they sell them for 3 times the "face value" and split the profits.

At the Bruce Springsteen show here in Austin in April, it sold out right away, people were trying to sell tickets for $200.00 and $300.00, well the day of the concert they were selling them for (I'm not joking here) $10.00 a ticket for lower level seats. I had 2 extras I was trying to sell for $20.00 each and ended up eating them, I had one guy that was going to buy one and then a scalper tells him that he will sell him 2 tickets for $20.00, so I just went into the show with the tickets in my pocket.

I basically refuse to buy tickets now when they go on sale through Ticketmaster, I wait, I bought tickets to the Pearl Jam show in Seattle for both nights in section 106 and 103 a couple of weeks after they went on sale. If it's a local show here in Austin I just go to the venue and try to get in for what I can, especially after what I saw at the Bruce show. The problem is, when I started going to concerts in 1981, sure there were scalpers, but if tickets were say $15.00, they tried to sell them for $20 or $25, NOT $45.00, that's what happens now, tickets are say $50 or $75 and people try to resell then for $150 or $200, they are trying to make a 200% to 300% profit, I ain't playing that game.

I saw Grateful Dead over 150 times and I mail ordered for a lot of the shows I went to, they made the rules VERY anal to order them, you had to have a certain sized envelope, index card, print specific stuff on the outside of the envelope, etc., but it seemed to work good. VH should be ashamed of themselves for doing this crap, but I know they are not the only ones doing it, they just got caught. I will continue to go to concerts they way I am, I got into the Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Melloncamp show in Austin, 2 tickets for $60.00 total, face was $65.00 each, the funny thing is I bought them from a group of Livenation workers in the lot, they all had Livenation credentials around their necks and the tickets were comps because the had $0.00 were the price of the tickets should be.