Just Got This E-mail Sent to Me: Concert Fans Beware!
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Fellow Concertgoers,
There's a train wreck about to happen and consumer groups say YOU will be the victim - if the two most powerful corporate interests in the live concert business get their way. But you can help stop the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. The government needs to hear from music fans now. Tell the Department of Justice that you're against these monopolies amassing illegal power over consumers, before it's too late. <!-- e --><a href="mailto:antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov">antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov</a><!-- e -->
As a concertgoer you have already felt the pain, and if Ticketmaster and Live Nation get their way, it'll get worse. In the last 12 years, since Live Nation and its predecessor started its widespread take over of the concert industry, concert tickets have shot up 82% while the consumer price index has gone up just 17%*. We are concerned that if the two concert industry behemoths, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, were permitted to merge, the variety and quality of artists coming to local venues would be affected, and your prices could rise further and faster.
Five of the nation's most prominent public interest groups called on the Department of Justice to block the proposed merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
In the consumer groups' and lawmakers' words:
"Consumers deserve a fair deal in the entertainment marketplace, not the fewer choices and higher prices that would result from this merger," said Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection at Consumer Federation of America.
"This merger is an insult to both musicians and consumers," said James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International
"We cannot envision a remedy that would ease this chilling impediment to competition… In the absence of other effective, expeditious remedies, the proposed transaction should be prohibited." American Antitrust Institute White Paper
As described by Senator Herb Kohl (WI) in the Senate Antitrust hearing, "This merger will not only expand Ticketmaster's control of the ticketing market by eliminating a competitor, but it is also creating an entity that will control the entire chain of the concert business – from artist management to concert promotion and production to ticketing and ticket resale."
"This merger would be a disaster for consumers. Nothing short of blocking this takeover of the ticket market by two industry behemoths will be acceptable," said National Consumers League Executive Director Sally Greenberg.
"As president, I will direct my administration to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. I will step up review of merger activity and take effective action to stop or restructure those mergers that are likely to harm consumer welfare…," said Senator Barak Obama when he was campaigning for the presidency.
If you agree with the consumer groups and lawmakers, make a difference and LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD NOW.
If you are tired of paying exorbitant ticket prices and service charges and paying for parking on a per head basis and dealing with the gouging, unregulated secondary ticket market in an effort to get good seating. If you are disgusted with paying more and more every year for the live concert experience THEN ACT NOW, CLICK ON THE LINK IMMEDIATELY BELOW AND SEND A MESSAGE TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE URGING THEM TO STOP THIS MERGER!
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov">antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov</a><!-- e -->
To learn more, check out:
ticketdisaster.org
Public Interest Groups Call on Justice Department to Block Ticketmaster/LiveNation/Comcast Merger
American Antitrust Institute's White Paper TICKETMASTER - LIVE NATION
Philadelphia Weekly's cover story "Monopoly Rules"
Signed,
Jam Productions, The 9:30 Club, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Metropolitan Talent, Another Planet, Frank Productions, Stone City Attractions, Rams Head Live, The Black Cat …… and independent concert promoters and venue operators nationwide.
*Study by Princeton University economist Alan Krueger
There's a train wreck about to happen and consumer groups say YOU will be the victim - if the two most powerful corporate interests in the live concert business get their way. But you can help stop the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. The government needs to hear from music fans now. Tell the Department of Justice that you're against these monopolies amassing illegal power over consumers, before it's too late. <!-- e --><a href="mailto:antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov">antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov</a><!-- e -->
As a concertgoer you have already felt the pain, and if Ticketmaster and Live Nation get their way, it'll get worse. In the last 12 years, since Live Nation and its predecessor started its widespread take over of the concert industry, concert tickets have shot up 82% while the consumer price index has gone up just 17%*. We are concerned that if the two concert industry behemoths, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, were permitted to merge, the variety and quality of artists coming to local venues would be affected, and your prices could rise further and faster.
Five of the nation's most prominent public interest groups called on the Department of Justice to block the proposed merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
In the consumer groups' and lawmakers' words:
"Consumers deserve a fair deal in the entertainment marketplace, not the fewer choices and higher prices that would result from this merger," said Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection at Consumer Federation of America.
"This merger is an insult to both musicians and consumers," said James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International
"We cannot envision a remedy that would ease this chilling impediment to competition… In the absence of other effective, expeditious remedies, the proposed transaction should be prohibited." American Antitrust Institute White Paper
As described by Senator Herb Kohl (WI) in the Senate Antitrust hearing, "This merger will not only expand Ticketmaster's control of the ticketing market by eliminating a competitor, but it is also creating an entity that will control the entire chain of the concert business – from artist management to concert promotion and production to ticketing and ticket resale."
"This merger would be a disaster for consumers. Nothing short of blocking this takeover of the ticket market by two industry behemoths will be acceptable," said National Consumers League Executive Director Sally Greenberg.
"As president, I will direct my administration to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. I will step up review of merger activity and take effective action to stop or restructure those mergers that are likely to harm consumer welfare…," said Senator Barak Obama when he was campaigning for the presidency.
If you agree with the consumer groups and lawmakers, make a difference and LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD NOW.
If you are tired of paying exorbitant ticket prices and service charges and paying for parking on a per head basis and dealing with the gouging, unregulated secondary ticket market in an effort to get good seating. If you are disgusted with paying more and more every year for the live concert experience THEN ACT NOW, CLICK ON THE LINK IMMEDIATELY BELOW AND SEND A MESSAGE TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE URGING THEM TO STOP THIS MERGER!
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov">antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov</a><!-- e -->
To learn more, check out:
ticketdisaster.org
Public Interest Groups Call on Justice Department to Block Ticketmaster/LiveNation/Comcast Merger
American Antitrust Institute's White Paper TICKETMASTER - LIVE NATION
Philadelphia Weekly's cover story "Monopoly Rules"
Signed,
Jam Productions, The 9:30 Club, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Metropolitan Talent, Another Planet, Frank Productions, Stone City Attractions, Rams Head Live, The Black Cat …… and independent concert promoters and venue operators nationwide.
*Study by Princeton University economist Alan Krueger
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unfortunatly nearly all of the venues are in contracts with ticket bastard and live nation, meaning that you cannot play there by selling your own tickets.
PJ tried it back in the ticketbastard battle...
live nation and ticketbastard merging would be an insult to ticket buyers out there :shock: you think you pay too much in fees now, just wait!
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Before I do anything, I am going to read more and see what others have to say, even though I immediately thought it was bad news...
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Most venues have exclusive deals with Ticketmaster, but even if that weren't the case, It would be way too costly for a band to do their own ticketing for reserved-seat venues.
On top of that Ticketmaster and their CAPTCHA system can be beaten and has been for years by ticket brokers. It's nearly impossible to get tickets to anything now so I can't imagine how tough it will be if this merger happens. Such a shame for the real fans of any musical act.
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thanks for the link
rip bill graham
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bunch of good for nothing, bought & paid for whores!!!!!!!! :evil: :evil:
stupidest fuck giraffes in the whole dumb-dumb salad
it's def a hot topic here in the pit.
the agruements we have on here even inspired me to blog about it.
Price of Concert Tickets
http://ivys2cents.blogspot.com/2009/08/ ... ckets.html
IT OUGHT TO BE EASY, OUGHT TO BE SIMPLE ENOUGH...
...and now it is, thanks to CalPIRG (California Public Interest Research Group). If you haven't yet contacted the U.S. Department of Justice to express your opposition to the proposed Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger (and even if you have done so already), you may want to take advantage of the new online form designed and posted by CalPIRG, which just joined the opposition. You don't have to live in California to use it, and it makes it extremely easy to add your voice to those of us who oppose this proposed merger. If you don't wish to share your contact information with CalPIRG and/or its network, there's still the "old-fashioned approach," too, outlined in Backstreets' December 3, 2009 news posting, in which we also detailed Bruce Springsteen's and our positions on this important issue.
No matter how you do it, we urge all Springsteen fans again to write, call, e-mail etc. right now, since a decision from the U.S. Department of Justice on the merger proposal is expected to be announced very soon. To get the latest updates on the merger decision, click here.
- January 8, 2010
and here is the link for the online form:
http://www.calpirg.org/action/consumer/ ... ter-merger
Where's PJ on this topic??
www.UNOS.org
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If that happen's, I hope all business companies & regular user's that use paypal boycott's all of this bs charges & just stick with their old school credit cards. Those were the day's.
I wouldn't hold my breath..either way more expensive ticket prices, I'm shocked..
www.UNOS.org
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thanks for this.
RIPBG
As Jeanwah mentioned above, it will be interesting to see where Pearl Jam stands on this.
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