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Live Nation sucks
TheGossman
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I'm not sure if this has been posted but if you go to livenation.com, they have a banner that says, "no service fee on tickets purchased through the month of june". I was so excited, I thought I would no longer have to pay $15 for service fees, especially if its a cheap $40 ticket. So I go straight to get a lawn ticket for Dave Matthews, and the fuckers jacked the price up on ALL tickets by $15. The service fee is already added in, just not listed, don't fall for it.
9/4/98, 8/4/00, 12/8/02, 12/9/02, 4/15/03, 4/16/03, 4/19/03, 4/25/03, 4/26/03, 4/28/03, 4/29/03, 4/30/03, 7/8/03, 7/9/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/6/04, 9/1/05, 9/2/05, 5/16/06, 5/17/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 8/5/07, 6/11/08, 6/12/08, 6/14/08, 6/16/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08
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I should have known, its so much trouble printing off a ticket....then mailing it off
It's unfortunate that our government allows insanely large monopolies. This is what happens.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
While service charges are way too high, there is a VERY significant cost in operating a major ticketing company... Several companies over the years have tried to, but the only other North American company of that scope is Tickets.com, who is financially backed by Major League Baseball.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I don't understand how the cost should differ much from buying a movie ticket from Fandango for $1 service fee.
Aside from seat-selection, it's the same service.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
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That's what I have always thought. I mean yea it sucks that TM and such charge service fees, but there is no way to deny that they actually do provide a service. I mean look at how fast the 10club servers crash when they have a ticket sale, so there is obviously an expense in mantaining an online ticketing company that almost never fails and has toll free numbers pretty much anywhere in the world. I mean would it really be better to go back to a system where only the people who wait in line outside a venue can get tickets?
Plus in Ottawa where I live tickets to the major venues are sold through Capitaltickets, which is a local company. But there services fees seem to be inline with what ticket master charges, so I am not sure the fact that Ticketmast/livenation has a monopoly really has a lot to do with what they charge as a service fee.
Differences in traffic isn't even comparable... on big onsales, you have tens of thousands of people (or more) trying to access their site at the exact same time for the same event. Imagine that big onsale happening in 30 different cities at the same time... Like said above, the 10C site crashes when a few shows (and a few thousand tickets) go onsale.
And you alluded to it with the seat selection... with movies, it's a simple GA event, you can create the event and copy it a million times and just change the price/title/time. It really takes no setup.
For concerts, especially at arenas, every show is different... different prices, price scaling, presales, passwords, club/VIP seating sales, etc, so there is much more setup time (more employees working more hours = more money) than Fandango.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln