Should Pearl Jam continue with non-transferable tickets?

Poncier

bbiggs said:

Poncier said:

patkelly12 said:

Platinum and dynamic pricing aren't going away. Fine. 

They can go away for shows if the artist requests it. Just look at what Garth Brooks is doing. All tix for his current slate of shows are $84.70 plus fees (which are only $7.25). No dynamic pricing, no VIP packages, no Platinum seating, no extra 20 bucks for aisle seats, no charity seats for $500.00, none of it. 
The only reason there are platinum tickets to EV's shows is he agreed to let it happen.

Wow.  Didn't realize that.  I'm guessing Garth Brooks still has a massive fan base too (could be wrong - I don't listen to country), so this proves the artist has full control. 

Yep, he's playing football stadiums (and selling most of them out).
I don't listen to country either, but great respect to this guy for treating his fans fairly.

bbiggs

No - the current system is not working and I would like all tickets to be transferable again (explain)

Poncier said:

bbiggs said:

Poncier said:

patkelly12 said:

Platinum and dynamic pricing aren't going away. Fine. 

They can go away for shows if the artist requests it. Just look at what Garth Brooks is doing. All tix for his current slate of shows are $84.70 plus fees (which are only $7.25). No dynamic pricing, no VIP packages, no Platinum seating, no extra 20 bucks for aisle seats, no charity seats for $500.00, none of it. 
The only reason there are platinum tickets to EV's shows is he agreed to let it happen.

Wow.  Didn't realize that.  I'm guessing Garth Brooks still has a massive fan base too (could be wrong - I don't listen to country), so this proves the artist has full control. 

Yep, he's playing football stadiums (and selling most of them out).
I don't listen to country either, but great respect to this guy for treating his fans fairly.

Amen.  This recent TM debacle was eye opening.

pjl44

Yes - the current system is helping keep out scalpers and allowing fans to get tickets at face

I wonder if they would ever consider lower prices on 10C tix and make them completely non-transferable. Would fans take that trade-off? Probably a massive headache from a number of angles but not my problem so just throwing it out there. 

Poncier

pjl44 said:

I wonder if they would ever consider lower prices on 10C tix and make them completely non-transferable. Would fans take that trade-off? Probably a massive headache from a number of angles but not my problem so just throwing it out there. 

I mean, that's basically what they used to do.

pjl44

Yes - the current system is helping keep out scalpers and allowing fans to get tickets at face

Poncier said:

pjl44 said:

I wonder if they would ever consider lower prices on 10C tix and make them completely non-transferable. Would fans take that trade-off? Probably a massive headache from a number of angles but not my problem so just throwing it out there. 

I mean, that's basically what they used to do.

Minus the cheaper price, yeah. Maybe you saved a little on fees? I'm just thinking of the biiiiiig increases the last few tours. Which I generally have no issue with, by the way. 

Poncier

pjl44 said:

Poncier said:

pjl44 said:

I wonder if they would ever consider lower prices on 10C tix and make them completely non-transferable. Would fans take that trade-off? Probably a massive headache from a number of angles but not my problem so just throwing it out there. 

I mean, that's basically what they used to do.

Minus the cheaper price, yeah. Maybe you saved a little on fees? I'm just thinking of the biiiiiig increases the last few tours. Which I generally have no issue with, by the way. 

I've never had issue with the cost of PJ tix, they've always been reasonably priced for the marketplace (folks who rail about them not being $23.00 like they were in 1996 are clearly not being realistic or reasonable). And they (the band) have yet to do Platinum tix. So hopefully EV's Earthlings tour is an outlier and PJ tix (if and when new shows are announced) are at their usual reasonable level.
I expect them to be a bit higher than last shows they sold, but so long as it's a fair increase I take no issue.

Luckytwn1

No - the current system is not working and I would like all tickets to be transferable again (explain)

bbiggs said:

Poncier said:

patkelly12 said:

Platinum and dynamic pricing aren't going away. Fine. 

They can go away for shows if the artist requests it. Just look at what Garth Brooks is doing. All tix for his current slate of shows are $84.70 plus fees (which are only $7.25). No dynamic pricing, no VIP packages, no Platinum seating, no extra 20 bucks for aisle seats, no charity seats for $500.00, none of it. 
The only reason there are platinum tickets to EV's shows is he agreed to let it happen.

Wow.  Didn't realize that.  I'm guessing Garth Brooks still has a massive fan base too (could be wrong - I don't listen to country), so this proves the artist has full control. 

Of course, the artist has full control. If the artist doesn't want platinum pricing then they have to take much less to play the show. I'm sure Ed's tour is expensive to mount with the band he has and then the venues are quite small. The platinum pricing is understandable but not when combined with the F2F and also when 10C tickets are mostly worse in terms of seat position.

The other issue with the way the platinum ticketing has been handled for Ed's tour, if you look at The Who tour there are tons and tons of platinum tickets but they were all released during the onsale so you can see what's there and how the show is selling. When I saw The Who in 2019, I bought 7th row platinum seats that started at close to $1000 and gradually came down. A few weeks before the show I paid $350. Here the platinum tickets have been released in drips and drabs with all sorts of varying pricing so you really have to track it to know the market.