$400 for a ticket on TM???

genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
edited April 2008 in The Porch
Hey
Ran into a couple guys that bought tickets day before Van show on TM ans paid $400 for them. How is it that that can happen? Was TM holding those tix till last minute and then charging crazy sums? Really shitty if thats the truth. They guys didnt think it was through an auction cause they didnt bid against other people to get the tix. This is so wrong IMO. Anyway I said I would post about it on the board. See what people have to say.
the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
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  • brianwpbrianwp Posts: 125
    I wish I was surprised but unfortunately this is a new, really gross feature of their website.
    Now you can re-sell (scalp) your tickets on TicketBastard and the best part is, they get a second cut from you when you sell (one from the original purchase and one from the sale) and a third cut from the buyer.
  • voodoopugvoodoopug Posts: 1,011
    Right....this was probably the "Ticket Exchange" program they have.
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  • genevievegenevieve Posts: 1,203
    Disgusting.
    So TM is just into scalping now.
    Wonderful.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,156
    voodoopug wrote:
    Right....this was probably the "Ticket Exchange" program they have.

    Ticket Exchange yeah right! :rolleyes: .....more like ticket ass raping!!! :mad:
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  • boomhauerboomhauer Posts: 88
    genevieve wrote:
    Hey
    Ran into a couple guys that bought tickets day before Van show on TM ans paid $400 for them. How is it that that can happen? Was TM holding those tix till last minute and then charging crazy sums? Really shitty if thats the truth. They guys didnt think it was through an auction cause they didnt bid against other people to get the tix. This is so wrong IMO. Anyway I said I would post about it on the board. See what people have to say.

    TM has gotten into the scalping business as well, (to compete w/ Ebay/Stubhub) some states that allow scalping (depends on the location of the show), TM created "ticket exchange" where you can put up your tickets for re-sale... not all acts allow TM to do that either, but the nice thing is if you're a buyer, is that they are actually TM issued tix. You have to enter the bar code #'s and then if they sell, yours are canceled and they issue new ones to the buyer, unlike the risk you take w/ other sites. Of course TM takes ~10% from the seller, and the BS fees for the buyer, so they make about 20% *again* and only they can do that, since its their database that has all the UPC codes. Not that it matters, but they do limit the high end to 10x face value.
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  • voodoopugvoodoopug Posts: 1,011
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Ticket Exchange yeah right! :rolleyes: .....more like ticket ass raping!!! :mad:

    A couple of years ago, the Cubs opened a resale agency, something like Wrigley Field Ticket Service or similar. They were shut down because it was found out that they were simply taking tickets with a face value of $30 or so and not making them available to the general public. It is sad to say, this happens everywhere.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,168
    thewy have a ticket auctionalso where you can bid on great seats befoer they go onsale

    if no one bids higher, you get them the day the tixs go onsale
  • mjbmjb Posts: 1,315
    There is a thread somewhere about the auction and what the winning bids ended up being...could have been those. Most people who won the auctions seemed to have put them up on Stubhub at about 5 x the price.
  • holy cow. TM is now scalping to. I refuse to use. I get tickets via fan club or i dont attend. The end.
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