TicketMaster is involved in their own scalping

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  • jtr101
    jtr101 Posts: 270
    vic in T.O. wrote:
    I was lucky enough to score Balcony seats through ticketmaster.

    Yeah i managed to get one balcony seat from TM and single floor ticket from the massey hall site....Still sucks though because i needed to get four....
    Enjoy difference. Without it we're all boring!

  • Vedderman23
    Vedderman23 Posts: 862
    sunkDeep wrote:
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-buys-online-scalper-ticketsnow-for-265-million/

    I love how they just come out and call them exactly what they are...Online Scalpers.
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  • Super_Fan
    Super_Fan Posts: 249
    over_bends wrote:
    Why do you say that?

    I uncovered their illegal practice in 2003. A ticket broker in the area hires bums to protect his investment and threaten other people in line. We were the first one's in line and they pulled a gun on me because I beat them camping out for tickets. It was first come first serve. I gave up the tickets to the box office lady and she handed them to an Asian guy who is a ticket scalper that is always in front of Verizon Center. I got his name which he goes by which is Ritchie. Beware of him and his thugs and the lady that is incharge.
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  • Super_Fan
    Super_Fan Posts: 249
    1500 club wrote:
    Does anyone know if this was an internet only ticket sale. Did anyone try to buy their tickets from a Ticketmaster outlet? I bought Metallica tickets at an grocery store once. Was this an option for buying EV tixs?

    Metallica tickets are easier to get unless its New York or an LA show.
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  • over bends
    over bends Posts: 1,568
    Super_Fan wrote:
    I uncovered their illegal practice in 2003. A ticket broker in the area hires bums to protect his investment and threaten other people in line. We were the first one's in line and they pulled a gun on me because I beat them camping out for tickets. It was first come first serve. I gave up the tickets to the box office lady and she handed them to an Asian guy who is a ticket scalper that is always in front of Verizon Center. I got his name which he goes by which is Ritchie. Beware of him and his thugs and the lady that is incharge.

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  • cash
    cash Posts: 55
    1) dont buy scalped tickets the day the tickets were "sold out"
    2) wait till the week of the show and ticketmaster will release more, day of the show is even better (they always release more for every band, every show)
    3) if you have to go thru a scalper do it the day of the show, itll be about the same price as face value


    If you dont freakout when a show is "soldout" you wont pay inflated prices.

    take a breath, relax
  • FuBaR
    FuBaR Posts: 35
    I have my 10c tics for the shows I wanted to see, but seeing this shit makes me sick, "oh tics are sold out but go to our sister site and get them for $500 instead"
  • jimbee
    jimbee Posts: 81
    Bob Dylan --> "pay for your ticket and don't complain"....yes it's out of hand, yes it's crazy...look at yourelves as being part of the problem by creating the demand.... :O
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  • cash
    cash Posts: 55
    If you dont buy those "ticketsnow" tickets, they get rereleased thru ticketmaster.

    SHOW RESTRAINT!
  • EddiesMuse
    EddiesMuse Posts: 389
    Mathata wrote:
    Where is Eddie's political attitude when we need it - boycott Ticketmaster Eddie! Go into the Wild and sing for the fans!!!!!


    dont you remember that little fiasco from the 90s that got no where except hardly any PJ shows and only at tiny venues???
    Sometimes "Majority" just means all of the Fools are in Agreement.
  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,616
    Mathata wrote:
    Where is Eddie's political attitude when we need it - boycott Ticketmaster Eddie! Go into the Wild and sing for the fans!!!!!


    Hmmmm

    This sounds familiar....
  • FuBaR
    FuBaR Posts: 35
    I dont know if this makes any sence or not, but is there not another ticket site that isn't as corupt at ticketbastard that they can use?
  • scpjfan
    scpjfan Posts: 131
    sunkDeep wrote:
    such frustration. at 10:00 am and 15 seconds EST... there are no tickets left? but... conveniently our 'partner' has some tickets at triple the cost. F ticketmaster!

    That's why bands need to start auctioning off their tickets. I'd rather see the profits go to Pearl Jam than TM.
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  • svenstephy
    svenstephy Posts: 182
    this happened with the radiohead sale a few months back:

    http://www.ateaseweb.com/2008/04/17/ticketmaster-scalps-radiohead-tickets/

    For one of the first times since completing its acquisition of TicketsNow, Ticketmaster has begun scalping tickets by directing fans of a sold out show to its TicketsNow auctions.
    TicketNews.com reports that people who were looking for tickets on Ticketmaster, are now being directed to TicketsNow, a move that some ticket brokers feared when the acquisition was approved by the federal government in February.
    Radiohead purchased ads in print and on radio to promote the sales of their concert tickets on Ticketmaster, but after those tickets are sold out on Ticketmaster, customers using the Ticketmaster website see a page with options (screenshot at ticketnews.com), with the "Find Tickets" link directing customers to TicketsNow, which is listed as Ticketmaster's "partner site." However, TicketsNow is a secondary ticket seller owned by Ticketmaster.
    Ticketnews.com reveals that a source close to the situation, who requested anonymity, a TicketsNow executive helped assist with the sale of more than $1 million worth of Radiohead tickets on the TicketsNow website, which at a margin of 25 percent allowed TicketsNow to generate a gross of more than $250,000 from the deal.
    it's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind...
  • jtr101
    jtr101 Posts: 270
    http://www.ticketmaster.com/tomwaits

    All tickets should be sold this way!!! NO f'in around....you buy them show up with the credit card you bought them on and they let you in....
    Enjoy difference. Without it we're all boring!

  • luvisatower
    luvisatower Posts: 1,078
    jtr101 wrote:
    http://www.ticketmaster.com/tomwaits

    All tickets should be sold this way!!! NO f'in around....you buy them show up with the credit card you bought them on and they let you in....
    now THAT is something!
    it seems like a possible solution
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  • lawguy
    lawguy Posts: 257
    People in Chicago are used to this. The Cubs do the same exact thing.
  • kad39
    kad39 Posts: 14
    sunkDeep wrote:
    such frustration. at 10:00 am and 15 seconds EST... there are no tickets left? but... conveniently our 'partner' has some tickets at triple the cost. F ticketmaster!


    My sentiments exactly!!!!!
    things were different then
    all is different now
    I've tried to explain
    somehow
  • kad39
    kad39 Posts: 14
    stuckinline wrote:
    same thing happened to me...........


    me too
    things were different then
    all is different now
    I've tried to explain
    somehow
  • inmytree29
    inmytree29 Posts: 77
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