Eddie Vedder fan to fan face value marketplace?

Human Tide said:

OceansJenny said:

Of course it’s a scam. They “sell out” the venue then hold back a big chunk of tickets, trickling them out slowly and charging 2-4x the regular price. These prices adjust up and down to capture as much market value as possible based on their algorithm. 

How many tickets are unsold? The consumer doesn’t know as TM has no obligation to reveal this. Buyers see three tickets for $600, or 1 ticket for $1000 and assume that’s the remainder of supply and their last chance to get into the show. Thus TM can capture the market willing to pay more for tickets. Then TM can release another single ticket for $1000, and continue the cycle.

I think at the present moment there is a disconnect as consumers are 1) accustomed to ticket brokers opening all (95%+) available tickets up from the beginning and releasing some family and friends holds a day or two prior, and 2) static ticket prices for the tiers. Will be curious to see how consumers adjust, if it all. The other factor is fear of uncertainty - people prefer to have tickets in hand now and will clearly pay more for that assurance.

Yep - it is a scam. They pretend like the "dynamic pricing" is based on actual supply and demand, while they manipulate the supply and withhold information to create demand. 

Advertising the face value ticket exchange and then waiting until just before the show to implement it is also a big scam. Ticketmaster wins again at gouging fans, but this time with an assist from Eddie Vedder and Ten Club (maybe not intentionally, but still the case). 

Yes exactly!! The whole process was completely manipulative. I feel for pthomn.

I understand Zod’s point of giving the scalper money back to the artist. I’d rather have tiered ticket prices then where you pay for better seats instead of this dynamic pricing, unknown supply BS. Having one person pay $1000 for a mid-tier ticket and someone else pay $250 for orchestra is BS.

Determine some highly valuable seats and charge premium ($600+). Charge more for orchestra ($400), less for mezz ($250), and even less for balcony ($150). Have a first row raffle for $25 so some people without the bucks  get a chance. Not sure if the economics of my exact pricing works out but you get my point.

Sidebar: Even typing those prices hurt my head. Man how ticket prices have ballooned recently.

Zod said:

uglybabo said:

Zod said:

PB11041 said:

I would not pay a cent over the basic ticket price.  Platinum is such a scam by ticketmaster.

I wouldn't call it a scam.  TM earn's their $$ from the fees not from selling higher prices platinum tickets.    

This is not entirely true; Ticketmaster's fee is related to the ticket price. 

A $100 ticket, fee $10-20
A $1000 tickets fee $100-200

ok, so it's mutually beneficial.   TM earns more, Promoter Earns more, and artist earns more.

I still don't feel like its scam, it's just annoying.   If that were a free market, a larger percentage than what went to platinum would of gone to scalpers.  They would of jacked up the prices. The extra fees would be earned by stubhub instead of TM, and both the Promoter/EV make less, and fans are no further ahead or behind.  Probably behind, because I imagine scalpers would of scooped up a lot of tickets in a free market environment.

That being said, the EV environment is unique in that it's almost impossible to sell tickets 2nd hand except at face value.   So on one end we've got platinum, and on the other artificially suppressing ticket prices.lol.

Any other band I think my argument is solid, because only EV does that?

The problem with the Platinum is that its a bastardized version of the free market. I am all for selling tickets at prices that exemplify supply/demand at the outset. If they feel tickets are worth $500 and you can get it based on demand, then charge it.  But the same should go with anyone that wants to resell on their platform. That's not what they are doing. They distorted supply. Then when the dust settled they choked off the reselllers while they dumped what they needed to. That ain't a free market.

Human Tide said:

OceansJenny said:

Yes exactly!! The whole process was completely manipulative. I feel for pthomn.

I understand Zod’s point of giving the scalper money back to the artist. I’d rather have tiered ticket prices then where you pay for better seats instead of this dynamic pricing, unknown supply BS. Having one person pay $1000 for a mid-tier ticket and someone else pay $250 for orchestra is BS.

Determine some highly valuable seats and charge premium ($600+). Charge more for orchestra ($400), less for mezz ($250), and even less for balcony ($150). Have a first row raffle for $25 so some people without the bucks  get a chance. Not sure if the economics of my exact pricing works out but you get my point.

Sidebar: Even typing those prices hurt my head. Man how ticket prices have ballooned recently.

Agreed. There are a variety of options that would be better than the current system, and they aren't particularly complicated (e.g., give a date for opening fan-to-fan or open it immediately). The request is really to make things honest and transparent, rather than treating customers like marks in a big con. Ticketmaster unapologetically treats its customers like shit because they know there is no competition. I'm just disappointed that EV and Ten Club went along with this. 

Agreed. I’m hoping EV/10c did not anticipate this happening and will negotiate something better for future tours. Maybe the rules have changed but not sure why they couldn’t have gone with the PJ 2020 tour model for ticketing.

It's amazing how many platinum tickets keep popping up at newark in the first few rows.  What bs.  

WishfulThinking said:

Tons of great seats up for NJ right now at face. 

Go get ‘em. 

Thanks.  Managed to upgrade.  Now have to sell one…

mcgruff10 said:

Crazy how many seats they held back.  

Single in Orch row S Now for $199.  It is nuts.  One of the T1 boxes available is where my friend got tenclub tickets. He is row A. Row B available tonight. Only 6 people total in those boxes. 

Has anyone had success listing Fan to Fan for Seattle?  I have 2 that I cannot use, but am unable to list them. 

What a disgrace this has been. 

mcgruff10 said:

nicknyr15 said:

What a disgrace this has been. 

Absolutely.  I know artists have to make money but this is definitely not cool.  A thousand dollars to see a two hour set of covers and songs from an album we haven’t heard yet? Such bad vibes.  

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