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This is mostly going to affect people who see concerts/shows at Arenas where the tickets are not General Admission.

 

Ticketmaster is planning on AUCTIONING off, the best seats to concerts/ now instead of sticking to the first come first serve system. So Basically, there isn't going to be a cap on how much a ticket can be inflated too. Their reasoning is, if someone can go on ebay and sell off a $40 ticket for $500, then the ticket is worth $500 not $40. This is a fucking horrible idea, and will further seperate who and who cannot go to concerts and/or be up front.

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Yeah, it sucks, but it will probably keep a single ticket reseller from buying out whole sections to resell for their own profit. So at least you might have a chance. I dont see ticket resellers doing this because it would eat in to their own profit to buy a $40 ticket for $500 since they wont be able to sell it and make a profit on it.

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So, essentially, Ticketmaster is just cutting out the middleman and scalping the tickets themselves.

 

That's fantastic.

 

I really hope enough people will band together and refuse to pay anything more then the price ON the ticket, but that's really doubtful, so fuck this.

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People should just STOP going to live shows, not because of bad performances, but because ticketmaster is a fucking theif. Let the VENUES sell the tickets, yeah, you'll get people pulling favors and shit for their friends, but that beats a 40 dollar general admission price.

 

If it wasnt for the fact music is an art form, I'm almost ready to just stop listening to it because the music industry is destroying the music.

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Thats awful

Down here TM use a few days exclusive for some credit card owners and then after they got the best seats (MF....) then they set free the rest of the tickets.

 

But auctions? that is borderline crime.

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BAR: where did you get the Maiden tickets? I went to the Maiden site and I think it was ordered through CC.com. Ticketmaster didn't even seem to realize that Maiden was going to be playing. It showed up NOWHERE on the site for me and I only knew because I checked the upcoming events listing for Post Gazette Pavillion.

 

And this...is bullshit.

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BAR: where did you get the Maiden tickets? I went to the Maiden site and I think it was ordered through CC.com. Ticketmaster didn't even seem to realize that Maiden was going to be playing. It showed up NOWHERE on the site for me and I only knew because I checked the upcoming events listing for Post Gazette Pavillion.

 

And this...is bullshit.

I'm in the UK, man. So, maybe it's different. On the site next to the dates it should have a link, a 'buy tickets' or some shit. I ordered my tickets from http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk I don't know if it's different from the American site. Unless you're in UK.

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If this is true, this would suck huge.

 

Its bad enough I can barely afford to take my wife to a concert and have halfway decent seats now. If they do this, then I'm just done. They will have priced themselves right out of my discretionary income bracket.

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