Did you hear Ticketbastards new plans?

[NoCalMike 0]

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.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

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.

[Zetterberg is God 0]

What a pile of horseshit. So now it's even more of crapshoot to get good tickets. And what if you lose the auction? You're shit out of luck unless you buy back-up tickets but why should you?

[Steviekick 0]

This is a terrible plan. This means that I'll never be able to go to a show that isn't general admission again. Thanks ticketmaster.

[Guest BAR]

Thank god I've already got my Maiden tickets then.

[Mole 0]

Wow, this is the dumbest idea I ever heard. I hope this doesn't work with WWE tickets too.

[Steviekick 0]

It's ridiculous that Ticketmaster feels that they should be able to get the $500 that goes for a $40 ticket. Shouldn't the event be able to get that money instead?

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

If they are auctioning tickets, they will let me bring my fucking video camera into the show.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

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.

[Steviekick 0]

Ridiculous. Ticketmaster sucks. That would so piss me off if I was a band that wasn't getting a piece of the scalping.

[cynicalprofit 0]

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.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I don't go to concerts, but damn.

 

So I guess now if a scalper gets busted trying to sell tickets to whatever he/she can just say he was "auctioning" them...

[HellSpawn 0]

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.

[AndrewTS 0]

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.

[Guest BAR]

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.

[AndrewTS 0]

Yeah, I'm an American, so I guess it was different for me.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Thank Lemmy all the shows I want to see have their tickets sold through Strawberries...

[AndrewTS 0]

Incidentally, who is touring with Maiden in the UK? It's Dio and Motorhead here.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'd laugh if it was Motorhead (can't do the O right, on a shitty Mac at school), and Dio was, like...shot for being under the wrong bridge.

[Kaertos 0]

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.