How to beat ticketmaster?

[sting]

Damn $10 per ticket service fees are driving me mad! If one wants to go to a concert and can't find out how to get tickets other than ticketmaster you have to put up with their convenience charge. What's up with that? I tried to look up the venue but it always links me back to Ticketmaster. Anyone know how to defeat this evil?

Thanks

 

[capncrunch]

I'm pretty sure TicketMaster (TM) is right up there with Monsanto and Blackwater as the most evil organizations ever.

As far as I understand, TM gets exclusive rights to sell tickets for particular venues. So it's either them or scalpers.

TM even double-dips on service charges. They have their own re-seller site and they charge a service charge there as well. So if you buy tix from TM and then have to sell them using their site, they get service charges paid to them twice.

B@stars!

 

[Blown in 60 Seconds]

Damn $10 per ticket service fees are driving me mad! If one wants to go to a concert and can't find out how to get tickets other than ticketmaster you have to put up with their convenience charge. What's up with that? I tried to look up the venue but it always links me back to Ticketmaster. Anyone know how to defeat this evil?

Thanks

Ticketmaster are scammers and just check out ticketsnow.com to confirm this. An agency they are affiliated with that jack ticket prices up!

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/loca...2_tickets_now/20090102/?hub=CP24Entertainment

 

[blueman]

fuck ticket master

ticket master is criminal.

there are a hand full of organizations, ticket master being one of them, who should be burned alive.

they fuck you every time. not only do they have a monopoly which earns them millions but they go on to cheat, lie and fuck their customers every time.

ticket master sucks.

 

[iluvbtca]

If it's a hot ticket you want, you are screwed. However, if it's something that has some flexibility in demand, the only ways I have found to fight The Evil is:

1. Go to the box office. Yes, it's a pain but at least you don't The Evil the satisfaction. Plus it just seems to make the event so much more enjoyable knowing that The Evil didn't get that margin.

2. eBay. It's a form of scalping but again, if there's less demand for the event, you may pay under face. I find this works best for long season sports like basketball and baseball.

They are not perfect but sometimes it works out. Patience is a must.

 

[King Midas]

If it's a hot ticket you want, you are screwed. However, if it's something that has some flexibility in demand, the only ways I have found to fight The Evil is:

1. Go to the box office. Yes, it's a pain but at least you don't The Evil the satisfaction. Plus it just seems to make the event so much more enjoyable knowing that The Evil didn't get that margin.

2. eBay. It's a form of scalping but again, if there's less demand for the event, you may pay under face. I find this works best for long season sports like basketball and baseball.

They are not perfect but sometimes it works out. Patience is a must.

Go to the box office -- but even then there are bullshit fees to pay.

 

[LancsLad]

Don't go to concerts until the monopoly is broken.


Going to a concert is not a matter of life or death it is a purely elective choice.


If enough of the sheeple who blindly pay their extortion fees decided to stop being taken for 6 months then things would change.


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[Barca]

Don't go to concerts until the monopoly is broken.


Going to a concert is not a matter of life or death it is a purely elective choice.


If enough of the sheeple who blindly pay their extortion fees decided to stop being taken for 6 months then things would change.


.

I agree with this.

I go to concerts that are held in local venues and buy direct from the venue or local record shops. Very very rarely do I bother with Ticketmaster and unless it is something that I would regret to my grave not going to see, I refuse to pay their fees or allow them to rip me off by sending me to their legal but still unethical scalping website. They are a monopoly the government refuses to bust. What they do is against the interests of the consumer and it sickens me that they continue to be allowed to rip off anyone and everyone who wants to buy a ticket to an event. Fuck them.