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Hey Ticketmaster, fuck right off
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: tania on 04 Feb 2009, 20:25 ---their "convenience" fee - which is really just their "we're a monopoly so give us some extra money for no real reason other than that you don't have a choice" fee - is pretty bullshit too. i really fucking hate ticketmaster.
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I was going to post basically this exact same thing. Also, my roommate bought tickets to go see Fleet Foxes over the summer and when they cancelled he basically had to cause a ruckus to get his money back.
Ticketmaster is pretty much the reason I only go to local shows anymore.
Hairy Joe Bob:
The name Ticketmaster itself sounds like it's some creepy clown dude who leads kids down dark woody paths and murders them.
Kind of like the Anti-Pied Piper. Ooooh the Ticket Master! Mwa ha ha!
Liz:
I haven't purchased through Ticketmaster in a long time. Thankfully a lot of bands that play here use Ticketweb! Or I go to shows where you just pay at the door and get a stamp.
KvP:
It wouldn't be so bad if they had a bulk charge, but they charge around a third of cost for every ticket. Two Andrew Bird tickets cost me $71. Tickets were $25 each before rent was added.
And that's what this is, really, it's rent. American insurance companies have the same sort of power. There are only a relative handful of private insurance providers in the US. It's a market system, but there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of individual consumers for every single supplier. It's so lopsided that consumers have no recourse if a firm wants to charge above the just market rate. What are they going to do? Go to one of those insurers that charges less? There aren't any.
BrittanyMarie:
Yes, or you go to your friendly neighborhood record store and he sells you one of those little blue raffle ticket things. <3yourorangerekkids
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