Event
MEGADETH
FILLMORE
Friday, September 14, 2001 9:00PM
Face Value Ticket - $29.50 Ticketmaster Convenience Charge per ticket - $6.75 Ticketmaster Handling Charge - $3.50 Total Charges - $39.75
MARKUP = 34.7 %
How in the hell can tickemaster get away with this ? Sure I can go to the box office, assuming I live close enough to the venue to make the trip… otherwise I have no alternatives ! This has been going on for years I’ve always wondered why the artists allow this to continue. That is a good $10 out of their pockets and the venue I’m sure. Thats one less cd I can buy, 2 less beers I can buy, it might be enough for many people to not bother to attend the concert in the first place.
It seems the only place to purchase tickets on-line, with rare exception, is ticketmaster - do they have a monopoly or what ? Why are there no other legitamite alternatives ?
Certainly you remember the whole Pearl Jam /Ticketmaster thing. When they took them to court because they were charging too much for their tickets. Hell, I do. Because after the whole fuss P.J. went throught some weird ticket agency to sell their tickets. Which resulted in me scrambling to get them. You had to call an 800 number at a certain time and give them your name and such. Tickets were mailed to you with YOUR NAME ON THE TICKET. You had to show up at the concert with I.D. to prove those were your tickets. A big pain in the ass to get tickets but I still hold my Pearl Jam ticket proudly because my name is on the freaking ticket.
Yes, Ticketbastard is a monopoly. There was Ticketron that provided the same service, but IIRC they were bought out by Ticketmaster some time in the early 90’s. Your best bet is to buy tickets straight from the venue.
Even going to the venue isn’t safe, I’ve been sacked there as well. Ticketbastard smoked in a couple more dollars for the “convenience” of using their on-site/venue window (and not the day of the show, but well before.) WTF?