Ticketmaster plans to start selling tickets through an online auction service by the end of the year. The company states:
In addition, they are saying this would push the price of tickets up to the price that the market could bear.
So, what would you be willing to pay for concert tickets at an online auction?
Oh, to read more about this, the article is posted here:
snorts The tickets for Shania’s show here are $120 if I recall… and no way in hell am I paying that much for tickets. The most I’ve ever payed is 40 and more often than not the tickets cost me in the range of $20-30 for what I want to see.
The highest I’d ever be willing to go is $50 and that’s only for something that I have to reall extremely want to see and is more likely to be a musical of some kind… not a concert.
Isn’t what they are doing scalping?
Why is it OK for THEM to do it but when the man on the street does it he’s breaking the law?
Because they have a contract with the venue/act to sell the tickets.
I’ve only been to three concerts in my life.
When I was 16 I went to see Foreigner. I wasn’t allowed to attend concerts. My parents were really strict. But I snuck and went with my boyfriend. The tickets were $18 eac. We stayed for the opening act and then left. (I felt too guilty being there) so technically I can’t say I went to see Foreigner.
I went and saw a Barry Manilow concert. I won the tickets on a radio show. I stayed for a few songs and then left. It was awful!
A few years ago I spent $40 on a ticket to see k.d. Lang.
The concert was awesome. I had pretty good seats and I enjoyed the music.
I would never pay more then $40 for a ticket
For a stupid concert?!
I can think of a whole lot of (ahem…) other things I wouldn’t even pay $500 for - and they’re a hell of a lot more fun than ANY concert.
Old dude checkin’ in.
I remember Beatle concert tickets were under $5.00.
Back then, the rule of thumb was that concert tickets cost about the same as a record album. I once went to see The Who and The Kinks in concert together for about $10.00.
Then again, a few years ago there was the Streisand concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Top price - $5,000. I didn’t attend.
If I paid $500 for a Shania Twain concert, I better get front row seats and a “private session” after the show.
It is only breaking the law in some places. I grew up in Arizona where ticket scalping was perfectly legal.
Here in Alabama it is legal here as well.
As for myself I do not see what is wrong with making money off something you purchased. Where would our economy be if you were not allowed to sell an item for a profit?
…or a loss.
I saw Jane’s Addiction once by waiting outside until the show was just about to start and the scalpers dropped to the desperation price of $4/ticket 
I have noticed that a few of the ticket brokers announcing that they have “found” a couple thousand tickets to a sold out show and releasing them the day before the event. This normally will cause the scalpers prices to drop.
How does that work if Ticketmaster auctions the tickets …does the act or venue get a percentage of the final price?
If so I personally wouldn’t buy an auctioned ticket myself but I could at least see the difference between what they are doing and an ordinary scalper
However I just checked at Ebay and currently there are 21016 Event tickets up for auction…the venue doesn’t get any extra money from the final ticket price THERE so why is THAT different from selling the ticket outside the venue just before the show whatever it may be?
I can’t think of any shows I’d pay $100 to see.
$500? Hmm. Unless I get to keep Trent Reznor after the show is over, then no.
For 500 dollah I better goddamn get some awesome sex and a really good dinner… Even then, nah and its fools that do pay those prices that convince idiots like Marilyn Manson that they are soooooooooooooooooo great. Sheesh!
No way would I pay $500 for concert tix.
I’m another oldie who paid $5 to see the Rolling Stones & BB King back in 1971. Frankly, I think we were getting an awfully good deal back in those heady times.
These days I am done with stadium shows, and refuse to pay more than about $40 for more intimate venues. I did see Mark Knopfler at Red Rocks for about $37 and considered it money well spent.
From what I’ve read about her, she’d probably just lie there.
I remember when DMB tickets were going for $900 on eBay recently. I know this because my sons were trying to locate tickets for the concert. I wouldn’t go across the street to see them for free, personally.
There is nobody / no band that I’d pay more than $30 to see.
The most I ever paid for a concert was $35 to Alison Krauss + Union Station. It was in a small venue (1600 people) and it was worth every penny.
When Page and Plant came by on UnLedded, I remember thinking, “$50 for a ticket? Yeah, Right!”
But now I wish I’d paid it. Hossam Ramzy was playing, fer chrissakes! I wish I’d known. I still wouldn’t have had the money, though.
The last couple of years, Crosby, Stills, and Nash have played nearby, and every time, I check ticket prices, and… no. One of them is going to die before I have enough free cash to spend going to a concert at $50 a pop plus child care, transportation, etc.
It makes me wonder where the industry thinks they’re going, when the regular people who love the bands cannot go to see them play. Perhaps it’ll destabilize with the whole file-sharing thing and people will just avoid the corporate music thing entirely. Yay.