Ticketmaster's "Service Fees"

[harpomx]

I recently bought 4 Edgefest tickets by phone (which was NOT Toll-Free, and they sure did take their sweet time).

Anyway, the tickets were $42.50 each, or something like that, so I figured it would be well under $200, right? Wrong, the swindelers charge and extra $6.75... per ticket!!!!!

Not only that, but if you aren't picking up the tickets ad a ticketmaster office (the closest one to me is about 10-12 hours away), the only way to get the tickets delivered to you is via expedited delivery, which costs yet an additional $8.00 + tax. So, after the taxes are added on, that's nearly $40.00 - just in ticketmaster crap! Yeesh......

 

[FettsBabe]

Ticketmaster sucks. To bad other bands didn't boycott when Pearl Jam did, if they would have, those service fees may have been reduced or eliminated.

 

[vi edit]

Ticket master huh? It's closer to DICK-ME-MASTER.

I went to Ozzfest in Chicago last year. On every single ticket they stuck on a 3.50 "service fee" as well as a $3.00 PER TICKET parking charge. Never mind the number of cars, vans, and SUV's that were hauling 4-8 people a piece. Take those numbers x 200,000 tickets sold and that's a SH!T LOAD of $$$$$.

 

[BDawg]

In NC, if I sell a ticket, I can charge $2 over the price legally, but TicketMaster can charge whatever the hell they want!

What's the deal with that? Why can't I tack on a 20% service charge?

 

[JACKHAMMER]

<< Ticketmaster sucks. >>



Yep, that is why I only go to smaller venues that don't use this pile.

 

[harpomx]

Yep, that is why I only go to smaller venues that don't use this pile

Yeah, but the problem with that is, if you want to see a really big festival or big name concert, chances are you're gonna have to deal with ticketmaster because that's who the bands always contract out to take care of the tickets.

n NC, if I sell a ticket, I can charge $2 over the price legally

Are you talking about scalping laws or something? I just recently found out that there are absolutely NO scalping laws in Nova Scotia! I can't wait until the next big event here..... which .....will probably be .....in the year 2020 or something......

 

[Viper22]

$7 service charge is nothing. Tickets for the HFStival around here were $35 per day but Ticketmaster had a Service charge of $20 per ticket. One of the reasons im not going this year.

Viper22

 

[FettsBabe]

I hate ticket brokers too. How can they sell tickets for 3 times the real value and get away with it? :|

 

[Squisher]

Yeah but you wait outside all night and find the place sold out 15 min. after tickets go on sale your SOL. Its all a scam, been that way for 30 yrs. Nobody can sell that many tickets that fast unless its to brokers that have their orders already setup beforhand. I don't understand why some Attorney General somewhere hasn't made a name for themselves by coming down on ticketmaster.

 

[bulldawg]

<< Ticket master huh? It's closer to DICK-ME-MASTER >>



LOL. I know the feeling.:frown:

 

[Coki]

Why are they allowed to be this kind of a monopoly?

Why are there no competitors?

 

[harpomx]

There are a few competitors, I forget the names, but they never really got the venue support needed to compete - likely because most bands and locations are appealed by ticketmaster's long-standing ability to sell their tickets that they don't really want to move over to a new guy.

 

[yakko]

If you don't like the service fees don't buy the tickets. How hard is that?

 

[slunk]

Service fees do suck. Ticketmaster goes a little out of hand with them. In Texas we also have StarTickets. They were good about fees at one point, but I bought $12 concert tickets, and the service fees piled up to $4 each. It was ridiculous.