Twitter / X RIP Ticketmaster

[Mook]

Hope they burn ?

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[frank]

Hope they burn ?

Making up for the losses with covid shut downs, or inflation, or recession.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

It's probably a parody account?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Not sure if the account used to tweet it is, but Ticketmaster really shit the bed this week regarding that tour sale. Like massively pissed off people. Pre-sale where you were in a queue for 8-12 hours, massive surcharges, etc.

 

[Mook]

This is real...

U.S. opens antitrust probe into Ticketmaster -New York Times

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster's owner, Live Nation Entertainment , the New York Times reported on Friday after the company's sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets this week overwhelmed its website.

www.reuters.com

 

[Mook]

The NY Times is fake now? ?

 

[boostedguy05]

Ticket master is known for massive surcharges.

50 tickets after fees would be 120. Fuck Ticket Master

 

[b00sted]

The NY Times is fake now? ?

 

[Mook]

Oh right. I forgot what site I'm on briefly.

 

[Mr Baytchos]

Hope they go under. The fees they charge are such bullshit

 

[jason05gt]

Eddie Vedder was right.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I didn't even know they were still in business.

 

[v6buicks]

I've been very suspicious since they merged or bought Live Nation. Fuck all that. I hope they get slapped hard for monopolizing.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Capitalism.


And they have a monopoly on it. Is it right? No. It should be burned down but it’ll create a power vacuum. Someone else will just do what they do. Need something in place to prevent the fees, bots, “dynamic pricing”, and other crap.

 

[v6buicks]

The same shit that's happening with the T Swift tickets supposedly happened with the When We Were Young show too. They know the markets and how to make desperate people overpay.

 

[DanJ]

The extra kick in the dick is that they have a secondary sale marketplace for the scalpers, where they charge even larger fees

 

[Stink Star]

EVERYBODY hates Ticketmaster. There must be a better way to sell tickets. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out some resellers paid Ticketmaster board members kickbacks to get real first access to tickets to sell on ticketmasters own site.

 

[Dan00Hawk]

I think it may be better if individual venues sold their own tickets through their own individual company. Enough with the "fees" from Ticketmaster and 3rd parties just handling the ticketing process.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

 

[DanJ]

I think the problem is a lot of venues either don’t want to deal with the ticketing, or it would be a clusterfuck. I miss back in the day when Ticketmaster was in stores. My aunt worked at Carson’s and would pull tickets for us before the first person who pulled in the lottery walked in.

 

[Stink Star]

I think the problem is a lot of venues either don’t want to deal with the ticketing, or it would be a clusterfuck. I miss back in the day when Ticketmaster was in stores. My aunt worked at Carson’s and would pull tickets for us before the first person who pulled in the lottery walked in.

Literally the same thing happens now, except it’s the resellers getting that under the counter deal

 

[DanJ]

Literally the same thing happens now, except it’s the resellers getting that under the counter deal

Even back then there were times we weren’t getting as good of seats as you’d think. I’m guessing there were stores elsewhere with multiple people pulling large amounts of tickets for resellers. We couldn’t cheat anymore than we were.

 

[blue-sun]

Wife had a presale code for the Taylor Swift tickets. She was in and would find tickets, go to check out and sold. Happened multiple times.

She did a little digging and guessing and “guessed” the CEO of Ticketmasters email address and sent them an email (not Karen style, but more professional sounding as she’s in upper management at her work and knows how to speak C Suite. To her surprise, she got a response and low and behold we now have tickets at will call. We had to pay for them still, but at least we have them.

So kids first concert will be Taylor Swift at Soldier Field next summer.