The venues suffer, too. They are not allowed to set the terms for any part of the transaction, and they have no choice but to partner with Ticketmaster if they want to put on artists that people will want to see.
This arrangement hurts the artists to boot. It leaves them with no way to avoid imposing these charges on their fans. With the drastic downturn in record sales, musicians are increasingly finding that touring is much more lucrative for them.
This further ensures the dominance of Ticketmaster. The well-publicized merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, which is currently being reviewed by the government, is only going to make matters worse. Live Nation was never really a pure competitor to Ticketmaster in the first place; it functioned as a promoter for artists rather than a ticket seller. Live Nation did, however, maintain exclusive deals with some venues that Ticketmaster could not sell for. Some critics have pointed out that the Ticketmaster situation may violate anti-trust laws.
According to the U. Clearly a ticket to an event could not be superior to a working ticket sold by another company. When Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for monopolistic practices over a decade ago, nothing happened — but clearly the situation is worse now than it was then.
The good news is, Ticketmaster has suffered some significant reverses. Here's a few updates and significant news changes: November, CIPPIC Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic file a complaint against Ticketmaster, alleging "failures on the part of Ticketmaster to clearly identify what it does with personal information once collected, to protect information transferred to third parties for processing, to obtain proper consent from customers for secondary uses and disclosures, and to respond adequately to access to information requests.
Of course, competition is not a good thing when it doesn't actually make any difference. Part of the reason for updating this piece was because Henry Rollins was, once again, back in Tempe, doing a spoken-word show. As you may recall see the top of the article if not! But now, the venue promoters have joined the flood of venues abandoning Ticketmaster: let us rejoice at the huge savings to be enjoyed!
Er, except that four tickets for this upcoming show courtesy of 'Ticketforce' - hah, Ticket farce , more like! A whole fifty cents better than Ticketbastard, three plus years ago. It seems that where one gouger succeeds, other greedy bastards will inevitably follow. Feedback Cliff Dickinson : "I just want to thank you for the article and links you have posted concerning Ticketmaster's schemes. I only wish there was a way to warn more people of their rip-off tactics before they buy.
Here's a copy of my note to their customer service email-box. Fat chance of it getting anywhere with them The start time for the concert, printed on the ticket and published on your website was PM. We rushed to get there after work. The show did not start until 9PM. We also learned that Ticketmaster recieves a commission from Centerplate for concessions. Sounds like Ticketmaster has a problem with the truth. Then to top it off Cher played for 1 hour and 18 minutes.
Truly a sad day for all of us. AttilatheHoo said A mainland scalper selling tickets for comedian Dayo Wong Tze-wah's standup comedy show was jailed for two months yesterday. Wish they would include taxes and fees in their advertised price just like the airlines are required to do. Like Post. Didn't read the article, but thread title is the truth. Have not tried walk up, but in advance, it all runs through TM. People buy minor league baseball tickets on Ticketmaster?
Shirley there has to be a better option. They also give scalpers That's how you can see them advertising great seats before they ever go on sale. I don't believe this story. Having the unfortunate experience of dealing with them every time I attempt to buy football tickets for my college, I really am bothered by the simple lack of innovation in this field. A friend summarized it really well in a tweet a while back: Ticketmaster you have absolutely the worst product imaginable.
Your employees should be ashamed of the company they work for. You the consumer are not Ticketmaster's primary customer. Ticketmaster's primary customers are the venues and promoters. The product is actually the best one available, which is a system in place designed to sell large amounts of tickets, in some cases very quickly.
They do a fantastic job, and it's very common to see them used in Seattle. A great, ethical service with minimal fees. Especially for small, local events. Even cooler: if your event is free, their service is free. I second to Brown Paper Tickets, i love their perspective in ticketing business. This Hubbard guy sounds really smart. My favorite quote was "If we don't disrupt ourselves, someone else will. Microsoft and their foot-dragging on the web comes to mind.
Obviously they haven't failed yet, but wouldn't they be healthier if they had embraced the change and pushed it forward instead of trying to hold their position against it? Anyway, I hope Hubbard has what it takes to pull off his vision. The LiveNation merger certainly did seem to spark them to update parts of their product, but the user experience is awful.
Unfortunately, there's no real major competitor now on that scale. Sure, there are solutions like AudienceView and Tessi but they don't fit the same business model. And who'd want to compete?
LiveNation is owning more and more venues by the minute. If you like going to the rock show, wrestling with algorithms that deal with high currency, social media analysis on a crazy complete data chain versus the regular induced douchebaggery, building a credible alternative to TicketMaster, or just run-on-sentences, you should come join our team of pirates at Ticketfly in SF.
FreeKill on June 26, prev next [—]. No big surprise with that. When you have a dominating monopoly on most of the major venues in America, you probably don't lose any sleep at night worry about user experience. The only way that is ever going to change is if people vote with their wallets and stop going to Ticketmaster events Anechoic on June 26, parent next [—].
The problem is that those events are "Ticketmaster events" they are "events I want to attend that are only handled by Ticketmaster.
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