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This is a professional reseller program. It's not about individuals reselling tickets last minute. This is specifically about squeezing more money out of averag
by saudioger 8y ago
This is a professional reseller program. It's not about individuals reselling tickets last minute. This is specifically about squeezing more money out of average customers using scalping methods.
Sorry for being vague about the lawsuit/settlement, it's just enraging that ticketmaster has been so shitty for so long... yet my options are still generally:
1. use ticketmaster
2. don't get tickets
The settlement was: http://settlement.livenation.com/ http://settlement.livenation.com/ — in which Ticketmaster ended up giving tons of borderline _unusable_ vouchers to customers in settlement (the lawsuit was over fees and took a decade to reach settlement).
You have to sit and watch their site for specific availability to generally lower-tiered events and hope you're fast enough to actually get the available slots (you're competing against millions of people who also have vouchers).
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/business/media/ticketmaster-lawsuit-vouchers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/business/media/ticketmast...
- jandrese 8y agoI'm sure the attorneys were well paid at least. Those things are almost as bad as those coupons for $10 off your next IOMega product because your Zip drive was a piece of overpriced garbage.
- saudioger 8y agoHey at least I could use the IOMega voucher, I used to go to a lot of shows so I have like 50 worthless Ticketmaster vouchers from the lawsuit. Sometimes I get like $2 off a ticket, but the vast majority of them will go unused.
- thecatspaw 8y agoHow is it legal that they can give out vouchers, and dont have to pay cash?
- saudioger 8y agoBecause it's a settlement I assume? It's a racket.