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Good for them! Love Rammstein. However, the ticket market is changing and these resellers are getting sidelined a little more, but that doesn't mean the market

Good for them! Love Rammstein. However, the ticket market is changing and these resellers are getting sidelined a little more, but that doesn't mean the market is getting better. Ticketmaster, who are part of live nation who in turn own a lot of the big venues and festivals are horrible and owned a lot of resellers or were responsible for the reseller market, as it started to become more outlawed they simply side stepped it. Now you have tickets that have dynamic pricing, with prices that go well over double the face value, strange extra fees or just out right miss-selling. A concert I tried to book about 2 years ago, was 'sold out' of general admission tickets the minute it went on sale, including several 'presales' but these 'special access' tickets were available for double the general admission price, it was listed with the VIP tickets, but when you read the small print, with confusing language, it said things such as the ticket would ensure you got access to the concert (Shouldn't a standard ticket do that?) it was basically just a general admission ticket at a 'demand driven price'

reaperducer 4y ago
A concert I tried to book about 2 years ago, was 'sold out' of general admission tickets the minute it went on sale, including several 'presales' but these 'special access' tickets were available for double the general admission price This used to happen even back in the bad old days when the way to buy concert tickets was to use special phone banks in certain department stores. It was especially awful for suburban kids who would get their parents to drive them two hours to a city that had the right department store, then as soon as the clock struck 10am, they'd pick up the phone only to find out the concert was sold out. Most large concerts have felt like a scam for as long as I've been alive. Maybe that's why I've been to so few of them.
- tomcam 4y ago
  True even in the early 1980s, when I somehow managed to call in and got two front row seats to Elton John at the Hollywood bowl by calling in right at 10 AM. The system was known to be rigged by then, and I had called straight into Ticketmaster. My victory was so unusual even 40 years ago that I didn’t actually believe it had happened until they let us into the seats.
comprambler 4y ago
They don’t “own” the venues so much as they obtain exclusive rights to all events being held at a facility which is worse. Dump trucks of money to venue reps are probably at play here.
- acdha 4y ago
  They also are part of the same company as a big promoter so a venue which doesn’t go along with them has to worry about losing the most popular acts, too. They prefer pre-packaged slates so that can be a big difference: play the game with Ticketmaster and you’re basically booked full with popular acts, or go it alone and have to spend more time finding bands on your own.

reaperducer 4y ago

A concert I tried to book about 2 years ago, was 'sold out' of general admission tickets the minute it went on sale, including several 'presales' but these 'special access' tickets were available for double the general admission price This used to happen even back in the bad old days when the way to buy concert tickets was to use special phone banks in certain department stores. It was especially awful for suburban kids who would get their parents to drive them two hours to a city that had the right department store, then as soon as the clock struck 10am, they'd pick up the phone only to find out the concert was sold out. Most large concerts have felt like a scam for as long as I've been alive. Maybe that's why I've been to so few of them.

tomcam 4y ago
True even in the early 1980s, when I somehow managed to call in and got two front row seats to Elton John at the Hollywood bowl by calling in right at 10 AM. The system was known to be rigged by then, and I had called straight into Ticketmaster. My victory was so unusual even 40 years ago that I didn’t actually believe it had happened until they let us into the seats.

comprambler 4y ago

They don’t “own” the venues so much as they obtain exclusive rights to all events being held at a facility which is worse. Dump trucks of money to venue reps are probably at play here.

acdha 4y ago
They also are part of the same company as a big promoter so a venue which doesn’t go along with them has to worry about losing the most popular acts, too. They prefer pre-packaged slates so that can be a big difference: play the game with Ticketmaster and you’re basically booked full with popular acts, or go it alone and have to spend more time finding bands on your own.