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Lots of comments here from people who haven’t read the article and don’t know about the scalper-eliminating on-demand pricing it’s actually about. Or that it ad
by jrmg 4y ago
Lots of comments here from people who haven’t read the article and don’t know about the scalper-eliminating on-demand pricing it’s actually about. Or that it addresses supply-and-demand near the end with some interesting comments on Garth Brooks:
Country superstar Garth Brooks—who has called out dynamic pricing as well as suggested that the secondary market should be “illegal,” has more or less solved the problem for his fans with one simple trick: He adds shows until they no longer sell out. In recent years, on single tours, Brooks has done the following: He played nine concerts in a row in Edmonton, Canada. He played a dozen shows in Chicago. He played six in Kansas, nine in Tulsa, and eight in Denver.
Indeed, the headline doesn’t seem particularly supported by the actual article to me.
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- jbellis 4y agoMy understanding is that it's absolutely normal for the headline to be written by an editor maximizing for clicks, rather than by the article author.
- jahsome 4y agoFormer reporter. Can confirm -- If you only knew...
- cbsmith 4y agoWorth mentioning... The platform Garth Brooks uses to sell tickets the way he does: Ticketmaster. So it's available to other artists/promoters, if they want to do it. The nickname for that approach is "Garth mode".
- vlunkr 4y agoThere's lots of back-and-forth in these comments about whether Ticketmaster is the villain, or just the scapegoat for venues and artists to take more money. Without any insider information, I lean towards the latter. This is a supply and demand issue where the limit on supply is how much Blink-182 wants to perform. Maybe there's a good logistical reason why they don't do "Garth mode", or maybe this tour is just a quick cash grab.
- cbsmith 4y ago> Without any insider information, I lean towards the latter. With insider information, I believe you are correct. ;-) The question that people don't like accessing is, "who is making these decisions?", because the answers don't point to the people they want them to point to. Ticketmaster is effectively an arms maker, and while that is not without moral/ethical concerns, the arms maker builds and sells tools that the people doing the fighting want; it's kind of weird to pretend the arms maker is the one actually using them.
- matwood 4y agoGarth increased supply to match whatever ticket price he wanted to hit.