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A monopoly? My event last night was ticketed with EventBrite. There seem to be a dozen or so similar systems out there. And if I were willing to roll my own sof
by xhkkffbf 4y ago
A monopoly? My event last night was ticketed with EventBrite. There seem to be a dozen or so similar systems out there. And if I were willing to roll my own software, I could probably spin up some version of Drupal pretty quickly with some open source plugins.
The problem isn't that it's a monopoly. It's that the venues don't shop around, probably because they don't pay the price. The consumer does.
- spencerflem 4y agoThe venues are owned by ticketmaster
- Nycto 4y agoI’m guessing the venue you’re talking about is tiny. There are only 1 or 2 major venues in the US that aren’t owned by live nation. Anecdote != data Cyber did an episode that covered this in more detail, btw: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z348k3/cyber-why-concert-tickets-are-so-expensive https://www.vice.com/en/article/z348k3/cyber-why-concert-tic...