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mark090852
02-04-2009, 12:13 PM
Need to vent a little!

Monday, Feb. 2, 10:00am, tickets went on sale for Bruce Springsteen concerts around the country. I had managed to connect to the Ticketmaster website in just a few seconds after 10:00am. Trying to buy 2 tickets to the show in State College, PA on May 8th. Put in my request and a few seconds later got a message that no tickets matched my search. My search was "2 tickets, best available". It had a link to try again. I clicked it and got two tickets along the side but way up high at the top level. These we still priced at the max. price, not great seats but ok...I was still going to the concert.

I accepted the tickets and as I was completing the payment information noticed that there was a link on the ticketmaster page for "TicketsNow". A reseller that was offering great seats, lower level, for hundreds of $ more than face value. Mind you, this was all only about sixty seconds or so after tickets went on sale.

Find out today that "TicketsNow" is a reseller owned by Ticketmaster. So they had tickets a just seconds after they went on sale to the public and marked them up 500% to 1000% WTH!!!

There's going to be an investigation according to this link: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090204/D964R1Q80.html

OK, I feel better now...thanks for listening.
ND13
02-04-2009, 02:00 PM
I got my decades share of him Sunday night.;)

Does suck how the ticket game has gotten, though.
nooshinjohn
02-04-2009, 10:05 PM
ditto... I got front center to a garth brooks show in 1993 for only 24 bucks each
hoosier21
02-04-2009, 10:13 PM
ditto... I got front center to a garth brooks show in 1993 for only 24 bucks each

you were ripped off :)
nooshinjohn
02-04-2009, 10:18 PM
come on now.. garth rules... so does acdc zep beatles and rachmaninov
shack
02-04-2009, 10:22 PM
That's a similar story to my Eagles tickets. My wife bought them by going directly to the ticket office at the arena. She paid face value plus the nominal "handling charge" ($10 IIRC). When we were at the show we were talking to the two women on the row in front of us about the price of the tickets. Seems the offical tour web site directed them to one of the ticket brokers. They paid $100 more per ticket than us and they bought them before my wife bought our tickets. Needless to say they were pissed because they were told there was nothing else available, when in fact they could have gone to the ticket office to purchase the same tickets for $100 less EACH. The ticket racket is out of hand IMO.
bobman1235
02-04-2009, 11:06 PM
I feel like the ticket thing is going to come to a head pretty soon. All it will take is one artist with a conscience deciding to sell their tickets on something other than Ticketmaster, and the whole industry will change in a snap.

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking...
dc55110
02-04-2009, 11:55 PM
I feel like the ticket thing is going to come to a head pretty soon. All it will take is one artist with a conscience deciding to sell their tickets on something other than Ticketmaster, and the whole industry will change in a snap.

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking...

I know some bands have tried circumventing Ticketmaster, with marginal results. Pearl Jam (and a few others) offer tickets to fan club members prior to open sale of tickets.

I had a similar experience to bobman recently. My Dad was on vacation when tickets for Elton John & Billy Joel went on sale, so he asked me if I could get them for him. At a few minutes to 10 am I was logged onto the Ticketmaster web site. As soon as the site opened I put in my order for 2 tickets, best available, 2nd price tier... Only tickets available at 10:01 am were two rows from the top in the upper level. At the checkout, I was shown tickets available from a "third party" broker for prices exceeding double and triple face value.
I canceled the order right there.
mark090852
05-09-2009, 03:31 PM
UPDATE:

Concert was last night and it was FANTASTIC!!! Best part was my wife and I arrived early and were sitting in our seats three rows from the top of the Bryce Jordon Center when a member of the crew approached us and asked us if we would like better seats. Of course we said yes, and he gave us two tickets to second row seats right behind the stage. Bruce basically worked the stage as if he was playing in the round, freuquently coming to the back and singing right in front of us...and I mean right in front. As close as if he was in our living room. Awsome!
comfortablycurt
05-10-2009, 05:50 PM
Nice!! Getting the VIP treatment ehh? That's always good.

Good to hear you had a great time. I'd love to see Springsteen, but I probably never will.



I hate ticketmaster. I went to a Dead show last week, and managed to skip ticketmaster. I got my ticket off of someone in the parking lot for 20 bucks...not bad considering it was a 95 dollar ticket.:cool:

Some of these ticket prices are getting ridiculous. A couple years ago my brother paid about 400 dollar for two tickets to The Rolling Stones. That's stupidly high priced.