Bought 4 $45.00 tickets Sunday morning for a George Thorogood concert at the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City Indiana. Those $45.00 tickets ended up costing $206.00 after all the fees! $26.00 more than face value-that is just criminal!!
Bought 4 $45.00 tickets Sunday morning for a George Thorogood concert at the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City Indiana. Those $45.00 tickets ended up costing $206.00 after all the fees! $26.00 more than face value-that is just criminal!!
He sings it high, he plays it low
Irving has to do some damage control! Bruce Springsteen was mighty pissed at Ticketmaster for redirecting his fans to TicketsNow - TM's scalper site - when there were regular priced tickets still available. Here's his rant:
And Azoff's response:Originally Posted by Bruce Springsteen
Originally Posted by Irving Azoff
HA! I have suddenly become a huge Springsteen fan!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shame on you Irving Azoff!
~ Cathy ~
And I dream I'm on vacation 'Cause I like the way that sounds,
It's a perfect occupation for me.
There was a HUGE RUCKUS about this out here...it happended for the 2 NJ shows and I think one NY/LI show. We were logged in, waiting for the Ticketmaster site to respond to our request for tickets (realizing as the precious minutes ticked away, so did those tickets)--then a message to the effect that Ticketmaster could not respond to our request at that time, and then wham! onto the Tickets Now site with hugely inflated ticket prices. Apparently, some folks even got a 'Ticketmaster is undergoing routine maintenance' message, rather than a response to their ticket request! Frustrating, to say the least! By the time I reloaded my request, I was told to wait 15 minutes (which became 30...who knew?), so I knew he was sold out by then. There were countless stories in the press of folks who got through by phone/computer, and then were cut off just as they were entering their payment info. Apparently, Ticketmaster is contacting those people through records of the transactions as far as they got, because for many of them the tickets are still theirs (ie, the tickets did not go back into the sale bin just because the transaction did not finish.)
Anyway, all of the newspapers and online sites got flooded with complaints. I even heard there is either a Congressman or Senator who is launching an investigation into it!
Good for Bruce for doing the right thing!! Irving is full of sh*t!!! Ticketmaster is the biggest ripoff there is!! That Ticketnow is basically Ticketmaster scalping their own tickets. It's all about the money-as if tickets aren't expensive enough -we have them continuously trying to get more for them.
Note to Irving---Not all fans are stupid-- we know that when you started selling "no fee" tickets that you jacked up the price by $10.00 a ticket. Duh!! Like I wouldn't figure THAT out!
He sings it high, he plays it low
~ Cathy ~
And I dream I'm on vacation 'Cause I like the way that sounds,
It's a perfect occupation for me.
More news about the possible Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger:
http://www.kshe95.com/musicnews/Story.aspx?id=1060441
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I'm sorry, but I hope they do investigate and find out what the problem is and get whoever is responsible for it under control! It's ridiculous that they are essentially allowed to scalp their own tickets! I love music and love going to concerts but you just can't do it on a regular basis any longer--who can afford it? It will be a monopoly if this happens and I hate to think what ticket prices will become then. Irving is out of control and eventually I have to think it will catch up with the artists because people won't be going. JMHO!
He sings it high, he plays it low
I wonder what The Eagles think of all this?
First of all - I applaud the Boss for taking a stand on this.
Since he is such an influential artist, maybe others will follow suit and launch their own complaints. I also hope the practices of Ticketmaster are thoroughly investigated, as well as, the implications of impending merger with Live Nation. I know Irving has an obligation to try to make the best deal that he can for his artists, and for Ticketmaster, but these practices are horrible for the fans. Scalping your own tickets is beyond being unfair, and Irving can claim as much as he wants that Ticketmaster does not "give brokers any preferential access to tickets", but how is it that the best tickets ALWAYS end up in their hands. When was the last time any fan brought up a 1st row ticket the moment the tickets went on sale? And don't hand us this crap about how 1st row seats are held and not put up for sale to the general pubic - if that's the case, how do they get in the hands of brokers who turn around and resell them (in some cases through TicketsNow) for thousands of dollars a piece???
And while I'm on my rant, I may as well bring up ILAA - Irving's other pet project. It turns my stomach to see those 5-star packages with the signed guitar and M&G with Joe being sold for + or - $5.000. The only good news that I can find regarding this, is that it may have totally flopped. I notice that ILAA has pulled back somewhat - these 'Joe Walsh experiences' aren't being offered for the upcoming European tour, and the prices for the VIP packages seemed to have been lowered across the board. I think they are still two high, but it is a small victory, nonetheless.
Last edited by Ive always been a dreamer; 02-06-2009 at 06:32 PM.
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