R.MTuesday, November 3, 2009
(Updated)
Dear Bowery Ballroom,
Could you please ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets, then charge a $4.10 processing fee.
If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 (original) to $59.80. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make over 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, label, and traveling band take in—combined. Robbery.
Old news, but still.
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MSG and I seem to go to a lot of the same shows, and I absolutely agree that this Ticketmaster shit is way past due to...
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This isn’t anything new. Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the Justice Department in 1994 and testified before congress....
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i fuckin hate ticketmaster!
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ellens reblogged this from david-noel and added:
I don’t even want to calculate all of the bullshit fees I’ve paid to Ticketmaster over the last few years.
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The fact that we’ve put up with this from Ticketmaster for this long still amazes me. I don’t see why more venues don’t...
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msg reblogged this from david-noel and added:
Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience...
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