(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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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.