Somewhat off-topic, but I wanted to buy some tickets for a comedian and the venue uses Ticketmaster. The tickets were $75/ea and the service fees were $65/ea. How in the hell are the service fees basically the same price as the price of admission?
They used to charge a pretty high delivery fee for e-tickets. When they were first introduced they where the same price as having an actual ticket delivered. They have since stopped that, but will find a bunch of ways to charge you extra fees.
Some venues add restoration fees, why should i be paying a fee to help you with the up keep of your building? Surely that is the cost of doing business, I don't pay a fee at the supermarket because they want to refurbish.
Other annoying things I have had, is ticketmaster charging £10 each for delivery, on two tickets I ordered. Both where delivered in the same envelope using standard postage, which is less than £1
> Surely that is the cost of doing business, I don't pay a fee at the supermarket because they want to refurbish.
You probably do; it's just not itemized as such. (I mean, I don't know how, since supermarket prices at least at the big stores seem to be the same across very different chains—but they do refurbish, and the money for that has to come from somewhere, so they're getting it out of you somehow.)
Why is it a monopoly? I think at many venues they only sell via TicketMaster; but why have the venues locked themselves into this, what do they get out of it? Are there some kickbacks for venues or something?
I recall some other ticketing companies moving in a few years back and now it seems that Ticketmaster has regained a lot of their original stronghold. It could just be the Denver area, but they are everywhere again over here.
