phommel
Refugee
Some people on this website were happy about U2 stopping with ticketmaster and joining LiveNation for the next tour tickets sale.
I have to say I am a 'little'concerned for nexts ticket sales. Not only the prices of tickets are already (too) high), they will only become much higher!
In Netherlands there is, like everywhere, a big problem with ticket sales for popular concerts. Tickets are bought by people or big companies in order to sell them for a lot more than the original price. In Netherlands Mojo Concerts (part of LiveNation) always fighted against this (unfortunately legal) business. But since one year they have their own Auction-website. People can offer their tickets for a fixed price or sell them via an auction. LiveNation eplains that they decided to do this step to prevent others doing this and giving the guarantee that the tickets you buy are official.
However, what LiveNation is doing is making a lot extra profit on ticketsales. People who sell their tickets get 85% of the money, people who buy tickets hae to pay 10% extra.
This means that if they sell a U2 GA ticket for $100, and I but it and try to sell it for $300 (which is what some people want to give for it) they (and probably the band) will make an extra $75 profit on top of the profit they already made by selling the original ticket.
And do you remember what Paul McGuiness said lately...? that U2 is looking at options to do an own auction on their concert tickets?
Although I understand that extra earned money should go to the band and not to the ticket traders, the problem is that there is one group the deceived one: the fans! Ticket prices for bands like U2 will be unpayable and completely decided by the market. The normal hard-working fan will have more and more difficulties to get the desired tickets for a normal price
I have to say I am a 'little'concerned for nexts ticket sales. Not only the prices of tickets are already (too) high), they will only become much higher!
In Netherlands there is, like everywhere, a big problem with ticket sales for popular concerts. Tickets are bought by people or big companies in order to sell them for a lot more than the original price. In Netherlands Mojo Concerts (part of LiveNation) always fighted against this (unfortunately legal) business. But since one year they have their own Auction-website. People can offer their tickets for a fixed price or sell them via an auction. LiveNation eplains that they decided to do this step to prevent others doing this and giving the guarantee that the tickets you buy are official.
However, what LiveNation is doing is making a lot extra profit on ticketsales. People who sell their tickets get 85% of the money, people who buy tickets hae to pay 10% extra.
This means that if they sell a U2 GA ticket for $100, and I but it and try to sell it for $300 (which is what some people want to give for it) they (and probably the band) will make an extra $75 profit on top of the profit they already made by selling the original ticket.
And do you remember what Paul McGuiness said lately...? that U2 is looking at options to do an own auction on their concert tickets?
Although I understand that extra earned money should go to the band and not to the ticket traders, the problem is that there is one group the deceived one: the fans! Ticket prices for bands like U2 will be unpayable and completely decided by the market. The normal hard-working fan will have more and more difficulties to get the desired tickets for a normal price