cobl04
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Paid $177 in fees on the four tickets i bought - alas...
What the fuck?! How?
Paid $177 in fees on the four tickets i bought - alas...
LiveNation is how
The fee is about 35% of the face value of the ticket, which is absurd
LiveNation owns TicketmasterThat is FUCKED! I haven't seen anything like that in Australia. (Also I get the impression that Live Nation is a ticket seller in the US? It isn't here, it's a promoter, Ticketmaster and Ticketek are our ticket-selling duopoly).
i can hear Journey soundchecking from my office and it's got me crazy pumped up for Springsteen in a few weeks
The key is to find the next Bruce Springsteen...
Easy right????
Live Nation’s biggest shareholder, John Malone, is also the largest stakeholder in Liberty Media, which owns satellite radio colossus Sirius XM and its streaming-music subsidiaries, Pandora and Stitcher.
Give artists a choice on dynamic pricing
One cause of anguish for live-music lovers is what’s called dynamic pricing, in which Ticketmaster continuously tweaks its prices in response to real-time supply and demand. Dynamic pricing is why you see Springsteen tickets selling for $5,000 on the primary market. The solution again is probably to put the performer in charge. “Let artists opt out of dynamic pricing,” producer Jack Antonoff told assembled reporters, including Pitchfork, at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
well - i think it's important to differentiate between Platinum (like Pearl Jam did) and straight dynamic pricing (like Springsteen did).
One covers a select number of tickets, one covers all the tickets.
Should change the article headline to 5 Ways to...
Artists already have the choice on dynamic pricing. Bruce fully admitted to Rolling Stone he told his managers "do what everyone else has been doing this time".
Dynamic pricing doesn't happen without artist approval. Of course, just about everybody is doing it now, with former fan friendly stalwarts Springsteen and Pearl Jam giving in to the practice last year. But as I mentioned when we were having this discussion last year, there's still some holdouts like Garth Brooks who toured stadiums last summer and every ticket was a face value of something like $85.00 and fees were all capped at like 7 bucks and change. There were no Platinum's, no VIP meet and greets, no dynamic pricing and no huge blocks of resale tix that were obviously just Ticketmaster/Livenation selling them themselves above face.
If more major artists took that approach, there'd be less hue and cry, though that doesn't solve all issues obviously.
Some are just better than others, and it's really disappointing Springsteen, Pearl Jam etc went that way.
Oh ok I see. Is platinum dynamic pricing? Or is it just a higher set price range?
These are two entirely different situations. Bruce took the money he believed the secondary market was going to get anyway. PJ permitted Platinum Tix *in exchange for* a larger fanclub allotment. No one’s complaining about the latter.
Oh ok I see. Is platinum dynamic pricing? Or is it just a higher set price range?
Plenty of complaining about it last year on the PJ message board.
Also PJ were stupid in allowing those tix to be labeled as "PJ Premium" instead of "platinum". Made the band look greedier than other bands come across with the platinum label.
Either way, neither happens without artist approval.
pearl jam, for example, agreed to the select platinum seats in order to keep their allotment of ten club seats, and keep the seats as some of the best tickets in the house.
Another note on that. Fan club tickets (reserved seats not GA) definitely took a step back in quality in 2022 for the Ten Club as part of this arrangement. People with very low numbers got some mediocre seats and the "PJ Premium" were better in most cases. The band's statement about that not being the case proved erroneous in practice.
I don’t have a super low number and got seats on par or better than I’ve received before… at MSG. YMMV.