You saw the Cure? Rock on!

This conjures up memories of David Manning, film critic .

that sucks. When we post it should be for altruistic reasons, not for monetary gain. Buy Ovaltine

I tried avoiding the online convenience fee by driving to the store and buying them from the ticketmaster booth and they charged me int there to. I could have gone to the box office and got the tickets for cheaper and not made the fee if there wasnt this level of legalized scalping. Ive never understood how its allowed when scalping is illegal.

Actually, scalping isn't illegal everywhere -- it isn't here in Indiana where I live.

And you know, I don't see why it should be illegal anywhere. It seems to me that scalping is the purest form of free enterprise: You buy a commodity (tickets in this case), you sell that commodity for whatever the market will bear, and sometimes you make money, sometimes you lose money. In the case of Ticketmaster, they are charging extra (quite a bit extra) to save the buyer inconvenience, and goodness knows it does save quite a bit of inconvenience, and that sounds like free enterprise to me, too. Again, you sell that service for whatever the market will bear.

I know people get all het up about ticket prices, but it's not as though there is some inalienable right to see ___(whoever)___ in concert. If I don't want to pay X amount for a ticket, or I don't want to pay X amount for a service charge, and I can't find a less expensive way to go, I just don't go to the event. I mean, jeez, it's a concert -- it's not insulin. There is no such thing as a concert that anybody just HAS to go to.

Yeah, Ticketmaster is vile slime.
Several years ago, you could just go to a box office and buy a ticket for the face price. Then Ticketmaster somehow sewed up a monopoy and started charging an arm and a leg for the "convenience" or "service" of not being able to get tickets from anyone else. I don't know if Ticketmaster is actually separate from the Mafia, but it has the same business ethic.
The only way way Ticketmaster could have friends would be if it fabricated or bought them.

The convenience of driving to a shopping mall, fighting for a parking place, dredging through crowds of teenagers to get to a counter to buy the tickets is SO much more convenient than buying a ticket at the box office where there is no fight for parking palces if you go when there isnt an event. Now days the ampatheaters and what not even have websites where you can buy tickets from the box office, but there is a very small limited number of tickets available because the majority are sold before hand to ticketmaster.

was googling ticketmaster booth and found this page.. its kinda crazy... i bought 2 $58 tickets and they are charging $12 per ticket... coz wasnt sure how it works buying from the box office (i m from HK and first time getting concert tickets in here in case you wonder y i m so stupid =( ) they charged me a whopping 20% of the ticket price... i guess i'd try my best to go to the box office to get 'em next time no matter wat..

That's wild. Does anyone know if Ticketmaster is still doing this?

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