Ticketmaster website

[walkonby]

i'm crying a river that ticketmaster "rips us off" with ticket fees and charges.  i get excellent seats from ticketmaster on rereleases all the time, and i gladly pay the fees because i'm not a slave to bitching about money.  move out of the city where people's one week rent is the same as my one month mortage, or get a better job and quit bitching about fucking ticket prices.  everyone has to get paid who works. the people at ticketmaster work, so they get paid, and you pay for it.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by walkonby:
   and you pay for it.

Actually, I've proven that I won't pay for it.  The exception being two $25 Smashing Pumpkin Tickets cost me a total of $72.30, which I find absurd.  The only reason I made that exception was because I knew they would sell out long before I had the chance to get to the box office and I was out of town, otherwise I likely would have chanced the box office.
 
 Hey, if it works for you great.  I have decided that it doesn't work for me and found ways around it.  Great.  But don't attack.  Joe Mashmellow said he's having trouble with TM and I gave him my solution.  I haven't seen a solution from you yet...just a lot of bitching at me.  So why don't you refocus your efforts on helping the OP, huh?

[walkonby]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
   and you pay for it.

Actually, I've proven that I won't pay for it.  The exception being two $25 Smashing Pumpkin Tickets cost me a total of $72.30, which I find absurd.  The only reason I made that exception was because I knew they would sell out long before I had the chance to get to the box office and I was out of town, otherwise I likely would have chanced the box office.
 
 Hey, if it works for you great.  I have decided that it doesn't work for me and found ways around it.  Great.  But don't attack.  Joe Mashmellow said he's having trouble with TM and I gave him my solution.  I haven't seen a solution from you yet...just a lot of bitching at me.  So why don't you refocus your efforts on helping the OP, huh? [/b]

i'm sorry; i shouldn't be arguing with you over something as retard as ticketmaster.  i love it as a service.  got me to plenty of great shows with great seats everytime.  so, no solutions from me.  i just find it annoying that people are constantly putting it down because of the charges.  if someone wants to bitch, bitch about how some--930 being the worst--venues charge you for shipping if you pick tickets up at the box office.  now that's a fucking rip off.  but i don't bitch about charges; it doesn't change a thing.  nothing changes anything.  this is america; it's all been already laid out for you.

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by 6949:
 
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i'm in ur internet
 skalping ur ticketz

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by walkonby:
   if someone wants to bitch, bitch about how some--930 being the worst--venues charge you for shipping if you pick tickets up at the box office.  now that's a fucking rip off.  but i don't bitch about charges; it doesn't change a thing.

i was all set to buy tickets on ticketmaster to editors at the fillmore, and there was no charge to print the tickets at home or to have them mailed, but there was a $7.95 service charge and like $5 in taxes for two tickets.  so, 2 $20 tickets turned into 2 $30 tickets.  it is then that i discovered fillmore does not charge any fees on sundays, just the price of the ticket.

[walkonby]

do people like those ticket printer things?  for some reason i hate them, like they're some unreal representation of the good time you have at a show.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by walkonby:
  nothing changes anything.  this is america; it's all been already laid out for you.

Well, I still have hope.
 
 I rarely bitch about ticket prices, and I certainly haven't in this thread (I was quick to drop $90 on Police tickets because I [wrongly] felt they were worth it, and I nearly always drop 3 figures on U2 tickets because I feel that are always worth it).  But as you correctly pointed out, I do bitch about fees and service charges that are associated with tickets through TM and have found my own solutions around them.
 
 But this is a matter of principle for me.  You said earlier that I should get a better paying job - I love my job and I'm pretty sure I'm on the higher end of wage earners on this board so I don't avoid TM because I can't afford it.  But I have never forgotten what it was like when I couldn't afford the charges.  There are at least 5 other companies that have figured out how to pay their employees and still not charge the (what I consider exhorbitant) fees that TM does.  You say TM has to pay their employees - I say they have to pay their shareholders.  And I don't want to pay their shareholders.  Or be any part of Barry Dillers $300 Million annual salary package.

[xneverwherex]

which reminds me of how last night a friend was bitching about the service charges on ticketweb $5 maybe, and i cant figure out how it was so much (mine werent - but i was purchasing more tix, is prob the reason why), so she didnt get tix assuming she could show up at the venue. sure enough it sold out and the venue had a fairly long queue of people hoping to get tix for the show.
 
 which is why for nyc shows, i nearly always buy tix ahead of time or try and get to a venue if i can for certain shows with sky high service charges. if not, i just eat the charges and thank my stars i can see xyz band. but i refuse to buy from ticketmaster for some tix where the service charges are 30% in addition to ticket prices. its so not worth it, and ill take the chance of a sell out  

[ggw]

How much does the venue dictate service charges?  
 
 QOTSA at Rams Head was $25 + ~$12 in service charges.  The Ponys at Black Cat was $10 + $3.75 in charges.  That's a pretty big spread.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  How much does the venue dictate service charges?  
 
 QOTSA at Rams Head was $25 + ~$12 in service charges.  The Ponys at Black Cat was $10 + $3.75 in charges.  That's a pretty big spread.

for interpol, playing at the bill graham civic center, the "convenience charge" is $9 per ticket.  "processing charge" is $4.90.  no charge to mail the tickets.