Why tickets.com?

[whitneybrook]

Why does 930 only allow its tickets to be sold through tickets.com? The reason I ask is because the fees associated with tickets.com purchases are much higher than ticketmaster ($9 for two tickets plus $3.75 for distribution whether they are mailed or picked up at will call.)  That's easily twice the normal ticketmaster rate for a similar $15 Black Cat advanced purchase through ticketmaster.  Does 930 club think it's making a stand against ticketmaster (undermined by the IPM ticketmaster situation--I assume through the website that IPM an 930 are related)? If so, how do we feel about 930 making a stand at our expense? How valuable is that stand when the main objection to ticketmaster has been that it can over charge due to its 'monopoly'? Is 930 getting a kickback from tickets.com--or are they otherwise affilitated--which would suggest that the 930 club is really just charging more than the face value/ticket for those who purchase tickets online. If this is not the case and 930 club only gets the face value, I encourage them to consider ticketmaster; you and your customers are losing out otherwise.

[Random Citizen]

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[Seth Hurwitz]

I'll say it again
 
 we are capitalists trying to make as much money as we can from all of this
 
 that doesn't mean we don't care about our customers, it just means we try to maximize profits
 
 as far as the consumer goes, it's classic supply & demand - if you feel the total price of a ticket is too much, you shouldn't go
 
 if you want to worry about how that total ticket price was arrived at, that's up to you, but it won't change anything

[eltee]

Originally posted by wbm900:
  the fees associated with tickets.com purchases are much higher than ticketmaster ($9 for two tickets plus $3.75 for distribution whether they are mailed or picked up at will call.)  

I haven't really performed a study, but through my experience tickets.com is a few bucks cheaper. With ticketbastarder, I've found w/ one ticket (will call / snail mail) I've tacked on mucho dinero in fees to an otherwise decent ticket cost. Seriously, where are you finding your tickets at ticketbastarder - the bargain bin?
 Club has box office hours w/ $1 service charge.
 Ticketbastarder box offices hold higher fees.
 (I'm quoting correctly on those, right?)

[eltee]

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
 I haven't really performed a study, but through my experience tickets.com is a few bucks cheaper. With ticketbastarder, I've found w/ one ticket (will call / snail mail) I've tacked on mucho dinero in fees to an otherwise decent ticket cost. Seriously, where are you finding your tickets at ticketbastarder - the bargain bin?
 Club has box office hours w/ $1 service charge.
 Ticketbastarder box offices hold higher fees.
 (I'm quoting correctly on those, right?)

yeah, you really should be talking about ticket prices blondie.

[distance]

unless you can buy tickets at the box office (which i never can), you'd be screwed with service charges no matter which company.  ticketmaster is just as bad.
 
 protix never had a website to order through did they?

[sonickteam2]

the only thing that pisses me off is this
 
   I decide to but tickets for the Tragically Hip because i think they are going to sell out.
 
   $25 a piece or $64.25 for 2!
 
   I figure thats pretty steep, so I'll wait til i get there on the 25th to buy my Death Cab For Cutie tickets.
 
  NOPE.  Sold out that morning apparently.  and furthermore, the Tragically hip never sold out at all.  
 
   not a gripe about tickets.com just a pisser of a situation caused by my refusal to pay an extra $7-$10 per ticket.  it really causes me to miss a lot of shows.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by distance:
  unless you can buy tickets at the box office (which i never can), you'd be screwed with service charges no matter which company.  ticketmaster is just as bad.
 
 protix never had a website to order through did they?

yeah they did right before tickets.com bought them...

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

I will say one thing......it's a helluva lot harder to get ticks in person from tickets.com than ticketmaster......not very many outlets at all for tickets.com...or maybe I'm just pissed because I have a Tower less than 10 minutes from home and god only knows where the hell the nearest tickets.com outlet is!.....who knows....

[J'Mal]

seth,
 
 as oingo boingo once sang, there's nothing wrong with capitalism, there's nothing wrong with free enterprise.....
 
 but then, why not say that a ticket is $30, instead of $15 with $15 worth of service charges?  Sometimes it feels that way....
 
 wouldn't you also make more $$$ if you just set up your own ticketing website?  then you can raise the ticket prices and eliminate the charges, or keep the charges for yourself.
 
 frankly, why ticketmaster is necessary in this day and age?  especially when they don't own the venue...

[kosmo vinyl]

cue ggw

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by The O' Rotten Factor:
  I will say one thing......it's a helluva lot harder to get ticks in person from tickets.com than ticketmaster......not very many outlets at all for tickets.com...or maybe I'm just pissed because I have a Tower less than 10 minutes from home and god only knows where the hell the nearest tickets.com outlet is!.....who knows....

not the easiet link to find but
 
 http://www.tickets.com/b2b/maryland_virginia_outlets.html

[ggw]

Even ggw is tired of this topic, so he's staying out of it.
 
 

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  cue ggw

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Even ggw is tired of this topic, so he's staying out of it.
 
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  cue ggw

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ok... it's just you seem to have better recall regarding the seth quote about how people will still bitch about the service charge even if ticketing  were brought in house.... guess this thread should have closed when seth weighed in.
 
 i'm tired of it too  :roll: