Ticket ripoff!

[BoomBoom]

How on Earth does Tickets.com/9:30 Club justify its outrageous ticket fees? The last time I checked, a stamp cost 37 cents. But Tickets.com charges $3.25 to mail tickets -- or will call. And that's on top of another $4. That's a 50% markup if you're going to a $15 show. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

[kosmo vinyl]

who wants to take this one? and behave ok
   

[markie]

Buy tickets at the box office. It costs $1.
 
 What you pay at tickets.com or ticketmaster is a convenience fee. For 930 and Blackcat you do not have to pay it, but you have  to go to the venue to get tickets.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
  How on Earth does Tickets.com/9:30 Club justify its outrageous ticket fees? The last time I checked, a stamp cost 37 cents. But Tickets.com charges $3.25 to mail tickets -- or will call. And that's on top of another $4. That's a 50% markup if you're going to a $15 show. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

Do you like having that box office staffed and open during business hours? They have to pay those employees somehow.
 
 Do you like not having to drive to the venue to get your ticket? Do you like not having to wait in line overnight for shows that will sell out immediately at venue box offices? Internet makes things awfully convenient, doesn't it? Hence you pay for the convenience. No one forces you to buy through tickets.com, as someone said you can go to the venue and pay no fees. You CHOOSE not to. Sort of like, you don't have to eat at a restaurant, but when you CHOOSE to, you can expect them to not sell you food at the price it cost them because you get the convenience of not cooking.

[brennser]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  Buy tickets at the box office. It costs $1.
 

do they still charge the $1 at the box office? for some reason I have not noticed it the last couple of times I've bought tix

[Random Citizen]

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[kosmo vinyl]

Well done gold stars for each of you...
 
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[BoomBoom]

I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for ordering tickets online or over the phone. But more than $7 on a $15 ticket is NOT a reasonable fee. TicketMaster and Tickets.com are basically  monopolies -- they don't compete to sell tickets for the same venues, shows. So they basically charge whatever they want. How much do you think it costs them to set up and maintain an automated Web site? Not much. And they get a huge break on bulk mail. Yet they charge you $3.25 to mail your ticket or hold it at will call. It's indefensible.

[kosmo vinyl]

Second Team take your places

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
   But more than $7 on a $15 ticket is NOT a reasonable fee.

"Actions speak louder then words."
 
 If it was "unreasonable" then you wouldn't have paid it - you would've gone to the venue and bought them without charges. What's that? Too far away? Don't have the time? Guess it was reasonable then, huh?

[BoomBoom]

I didn't pay it. How can you defend this? What is your rationale? Please explain how you find their fees reasonable.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Because they are morons.
 
 

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
  I didn't pay it. How can you defend this?  

[kosmo vinyl]

Nobody is defending them, the fees are what they are... If they are too high for the convience then find some other way to get the tickets.

[CookieMnstr]

And frankly, tickets.com is a business, they need to play their employees just like any other business, as well as benefits.   This is a fact of life, either deal with it, or go to the box office.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Is that why they charge me a 50% markup on my groceries at Giant when I go through the line with a cashier rather than the self checkout line?
 
 

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
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Do you like having that box office staffed and open during business hours? They have to pay those employees somehow.
 
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