Originally posted by BoomBoom:
No, Richmond. What I'm saying is that the fee is way too high, no matter how far you're coming. It costs them the same to mail a ticket to Richmond as it does to the apartment across the street from the 9:30 Club. But you're paying $3.25 for it. If that's OK with you, OK by me. But it's not OK with me.
Again, I'm not arguing that they have to mail at cost. But $3.25 is outrageous.
What I'm hearing you say, and correct me if I'm wrong, is as follows. If a show is base price $15, then $7.50 in charges is out of line because it's half the ticket price. However, you would be okay with paying $7.50 if the ticket was $30 or $50 or higher since the fee is less than %50 of the base ticket price?
I can see your point when the base price of a show is low and the fees are half of this low baseline. It doesn't make a show very cheap when the 'total' dollars are charged.
One resolution would be to lobby the organization that you feel is in the wrong for a system that charges a progressive service charge. That way, when you see a show that's 15 bucks, the service charge is low, say 2 bucks. Then when Good Charlotte rolls through or you want to attend or Gwen Stefani/Black Eyed Peas and ticket prices are $55 the service fee increases at a corresponding rate.
The underlying idea here is that we would of course avoid this trap because all the bands we like are too indie to charge a high baseline ticket price.
