Ticket ripoff!

[Bags]

Originally posted by 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.  

The one question I have is how the fees are set for each show.  I just bought Ambulance Ltd tickets through Ticketmaster, and the fees were only $3.50 on a $10 ticket.  I know, percentage-wise that's a big chunk, but sometimes a $12 ticket will come with $7 or more of fees.  It's all so odd.  I go to the clubs most of the time, but sometimes I just can't get by.  So I PAY for the convenience of online shopping.

[Bags]

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
 some people (myself not included, fortunately) can't go down to the club during its very limited box office hours and buy tickets.

Noon to 11:00 p.m. is limited?  Dude, you're a busy guy (if you are a guy...).

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Bags:
  So I PAY for the convenience of online shopping.

NO! You are paying for a stamp! Forget convenience! 32 cents! Focus only on that!!

[Bags]

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
  Man, I would have thought their would have been fewer rah-rah capitalists in a rock club forum. What is the world coming to? Must be because it's D.C. -- conformist, conservative and comfortably smug. I'm sure that Tickets.com is lavishing huge salaries on its employees and paying them Cadillac benefits. C'mon -- these fees are lining the pockets of the execs and the club owners. Bottom line: they are not reasonable fees. They are a ripoff.

Now I think you're just trying to be an ass.  Yeah, like telemarketers are always reaping in the cash hand over fist.
 
 As to the lack of 'rah rah', we've been over this argument a hundred times on here.  We've heard it all before, debated it all before, and realize that either it's important to us to go to shows so we get tickets whichever way we can, or we boycott.  Some folks on here definitely buy fewer tickets and have said so.  So far, no cause-and-effect surcharge price drops.

[Bags]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
  Cat's Cardle uses etix.com which costs $1/ticket, but there aren't really tickets, just massive will call lists/print outs.

Ugh, and how annoying is that.  Bowery Ballroom does that, and you can't sell tickets you can't use.  While it's good for scalping, a PAIN in the ASS if you just can't go to a show, but can only 'sell' your ticket if you show up.  
 
 See, no fee, no convenience.

[brennser]

Some folks on here definitely buy fewer tickets and have said so.  

shit, Mankie moved to Ireland rather than pay tickets.com convenuience fees....now THATS sticking to your principles   :p

[helicon1]

Originally posted by Bags:
   

Originally posted by 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.  

The one question I have is how the fees are set for each show.  I just bought Ambulance Ltd tickets through Ticketmaster, and the fees were only $3.50 on a $10 ticket.  I know, percentage-wise that's a big chunk, but sometimes a $12 ticket will come with $7 or more of fees.  It's all so odd.  I go to the clubs most of the time, but sometimes I just can't get by.  So I PAY for the convenience of online shopping. [/b]

I just want the Black cat to build a proper box office. Everytime I try and buy tickets, they act as if I'm asking them to complete a calculus test.

[Bags]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  they add a $3.25 mailing fee which they charge you even if you Will Call tickets.

That I've never understood.  It's just work for the CLUB to handle Will Call tix, not tickets.com or ticketbastard.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Bags:
   

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  they add a $3.25 mailing fee which they charge you even if you Will Call tickets.

That I've never understood.  It's just work for the CLUB to handle Will Call tix, not tickets.com or ticketbastard. [/b]

Admittedly that sounds funny, but I'm sure the intended purpose is to have a certain fee per ticket, and a certain fee that's per order. It's all convenience, though.
 
 I'll never understand people cutting off their own nose over disliking how things are labeled on an invoice, which is really what this is.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:
  I just want the Black cat to build a proper box office. Everytime I try and buy tickets, they act as if I'm asking them to complete a calculus test.

Yeah - That's annoying as hell.  If I'm just buying one ticket, I'll just go to an outlet and pick it up.  It's worth the $3.50 to not stand there for 10 minutes waiting for the guy to show up, or hoping they even remember to go get him.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
  they will never, ever question their beloved 9:30 Club. They will defend it, no matter how irrational their arguments are, or how incorrect the 9:30 Club might be. Some of them will even defend $15 for a cup of Yuengling.
 

That's because IT'S THE GREATEST CLUB IN THE WORLD.  And y'all know I'm not being facetious.  

[Bags]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
  So how many Confederate Flags and lawn jockeys do you own? And did you stomp on anybody to get your pc?

Tickets.com mailing fee- $3.25
 Rhett Miller's attempts at changing the fight- Priceless. [/b]

Shit that made me laugh...

[Bags]

Originally posted by BoomBoom:
  I have offered constructive criticism: competition. Why does 9:30 have exclusive agreements with Tickets.com and IMP with TicketMaster?

9:30 is the one that stepped up to support competition.  It went with tickets.com, the ONLY entity posing competition to ticketmaster.  You argue for EXACTLY what 9:30 did.  It did it's best in trying to foster competition, which in the end didn't do much to change the fees, but there was an attempt.

[Bags]

I'm clearly the only one still in my office on my computer on a Friday.  I gotta get the hell out of here.....  xo

[challenged]

I think all of the complainers here just need to work harder to make more money so that you won't feel compelled to bitch about the small dollar stuff.  
 
 Also, I bought tickets from Strathmore Hall for the Ben Folds and Elvis Costello shows.  There were no service charges at all and they have their own ticketing system.  It was very efficient.  The tickets, however, are ungodly expensive even without the service charges.  So, back to the first point...make more $$$.