AC/DC just announced another ahow in January and I again was on at 10 and this time it was worse…as God is my witness over the course of an hour 11 times it came up at various attempts with some decent floor seats BUT when I hit proceed I got an error message saying there had been a technical error processing my request please try again.

11 frikin times!! I also have an account and go to a lot of concerts and also end up either doing the Craigslist thing or Eprey.

I love how their “partner” Ticket’s Now had about 50 postings at 10:05 for all manner of tickets at multiples of face value and ridiculous service charges.

Pretty sad indeed.

Isn’t that scalping, which is illegal?

I know for certain when selling tickets on eBay you have to actually have a real item that you’re selling, then add in the tickets as a ‘gift’.

Why would they do this? Because they sold seats that were not valid for the configuration being used for the concert. And whose mistake was this? Most certainly some kind of mistake between TicketBastard, the venue, and the band. And who will suffer from it? The fans. The fans with presale codes. The dedicated fans who are fan club members. The fans who got in early and scored hot seats right away. No, they did not get upgraded to better sections. No, they did not get equivalent seats. They were shuffled off to the crappiest seats available, the ones no one would buy.

Talk about bastards. Jesus H Christ. Bait and Switch thievery!

There’s gotta be a very good reason why they’ve continued to succeed despite spawning pool after pool of increasingly irate customers. I think it starts with the agents who book the big name performers. They probably get a hefty kickback by arranging to sell exclusively through ticketmaster—my guess is that the performers we know and love don’t even know about it or don’t care enough to… (ugh) just disappointing.

It disgusts me how much these same performers are venerated for donating to various good causes yet they do nothing to help respecting fans who made them rich in the first place.

Second, they are faceless middlemen in entire scheme and their employees don’t feel the hurt when customers are unable to make their anger known. Feel free to dial up your local ticketmaster and tell them how you feel, even if you aren’t planning on buying tickets:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/customer_serve.html

*Someone* has got to get to the bottom of this. When is the government going to go after the rat bastards that get away with the big scams again? Do we have to wait for another Enron?

As for me, I’m not going to another show sold by ticketmaster. I know the no-name shows aren’t nearly as entertaining, but f*ck—I’ve gotta have at least a little self-respect.

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