Comments on: Editorial: Ticketmaster Is A Scam

By: Joanne

Joanne — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:01 +0000

BUY FROM THE BOX OFFICE

or fans from Craigslist or people at the venue night of. I save tremendously. No way would I have been able to see 3 Eddie Vedder solo shows paying full 85+ dollars per show , I paid 55 bucks from some fan.

Another thing I’ve found helpful is to start to like less known bands. The concerts are smaller, more intimate, and everything is cheaper in general. You can usually go to the box office night of an get a ticket if you live too far to go to the box office beforehand.

By: Apryl

Apryl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:46:59 +0000

I was online 30 minutes before Steely Dan tix went on sale this morning at 10am. I refreshed for the last time at 10 and it allowed me to pick tickets. I was AMAZED that ALL of the “cheap” $75 tix were already SOLD OUT? How is that possible? I smell more Ticketmaster BS. Then I tried to call at 3 minutes after 10 – got through in a few minutes and they kindly offered me tickets for a total of $300. How nice of them. I also think its great that 7 people already had tickets for this 7/26 show up for sale on eBay acking astronomical prices for basically nosebleed seats at the Beacon. Ticketmaster is a severe let down growing worse as the years go on. YOU SUCK TICKETMASTER!!! Thanks for ruining my father’s day gift..

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:18:54 +0000

When I went to buy Oasis tickets the day they went on sale, Ticketmaster had sold out. I went to Ticketsnow and bought the tickets at $165 each (not including service charge and $25 shipping). I got the tickets in the mail, and they had the Ticketmaster logo on them. Apparently, Ticketmaster was selling them at $50 each. What the fuck.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:08 +0000

I just got screwd by ticketmaster as well. If you would please join my facebook group, I just started, Voice your opinions there. Im trying to start a movement, I just sent about 200 invites out.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=8486&uid=91306413335#/group.php?gid=91306413335

By: Sparklydelite

Sparklydelite — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:24:00 +0000

I purchased a 4-day pass to Phish at Red Rocks, and paid and had it confirmed, only to have Ticketmaster cancel the tickets for me and all the other fans who bought them because they said they weren’t supposed to be selling them yet.. They were not supposed to go onsale for another week, but a friend called me and said he had just bought them online. That night I was so excited to have tickets to Phish at Red Rocks I couldbn’t sleep. My friends and I kept calling each other saying how excited we were. The next morning the boom as lowered. CANCELED As you can imagine, Phish tickets are nearly impossible to come by and the ticket site always crash and overload on the actual on-sale dates. Ticketmaster said it was a fluke and canceled 4,000 tickets from people who bought them that way. I suspect that they were supposed to be selling them only to brokers during that time, and they were pissed the actual fans found out. They sent us a cancelation email and said they would send a gift card good for ticketmaster tix in the future, but these days people want the opportunity to actually get the tickets they want more so than wanting a free gift card. The Phish shows go on sale this week to the public, but I know I won’t be able to pull another 4-day pass from ticketmaster. It is a cruel process, and the ticketmaster monopoly should be destroyed.

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By: Kaleah D

Kaleah D — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:14:08 +0000

Today I had the pleasure, if you can call it that, to be on hold with an operator, be online, have someone in a line and my husband also on the phone line to purchase tickets, you may have guessed we really wanted to go.
Anyway 9:59am 30 seconds before tickets go on sale the operator hung up me due to tickets not being on sale – I’m sure if she would’ve said her name the time would’ve changed. My husband gets on line with an operator 10:01 “SOLD OUT” my mom (standing in line) gets to the front 10:05 and yes sold out.Theres hope you might say I’m still online well by the time it stopped cycling for tickets you can guess it “SOLD OUT” we took the measures to day due to all the disappointments we have had in the last year trying to buy tickets for various events. I refuse to purchase my tickets from a ticket master scalper I would sooner pay the guy standing out side the venue cause wouldn’t you know I happen to live in the one place it is legal…………Go figure

By: Steve Washko

Steve Washko — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:32:49 +0000

I purchased tix to phish on October 20th, when i called today to find out where my tickets were they informed me that my order was cancelled and refunded four days after the purchase date…to my surprise I now have no tickets to phish at Hampton and conveniently ticketmaster reps referred me to tickets now for my $1000+ tix…Phuck Scalpers, Phuck Ticketmaster

By: rob

rob — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:27:25 +0000

I tried to get Springsteen tickets, too. However, I was shut out 1 minute after they went on sale. I was able to snag one ticket by using tickmaster charge by phone. I called the Tennesse phone number in order to purchase a ticket in NY. Hopefully, an investigation of ticketmaster and its sales practices will reveal what seems to be a bait and switch scam.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:37 +0000

oh ticketmaster should be broken up by the government. that is like bell, they should be removed from their monopoly standing and broken into little companies.

thankfully i despise most artists live in concert and have only gone to perhapd 5 concerts in my lifetime, and then only because we stumbled on the tickets. Blech, I would never work hard for anything I had to pay for…that’s just stupid.

I also will not line up for food, bars etc., If I cannot get instantly what I want, it’s just not even appearing in my viewfinder.