Ticketm**ter Dynamic Pricing

[wolfie138]

just become aware of this but apparently they ran it at things like the F1 last year. absolutely ludicrous that they're allowed to get away w/ stuff like this. It's bad enough that the govt let them get a monopoly on tickets, chuck on whatever service charges they feel like, then pull tricks like hive off the best tickets to their own scalping sites before they even go on sale. there's some ridiculuos stories on reddit etc about prices going up x00% from basket to checkout.
much as i love seeing bands, i'm thinking that if i can't get decent tickets from an artist's own presale, i'm going to quit going to concerts if this is what i have to put up w/.

 

[Fluffybob]

Had this coming back from Download Festival in June, Early access for RIP tickets we got lucky but the rest of our gang payed £50 - £100 extra for not getting lucky trying to get tickets whilst driving home.

Ruddy diabolical way to treat customers ! ! ! This will be my last festival if I have to bid for a ticket.

 

[Lysander]

Ticketshafter.

 

[Street]

I tried to get tickets for the F1 at Silverstone next year. We'd decided on a couple places we were happy to sit and the tickets would have been about £470, expensive, but as it was a 40th treat for both of us, thought it would be worth doing. By the time I got through the queuing system the tickets were just under £800 each! Looks like we'll be going to the BTCC again next year instead.

 

[Martynt74]

just become aware of this but apparently they ran it at things like the F1 last year. absolutely ludicrous that they're allowed to get away w/ stuff like this. It's bad enough that the govt let them get a monopoly on tickets, chuck on whatever service charges they feel like, then pull tricks like hive off the best tickets to their own scalping sites before they even go on sale. there's some ridiculuos stories on reddit etc about prices going up x00% from basket to checkout.
much as i love seeing bands, i'm thinking that if i can't get decent tickets from an artist's own presale, i'm going to quit going to concerts if this is what i have to put up w/.

How do they have a monopoly? There are loads of ticket retailers (Seetickets, Bandsintown, ATG etc)

There are lots of issues here, but blaming the government seems a little bizarre.

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Ticketmaster are absolute turd.

I've got tickets to an event this weekend that myself and my partner can no longer attend, but apparently they don't offer ticket transfers on them if i wanted to give them to a friend. The only way to do it is save them to an Apple Wallet and send them to someone, which is no good if you use Google Pay - they say it should work on Google Pay but it doesn't.

I know this kinda thing is to stop touts too but its a bloody PITA! DIdn't realise opting for a mobile ticket over pdf would be so limiting.

 

[dlockers]

Unfortunately the world economics are broken, coupled with a growing wealthy population. Everything must be sold to the highest bidder to keep the system going. "Cost plus margin" is an outdated pricing strategy.

 

[Semple]

They get away with it because fans are happy to pay above and beyond face ticket value. If everyone was against it, then the higher priced tickets wouldn't get sold and they'd have to go back to selling tickets at face value.

It'll be interesting with a COL crisis whether youngsters (who are most likely to be impacted by the increased costs of everything else) will even be buying tickets, let alone those at inflated prices.