Ticketmaster

How does this happen in America… Do we not have laws about monopolies???
Take a company with lots of money and influence, add a bunch of corrupt politicians and even more money and influence and you get Ticketmaster.
Really, they have no competition! We have very strick laws in this country that seem to be ignored when it comes to this company. 2 — $ 14 ticket through Ticketmaster = $ 44 … WTF!!!
To all the Local, National and other politicians! STAND UP FOR THE LAWS THE PEOPLE BEFORE YOU CREATED. EMPTY YOUR POCKETS AND BE AMERICANS — or maybe that is really what this is, modern day America!
I Hate Ticketmaster!!!
After this event, back to only small private venues! Sorry Roller Girls!
KT

A couple of years ago I was visiting Minneapolis and was going to see Of Montréal. I realized I had forgotten my tickets, went to the library to print them out and I couldn’t find the link in my email anywhere. I sat on hold for almost 30 minutes before I was told that they would email them again. I waited and waited and the email never showed up. I called back, waited another 20 minutes and then hung up and didn’t go to the show. At that point I was going to be late getting there and I figured it just wasn’t worth it.
But that’s not my problem. I just went to buy tickets to see the Cold War Kids at the Fine Line in October. The Fine Line says the tickets are $ 15 but Ticketmaster says they are $ 13.50. Do you want to know how much two tickets cost after all of the fees? $ 49. It costs $ 5 for me to PRINT the tickets myself, yet it is free for them to have someone print them, stick them in an envelope and then pay postage to mail them to me.
Ticketmaster, are they going to serve me gold on a plate during the show? Will you have The Office’s John Krasinski fly in to make sweet love to me while telling me how pretty I am? Are bedazzled monkies going to drop money from the heavens? Are the Cold War Kids going to come back to my house after the show and bring tons of beer with them?
I didn’t think so. ‘Tis bullshit.