Not enough of a big deal is made about the 'premium' tickets. I hate the concept in general but if you wanna say the first few rows are premium, then fine. That's how it started off years ago.
MSG recently put up numerous sections of premium tickets. Practically whole sections on the 100-levels. We had already seen a ton of premium seats across from the stage, now the middle sections.....so ok, im sorry, HOW many sections were reserved in entirety as 'premium' tickets? Did MSG just reserve like half of the 100-level seats as 'premium' tickets? As in, most of the good seats for the show? There are seats in the back row of the 100s that are selling for 'face value' at 800 dollars because they were premium. The back row of the 100 level section when the arena only HAS floor, 100 level, and 200 level?
Im sorry but when you have like most of your decent seats reserved as 'premium' tickets you aren't having premium tickets, you are just selling $800 tickets for the lower section. This isn't premium seats, this is just $800 ticket prices.
This is really just nonsense IMO, especially coming from a band that used to stand up for their fans. I know they likely are not fully responsible, and that Ticketmaster does this automatically, but man this is just absurd that they are allowing this to happen.
Of course now they are like $400-500 not $800 when they started. And probably once they've exploited as many people willing to pay as they can, they will just sell them for cheap , and take zero loss. Ticketmaster has always been problematic, but as somebody who has been using them for 20 years they have become 10x worse in the last few years. If Pearl Jam fought them in the 90s I can't imagine what they must think now? Like we thought fees were bad but they are marking up tickets by like 6x face value for most of the good seats in the arena now?
mikejasond wrote:Not enough of a big deal is made about the 'premium' tickets. I hate the concept in general but if you wanna say the first few rows are premium, then fine. That's how it started off years ago.
MSG recently put up numerous sections of premium tickets. Practically whole sections on the 100-levels. We had already seen a ton of premium seats across from the stage, now the middle sections.....so ok, im sorry, HOW many sections were reserved in entirety as 'premium' tickets? Did MSG just reserve like half of the 100-level seats as 'premium' tickets? As in, most of the good seats for the show? There are seats in the back row of the 100s that are selling for 'face value' at 800 dollars because they were premium. The back row of the 100 level section when the arena only HAS floor, 100 level, and 200 level?
Im sorry but when you have like most of your decent seats reserved as 'premium' tickets you aren't having premium tickets, you are just selling $800 tickets for the lower section. This isn't premium seats, this is just $800 ticket prices.
This is really just nonsense IMO, especially coming from a band that used to stand up for their fans. I know they likely are not fully responsible, and that Ticketmaster does this automatically, but man this is just absurd that they are allowing this to happen.
Of course now they are like $400-500 not $800 when they started. And probably once they've exploited as many people willing to pay as they can, they will just sell them for cheap , and take zero loss. Ticketmaster has always been problematic, but as somebody who has been using them for 20 years they have become 10x worse in the last few years. If Pearl Jam fought them in the 90s I can't imagine what they must think now? Like we thought fees were bad but they are marking up tickets by like 6x face value for most of the good seats in the arena now?
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I was a bit annoyed then, but I’m more annoyed now realizing they’ve been sitting on entire amazing sections to make the show look scarce only revealing that they have a ton of seats that they hadn’t even put up for sale at all, and that even more seats are premium than we already thought.
mikejasond wrote:I was a bit annoyed then, but I’m more annoyed now realizing they’ve been sitting on entire amazing sections to make the show look scarce only revealing that they have a ton of seats that they hadn’t even put up for sale at all, and that even more seats are premium than we already thought.
yeah this is absolutely insane. i dunno how any of this is legal. buying tickets through TM was always annoying, but this is just nut.
it's amazing how 'sold out' events have more and more tickets available the closer we get to the show lol. i'm getting to the point where if i don't get tickets through the ten club i'm not going.
warehouse wrote:it's amazing how 'sold out' events have more and more tickets available the closer we get to the show lol. i'm getting to the point where if i don't get tickets through the ten club i'm not going.
where can i get a 'ticketmaster sucks' tshirt?
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But yeah, it seems like only TayTay actually sells out concerts now
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