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Stickman wrote:The Cure Call Out Artists Who Enable Ticketmaster Dynamic Pricing ‘Scam’: ‘It’s Driven by Greed’

Yeah, Pearl Jam!!!

Is this dynamic pricing thing the reason Deftones tickets are like 300 bucks

Dynamic pricing should be illegal, loathe that scummy shit. It's not just Ticketmaster doing it either; I went to the fucking Shedd Aquarium the other day and they were doing it. Absolute bullshit.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Dynamic pricing should be illegal, loathe that scummy shit. It's not just Ticketmaster doing it either; I went to the fucking Shedd Aquarium the other day and they were doing it. Absolute bullshit.

see also airline tickets and ski passes

Disney world uses it as well

I hate them as much as the next guy, but places have been changing prices based on demand since forever.

Cheaper prices on the weekday at amusement parks to drive people in.
Shedd's is probably trying to lower attendance on a busy day.

I don't know how to win.

Well, I guess I do, and that's the problem. No one wants to have to play games and strategize just to buy a fucking ticket.

tragabigzanda wrote:

B wrote:I hate them as much as the next guy, but places have been changing prices based on demand since forever.

Cheaper prices on the weekday at amusement parks to drive people in.
Shedd's is probably trying to lower attendance on a busy day.

I don't know how to win.

Well, I guess I do, and that's the problem. No one wants to have to play games and strategize just to buy a fucking ticket.

The bold is a fixed, predictable model, and it's at a single location. That's wildly different from a dynamically variable global marketplace controlled by a monopoly corporation (this includes ski resorts due to their network pass programs).

Yeah, i wasn't meaning to defend the practice. I don't know what my point was.

B wrote:I hate them as much as the next guy, but places have been changing prices based on demand since forever.

Cheaper prices on the weekday at amusement parks to drive people in.
Shedd's is probably trying to lower attendance on a busy day.

I don't know how to win.

Well, I guess I do, and that's the problem. No one wants to have to play games and strategize just to buy a fucking ticket.

I mean like Disney literally changes their fast pass prices every 15 minutes depending on demand, how many people are in line, how many in the park, weather, etc. it’s impressively nasty.

Bi_3 wrote:

B wrote:I hate them as much as the next guy, but places have been changing prices based on demand since forever.

Cheaper prices on the weekday at amusement parks to drive people in.
Shedd's is probably trying to lower attendance on a busy day.

I don't know how to win.

Well, I guess I do, and that's the problem. No one wants to have to play games and strategize just to buy a fucking ticket.

I mean like Disney literally changes their fast pass prices every 15 minutes depending on demand, how many people are in line, how many in the park, weather, etc. it’s impressively nasty.

You've had to have a degree in game theory to enjoy Disney for a decade now.

Narrator: …And none of us saw a concert ever again

It doesn’t stop the artist scalpi- er, dynamic pricing bullshit that’s still happening.

wease wrote:It doesn’t stop the artist scalpi- er, dynamic pricing bullshit that’s still happening.

yeah, to me the problem isn't so much the hidden fees. hell, i don't even have a problem with the dynamic pricing (that's an artist decision that can easily be eliminated). it's the access to tickets of scalpers. the stupid queue f's everything up which scalpers are able to circumvent.