Red Mosquito

96583UP wrote:
Jeff hiding in his Montana lair in the pandemic making angry tracks about the baddies

now charging people $900 a head to come see your show

that’s not the baddies

that’s you

you are the baddie, buddy

you are the baddie

wease wrote:It’s shameful the two guys from the band that testified before congress about all of Ticketmaster’s bullshit fees and monopoly have now fully embraced TM and the scalping of their own tickets. All those comments about trying to keep tickets affordable for their fans. They’ve become the very machine they were raging against.

96583UP wrote:Hi I’m Jeff ament and I charge people $900 to come see my show <giant_fart_noise>

dad wrote:

96583UP wrote:Hi I’m Jeff ament and I charge people $900 to come see my show <giant_fart_noise>

I love this so much.

dad wrote:

96583UP wrote:Hi I’m Jeff ament and I charge people $900 to come see my show <giant_fart_noise>

I love this so much.

armogi wrote:I'm disappointed but glad i'm sitting this one out in a way, what a mess.
Be patient people, let the frenzy settle and check periodically, day of show should also see some good drops, for the locals of course.

wease wrote:It’s shameful the two guys from the band that testified before congress about all of Ticketmaster’s bullshit fees and monopoly have now fully embraced TM and the scalping of their own tickets. All those comments about trying to keep tickets affordable for their fans. They’ve become the very machine they were raging against.

wease wrote:It’s shameful the two guys from the band that testified before congress about all of Ticketmaster’s bullshit fees and monopoly have now fully embraced TM and the scalping of their own tickets. All those comments about trying to keep tickets affordable for their fans. They’ve become the very machine they were raging against.

Captain Termite wrote:

i got bugs wrote:Why is there only a pre-sale with a code and not a sale?

It's not a fucking pre-sale if there's no sale, that makes the pre-sale the actual sale

Why don't you think there will be a non-code sale? I'm pretty confident there will be.

Many of Pearl Jam's most loyal fans are teenagers who do not have the money to pay the $50 or more that is often charged today for tickets to a popular concert. Although, given our popularity, we could undoubtedly continue to sell-out our concerts with ticket prices at that premium level, we have made a conscious decision that we do not want to put the price of our concerts out of the reach of many of our fans. Moreover, we do not want to be responsible for teenagers, who may be influenced by peer pressure to feel that they must see Pearl Jam perform, spending more money for that concert ticket than they can really afford. All of the members of Pearl Jam remember what it is like not to have a lot of money, and we recognize that a teenager's perceived need to see his or her favorite band in concert can often be overwhelming.
For these reasons, we have attempted to keep the ticket prices to our concerts to a maximum of $18. We have also tried to limit any service charges that may be imposed on the sale of those tickets to 10 percent of the ticket price, and to ensure that any service charge will be separately identified from the price of the ticket itself so that fans know how much is being charged for the ticket and how much is being added on by the company selling the ticket. As a result, even where a service charge is imposed, our goal is to make it so that no one will pay more than $20 to see a Pearl Jam concert.

Our efforts to try to keep prices for tickets to our concerts to this low level and to limit the possibility of excessive service charge mark-ups have put us at odds with Ticketmaster.

The level of the service charge is not the only problem that Pearl Jam faces in connection with the sale of tickets to its concerts. Beyond the excessive service charges there are the problems of ticket scalping, counterfeiting, and commercial advertising on tickets. For example, at some of our recent concerts, an informal poll of fans in the audience revealed that more than 40 percent of them bought their tickets from ticket brokers. At many of our concerts, we are experiencing a counterfeit ticket rate of about 2.5 to 3%. And at one recent concert in Boston, we learned that some of these counterfeit tickets had been sold to fans for $250.

The problems of ticket scalping and counterfeiting are not new or unique to Pearl Jam concerts. There are, however, steps that can be taken to address those problems. These include specific monitoring to ensure that when tickets to a concert go on sale to the public, none are held back for the benefit of ticket brokers.