iReport - The Trouble with Ticketmaster

A mini-documentary on the fractured ticket-buying process on Ticketmaster and the shady scalping on Tickets Now, one of their companies.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Ticketmaster
• Tickets_Now
• Phish
• Scalping

[PHAmanNYC]

Vguiterrez.... Thanks much -- I might just have to expose them, too. If no one blow the whistle, then we ALL lose...

[PHAmanNYC]

Additionally, in terms of my "complaining" -- the patriots who fought the American Revolutionary War all started out by "complaining" about British oppression, Simon Bolivar and Che Guevara could have been called "Latin American complainers" instead of liberators and heroes. Were all the Iranians who protested and died for their rights contesting the recent botched elections over there simply complaining? I know my plight is nothing compared to those, but refusing to see a point? Can't help..

[PHAmanNYC]

Well, vguiterrez, I cannot argue with the fact that, no, I am not the only person looking for tickets on Ticketmaster. Obviously, you didn't catch the true meaning of this expose -- that Ticketmaster is up to some shady, in-house price-gouging through their TicketsNow subsidiary. As for using an alias to get the tickets I want, well, if you cannot GET INTO THE SYSTEM, that makes your idea a bit ineffective to say the least...

[PHAmanNYC]

Azurite -- thanks for providing a little insight here for all of us left in the dark regarding the inner workings of Ticketmaster. I completely understand the role that TM plays in the sale of tickets...and some of the hardship and heartache for popular tickets like Phish simply cannot be avoided. Oh well, life sucks. HOWEVER, I STILL maintain there is something EXTREMELY suspect about the Tickets Now/Ticketmaster relationship. I mean, tickets being scalped BY a TM company only 7 mins in???

[runnersdialzero33]

Just happened to myself, my girlfriend, and about 30-40 other people on a couple message boards we're on trying to get tickets. NONE of us got tickets. We've been trying for four hours now. Christ.

[snhagood]

I wanted to see Lady Gaga in Pittsburgh in September. My friend got on their website and endured the same thing you did. She and I both have bad backs so we were hoping to get a seat, so when we needed to we could sit down. Of course they were "sold out" so we and two other friends put together all the money we could afford to get GA tickets, for twice what they were selling for. This show is literally gonna be the death of me.

[TITANIUMDX]

An alternative is desperately needed for both:

TicketMaster / LiveNation and Fandango / MovieTickets.

Last but not least, all of these venues need to be much cleaner, especially the bathrooms and garbage removal.

Really ridiculous to charge so much for substandard service.

[Schiminator]

I never had problem with GETTING the tickets... Its just that the fees are outrageous...

[ominus011]

Finally someone who sees Ticketmaster the way I do. Their bullshit extra charges and Tickets Now... Unfortunately I am a regular customer of their services for sports related events, but thankfully the convenience charge isn't as much as it is for concerts. Concert convenience charges can be $12 more for concerts! Plus an extra $5 for online processing!

[vguiterrez]

you should expose ticketexchange too. same s%$# different name, FYI its the same call center that sells ticketsnow and ticketexchange.

[vguiterrez]

your not the only one looking for tix, why dont you buy tix for example john gabriel or some other no namer and you get front row so you can stop complaining.