Welcome to TicketMaster. How may we fleece you today?
- Two mid-priced tickets to the Circus: $52.
- Facility charge: $4.00
- “Convenience” Charge to use our lousy website: $11.90
- Order Processing Fee: $4.95
- TicketFast® delivery – cause it takes us TWO WEEKS to print and mail two tickets, so you may not get them in time: $4.95
- Total: $77.40
- Are you sure you don’t want to add another $7 per ticket to insure against not being able to make the event due to illness, airline delay or traffic accidents? (Cause 50% isn’t enough of a markup; we’d love to make it 75%.)
How, in an economy as market driven and litigious as the US has TicketMaster managed to become such an effective monopoly and not be priced – or sued – out of existence?
2 Comments:
Dear Oskar,
As much as i agree with you that TM fees are outrages, i have to play devils advocat here... If only you could envision yourself leaving the comfort of your own home and drive yourself to a box office of every venue you'd like to go, maybe then you'd be able to save some money...
That's my 10c on this subject. How are you and family?
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:24:00 PM
So A) I don't go to enough events that I even knew you COULD still go to the box office - they certainly don't advertise that too clearly and B) sure, but that is - and this is where I play straight into TicketMaster's marketing - inconvenient.
B) not withstanding, there should be more competition in the online selling of tickets, it's just not right that TicketMaster gets as large a share of the revenue as the event location/performer.
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:58:00 PM
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