Ticketmaster 5uxx0rz
Apr. 12th, 2005 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqGeorge Thorogood & the Destroyers are coming to town late next month. I'm not sure if I'm enough of a fan to actually buck up and see them in concert, but I called up Ticketmaster's site to see if there were tickets available. On first try I found two tickets in good seats in a decent section of the arena.
$37.50 per ticket. (not bad)
$.50 "Building Facility Charge" per ticket. (not sure what that is, but it's only $.50)
$8.25 "Convenience Charge" per ticket. Convenience charge? Whose convenience?
$2.50 "Pickup Fee". That is, if I go to the trouble of heading to their outlet, they charge me another $2.50 per ticket to pick them up, but wait...
$5.00 "ticketFast" (Yes, that's how they capitalize it). With this one they email the ticket to you.... and charge you twice what it would cost to pick them up in person. WTF?
So my cheapest option is to pick up the tickets at the window, where I am only shelling out an additional 30% on the ticket price to Ticketmaster.
It seems like just the other day that I was complaining about the airlines where I'll have to pay an additional 27% on top of the tickets.
Do I sense a theme here (besides the fact that I complain a lot)?
$37.50 per ticket. (not bad)
$.50 "Building Facility Charge" per ticket. (not sure what that is, but it's only $.50)
$8.25 "Convenience Charge" per ticket. Convenience charge? Whose convenience?
$2.50 "Pickup Fee". That is, if I go to the trouble of heading to their outlet, they charge me another $2.50 per ticket to pick them up, but wait...
$5.00 "ticketFast" (Yes, that's how they capitalize it). With this one they email the ticket to you.... and charge you twice what it would cost to pick them up in person. WTF?
So my cheapest option is to pick up the tickets at the window, where I am only shelling out an additional 30% on the ticket price to Ticketmaster.
It seems like just the other day that I was complaining about the airlines where I'll have to pay an additional 27% on top of the tickets.
Do I sense a theme here (besides the fact that I complain a lot)?
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Date: 2005-04-12 04:10 pm (UTC)I'd love to see George Thorogood, he rocks ^^
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Date: 2005-04-12 04:15 pm (UTC)If I remember correctly for my Copperfield tickets, you can save yourself the Pickup Fee, or the ticketFast fee, if you purchase your tickets directly at the arena (or any outlet).
However, this is the part that I simply
don'tnever will get. Even if you go out of your way, and purchase your ticket at the arena, they will still charge you a $8.25/ticket convenience fee. WTF? I guess it's just convenient for them to fee us :(no subject
Date: 2005-04-12 04:54 pm (UTC)Their actual minimum ticket price is obviously higher than the number that they quote, and made extra complex by all the ancillary(sp?) fees. They may even be skirting the edge of legality, since you actually cannot buy a ticket from them for the price that they quote. In California, that would be considered "bait and switch", for which they could be sued.
I am glad that I do not go to concerts - Ticketmaster's antics would piss me off no end.
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Date: 2005-04-12 05:02 pm (UTC)Even when I attended the premiere of TLKII: Simba's pride, I had to get the tickets via TicketMaster -.-
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Date: 2005-04-13 06:14 am (UTC)