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Sad fact but if you don’t want to shop with ticket master I think it’s going to be pretty hard to go to a show these days
I almost never buy from Ticketmaster and go to 100+ shows a year
Nice, are you mostly going to club shows. For the people wanting to go to arena shows there’s not much of a choice
Club shows, free shows and yes, arena and stadium shows - I just don't buy the tickets from Ticketmaster even if they end up in my TM account. I almost always buy day of show. If too expensive or unavailable it's OK not to go.
You must live in a very large city then? Lots of people need to buy ahead to travel and book accommodation.
Los Angeles. I have also traveled, including booking travel abroad to sold out shows without tickets.
Ticketmaster is taking all the heat while big artist rake in cash. Artist have a say in ticket prices but why worry about affordability when everyone will blame Ticketmaster?
Not an artist choice, it’s a venue decision. And why would the venue not select Ticketmaster as their preferred provider when Ticketmaster built the venue?
None of that would solve the issue though. You’d still have people who obtain tickets re-selling them for way above face value.
Then don't fucking go.
"I mean, they suck, but the alternative is not going to massively overpriced concerts, so what else am I gonna do?" is such a bullshit cop out.
We can blame corpos and billionaires for fucking us over, but "we," as in the average person, continues to bend over willingly; so why would they stop?
Too many people have too little intelligence and too much disposable income.
It’s a valid choice, if you want to see an arena or stadium show is all but impossible to avoid Ticketmaster and sadly tickets are still selling
It’s reached an insane point where people are flying to South America or other markets because tickets are cheaper than the USA including the travel
It’s a wild way to spend to choose money though,
I mean...read that back and really think about it.
Tickets are still selling because people keep buying them.
Hence why I said "Then don't fucking go".
What kinds of alternative sellers and what artists are you seeing?
I've seen shows listed on Dice, AXS, even sometimes SeeTickets or Eventbrite. They're rarely large venue shows, but "hard to go to a show" is massive overstatement.
Whenever there's a show through DICE I'm on that shit.
Share the alternative sellers rather than just acting smarter than the lot.
You worry too much about internet points.
Then don’t go
That’s kind of what I’m saying, for large shows the choice is Ticketmaster or don’t go
I think we’re hitting a pricing ceiling where people are at the don’t go point but tickets are still selling and venues are still full for the most part