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I'm no fan of Ticketmaster but shouldn't the blame game focus on The Swift Tour promoter, AEG? In my simplistic mind

Posted by zunk takes things literally (aka zunkskunk) Nov 18 '22, 07:19

the promoter books the venue therefore controls the tickets. Seems they would tell TM you have XXX amount for fan presale, XXX for credit card presale, XXX for general public. If there's truly no tickets left for public sale, where did they go? I can't see TM selling tickets they don't have.
Is the real issue AEG released too many for presale or are they holding them back? Or is AEG screwing TM which is owned by their promotion competitor, Live Nation?

OK, now I sound like a conspiracy theorist.

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I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's obvious the tickets should have been much more expensive. -- nm - MDH Nov 18, 07:39 2
- Or at least have put better limits on tickets purchased. The girl we heard that bought six is kind of crazy. - Spawn Nov 18, 07:43 1
  - That is my point. In a 60K stadium, Couldn't they do 30K fan club, 15K CC, 15K general public (or whatever breakdown). The issue is nothing for GP. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 18, 07:55
I'm not hating the players, I'm hating the game. I want to go back to just a time where all tickets available went on sale, 1st come, 1st served. - Epiphany Nov 18, 07:23 10
- I'm totally good with pre-sales. It lets the biggest fans get first shot. But it shouldn't be all of the seats (it usually isn't). The big failure - pmb Nov 18, 07:41
- Agree on surge pricing. It's the industry's way of trying to realize demand has skyrocketed due to prices. -- nm - MDH Nov 18, 07:40 1
  - somehow U2, Springsteen et al sold out stadiums for years on end without price gouging the same fan bases - hollywood big shot Nov 18, 07:56
- I experienced surge pricing when Springsteen went on sale. I had to settle for 1 at $300 because 2 in the same section were $700 each. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 18, 07:28 1
  - Surge pricing is really offensive, though I get it from the artist perspective. Basically surge pricing is just taking the secondary market and - pmb Nov 18, 07:39
- Right? - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 07:27 4
  - There were fewer organized scalpers back then. -- nm - pmb Nov 18, 07:43
  - 100% agree -- nm - Epiphany Nov 18, 07:30 2
    - I now feel like Greg Cote giving a Back in My Day -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 18, 07:33 1
      - me too. LOL -- nm - Epiphany Nov 18, 08:08
Only a quick read through tweets led me to believe it was the fact that they allowed buyers to buy up to 6 tickets. Not sure who gets the blame. - Volnelk Nov 18, 07:22 1
- it all your student's fault!! -- nm - decline Nov 18, 07:23
FYI on your IM. Ticketmaster has owned Live Nation since 2010 -- nm - oblique Nov 18, 07:22 1
- Had it bacwards. Thanks. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Nov 18, 07:23
Taylors been pretty quiet about it -- nm - budice Nov 18, 07:20

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