as for myself, i wouldn’t give the lousy f**kers a single dime of my money, because doing so only condones and encourages more douchebags to scalp. ticketmaster, et al (also middlemen) already get enough of our money, so why should we hand over even more to scalpers, who’ve done NOTHING at all to earn it?? no friggin way, scalpers are lowlife scoundrels, imo.

honest people have busy lives and shouldn’t have to compete with scalpers, whose only interest is to buy up as many tickets as they can and re-sell them to honest fans at exorbitant prices. there’s another word for what scalpers do, it’s called extortion.

and ‘professional’ scalpers will often setup multiple accounts (under various names) and use different credit cards to conceal their activities. it’s a lucrative business for them, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.

scalpers are no better than thieves. actually, they are even lower, b/c at least a ‘real thief’ takes some risk in what they do, whereas the scalper just sits at his computer, waiting to ’steal’ a bunch of tickets online, then makes a handsome profit by extorting the real fans.

it’s not fair that scalped tickets go to the highest bidder, because that excludes a lot of people – true fans – who perhaps can’t afford to pay exorbitant scalper fees.

why should someone who can afford to pay a scalper get to attend an event, when someone else who cannot afford to pay – but a true fan nonetheless – be denied the opportunity to see their favourite act, etc?

it’s not right, and i wish people would simply refuse to buy tickets from scalpers. that’s the only way to put them out of business.

only way to combat this theft is to never, ever buy a ticket from a scalper(tickets.now)

so you think that in that 35 seconds that people bought tickets and got with ticket now to resale them? i dont think so

ticketmaster is total crap and will never buy through them again, even if it means that i dont get to see the music that i want to, and that is bull@&*#

Someone has actually started a campaign to improve software quality worldwide. More people should get involved.

The campaign involves exposing software bugs to the public, so that software companies and websites are forced to release better software!

concerts are a wonderful expeiriences filled with the music you love. but all people care about is money and itss ruining the world

i hate ticketmaster more than i can even explain

The big worry for me what if ticketmaster starts selling its primary inventory in large blocks on ticketsnow for double the price of face value? Then no one gets a fair chance. There are tons of other sites out there to choose from, so you can avoid using both ticketmaster and ticketsnow if you like. Tickex, http://www.tickex.com is a lot of help finding these other sites…….

I personally am a big fan of live performance events; sports, music, theatre, etc. I also oversee strategic web monetization systems for many client sites – this includes using TN, TM, SH, RG and many other ticket “broker” sites as revenue streams through their affiliate programs.

I’ll be the first to agree, on a personal level, that this is terrible news for the “average” consumer, but the sad reality is that this is an industry where the value proposition is directly linked to the maximum amount that the richest segment of the client base is willing to pay.

So if the very rich are willing to pay $250K/year for season tickets to X arena, well, the aftermarket will adjust their pricing accordingly.

It’s just sad that these “little” deals are not subject to more scrutiny by anti-trust agencies in the various government levels.

Robin

The business plan itself included rolling up 6 major brokers across North America and Europe. The start up of a marketplace by creating a ticketboard in Europe and aligning all the individual brokers across Europe.

Also discussed was the purchase of ticketsnow and how much it would cost to do so. The company value as discussed was quoted at $200 million.

This could not be sold to ticketmaster because they already own the ticketexchange. We said the ticketexchange was going nowhere and were proven right by recent developments.

This information was obviously passed onto ticketmaster by the AEG representatives. Incase you did not know, AEG recently agreed to sell thier tickets through the ticketmaster exchange, to avoid fans complaining about high ticket prices and corner the secondary market.

The anonymous company’s representative encouraged not to purchase ticketsnow and instead to work with the brokers in creating their own board to have full control of their markets, clients, interests and industry and sell it as a publicly traded company.

The rep who was in the meeting on behalf of AEG and Ticketmaster “unofficial rep” agreed to other meetings for further discussions to follow up on the proposed business plan which never materialized.

This move by ticketmaster is to keep the brokers fractured and to buy time until digital ticketing technology which is presently being tested in Australia is implemented into their ticketing solutions. Also to solidify their monopoly.

I suggest any broker who has issues with the happenings which have occurred and has interest in the future of their business should contact the regulatory commission and submit any reasons why the purchase of tickets by ticketmaster should not happen.