Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:14 am Posts: 55 Location: In your trunk
good job ticketbastard! hopefully this will further expose ticketmaster as the right hand man for the ticket scalping business and bring some justice to the ticket buyers for once.
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:18 am Posts: 3920 Location: Philadelphia
It's funny how they don't mention the word "scalping" once in the FAQ. I wonder what Clear Channel and Ticketmaster tell the current scalpers that they have been supplying tickets and receiving kickbacks for years? Sorry, we are cutting in on your business which we more than willingly helped build. Fuck Ticketmaster.
Also, now what stops ticketmaster from scalping its own tickets for better profits? If there are five thousand tickets for an event, all they have to do is sell four thousand and scalp the rest directly on their website for whatever price they see fit.
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Reread the FAQ, Ticketmaster is not scalping any tickets. All they are doing is enabling a secure fan-to-fan transaction. Basically like what Ebay does but with no risk to the purchaser.
I have season tickets for hockey and the hockey club offers this. Yes, the hockey club gets a piece of the action but they also provide the security that purchasers prefer over Ebay. My experience is that purchaser will pay a premium to buy tickets this way than with Ebay.
Reread the FAQ, Ticketmaster is not scalping any tickets. All they are doing is enabling a secure fan-to-fan transaction. Basically like what Ebay does but with no risk to the purchaser.
It's not 'fan-to-fan' it's 'buyer-to-seller'. All this does is make it easier for amatuer ticket scalpers to operate online. But you are correct and my headline is wrong, technically ticketmaster is not doing the scalping. They are just getting a transaction fee from each sale.
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:18 am Posts: 3920 Location: Philadelphia
broken_iris wrote:
tyler wrote:
Reread the FAQ, Ticketmaster is not scalping any tickets. All they are doing is enabling a secure fan-to-fan transaction. Basically like what Ebay does but with no risk to the purchaser.
It's not 'fan-to-fan' it's 'buyer-to-seller'. All this does is make it easier for amatuer ticket scalpers to operate online. But you are correct and my headline is wrong, technically ticketmaster is not doing the scalping. They are just getting a transaction fee from each sale.
To a degree it reminds me of Napster. Napster never gave away copyrighted material, just made a place for it to happen. In my opinion it is very unethical of Ticketmaster and does nothing to help real fans of music and sports fairly obtain tickets for a fair price.
_________________ I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died
I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone
Reread the FAQ, Ticketmaster is not scalping any tickets. All they are doing is enabling a secure fan-to-fan transaction. Basically like what Ebay does but with no risk to the purchaser.
It's not 'fan-to-fan' it's 'buyer-to-seller'. All this does is make it easier for amatuer ticket scalpers to operate online. But you are correct and my headline is wrong, technically ticketmaster is not doing the scalping. They are just getting a transaction fee from each sale.
To a degree it reminds me of Napster. Napster never gave away copyrighted material, just made a place for it to happen. In my opinion it is very unethical of Ticketmaster and does nothing to help real fans of music and sports fairly obtain tickets for a fair price.
I'm not a great fan of this but all they are doing is exactly what Ebay does except the purchaser cannot get ripped off. At least they provide seciruty to the purchaser. What does Ebay do?
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:51 pm Posts: 14534 Location: Mesa,AZ
broken_iris wrote:
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Boo free market! Supply and demand can suck it.
In a single supplier environment the basic supply and demand principles don't apply.
How does that apply to buyers trading with other buyers? This particular service is not a ticket supply service. Like someone else mentioned, the service being supplied is a means for other people to buy and sell tickets, similar to eBay.
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Joined: Mon May 09, 2005 1:57 pm Posts: 161 Location: Wales, UK
And they take a cut of the deal. Marvelous... Surely this shit can't be allowed to go on any longer? The real fans are getting fucked out of gig tickets (me at London, Dublin, Reading, Leeds...) and the scalpers get rich.
And now, the rich are about to get richer by letting scalpers sell directly through the company. Fair play to the fat-bastards at TicketMaster, they now how to cash in on a scam...
And yes, instead of stamping on the touts/scalpers, this is now encouraging it... This is monopoly work. And supply and demand principles do exist, they will supply at a higher price no matter what the demand...
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