Mike Hudack

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msg: Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets. If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 to $55.70. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make roughly 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, band, and label take in combined. Robbery. via david-noel:rdotm Luckily I live a couple blocks down from the Mercury Lounge where Bowery sells their tix and I buy them in person. With the money saved I usually purchase an over priced beer. Im surprised Bowery Presents doesnt have their own online ticketing system in place especially since they own 5 venues. PS the real robbery is the $2.50 they charge you to print your own tickets!!

msg:

Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets.

If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 to $55.70. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make roughly 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, band, and label take in combined. Robbery.

via david-noel:rdotm

Luckily I live a couple blocks down from the Mercury Lounge where Bowery sells their tix and I buy them in person. With the money saved I usually purchase an over priced beer.

Im surprised Bowery Presents doesnt have their own online ticketing system in place especially since they own 5 venues.

PS the real robbery is the $2.50 they charge you to print your own tickets!!

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  1. jennymack reblogged this from ellens
  2. geekfriendly reblogged this from msg and added:
    MSG and I seem to go to a lot of the same shows, and I absolutely agree that this Ticketmaster shit is way past due to...
  3. joshmohrer reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    This isn’t anything new. Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the Justice Department in 1994 and testified before congress....
  4. p2c2e reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    i fuckin hate ticketmaster!
  5. ellens reblogged this from david-noel and added:
    I don’t even want to calculate all of the bullshit fees I’ve paid to Ticketmaster over the last few years.
  6. mcdavis reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    The fact that we’ve put up with this from Ticketmaster for this long still amazes me. I don’t see why more venues don’t...
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    Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience...
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