You could almost suggest that it was all part of their masterplan.These concerts were only ever about the ££££££'s the band get, dont know why anyone is surprised about people being ripped off
That is the one that got me. They were quite coy about how much the tickets cost.But thousands of people thought they were paying the ticket price of £140, until they finally got through the queues and were then faced with paying double. It’s underhanded.
Possibly for a different thread - that's a capitalist society.But some of the customers didn't have a choice. They couldn't afford the inflated price so they couldn't buy one,they had no choice to go elsewhere and get one so all they could do is turn it down. Great if you've got money to burn, then you've got all the choice in the world.
Should going to a gig really be an auction, with the ones with the most money winning?
We wouldn’t pay it for ourselves we started at 89 thousand in the queue the ticket priced doubled at the checkout I said we’ll get one for our friend who was a huge Oasis fan from day one, the checkout cut us off.I think the dynamic pricing does need looking at as it's preying on people's desperation and banking on the idea that people who've patiently waited in the queue for hours will panic and pay an amount they weren't expecting. Obvs nobody is forced to pay it but as a business practice it lacks transparency and is unethical.
It's as much on the management and the band as it is on ticketmaster though. They sign off on all of this in return for bigger advances and guarantees. I've worked for a similarly big band and they could stop it if they want to.
Even if dynamic pricing disappears they'll find other ways to rip people off. You have Live Nation shows in the US where tickets are advertised at face value but then you literally can't buy a ticket without buying a compulsory parking permit (even if you arent driving there). So long as bands turn a blind eye to it and people keep paying it, it won't stop.
Might have breached consumer law.
Failure to warn Oasis fans of dynamic pricing may be consumer law breach, say experts
Would-be concertgoers said they had only minutes to decide whether to pay £355 for tickets on Ticketmasterwww.theguardian.com
Greedy cunts.Despite the backlash, comments by the chief executive of Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, indicated that fans in the UK, Ireland and Europe can expect dynamic pricing to become much more common.
Speaking in February, as Live Nation unveiled a 36% increase in annual revenues to $22.7bn, its chief executive, Michael Rapino, said: “Outside of the US, we’re in the first inning … We’re just rolling this [dynamic pricing] out around the world. So that’s the great growth opportunity, obviously.