Re: Are you fed up with Ticketmasters lack of Corporate Responsibility?

Date: 01 Apr 2003 06:52:23 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.music.dave-matthews
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>> do you know how they come up with the charges or are they arbitrarily just
>> thrown about?
Prices are negotiated with the artist and venue when a show is booked. That's
how the Pearl Jam thing got started. It wasn't that PJ were totally against TM
just because they were TM, it's because they felt the charges were too high and
TM wouldn't agree to a lower charge. There's no scientific method of how they
come up with charges; I would shut up if they announced that they would take a
5-10% service charge per ticket that would apply to all tickets. Instead, we
have things like this: one $150 Rolling Stones ticket had a $14 service charge,
and one similarly priced Broadway ticket had a $6 charge. I've paid $6 or $8
on $25 club shows, and I've also paid $6 or $8 on $75 tickets. I don't think
that's fair, and I think there should be a percentage worked out that's applied
to each ticket, so I won't pay as much for a $25 ticket as I will for a $75
one.
Josh
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