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Even NFTs would be better than this.
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I've never bought a ticket on ticket master or anywhere else in my life. I just don't ever go to things that require tickets π
You sound boring
There are many other ways in life where you can have fun without getting fucked sideways by a corporation. But you do you, but make sure you keep complaining about it on social media while you keep letting them do that, though. That'll teach them a lesson :)
Well, youβre also then leaving the bands you love hung out to dry.
No one is fuckin happy about it. I donβt like record labels and their practices either, but you have to end up supporting them when you support the artists. Capitalism is the problem. And itβs pervasive. The Ticketmaster problem is also present in ISPs and cell phone companies. Did you forego giving money to both of those industries to make this comment?
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Well if they want people's data from having their app they should give heavily discounted tickets ποΈποΈποΈπ€£π€£π€£π€π€π€π«‘π«‘π«‘πππ
You're talking about the same company that charges a "convenience" fee for ordering online. Then if you decide to go to buy them in person you charge a "facilities" fee.
Oooh, nah, let's just do both!
Iβve seen my last show
It's really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.
I remember Pearl Jam suing them for this in the 90s. Unfortunately, Pearl Jam lost and here we are 30 years later still dealing with their monopolistic tactics.
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Haven't bought anything on Ticketmaster or their owned companies in years. And I generally go to 2 to 5 live shows a month.
This and their policy towards VPNs means I won't support them.
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The Amazon equivalent for my country does this for their site on mobile by removing filters and making it so anything related to your account just tells you to use the app.
However If you toggle desktop mode in your browser everything works perfectly fine. It's almost as if they just want to data mine you. Surely no company would have that as a motive!
Sadly, I tried desktop mode in Firefox and still got the pop-up
I'd say just use a different service but, uh... What other service is there? π
DICE is great, but most of these are tied to venues. Most of the bigger stages, stadiums, theaters, etc. all have contracts through LiveNation, so TicketMaster/LiveNation is the only way to enter those venues.
You can sometimes call the box office directly though.
dice too gives you tickets in their app
https://dicefm.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/22367835146513-Why-we-ask-you-to-download-our-app
"why we ask you to download an application"
- we want to mine your data
- we want to mine your data
- you need to give us this data
- come on you'll love being datamined
Looks like AXS.com may be an alternate, found it through bandsintown.com
// By the sounds of it, no, just a duopoly
AXS is no better as far as ticket scalpers go. Used them for Cruel World fest last year, theyβre just another version of Ticketmaster. Maybe marginally less invasive app-wise, but as far as jacking up event prices theyβre the same.
AXS wouldn't even mail me a regular paper ticket last year. My only options was to pay $20 extra for a "commemorative" ticket. Fuck AXS.
Ticket stubs as a souvenir are a thing of the past, unfortunately. Itβs laughable they want to charge for βcommemorativeβ stubs, of course the want to fuck people out of even more money for already ridiculously priced events.
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I think this has been the case for a while
you might be able to add them to Google wallet if you have Google wallet.
Pitiful. Shameful.
You also can't do shit with their service, app and web, if you're on a VPN. It just refuses. Even -- and this may be illegal -- unsubscribing from their emails.
"give us your personal information so we can sell it quickly before we might lose money"
I, for one, am looking forward to the $.0036 Check in the mail. While some lawyer pockets $97 Billion. Any day now...
Antirust is very different than Class Action (were you'd get a 36cent check). This would be the FTC filing charges, which has much more power.
I'm sure it'll be a voucher just like the last lawsuit against a ticketing company. I'd like to say it was LiveNation but I honestly can't remember. I remember looking at the concerts I could go to with the voucher and they were all shit.
But that was the point, wasn't it. Give up potential profit that they were in fact never going to get in the first place.
Oh like how in Canada the Lawblaws corporation and other grocers were caught colluding over bread prices for nearly 20 years, and their punishment? Everyone who got into the class action (you had to sign up) ya got a whopping $25 to use at their store...
Worst part to me is that the majority of people either never used the entirety of the $25 credit, saving Loblaw's money. Or, they spent more than $25 while shopping and injected more money into the business.
The percentage of people who went through the effort of spending exactly $25 is probably extremely low.
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I was given a free ticket to an event last night. I did it all using their web page. Their page was very slow and when I finally got to the point where it was supposed to show the ticket, it kept blanking the page right when the bar code would load. Luckily the gentleman at the booth could see it was legitimate and that there was a technical issue, so he printed it out for me.
That monopoly must go.