Atta boy Bruce! ;-P
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Big Momma Nav
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You'd think Bruce would know better unless the editor just cut and paste what he liked out of his article. Promoters don't just artbitrarily set prices. Supply AND demand is what sets prices. Your ticketmaster price has undergone thousands of mathematical calculations, graphs and algorithms to figure out that price you're paying.
If he doesn't like it, he can lead by example and start doing shows at local clubs for $10. I konw plenthy of clubs that would love to book iron maiden
Somehow I doubt he would do that. He only wants to play arenas.
Well sorry sir but arenas + security + trucks + riders + parking attendants + ticket printing + concessions + electirians + sound engineers + roadies + medical personnel + stagehands + drivers + promoters...
don't come cheap
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If he doesn't like it, he can lead by example and start doing shows at local clubs for $10. I konw plenthy of clubs that would love to book iron maiden
Somehow I doubt he would do that. He only wants to play arenas.
Well sorry sir but arenas + security + trucks + riders + parking attendants + ticket printing + concessions + electirians + sound engineers + roadies + medical personnel + stagehands + drivers + promoters...
don't come cheap
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I agree with you that ticket prices are a calculated number and include the cost of everything. However Bruce is a smart guy and I believe something's lost in what he's referring to. I'm looking at a pit tix I bought for maiden at Irvine back in 2008. Price on it is $89, but I bought it from a ticket agency for around $200. Perhaps that's what he's referring to despite what the wording says in the link. Spidey, is your $175 from ticketmaster or a ticket agency? Inflated prices looks like an outcome of the supply and demand, or perhaps just plain greed (and they get away with it because people pay for it). I'm sure many of you have scouted around before and have noticed that the level of inflated price has been related to the band, venue type and location. What I don't like is the fact that the really good seats (front row, pit, etc.) are NEVER available to the public from ticketmaster and you have to pay a huge inflated price to get it from a ticket agency. That's the BS I hate. Ticketmaster doesn't have to sell those seats to ticket agencies, but they do. Why do they? I don't know, I bet there's some connection to why they do and somebody's getting something from it, maybe more money, maybe something else. I do like the fact that the Maiden fan club usually sells tickets, including pit, at their face values. Perhaps that's their way of trying to offer to the fans what they believe the prices should be.
Bruce is right on with this issue, but I'm afraid we are kind of screwed on this ever getting reversed. Pearl Jam tried to fight Ticketmaster many years ago when they were huge and they just hastened their decline as far as the market was concerned. The monopoly is a fact at this point. I fondly look at an old RUSH ticket stub that says $6.50 on it, but then minimum wage was around $2.00 and hour and my rent was $68 a month back then. On the other hand, we have this beautiful Intarweb thingy now, cell phones and computers, oh my!
Big Momma Nav
Celebrity Chef
Ah, you mean ticket scalping? Good point. Problem is, those agencies have tons of computers with fancy software so as soon as it goes on sale, their computers grab all the good tickets. Sometimes they're in bed with the local promoters and buy the tickets at a high price and split the profits.
Ticketmatser is trying to stop this by getting mroe and more people to PRINT their tickets at home and do away with printed tickets. Obviously the scalping agencies are ticked at this. You can't resell airline tickets for example. Ticketmaster has created a site where legitimate people can resell their tickets if they can't go. Obviously, not more than the face value. Also ticket scalping has become pretty illegal nowadays - they'll cart you off to jail now if you try to resell tickets at sporting events. It's not like the old days anymore.
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