Posted on 01/28/2012 9:27:38 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Didn’t score tickets to Bruce Springsteen‘s upcoming ‘Wrecking Ball’ tour when they went on sale yesterday? You weren’t alone. Thousands of Boss fans logging onto Ticketmaster’s website were met with frozen computer screens Friday (Jan. 27) when attempting to purchase tickets — a glitch Ticketmaster has blamed on ticket scalpers using high-tech computer programs that generated traffic that was exponentially larger than normal.
“Big acts mean big fan interest. Unfortunately this also means that scalpers are out in full force,” Ticketmaster said in a statement. “Scalpers were using sophisticated computer programs to assault our systems and secure tickets with the sole intention of selling them in the resale market.”
Further evidence of the scalper scam comes from the fact that plenty of choice seats were immediately available through Stubhub and other secondary ticketing sites. Stubhub prices for his April 9 gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden currently start at $143 for nosebleed balcony seats and top out at $8,719 for prime spots on the first level — a bit more expensive than the $98 face value they originally went for.
It was a similar situation that inspired U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) to introduce the so-called BOSS Act two years ago, and yesterday he renewed his call for the bill. The BOSS Act would aim to create transparency in the way Ticketmaster and other agencies sold tickets in attempt to avoid similar ordeals in the future.
I saw them as well at that crazy price. Well, I may have paid $6. You really couldn’t even hear the music. Large screaming crowd and tiny sound equipment. I think the speakers I have now for my stereo are bigger, lol.
Ticket prices for concerts are for the most part kinda crazy. These aging artists need to keep in mind that their fan base is aging and can’t pay the price...or want to deal with the crowd.
The last concert I went to was the Eagles “Hell Freezes Over Tour”. The ticket price was obscene ($200), but hey it was the last time to hear them. And Hell Keeps Freezing Over with them. I hate to be suckered.
A hack is hacked.
This wouldn’t be a problem if Ticketmaster just charged market prices to begin with. The scalpers are just doing a service that Ticketmaster won’t do - finding the true market price and distributing tickets to those willing to spend the resources on them.
I’ll drink to that.
I wouldn't pay $20 to see Springsteen.
Nils Lofgren is a different matter.
Of course Springsteen stole everything he ever knew form Nils Lofgren.
Ohhhh nooooo! A liberal just got hosed by a bunch of the “99 Percenter” mentality!
You don’t have to. It looks like I am drinking for two tonight.
With Danny and Clarence now dead, what’s the point?
When the change was made uptown
And the big man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When scooter and the big man bust this city in half
With a tenth avenue freeze-out, tenth avenue freeze-out
Tenth avenue freeze-out...
Ticketmaster has done this in the past. About 15 years ago, I got through their phone line to buy 4 tickets to see The Stones. The price was $125 each. I figured I would keep two and sell the other two for $250 each. Then Ticketmaster announced a $117 per ticket service fee. I passed.
I've never liked Springsteen. His music was more or less bubble gum in an age when some of the greatest rock and roll bands existed, and from people who actually knew how to play their instruments.
The only thing he has going for him is that he is decent songwriter. Other than that, he can't sing outside of his own genre, he certainly can't play his guitar, and he is absolutely nothing without a band behind him.
Bruce should sell all the tickets at the door the day of the concert.
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Concur. That’s the ticket. Sorry.
Rock star Bruce Springsteen endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president
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If Obama gets his way. Bruce will be the most useful idiot going.
And over-rated. A couple of good songs and the rest sounds like they were written by a angst-ridden 15 year old boy.
I've long thought Springsteen was the most overrated guy in rock and roll. It's not that he's bad, I'm just at a loss to see how he's so fantastically great. I don't get that at all.
Where can one purchase this urine and vomit bag?
I can see people liking his music, and I don't disagree when they say he's a good songwriter, or at least he used to be, but this notion that he's a genius, or even anything close to it, is the biggest pile of excrement I've ever heard.
Frank Zappa, whether you liked him or not, was probably the closest thing to a true musical genius in that time and for that kind of music.
(I have a small bladder)
Bob Seger was/is the real Bruce Springsteen. Seger sings better, writes better, and his music has more emotional depth. Springsteen is an east coast leftist wo the fawed over.
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