Posted on 11/22/2022 9:19:07 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
and the dynamic pricing???
My wife was one of the millions logging in. She wasn't even supposed to be eligible to do so but like everyone else she gave it shot and somehow ended up being 9,000th in line. She could buy any ticket she wanted at our venue while people who were specifically invited to the presale were sitting at number 250,000 or worse in the queue. And this was a big deal because the presale tickets were really expensive BUT about about 75% cheaper than they became for the general sale. My teenager ended up with 4 good (not great) tickets for a total of $800 for all four that she could probably sell now for over $4000 in total. Sadly for her college fund she'd rather have the bragging rights and social status that comes from being the only person in her school who got tickets. Like I said, irrational mania.
“Taylor Swift is a perfect example of a manufactured product.”
You don’t know much about Taylor Swift. As a child she pursued her dreams in music and she studied hard. She also got the support of her parents who took her to Nashville and helped her get started in music.
Swift obtained and gave up a development deal with Sony because they wanted her to do covers of other people’s music and not record her own music.
I am not a fan of her music but I do like her as a person. She works hard, she treats people right, and she refuses to act like a whore which most other women in music do.
She’s one of the few popular musicians who I can trust with my kids. I guess that’s the best thing I can say about her right there.
You have to follow the trail of secondary tickets. We wanted Adele tickets at MSG a few years ago. There were about 50,000 tickets available. Three of us went on at 10:00 a. m. Basically, all tickets were gone at 10:01. Aso, see who Ticketmaster contributes to;this has been going on for a long time!
Here in LA, a couple years ago I was waiting for tickets for a small venue show to go on sale and they were scheduled to go on sale at 10:00 am. I got through by telephone at 10:01 am. All tickets were already sold out. Thats fraud, as they then direct you to their re-seller company where you’ll have to pay 10-20 times the face value for a ticket. And it is mainly because Live Nation also owns the “reseller company”. Ban scalping and that crap all goes away.
See post #18.
I simply cannot bring myself to CARE, about Swift or her ticket problems. Ho-hum.
Glad we’re focused on ticketmaster and not election integrity.
I know all that. Maybe I shouldn’t have said SHE is a manufactured product, but her music certainly is.
I remember having to pile into my exploding 73 Pinto with 5 buds and driving to the arena to buy tickets in person weeks before a concert, to see Styx, the Grand Illusion Tour. Wouldn’t see TS on a bet with free skybox tix. Ugh.
>I saw then at the Forum in LA and it was packed
I saw them at the Kesar Stadium in SF. They were all drunk/stoned and sounded like sh**. One of the worst live performances I’ve ever seen.
“I am not a fan of her music but I do like her as a person. She works hard, she treats people right, and she refuses to act like a whore which most other women in music do.”
I used to kinda like her. Felt the same as you. My wife a daughter wanted to go see her. So, I checked. Sorry, $500.00 a ticket is NOT treating people right. Not a lot of her fans can afford that. And that was the cheap seats. Went up to $5000.00 for VIP floor seats.
So many people are now eligible for "exclusive" early-access benefits, that they have become the majority consumers of their market segments, leaving the casual consumer with little to no product left.
TicketMaster has given out so many affiliated credit card and reseller benefits, that there are no tickets left for the young consumers who aren't eligible for these things yet.
-PJ
I understand what she’s trying to do with her pricing strategy. When the tickets were cheap the scalpers would buy them and then sell the good tickets for $5000 each.
She made $325 million dollars on her 1989 tour. A scalper made almost $450 million dollars reselling tickets from her 1989 tour. And he bragged about it.
So she’s trying to get good tickets to her loyal fans at a discount. And then the scalpers are going to have to pay full retail which discourages scalpers.
The fact that the scalpers can make a living off of her means that her prices for tickets are too low. I guess where I don’t care for her music all that much I do like her business acumen. She’s a smart girl and she is learning not to leave any money on the table just to make the scalpers happy.
Why pay all this money when all she does is lip sync and whine.
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