“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.
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.