Posted on 09/04/2025 5:55:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Why don’t they want it? Or are they shills for competing interests?
Correct.
Why don’t they want it? Or are they shills for competing interests?
Correct.
Would we even understand it, if he did?
🤔
“they must have pulled some real gangster moves to dominate concert ticket sales everywhere so much”
They must have. Phil Basile was the mob guy ran the rock music scene on Long Island for many years. Clubs, concert promotion, he ran the rock scene.
Ultimately, the fans don’t mind to pay the inflated price to see their cult-heroes.
Concerts, etc. seem to always sell out and prove it with swollen attendance.
Change the money flow?
Right, like...what?...taxing cigarettes?
Worked, right?
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I would have thought simple antitrust enforcement could handle this. Too concentrated a market, with venues losing some of the margin that the secondary market took.
As to the ticket purchasers, so what if you have to wait in line to “buy wholesale” and the online scalpers who are eager to serve are more expensive? Will the final price really be cheaper concert venues are able to capture much of the revenue that scalpers get now?
How about no scalping allowed?
Who’s to say that someone can’t resell something they’ve bought? You get some wacko rules about that in software, but what’s the need for extending it to ticket sales?
The simple way to beat them is to recognize there hasn’t been any good music since the late 1980’s. Maybe one or two songs a year since then are worth listening to more than once. Since there is no good music, no need to waste money going to see people who make noise, not music. Other entertainment types will find a way to survive and maybe we can be rid of crap music one day. IMHO
Ticketmaster and parking chargers are killing concerts and sporting events.
The only way that will end outside of prison sentences is when fans refuse to pay the inflated prices.
FTC sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation over ticket brokers and fees
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/ftc-ticketmaster-live-nation-ticket-brokers
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