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Posted on 04/05/2026 6:51:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Fans scrambling to secure LA28 tickets are getting a nasty surprise at checkout – with hundreds of dollars in fees suddenly tacked onto their orders.
The first drop of presale tickets for locals to attend the 2028 Summer Olympics dropped on Thursday and Angelenos couldn’t believe the final purchase price included a whopping 24% service fee.
Tickets to the highly-anticipated Games start at just $28 but can cost as much as $2,000 depending on the event or the package.
So tickets packages to see the prestigious track and field gold medal events cost from $2,350 to $8,250 for premium seats.
Lori Rovner of Manhattan Beach told the LAIst she was finally able to purchase tickets to the games after receiving several “access denied” messages.
Her total for 16 tickets was $2,604.63, with the tickets costing $2,100, with a service fee of $504.63.
“It’s insane,” Rovner said. “I don’t understand what the service is.”
One user on Reddit’s Olympics thread shared a screenshot of their cart. They purchased ten tickets to five different events, for swimming, basketball and soccer. The total cost for all of it was more than $11,000.
But it was the service fee that really stood out, costing them $1,038.22.
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LOL! Gavin going for the Gold in the Shake Down The Tourists Decathalon!
I assume that some of this money will fund Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign. Because why wouldn’t it?
They Olympics already were at risk of losing audience. This isn’t going to help.
The democrats must have their cut ,LOL
Do you have to tip on top of that?
Clearly, the CA gov’t is driving the ticket-pricing bus, not the OAC.
I think i can achieve the same thing at home, with a loaf of bread, watching that 1939 flick, ‘At the Circus’.
Anyone willing to pay his much deserves to be ripped off.
Because LA28 gets all the money.
Taxes...surely.
And the high speed rail cost to get there.
They use tax payer publicly provided stadiums and then gouge the fans for thousands. From now on they can build their own stadiums and the taxpayers won’t be stuck with the bill.
AXS has the contract for ticketing and they are adding the 25% service fee.
Have you seen “normal” traffic in LA?
LA has to pay for all the homeless removal and room and board for this time to keep them away along with the regular drug addicts, needles everywhere, crazy murderers and robbers...that kind of stuff. /s
If you’re an Olympic fan you should be used to being Scammed ,LOL
I already know that a Kenyan or an Ethiopian is gonna win the Marathon gold medal. Every year the Boston Marathon goes right past my house and I always go out to watch the mens’ leaders go by. They’re always little black guys...about 4 ft 10...weighing about 95 pounds.
If you’re not fit for hunting, you better be able to run fast in Africa.
I see these people have never dealt with Ticket Master before. The kings of fees. 25% is amateur hour compared to TM, they regular double a ticket with fees.
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