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Ticketmaster Informative - Cancelled Concert - Concert Tickets

Concert Tickets
Review by urbandrummer on 2007-11-24
PHOENIX, ARIZONA -- Just an FYI! When you purchase tickets from Ticketmaster.com and the entertainer has to cancel the concert, the consumer takes a $6.10 loss from their purchase and it is not refunded with the ticket costs. Reason: They delivered the ticket! If you were to multiply that by each order, say 20,000... that would mean that Ticketmaster still gets $122,000.00 of non-refunded fees for those orders! I think that is outrageous!

The tickets are delivered via automated email and printed from my computer and printer. I think the entertainer should eat the processing fees!
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Posted by PassingBy on 2007-11-25:
Nice to be a monopoly isn't it? Can do and charge whatever they want and no one can do anything about it.
Posted by Sparticus on 2007-11-25:
I knew we should have all banded together with Pearl Jam back in the 90's boycotting Ticketmaster... They lived on... and so did their fee structure...

I use to get season basketball tickets for the Bulls, it was amazing how much money you could save buying the tickets directly from the box office versus buying online through ticketmaster. Complete ripoff.
Posted by GothicSmurf on 2007-11-25:
That's why I rarely use TicketB@stard. If the concert is cancelled, postponed, etc the person is charged all kinds of convience fees. It sucks, I have to drive 20 miles, park in the middle of downtown, walk through the mall and find you in a little itty bitty corner and it's convient for me? How? I usually try and hit the venue or the artist straight. It really sucks when I buy two tickets and the "fees" add up to almost the price of a 3rd ticket.
Posted by killerklown on 2007-11-25:
Another reason live music sucks.

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