Ticketmaster SUCKS
 

Yes, this is just how I feel about them. A friend of mine and I want to go to see Bruce Springsteen when he comes to Atlanta so at the appointed time when tickets would go on sale at Ticketmaster we both try to score some good seats.

Funny thing though, from the very start the only seats that are available are the nosebleed section and the ones with some kind of obstruction blocking your view. As the day goes by we keep checking and it's pretty much the same. And they don't give you any choices you just buy them or move on.

Is there some kind of trick to this?

Try other ticket vendors. Different vendors are given specific seats to sell, and Ticketmaster probably lost the bid on the good seats.

Did you try contacting the venue directly?

BTW - I hate ticketmaster too.

A cow orker got tickets for the Springsteen Albany show. He got "best available" which turned out to be high and BEHIND the stage. I'm not sure if he used Ticketmaster or some other service.

He has, however, learned that tickets far worse than his are going for 4X face value on ebay.

Based on his superbowl performance, I wouldn't be throwing down much money at all to see him. He couldn't get any more than three words out at a time. He needs to either stop the dancing so he can breathe and sing, or he needs an oxygen tank with him on stage.

The band sounds great though.

Actually Ticketmaster is the only folks selling the tickets nationwide. And it really bugs me that they charge a $13 per ticket "convenience charge and a $4 per ticket Building Facility Charge. Guess I better be glad they don't have a Homeland Security Security Charge factored in as well. The $90 for the ticket doesn't bother me that much, I don't go to many concerts anymore and I'm happy with the ones I pick.

Glatt, your opinion is yours to share but you either like the man or you don't, I happen to have been a fan since I saw him in 1974 and would have to disagree with you on your halftime show review, but that would be my opinion.

yeah, sorry to be a wet blanket.

I hope you find tickets you like for a price you can live with. And I hope you have fun at the concert.

I second getting in touch with the venue Chris.
Not having any cards, I haven't been able to use TicketMaster for a long time, and have not suffered for it.
Then again, I've usually lived close enough to the venue to go in person - this may not be appropriate for you.

The whole sale secondary vendors have computers set up to snatch all the good tickets from the second they are sold. It happens everywhere. Try a secondary vendor and see what they are charging for those $60 general admission seats. $300, $400, $600 or more. It is a scam.

Gosh Glatt thanks, I'm getting all teared up!

I expect it'll get worse if they buy up/merge with Live Nation as I read they're trying to.

There was a news item I read this morning about Ticketmaster's computers being unable to sell any Springsteen tickets, and linking to another branch of Ticketmaster which specializes in selling tickets at inflated prices.

I ask you...do you for one minute think that Ticketmaster said, "Let's see, we can sell tickets for normal price, or feign a problem and sell them for four or five times the normal price. Yeah, let's sell them at regular price."

Not a chance. Ticket selling is out of fucking control in this country. Just another scam to bleed the consumer. I don't know why they bother to put a regular price on tickets anymore, because you can't buy them at face value or anything remotely close to it.

I've found a way around the problem. I don't go to concerts.

The people in NJ are really pissed off. The NJ Attorney General's office is launching an investigation of Ticketmaster's business practices,

Link

Point proven. Evil, moneygrubbing monopoly.

Ticketbastard experience
 

The last time I used those goniffs was for a ticket that was 22 or 23 dollars and by the time they tacked on the "convenience" charge and other crap it was an extra 10 bucks or so.

I was stunned.

The time before that was for a show that was 32 bucks that I went to the gate to get tickets. It was another 12 bucks over face value to buy them from a trailer they set up.

I laughed and got someone selling tickets outside the "arena" to sell me them for face value.

Both of the experiences above were general admission.

Back when I lived in Philly the ticket agents were capped on what they could charge as a service fee. This was the 70s and early 80s so things may have changed in Philly but apparently they can gouge you for the rest of the country.

Now whenever I see Ticketbastards as the sole place to buy tickets I skip the show. It's much easier to hit the smaller venues and get the tickets directly from the box office since it's also not a bad idea to visit the area when not in a rush.

I doubt much will be done to those scum for this since there's undoubtedly already loopholes written into the laws for the agents and Ticketscumbags.

I'm sure that doesn't include ticket scalpers outside the venues from being nailed by police if they dare charge a penny over face value.

Funny, I'm going to be back in Houston when he and the band play there in April so 2 days after the tickets went on sale I looked for some to buy. Ticketmaster is not the seller there but it is the venue host, The Toyota Center. I had no problem getting some pretty decent tickets with in a few minutes of logging in. So now I do get to see the show but in my home town as well, all is good!