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| StickyFishFingers |
Hey guys i noticed in some of the other ETIX debacle messages that some of you mentioned your convenience fee on each ticket was $47.00. I only got charged a $18 convenience fee on each ticket. I bought the $155 tickets BTW. I wonder if the convenience fee differs for each ticket price. |
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| RSRTG |
if I had my way, I'd be charging them an INCONVENIENCE FEE. damn it! |
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| exile |
what fuckers |
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| Break The Spell |
I don't know exactly how much they differ on the price ranges, but with some of the higher range tickets, they seem to be higher for a "conveinence" fee than the price of some actual tickets!! |
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| Paranoid_Android |
The real outragious thing is that no one gives you an option to be INCONVINIENCED...give me an option...and I will pay for convinience if I choose to.
The fee is more like an existance charge..."we are here so we are charging you 20 bucks...simply because we can"...the term racketeering comes to mind |
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| StickyFishFingers |
getting really antsy waiting for a reply from ETix. |
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| Joey |
" getting really antsy waiting for a reply from ETix."
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Those fees are all percentage based. A big $$ ticket will have a larger fee.
Of course, it's all legalized thievery. Ticketbastard charges $2.50 each for you to PRINT OUT YOUR OWN TICKET!!! That's right, they charge you for the use of your own printer and ink! If you bought 4 tix it'll cost you $10.00 for YOU to print the tickets!
How do we fight them on it though? I mean, even if you buy tickets directly from a venue box office...there are STILL all those fees involved. Other than not buying tickets, what is our recourse as consumers? |
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| pdog |
It's legalized scalping. It's bullshit too. There's no competition. Look at how the big companies have brought the radio stations & music venues... Look who owns this shit, it's a monopoly and should be regualted so these fuckers can stop ripping us off. |
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| Paranoid_Android |
More bands should take the approach that the Grateful Dead took...actually man their own ticket office and pump out %50 or more of the tickets on their own...yes there were fees...but they never exceeded $1.75...someone has to pay the envelope stuffers...it was the greatest ticket system...with awsome GLITTER tickets ta'boot!! Now with the internet...it's a bit different I guess...but they still have the system running.
Yes...it's like a lottery...but you know WELL in advance before TM sells the rest as to weather or not you will get yours. |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
>it's a monopoly and should be regualted so these fuckers can stop ripping us off.<
Regulated? By whom? The government? Crooks regulating the crooks? Fuck man, you get the gov't involved and they'll just change the word "fee" to "tax", and increase the percentages even higher! A $15.00 ticket will have $30.00 in taxes if you let the gov't regulate this stuff. |
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| Saint Sway |
TicketBastard blows. No doubt. But no one is ripping us off more than the Stones themselves. $450 tickets is criminal.
no point in griping about $50 in fees if you're willing to pay $450 for a ticket. |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Yeah, but I have the CHOICE to buy a $450 ticket, or a less expensive ticket. I have NO CHOICE in paying all those added fees. |
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| Saint Sway |
my favorite "handlling" fee is the one for printing out your own tickets. With my printer ink, my paper, my time.
shouldnt they pay me instead? |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Yeah, I was bitching about that one over in the Aussie tickets thread.
Ridiculous. |
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| corgi37 |
Peal Jam had a go at trying to stop it, but it fucked them up. Here in Oz, certain venues are "owned" by Ticketek or Ticketmaster. I guess its the same in the U.S.
General public sale tix for the Stones 2 shows go on sale tomorrow. Wonder if the "fee" will still be as high. I cant recall it being so high in 2003. I paid $350 a ticket then. |
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| keefkid |
quote:
pdog wrote:
It's legalized scalping. It's bullshit too. There's no competition. Look at how the big companies have brought the radio stations & music venues... Look who owns this shit, it's a monopoly and should be regualted so these fuckers can stop ripping us off.
A-FUCKING-MEN pdog....
but big corps run this fucking country so nothing will ever change no matter how much we bitch... |
