Yeah this should definitely be illegal practice. The adding no value, doing nothing worthy of making money, just making life harder for earnest fans. Scumbag behaviour.
TheWorldIsGoingMad on
Are the government also going to regulate all other prices, e.g. how much you can sell your house for ?
jangrol on
*’and for the music industry to continue resisting “the introduction of dynamic surge pricing”.’*
Yeah, hard to resist something they have led the way on developing. Ticketmaster acting as their own ticket tout is one of the most infuriating things about trying to get tickets these days.
FornyHucker22 on
Can’t see how this can stop private resale, if someone has a ticket you want, you have to pay the price they want to get it.
good to stop it being so blatent on these ticket websites tho I guess
Mysterious_One9 on
Its just as bad that some shows now have hotel rooms attached to the better tickets and no way to remove them.
theartofnocode on
Why is it always the government’s job to ban things. If people stopped buying tickets above face value the resale market would disappear in an instant.
-starchy- on
This is just taking advantage of a natural monopoly. Venues have finite space, and for popular shows, this demand causes desperation for some. Unfortunately, big corporations like Live Nation know this and exploit fans. Only way this will be stopped is by introducing price caps, almost like rent controls lololol.
plywrlw on
Whilst they’re at it, do they want to do something about not being able to cancel and get a refund even when you literally bought the ticket 30 seconds ago?
For example, when you accidentally buy tickets for the wrong city and are £200 down…. don’t ask me why I have that specific example to mind 🥲
Mr_Ignorant on
I hope we can also use this as a reason to also get rid of convenience fees. Stop telling me that I can buy something from £X only to find out that there’s nothing that’s £X. Everything is £x + £y.
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Yeah this should definitely be illegal practice. The adding no value, doing nothing worthy of making money, just making life harder for earnest fans. Scumbag behaviour.
Are the government also going to regulate all other prices, e.g. how much you can sell your house for ?
*’and for the music industry to continue resisting “the introduction of dynamic surge pricing”.’*
Yeah, hard to resist something they have led the way on developing. Ticketmaster acting as their own ticket tout is one of the most infuriating things about trying to get tickets these days.
Can’t see how this can stop private resale, if someone has a ticket you want, you have to pay the price they want to get it.
good to stop it being so blatent on these ticket websites tho I guess
Its just as bad that some shows now have hotel rooms attached to the better tickets and no way to remove them.
Why is it always the government’s job to ban things. If people stopped buying tickets above face value the resale market would disappear in an instant.
This is just taking advantage of a natural monopoly. Venues have finite space, and for popular shows, this demand causes desperation for some. Unfortunately, big corporations like Live Nation know this and exploit fans. Only way this will be stopped is by introducing price caps, almost like rent controls lololol.
Whilst they’re at it, do they want to do something about not being able to cancel and get a refund even when you literally bought the ticket 30 seconds ago?
For example, when you accidentally buy tickets for the wrong city and are £200 down…. don’t ask me why I have that specific example to mind 🥲
I hope we can also use this as a reason to also get rid of convenience fees. Stop telling me that I can buy something from £X only to find out that there’s nothing that’s £X. Everything is £x + £y.