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VT22
Abba turned down a Billion offer to reunite several years ago.
‘We will never appear on stage again.
Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were – young, exuberant and full of energy and ambition.’
Björn Ulvaeus.
To me, the Stones should have thought the same.
so true....
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VT22
Abba turned down a Billion offer to reunite several years ago.
‘We will never appear on stage again.
Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were – young, exuberant and full of energy and ambition.’
Björn Ulvaeus.
To me, the Stones should have thought the same.
so true....
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Chris Fountain
I will pay the some $1000 or more dollars to see them in Miami/Ft Lauderdale - It would be only $500 or more - but my wife is now a diehard Stones fan -
From a previous bv post -I'm sure there will be a Southern US leg to this tour later this year in his words.
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Chris Fountain
I will pay the some $1000 or more dollars to see them in Miami/Ft Lauderdale - It would be only $500 or more - but my wife is now a diehard Stones fan -
From a previous bv post -I'm sure there will be a Southern US leg to this tour later this year in his words.
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That's why you have to play them with your headphones on. Now you're out 500 bucks!
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Doxa
If we look the logic of secondary market argument, what there really is? The fact they have recognized that certain amount of tickets go to scalpers/secondary market who make a nice sum out of that. That is to say: someone else is making profits of their shows, and they think - reasonably - that it is wrong: that money belongs to them.
The solution? Well, let's put the ticket prices so high and insane that there simply isn't demand any longer ouside the "normal" routes. Anyone who is willing to use an insane amount of money to concert can have it by a normal route. The "cost" is that the shows will be not sold out, but hey, all the money goes to "right" hands, and if an arena is 70% of whole capacity that's much more in cash than a sold out show with lower ticket prices.
But what does teh whole thing look like for a normal fan/ticket purchaser? How he will "gain" from the "solution"? The premise of the argument is that all the ticket buyers are using the secondary market in purchasing the ticket. Which is not true. For example, I have always bought the tickets via normal route - sometimes it had been more difficult but still I more or less got them. Now that is not possible. Now to get a decent ticket I need to pay as much or even more than the greedy secondary market hacks were asking before.
So the only winners in the "solution" are The Stones and their partners - they supposedly get all the money, and I guess they should feel proud of it (and in a way, that sounds just from their point of view). But we customers are paying the price for that "rightness". They surely aren't doing it "for fans" - it is the war between them and the secondary market. We - the fans - are the losers in the band getting their "equal" share (all) of the cake. So they do it for "us"? Oh yeah...
Isn't it funny that thanks to their heroic, non-egoistic battle against scalpers for us, I need to pay now some two/three times more for a ticket than I did before? ><
- Doxa
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andrewt
They could have avoided the secondary market issue by using a paperless ticketing system like many other acts have done, and which they are using for the 85 dollar seats. The secondary market argument is a red herring.
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andrewt
They could have avoided the secondary market issue by using a paperless ticketing system like many other acts have done, and which they are using for the 85 dollar seats. The secondary market argument is a red herring.
A paperless ticketing system? Does that mean you can no longer attend a concert unless you have a credit card?
If so, I'd rather just stay home and look at DVDs than contribute to the usury of the plastic money industry.
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andrewt
They could have avoided the secondary market issue by using a paperless ticketing system like many other acts have done, and which they are using for the 85 dollar seats. The secondary market argument is a red herring.
A paperless ticketing system? Does that mean you can no longer attend a concert unless you have a credit card?
If so, I'd rather just stay home and look at DVDs than contribute to the usury of the plastic money industry.
it's like electronic tickets at the airport. show up, enter your code, they compare against your ID, etc.don't know if they do it with tickets, but many airlines will send a scannable code to your cell phone, so you can just present your cell phone with the image on it, and they'll scan you right in.
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whitem8
You know it is a hard one. I am excited for everyone who is going. And I am still a massive fan. I know what others and BV have said rationalizing the costs. However, I still fall back on how this entire thing about the ticket prices and overblown prices seems to have sullied their rep. Now all the talk has shifted from a celebration of their 50 years together and the amzing history of the band is now ending on MONEY. High ticket prices, and crass comercialism. This is why it has seemed to sullied their history. They always have been criticised for their high ticket prices, but this is beyond the scope of anything in their history or the history of live music. I also see why some folks are really upset, they are seemingly going to a more back to basices approach, not such a huge show of effects, and focus more on the music. And this costs more because?
Like I have said, I am still a huge fan, excited for the folks who are going (I still might try to go), but keeping in mind the cost of travel combined with the cost of tickets makes this a massively expensive rock and roll adventure that seems to be more exclusive than it should be.
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admorgan
It's ok to pay more for a decent seat, but maybe $250, not $600 to be guaranteed that.