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The Worst.
I just don't get how the concept of the so called Platinum Tickets can be legal.
Ticketmaster is saying tickets are sold out, unless you're willing to pay more than the fixed selling price.
Right now they're trying to sell PIT tickets for Chicago for $2,027 EACH.
Tickets are not sold out, they just don't want to sell it for face value. In other words, they have figured out how to work like a legal black market company.
How can $500 tickets be legal but not $2000 tickets? How can it not be legal? The Rolling Stones own the tickets and they can charge whatever they want.
And what's face value? Concerts are like airline flights, everybody pays a different price.
We are talking about the exact same ticket type being sold for a set of different prices at the same time. Customers don't know what the prices really are. It's very confusing to say the least. Normally, in the real world, if you walk into a shoe shop, the same pairs of shoes are sold for the same prices at the same time. The notion that concert ticket prices work like airline flights is a rather new and rare phenomena, and whilst it's probably not illegal –it's morally wrong, annoying and confusing. How could it be otherwise when customers use their pre-sale code from rollingstones.com to buy tickets at the same time for the same show at the same site, and person A get offered the same ticket for $500 and person B for $2000? So if you call Ticketmaster and ask them what a ticket in a certain section will cost, what will they say? "It varies as we speak" or "You are so unlucky that you called me, because the colleague sitting next to me are selling the same ticket for half the price"?
Maybe its just me, but there is something completely rotten about how Ticketmaster are selling tickets. There was a time when the promoter would say: These are the different price categories, sale starts tomorrow at noon, first come, first served.
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ohmercy61
If you can I would wait I know some cant wait they want there tickets now so they can make travel plans etc..I look at tm like the stock market. Warren Buffett said the stock market is just a way of transferring money from the impatient to the patient I kinda look at getting good stones tickets the same way don't get suckered into buying something you can't afford..good luck. SEE YOU AT FOXBOROUGH.
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keefmick
what are the passwords for today's presale in jax and/or philly? neither harlem nor shuffle is working! thanks.
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5stringTele
Passwords for today are:
Don't forget, the presales won't start until NOON today, not 10:00am.
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MononoM
aka, there are no 500 us$ tix, they are 600 us$!
but i got one))))))
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Topi
Now a face value pit for MetLife #1 in my basket.
Should I hit "Place order"...
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MononoM
aka, there are no 500 us$ tix, they are 600 us$!
but i got one))))))
Curious..
Was the $608.75 all in including fees?
Making the face value presumably $500ish or fees on top of $608.75?
Also- Congrats!
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Topi
I grabbed the pit. Plan was to buy LDs but plans change...getting LD's for the 2nd MetLife for sure.
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keefmick
So as to ticketmaster fees--I bought a pair for Miami and a pair for the Rose Bowl yesterday. Miami were $394.50 each face and Rose Bow were $397.81 each face. Miami also charged a $45.00/each facility fee and a $91.36/each service fee. So that added $136/ticket. Rose Bowl was $1.69/each facility fee (yes that's right $1.69) and $50.00/each service fee. So for Rose Bowl it was an extra $51.69 per ticket over face and Miami was $$136 over face per ticket!! Why the huge difference when all tickets coming from ticketmaster. I sort of get the facility fee difference b/c I guess each facility charges their own fee. But wow what a difference between $45.00 and $1.69. And ticketmaster fee difference between $91.36 and $50.00. What is that about?
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Topi
I grabbed the pit. Plan was to buy LDs but plans change...getting LD's for the 2nd MetLife for sure.
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glimmertwinz
Totally baffled! Why are no basic PIT tickets showing?? Only Package deal and Platinum ticket??