Boycott Ticketmaster

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OBJECTIVE
An end to Ticketmaster's monopoly on ticket sales
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If we reach at least 10,000 people, then we will boycott Ticketmaster.

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THE PITCH

Currently music lovers and sports fans are at the mercy of Ticketmaster when trying to attend concerts and sporting events. TM is able to regularly increase the cost of tickets by 30% with their fees because they have a near-monopoly, holding exclusive contracts with many large venues. For more reasons on why TM deserves a boycott, read about their service fees on wikipedia.

Pearl Jam put up a valiant fight against TM, but ultimately failed. The best method left is to just stop giving TM our money. 10,000 of us boycotting won’t put TM out of business, but it will:

  • hurt TM and hurt the venues that exclusive contracts with TM (hopefully causing these venues to consider alternate ticket brokers)
  • signal an opening to competitors who are just starting to get into this market

TicketWeb is owned by TM, so we will boycott them too. Go here to suggest alternatives to TM. Nobody said bringing down a monopoly would be easy!

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Joe Harrow
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Alternate ticket brokers

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Joe Harrow
Joe Harrow started this discussion on Jan 28, 2009

I’m not saying all of these are great—they just are not owned by Ticketmaster. Feel free to respond with your thoughts on these or other option.

Tickets.com, ShowClix, StubHub, TicketLiquidator.com, OnlineSeats.com, and of course, Craigslist.org.

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  • 6 posts, 6 voices
    Franesa Pyle replied on Mar 27, 2009

    Here is the concept that I am grappling. Scalpers in any form shouldn’t it be illegal?

    Why is it that mega ticketing organizations Ticketmaster or any ticketing institution for that matter, are allowed to sell out large blocks of tickets to ticketing brokers (a.k.a scalpers)?

    These ticketing brokers are gobbling up tickets right out of the gate, using whatever technologies they have to beat the average joe from buying a measly ticket to see their favorite live act.

    Currently, no legislation exists to curb ticketing brokers from purchasing mass amounts of tickets and reselling them for outrageous prices ($100 to $4000).

    If scalping on the street is illegal, then shouldn’t scalping on the Internet be considered illegal too? If we are allowing ticketing brokers to scalp, then we should allow the average joe to scalp outside of their local venue.

    The principal of it is annoying and frustrating.

  • 6 posts, 6 voices
    Jennifer Stals replied on Apr 18, 2009

    I just tried to buy ACDC tickets for Edmonton. I hate ticketmaster….not 10 minutes after the tickets went on sale, they were on the web for 1500.00. The face value is 100.00. WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. Complain to anyone you think can make a difference and don’t stop until they change it. Use your networks, facebook, etc. to get this changed. ACDC wasn’t going to come to Edmonton and we petitioned them until they added us to thier concert tour. Get enough people and we CAN change this!

  • 6 posts, 6 voices
    Daniel Multer
    Daniel Multer replied on Jun 21, 2009

    I too hate the Ticketmaster “monopoly”!

    That they control all sales of tickets to an event or theater is an outrage.
    And thei fees and “handling charges” are unconscienciable and should be illegal.

  • 6 posts, 6 voices
    Brian Murray
    Brian Murray replied on Sep 4, 2009

    I tried to buy tickets within seconds (the necessary time to log in) of the buy time and found no tickets available. I agree with the previous post – scalping should be illegal fot corporations also.

  • 6 posts, 6 voices
    Jeff Byers
    Jeff Byers replied on Mar 20, 2010

    To buy a $40 ticket for a Womens National Team soccer match, Ticketmaster adds a $6.75 Convenience Charge, a $4.25 Order Processing Fee, and a $18.50 delivery charge, for a total of $69.50 — a 74% markup!

    An $18.50 delivery charge when the event
    is more than a week away — give me a
    break! This was the cheapest delivery option
    other than Will Call.

    Whose Convenience is the $6.75 charge for — not mine!

    There needs to be alternatives to Ticket Master … currently there are none!

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