 Tragically Hip fans cry foul after presale tickets scooped up in minutes Presale tickets sold out quickly for the Tragically Hip's farewell tour, only to show up minutes later on resale sites.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Still trying to get my tickets for Vancouver. Gonna try the presale again this morning, couldn't get through yesterday.
In Vancouver, for example, at 11 a.m. PT, all the Ticketmaster tickets for the July 24 show were gone, but nearly 100 floor seats were being offered on StubHub for between $237 and $2,799 US per ticket.
The original prices were between $116 and $166 Cdn for the same seats, according to Ticketmaster's website.
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'Fixed game,' says report
Complaints about concert ticket sales are nothing new.
In January, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called ticketing "a fixed game," after a multi-year investigation sparked by citizen complaints.
A report from his office described how some ticket brokers use specialty software — known as ticket bots — to automate the process, "perform hundreds or thousands of transactions simultaneously."
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The report cited a single broker buying 1,012 tickets within one minute to a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 8, 2014.
"As a result, in the first moments after tickets to a top show go on sale, bots crowd out human purchasers and can snap up most of the good seats."
The report also noted how ticket resellers, like StubHub and TicketsNow, have an average markup of 49 per cent above face value — at times reaching 10 times the original price.
They've got to crack down on this, this is not a free and competitive market, this is market rigging.
no Robots in those days
I liked the old days where you started lining up at the ticket window the night before they went on sale and partied all night.
no Robots in those days
I think those days were the last time I went to a concert. Now, I just go to small venues and watch smaller bands live.
They should implement adjustable pricing based upon demand that allows prices to fluctuate based upon demand...just like hotel room reservations and airline reservations do. No one scalps airline tickets due to this pricing strategy.
It's ticketmaster that sucks. The last two Hip concerts I went to were in Kelowna and Penticton. Those venues sell their tickets direct and it works beautifully. They have a website with a seating chart showing the seats still available, like Landmark cinema if anyone is familiar with that.
None of this push the button, wait for the wheel to stop spinning and take what you get crap. Also no scalping going on. I wouldn't be surprised if Ticketmaster owned some of these scalping companies. Or if the same entity owned them both.
I only ever come across this bullshit with ticketmaster.