How do they get away with continuously ripping off the consumer? They have the concert market covered so you have no choice but to purchase through them. Ticketmaster lost a $400 million class action lawsuit 2 years ago for ripping off the consumer. How did they settle it? By giving out vouchers to anyone who had purchased tickets the previous ten years. Of course you had to prove you had purchased tickets and the vouchers were for shows at random venues in selected states for specific acts with slow ticket sales such as KIDZBOP.
Now their latest scam is fan verification pre-sales. You need to sign up and give personal information along with e-mail address. According to Ticketmaster this is meant to stop scalpers from getting all the good tickets. Yeah right! So Paul McCartney tickets go on sale at Centre Bell and on the day of the pre-sales all tickets are gone in 5 minutes. But not really. On the same Evenko site that showed all tickets sold out in 5 minutes, you could still purchase Official Platinum Seats from Evenko at double the face value.
And what about the fan verification to prevent scalpers? It doesn't stop the scalper if the scalper is the original ticket seller. Oh and what will the agency do with your name and e-mail address. Would it surprise you if they sold that information to other marketers?
It's not just Canada and the U.S. that has this problem. Concert goers in England have the same problem with Ticketmaster and their partners.
Anyone else experience similar problems?
Now their latest scam is fan verification pre-sales. You need to sign up and give personal information along with e-mail address. According to Ticketmaster this is meant to stop scalpers from getting all the good tickets. Yeah right! So Paul McCartney tickets go on sale at Centre Bell and on the day of the pre-sales all tickets are gone in 5 minutes. But not really. On the same Evenko site that showed all tickets sold out in 5 minutes, you could still purchase Official Platinum Seats from Evenko at double the face value.
And what about the fan verification to prevent scalpers? It doesn't stop the scalper if the scalper is the original ticket seller. Oh and what will the agency do with your name and e-mail address. Would it surprise you if they sold that information to other marketers?
It's not just Canada and the U.S. that has this problem. Concert goers in England have the same problem with Ticketmaster and their partners.
Anyone else experience similar problems?