May 18, 2006
Ticketmaster Sucks

I needed to buy some tickets to a show today. Seu Jorge is coming to town and me and the Scarymommy need to go.

I get to the ticket delivery options and am faced with this:

How insane is this. To print out my tickets, saving me a wait and Ticketmaster the costs of printing and mailing, they want to charge $2.50. If I am willing to wait, and Tickemaster pays the cost of printing and mailing, it's free.

What kind of insanity is this? They should be paying me to print out the tickets...

I mean it's not like they aren't getting paid. Between the Building Facility Charge, the Total Convenience Charge, and the Order Processing Charge, they are soaking me for an extra $22.05 just to buy the damn tickets.

Crappy monopolistic Ticketmaster. They suck.

Posted by michael at May 18, 2006 07:47 PM



Comments

Amen. I bought some Nine Inch Nails tickets and had the same problem. They suck big time. You should rate them on Check a Biz like I did! (plug plug) :)

Posted by: j. [http://www.checkabiz.com] on May 18, 2006 8:12 PM

They do suck big time...what the heck is a "Convenience Charge" anyway?!? (by the way, I enjoy ur site...gives me something to read at 03:00!)

Posted by: Midnite Deskjockey [] on May 19, 2006 12:38 AM

Maybe if they were Gwar tickets it would be totally worth all the fees.

Posted by: Mister P. [http://misterp.blogspot.com] on May 19, 2006 8:35 AM

I'm hatin' on TicketMobster. I have many stories, like the time I went to the door to get Rev. Horton Heat tix @ $15 ea. and was told I could only get 'em from TicketMobster and they took me for $20 = 25% of the price was their take.
TicketMobster is all bad, but can't live without 'em. They liqidated the competition.

Posted by: Otito Gojito [http://www.otigoji.com] on May 19, 2006 10:40 AM
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