Pearl Jam tried this in the 90’s and got ran over. There would have to be people in congress that cared enough.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t feel comfortable with them essentially operating a monopoly that both consumers and artists detest. I don’t feel comfortable with paying exuberant meaningless fees if I ever want to experience a live event. It’s never mattered what I’m comfortable with, I’ve always gotten fucked. I don’t care how uncomfortable they are, I hope they get absolutely destroyed by legal fees and go bankrupt.
sparky1337@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Not to mention they own much of the secondary market and makes a lot of money off scalping being a thing.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure they’ve gotten in trouble reserving seats for scalpers. They called them “premium buyers” or something because they bought an insane amount of tickets, more than any person could reasonably use.
TM still takes their cut when an original is bought. But then they take another when it’s resold on their platform again. They make more money the more times a ticket gets resold.
dogebread@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I was watching this happen day of for a show in Montreal just recently. There were few seats available for weeks leading up to the show with resale tickets around 200 to 300 CAD a piece, then day of big chunks of non resale seats came available for a fraction of that.
Artificial scarcity. Total and complete scam.
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 7 months ago
They’re actually global epidemic. And it amazes me that you can sell a ticket to someone who doesn’t have the intention of physically putting a physical body of themselves, a friend or family in the seat.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re actually global epidemic
That’s just not how those words work…
Plague_Doctor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Makes me think that the scalpers are employed by TM…
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They are exuberant about their exorbitant fees.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Auto correct did me dirty
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not just them, everyone doing it.
We used to be able to get tickets to concerts at a small venue here by going into one of the music shops. No stupid fees, just whatever the ticket price was.
The venue stopped selling through these stores semi recently, moved to an online service, and now there’s no less than 30% fees, sometimes as high as 40%.
It’s absolutely ridiculous.
bratosch@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“the venue” is most likely owned my LiveNation, which also owns Ticketmaster. That’s why they CAN have those insanely inflated prices, because they control everything. Like someone mentioned, Pearl Jam tried going off the beaten track and find venues NOT owned by LiveNation , which proved to be … hard
antizero99@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
That’s just the beginning. Other artists have tried to avoid livenation venues but when the artist finds a venue, livenation just goes and buys said venue. That shit right there should have been taken to court.
Funny how these legal actions against companies like this only happen under democratic presidents.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This venue isn’t owned by them
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I bet they probably also wonder why suddenly attendance has dropped off, too.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are still some shows we go to, but 100% we’ve said no to shows we were half interested in because of the ridiculous cost caused by the fees