This is still making them a significant amount of money regardless of Ticketmaster.
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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 year agoGo to shows.
Ticketmaster has kicked in the doors of the chat, and secured every exit with burly goons.
Trollception@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 year ago
Fucking dirtbags. They were recently forced to lump all their fees into the ticket price so their new tactic is to tack on fake taxes when purchasing tickets. I recently bought some for a festival through a ticketmaster subsidiary (to a venue owned by ticketmaster) and they charged me $33 in taxes on the purchase. The thing is, I live in Oregon where we don’t have any sales tax. I wrote both them and the promoter asking about it and they gave me some bullshit excuse about them being “state and local taxes” (venue is in rural Washington) even though that’s not how it works when it comes to purchases nor are there any local taxes in that area. The rate they charged me doesn’t even match the WA sales tax rate.