Late night open thread

Well, Ticketmaster has done it again, found another way to dick the music fans over. Instead of making sure ALL the tickets they have a monopoly on to sell to Bruce Springsteen's Meadowlands show were sold at face value, they released a huge amount of those tickets to a company they own, TicketsNow. TicketsNow can charge hundreds of dollars more for seats than Ticketmaster, but yet, TicketsNow is owned by TicketMaster, see how this scam works? Well Springsteen fans were hopping mad over the fact the TicketMaster site wouldn't let them buy tickets (yeah we'll just bet it was a server snafu, suuuure it was TicketMaster, oh we believe you) and yet SOMEHOW TicketsNow was allowed to gobble up seats. Many Springsteen fans complained and Bruce himself is incensed. TicketMaster told the media a lie when they said they had heard 'only a few' complaints, obviously not paying attention to the firestorm in the media over this. Only the Justice Department, The Federal Trade Commission and the New Jersey State Attorney General's office is involved here but TicketMaster says they had no idea. Here's another question, why are scalpers arrested outside arenas selling tickets for above face value when TicketsNow can do the same thing? What's the point? How is TicketsNow scalping tickets ok but the guy selling them outside is a criminal? Mike Damone (Scalper, did you just call me a scalper?) would be very upset at this.

TicketMaster sucks, they have always sucked and will continue to suck as long as this type of thing happens. Know who else sucks? The people who allow them to operate like this. Now, TicketMaster and LiveNation, the two largest ticketing agents for concerts in America want to join forces to screw you over even more. Are you going to allow this to happen or are you gonna pick up your cellie tomorrow and perhaps for the first time call your congressman or congresswoman and tell them you don't want this type of monopoly to exist? If you think things with TicketMaster stink outloud now, just wait until they buy out/merge with LiveNation and your 'convenience fee' for having a machine working on a database it's used since 1986 that merely spits out a ticket goes up another $10-15 dollars, which is simply pure profit out of your pocket and into theirs all while they dick you over by releasing the tickets you want to their own scalper company subsidiary. Then on top of that $10-15 convenience fee, you can then add another $50-250 more per ticket because you didn't bitch when you could have.

Capice?

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