Man they have quite the racket going on. Genius business model. I bought 2 session 1 tickets in omaha for 250 each. Paid 107 total in service fees. Just posted them to sell and gonna pay 90 in service fees. Getting a ridiculous amount on both ends.
To say its ripe for disruption is the understatement of the century. I don't understand how no one has come in and done same for $5 per ticket.
eBay makes a ton taking 10% of sales, and I bet the avg sale price is like $50.
Why hasn't an eBay or Amazon gone and done same with tickets? They certainly have the capital to do it.
Hidden fees are out of control everywhere, but especially with tickets.They are the reason why I fully support adding a regulation to the ticket market forcing them to post and itemize all applicable fees upfront, prior to any sale confirmation page. You should be able to look at available seats and the fees to buy them at first glance.
This **** is just absurd.
axs ticket prices seemed better than ticketmaster when I went to KC women's game.I picked up a couple of tickets to the ISU WBB championship game in KC at the T-Mobile box office. The printed price on the tickets was $20 & I was charged $71....
From what I understand, Ticketmaster (and other sites) business models basically act as cover for the events/artists themselves. The management companies running the tours and such are usually the ones that get a healthy portion of the money gained from “hidden fees”.
So if you’d like someone to be upset at, I’d probably start pointing my finger at the NCAA first.
I looked at their 10K. They own, lease, or have exclusive rights to almost 400 venues. Majority of those are arenas between 6-30k seats.That and their exclusivity deals with venues. If you're an artist and want to distance yourself from TM, most of the venues in the US would no longer be available to you.