FUCK TICKETMASTER (Rant)

01189998819991197253, 10 months ago

Dude! I was on this rant a few months ago, too! May their business die, and their pockets (and bank accounts) empty for their shitty monopolistic behaviors.

By the way, the added 20$ is considered a bait and switch, since they don’t tell you right away, and wait until checkout. That’s illegal. But they’re big enough that the laws don’t apply, it seems.

ZombieTheZombieCat, 10 months ago

I just noticed the other day that when I clicked on a seat I wanted, it took me to another page where it had a toggle to turn on “show ticket prices with fees included.” I bet that’s how they get around that. I even thought when I saw it how shady that is because it only shows up after you’ve already found a seat you’re interested in, but you’re not quite at the checkout yet. It somehow makes it worse because it’s so fucking blatant.

01189998819991197253, 10 months ago

Super shady move by them, for sure. I got tickets from them once. So long as I can, never again!

krolden, 10 months ago

whats the email address to delete your account?

LUHG_HANI, 10 months ago

I’ve been to a lot of events the past 2 years and ticket master are the only one to fuck up. They changed the event location and said in the app the tickets would update. They never did. Never got a refund as it was a bank holiday weekend and that’s apparently my fault.

Absolute scum cunts.

Auzy, 10 months ago

I didn’t realise these turds were sh** worldwide (can confirm they are rubbish in Australia). If thats the most of your concerns, its not much. The fact they operate their own dodgy ticket scalping reselling website online for double-cuts, is enough for me to avoid them

zikk_transport2, 10 months ago

Quick tip - feed this doc to some AI service. Google “pdf gpt” or something like that.

Then ask AI for instructions.

Schlemmy, 10 months ago

That’s a cool advice

SootyChimney, 10 months ago

I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F

HellAwaits, 10 months ago

I recently had this same issue with WideVPN. Never, ever use these guys. Bunch of shady, rude asshole on customer service that cant’ be bothered to handle a simple account deletion request.

fschaupp, 10 months ago

Sounds to me, like a report to the GDPR – Supervisory authority would be a great option.

letsgo, 10 months ago

The real place to direct your anger is towards the venues and bands that choose to sell tickets through TM.

NuPNuA, 10 months ago

Didn’t they buy the firm that owns most of the venues in the US so bands don’t really have a choice?

all-knight-party, 10 months ago

A lot of that is out of band's hands. Ticketmaster has, essentially, a monopoly on venues. It's already incredibly hard to even make net zero on playing shows, getting picky about venues makes that almost impossible and relegates your band to shitty dive bars.

VolunTerry, 10 months ago

Absolutely rubbish company that has nearly cornered the market on venues artists and events and made the entire process of engaging with live entertainment worse and worse as time goes on.

The awful practices of Ticketmaster/Livenation are many, including many things others have already listed as well as an increasing phase-out out of cash and other anonymous payment methods throughout the entire process, including at the actual participating venues themselves.

SamboT, 10 months ago

So why exactly are venues forced to use ticketmaster? I don’t understand. Does everyone involved in the show just get more money when ticketmaster is bleeding customers dry with fees? Are there not other simple payment processors that can be used instead?

antiabed, 10 months ago

Basically all major and non-major acts are exclusively signed with Livenation, because all venues are Livenation. And all venues are Livenation because all major and non-major artists are signed there exclusively.

SamboT, 10 months ago

So artists will find that if they want to play at a large venue, they will need to sign with livenation because the venue has?

And venues sign with livenation because a lot of artists are signed with livenation and they want good artists?

And they don’t really care after they sign because now the requirement to sign with livenation is a burden of whoever isn’t signed with livenation?

And the only person who really loses is the customer?

mihor, 10 months ago

The customer always has. Caveat emptor.

antiabed, 10 months ago

That’s about correct, yeah

pewgar_seemsimandroid, 10 months ago

not in Estonia

cyberwolfie, 10 months ago

I’m awaiting a reply on my request to delete my Ticketmaster account. Seems like I can’t expect much…

Dsklnsadog, 9 months ago

Didn’t needed to read. Fuck ticketmaster!!!