FUCK TICKETMASTER (Rant)

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.

circuitfarmer, 10 months ago

I noticed that VPN issue when I tried to buy event tickets a while back. Super scummy. They don’t need to know my home IP to sell me tickets. On the app, even if you have location services on, it just refuses you a connection via VPN.

Anamnesis, 10 months ago

How do they know that you’re on a VPN?

Zikeji, 10 months ago

Usually they just check your IP against a list of known VPN IP ranges. But they could also be blocking all IPs from data centers and only allowing residential IPs.

Nastybutler, 10 months ago

Obstensibly it’s to stop scammers

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

Devjavu, 10 months ago

The one guy that downvoted does not yet know the frustration of the master of tickets

MagneticFusion, 10 months ago

three guys now

Devjavu, 10 months ago

It’s a restaurant now

nomadjoanne, 10 months ago

They are Satan incarnate.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, 10 months ago

not in Estonia

Dsklnsadog, 9 months ago

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

cyberwolfie, 10 months ago

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

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.

krolden, 10 months ago

whats the email address to delete your account?

reginagrogan, 10 months ago

@MagneticFusion hey, not sure what state you are in, but the california consumer privacy act is a forcing feature to rip your info off of any sites that will not delete it. California right to delete.

MagneticFusion, 10 months ago

I have requested it under the CCPA but they have not responded yet

dotslashme, 10 months ago

I’m not disagreeing, but most of the things you list are true for any major internet servive.

circuitfarmer, 10 months ago

That many businesses have equally shitty practices certainly doesn’t mean we should stop complaining about them and calling them out.