TICKETSHELP1@Ticket_Help2022
Here are some deceptive things @ticketmaster promoters and artists do.
1: Holdbacks- there is zero transparency how many tickets each show holds back from the sales. They can create much more demand and cause panic buying and dynamic pricing by doing this.
2: Platinum tickets - these are just tickets that are being scalped by the promoter/artist. The only added benefit you receive is paying more for the show, they give it a fancy name to make you feel better or even trick you into thinking you get something extra.
3: Dynamic pricing- this is a tactic used to raise ticket prices during the sale to make more money from you. Again this is nothing beneficial to the fan. Used together with holdbacks.
4: VIP Packages- most of the VIP packages add junk just to increase the price of the tickets. I have seen them add early entry and a blanket to lawn tickets and add $200 for that.
6. Aisle seats- adding additional money for these seats. However even more greedy, they generally do the first 4 seats on each end. Calling seats 3-4 aisle seats to get more money is nonsense.
7. Adds due to demand- the majority of added shows are already signed and contractually obligated to happen. They do not tell you about these adds though because they want to direct more sales to the first show as people are more inclined to panic and buy platinum and overpriced tickets if they think it’s the only show.
8. Waitroom queue- Ticketmaster uses an algorithm, no one else knows it 100% Generally they rank every account on your “fan behavior” so brokers for instance transfer and buy more shows. That will hurt their rank. Brokers buy, sell and test 1000s of accounts to try and get to the front of the queue. Unfortunately Ticketmaster queue allows the same account to always be in the front until it is re-ranked. So that is why you’ll see someone get multiple tickets to multiple shows while you can’t get any.
9. Artist Sign up presales- they claim this is to slow down bots and brokers, but that’s just not the case. This is to give them more information on the number of sign ups to help determine the demand and pricing.
10. Ticketmaster resale- Ticketmaster has used a platform that allows people to list tickets for sale. Naturally the biggest hit users supply them with the most amount of money in fees, so what incentive do they have to shut those people down?
Lastly, ticketmaster does not set the prices. Artists and promoters do. They deserve the majority of blame when you see outrageous greedy prices.
I’m sure I forgot some things, but please add some other ways they take advantage of fans.
