Submitted 10 months ago by tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
Apparently they won’t sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly
If Mark Cuban has the resources to take on the drug industry by creating a service to get reasonably priced medicine, can we ask him to make a new TicketMaster that doesn’t rip everyone off?
Won’t work. Livenation owns the majority of the major venues in the US.
You’re saying you can’t make a new ticketmaster because first you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first…?
That doesn’t mean it won’t work. That just means you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first.
Sounds like a pretty clear cut antitrust issue
I have a friend who did this, quitting their job for ticketmaster to rub it. If you run a venue, get in touch and I can link you guys up, they have a list of clients, testimonials and competitive pricing, with an ethos based around consumer-fair practices.
I’d consider reaching out to the states AG.
There’s no way it’s legal to sell a product but force certain instances of the sale to double their purchase.
Imagine these were bottles of water? It’s either a unit for sale or it isn’t. You can’t pick and choose where it’s convenient.
Further, there’s no way shareholders would want to see you being denied an opportunity to spend your money.
This is fishy.
Are you still considering it, or did you do it yet?
No, this didn’t happen to me, and I don’t know what state it happened in. I was never considering it, I was suggesting it.
Bought there a ticket for the first time and oh boy.
How can it be, that they have a centralized login but can’t share a ticket and need to log in to the specific country page.
You already have my login, just show me the damn ticket as “Tickets in country [XYZ]”. (eyeroll)
That’s started to become standard practice for anywhere with seating. Ticketmaster may implement it, but it isn’t the only company doing so.
It’s the case on every cinema’s website I’ve ever bought a ticket in the last decade.
Yea i bought a ticket to something recently straight from the venue’s website recently and they had the same rule.
You can see how everyone would leave an empty seat and they’ll won’t be able to sell dozens of seats because of this, right?
Oh noes, the giant corporation might miss out on tens of dollars after charging exorbitant fees! Maybe they shouldn’t leave seats in odd numbers at all then.
The only infurtiating thing here is you feeling entitled to other people’s right to view the show and others’ money - corporate or otherwise.
Dude, what the fuck? You’re also leaving dozens of seats that actual people won’t want to buy, effectively canceling out a portion of available tickets. I really don’t see why you’re whining about this.
#WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR MEGACORP’S PROFITS!!!
I swear I’d buy tickets to anything if the sellers tagine was “we’re not ticketmaster/livenation”
Next step is you will have to buy the entire row for 3 or more people
The clostest cinema to me introducted seat checking during covid (where they made shure there is an extra seat free). After covid they tweaked the same feature to make sure mo extra seats are free.
There’s nothing mild about Ticketbastards.
Some of us go to concerts alone. It’s not that crazy to leave a single seat open.
Not that that should ever be the consumer’s problem anyway.
Sketchy ass link is sketchy
GordieHowesThumb@midwest.social 10 months ago
Someone in a different thread told me if you open up a separate browser and put the single ticket in your cart you can buy the seats you want, haven’t tried it yet but I definitely will next time I have the misfortune of using ticketmaster.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Good idea. And from the picture they clearly have single seats in a row left to sell, so someone managed to do it.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Alternatively, try incognito/porn mode
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok…but why?