Decided to give the kids a bit of a treat and perhaps support the not kids anymore but young band nevertheless - #GretaVanFleet playing at PPG Arena in #Pittsburgh
Up in the nosebleed with kids (partners enjoying quiet time at home). Opening act Mirador is pretty good.
The U.S. House has passed the TICKET Act, which requires ticket sellers to disclose the total cost of attending an event, with an itemized list of the base price and fees. The bipartisan bill now awaits a Senate vote. Here's more from Pitchfork.
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Live Nation Offering $25 Tickets For IRON MAIDEN, KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, CREED & More
Rob Zombie, Sum 41, Halestorm, and more!
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PEARL JAM Invites Apple Music Into Their Warehouse Giving Unprecedented Access; Band Talks New Album, Their Critics, Their Ticketmaster Feud, And More; Video, Photos
#LiveNation#TicketMaster#Antitrust#Monopolies: "It's been a minute since Ticketmaster was last in the news, so let's recap. Ticketmaster bought out most of its ticketing rivals, then merged with Live Nation, the country's largest concert promoter, and bought out many of the country's largest music, stage, and sports venues. They used this iron grip on the entire supply chain for performances and events to pile innumerable junk fees on every ticket sold, while drastically eroding the wages of the creative workers they nominally represented. They created a secret secondary market for tickets and worked with ticket-touts to help them run bots that bought every ticket within an instant of the opening of ticket sales, then ran an auction marketplace that made them gigantic fees on every re-sold ticket – fees the performers were not entitled to share in.
The Ticketmaster/Live Nation/venue octopus is nearly impossible to escape. Independent venues can't book Live Nation acts unless they use Ticketmaster for their tickets. Acts can't get into the large venues owned by Ticketmaster unless they sign up to have Live Nation book their tour. And when Ticketmaster buys a venue, it creams off the most successful acts, starving competing venues of blockbuster shows. They also illegally colluded with their vendors to jack up the price of concerts across the board:"
#Ticketmaster#Kreditkartenbetrug geht gerade um und hat mich auch gerade erwischt. Mein Kartenprovider hat meine KK gesperrt, weil versucht wurde über 700 Euro einzuziehen.
Kein finanzieller Schaden, wegen schneller Reaktion. Aber oi, das ist tatsächlich das erste Mal in meinem Leben, dass mich das erwischt hat.
Achtet auf eure Auszüge und schaut am besten mal online nach.
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US Department Of Justice Reportedly Preparing To Sue Live Nation Over Breaking Antitrust Laws
Not exactly surprising, given how things have gone.
The Department of Justice is planning to sue Ticketmaster's owner, Live Nation, for antitrust violations, and could file suit as soon as next month, Axios reports.
I purchased Billy Strings Greek Theater - Berkeley tickets this morning. It was not a shit show and frankly was a pleasant experience. No surge pricing and I got the tix I wanted. Zero stress. I actually logged back on to purchase an additional Sunday ticket with no issue.
The tix will not be released until 48 hours before the show, I assume to curb resale surge pricing.
"...The star, whose Eras tour broke box office records and provoked an inquiry into #Ticketmaster's sales practices, follows the likes of Barack #Obama, #GretaThunberg and Volodymyr #Zelensky...
"...Its shortlist... included Xi Jinping, Vladimir #Putin, #Barbie and the striking #Hollywood actors and writers.
Looks like tiketmaster was mixing up users' accounts during the Yoasobi concert tix sale. I'm guessing it's some kind of session mix up? What web technology can fail that badly?
The last time that I had encountered it was a site using asp.net.
Anyone familiar with the web stack Ticketmaster runs on?