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thetimetraveler24 · 22 days

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Okay so I’ve never resold a ticket to an event before but I panic bought an extra ticket to the ATLA concert thinking I’d just drag my brother or my mom with me, but tbh I think I’ll have way more fun by myself because they aren’t fans. So I was thinking I’ll just resell the extra ticket. But in my confirmation email, my eticket has my full government name on it. So how does it work? Does the buyer get a new eticket sent to them with their name on it? Bc I will just eat the cost if some random stranger is going to get my full name. Especially if I have to sit next to them for probably two hours at the show.

Plus I bought the VIP add on and I’m not sure if I can like connect that to the ticket I’m selling somehow? Or do I have to sell that separately?

I bought the ticket protection too. Will that transfer to the new owner? Y’all I have sooo many questions.

Idk if anyone can help answer this, but I figured I’d ask.

Also if anyone has any experience with resale sites, which one would you recommend? I’d like to use one that will protect me as the seller but also not scam the buyer. I just don’t know what to look for since over never done this. I guess I just don’t want either party to get royally screwed over with a shitload of service fees. You know?

#avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender in concert #atla #atla music #atla in concert #reselling tickets #reselling #tickets #help lol #any advice?#advice #please advise

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render-bomb · 11 months

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Anyone in Canada looking to get Forbidden Door tickets? We have 2 seats sec 309, row 2. $200, below price paid. I'm not Canadian/American so Ticketmaster won't let me sell. But we can meet in person for cash and I'll transfer the tickets too you there and then. I am in Toronto from Tues.

#aew #aew forbidden door #reselling tickets #forbidden door tickets #forbidden door #aew nerds #all elite wrestling #aew Canada #wrestling #wrestling tickets

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mxdwn · 2 years

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Rammstein to Block the Reselling of Concert Tickets by Viagogo with Restraining Order

https://music.mxdwn.com/2022/10/03/news/rammstein-to-block-the-reselling-of-concert-tickets-by-viagogo-with-restraining-order/

#rammstein #reselling tickets #viagogo

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mostlysignssomeportents · 25 days

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Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in WINNIPEG, then Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode…eventually. Guessing which of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely high on my list.

It's not that event tickets are the most consequential aspect of our lives. The monopolies over pharma, fuel, finance, tech, and even beer are all more important to our day-to-day. But while Ticketmaster – and its many ramified tentacles, like Live Nation – may not be the most destructive monopoly in our world, but it pisses off people with giant megaphones and armies of rabid fans.

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:

https://pascrell.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ful.pdf

When Rebecca Giblin and I were writing Chokepoint Capitalism, our book about how tech and entertainment monopolies impoverish all kinds of creative workers, we were able to get insiders to go on record about every kind of monopoly, from the labels to Spotify, Kindle to the Big Five publishers and the Google-Meta ad-tech duopoly. The only exception was Ticketmaster/Live Nation: everyone involved in live performance – performers, bookers, club owners – was palpably terrified about speaking out on the record about the conglomerate:

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

No wonder. The company has a long and notorious history of using its market power to ruin anyone who challenges it. Remember Pearl Jam?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taking-on-ticketmaster-67440/

But anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Not only is Ticketmaster a rapacious, vindictive monopolist – it's also an incompetent monopolist, whose IT systems are optimized for rent-extraction first, with ticket sales as a distant afterthought. This is bad no matter which artist it effects, but when Ticketmaster totally, utterly fucked up Taylor Swift's first post-lockdown tour, they incurred the wrath of the Swifties:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/11/21/23471763/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-monopoly

All of which explains why I've always given good odds that Ticketmaster would be first up against the wall come the antitrust revolution. It may not be the most destructive monopolist, but it is absurdly evil, and the people who hate it most are the most famous and beloved artists in the country.

For a while, it looked like I was right. Ticketmaster's colossal Taylor Swift fuckup prompted Senator Amy Klobuchar – a leading antitrust crusader – to hold hearings on the company's conduct, and led to the introduction of a raft of bills to rein in predatory ticketing practices. But as David Dayen writes for The American Prospect, Ticketmaster/Live Nation is spreading a fortune around on the Hill, hiring a deep bench of ex-Congressmen and ex-senior staffers (including Klobuchar's former chief of staff) and they've found a way to create the appearance of justice without having to suffer any consequences for their decades-long campaign of fraud and abuse:

https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-30-live-nation-strikes-up-band-washington/

Dayen opens his article with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which is always bracketed by a week's worth of lavish parties for Congress and hill staffers. One of the fanciest of these parties was thrown by Axios – and sponsored by Live Nation, with a performance by Jelly Roll (whose touring contract is owned by Live Nation). Attendees at the Axios/Live Nation event were bombarded with messages about the essential goodness of Live Nation (they were even printed on the cocktail napkins) and exhortations to support the Fans First Act, co-sponsored by Klobuchar and Sen John Cornyn (R-TX):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/music/fans-first-act-ticket-bill.html

Ticketmaster/Live Nation loves the Fans First Act, because – unlike other bills – it focuses primarily on the secondary market for tickets, and its main measure is a requirement for ticketing companies to disclose their junk fees upfront. Neither of these represents a major challenge to Ticketmaster/Live Nation's control over the market, which gives it the ability to slash performers' wages while jacking up prices for fans.

Fans First represents the triumph of Ticketmaster/Live Nation's media strategy, which is to blame the entire problem on bottom-feeding ticket-touts (who are mostly scum!) instead of on the single monopoly that controls the entire industry and can't stop committing financial crimes.

Axios isn't Live Nation's only partner in selling this distraction tactic. Over the past five years, the company has flushed gigantic sums of money through Washington. Its lobbying spend rose from $240k in 2018 to $1.1m in 2022, and $2.38m in 2023:

https://thehill.com/business/4431886-live-nation-doubled-lobbying-spending-to-2-4m-in-2023-amid-antitrust-threat/

The company has 37 paid lobbyists selling Congress on its behalf. 25 of them are former congressional staffers. Two are former Congressmen: Ed Whitfield (R-KY), a 21 year veteran of the House, and Mark Pryor (D-AR), a two-term senator:

https://www.bhfs.com/people/attorneys/p-s/mark-pryor

But perhaps the most galling celebrant in this lavish hymn to Citizen United is Jonathan Becker, Amy Klobuchar's former chief of staff, who jumped ship to lobby Congress on behalf of monopolists like Live Nation, who paid him $120k last year to sell their story to the Hill:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2023&id=D000053134

Not everyone hates Fans First: it's been endorsed by the Nix the Tix coalition, largely on the strength of its regulation of secondary ticket sales. But the largest secondary seller in America by far is Live Nation itself, with a $4.5b market in reselling the tickets it sold in the first place. Fans First shifts focus from this sleazy self-dealing to competitors like Stubhub.

Fans First can be seen as an opening salvo in the long war against Ticketmaster/Live Nation. But compared to more muscular bills – like Klobuchar's stalled-out Unlock Ticketing Markets Act, it's pretty weaksauce. The Unlocking act will "prevent exclusive contracts between ticketing services and venues" – hitting Ticketmaster/Live Nation where it hurts, right in the bank-account:

https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/4/following-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-klobuchar-blumenthal-introduce-legislation-to-increase-competition-in-live-event-ticketing-markets

It's not all gloom. Dayen reports that Ticketmaster's active lobbying in favor of Fans First has made many in Congress more skeptical of the bill, not less. And Congress isn't the only – or even the best – way to smash Ticketmaster's criminal empire. That's something the DoJ's antitrust division could power through with a lot less exposure to the legalized bribery that dominates Congress.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/30/nix-fix-the-tix/#something-must-be-done-there-we-did-something

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pacific-coast-hockey · 4 months

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I AM SCREAMING

WELP TIME TO SAVE UP FOR THOSE TICKETS NOW CAUSE THEY’RE GONNA BE EXPENSIVE

obsessed with the beard being the identifier. NO you don't get Jumbo's face it's his BEARD. anyway I'm so glad they're retiring his number, and I hope Patty cries at this one too!!!

#i have no idea how expensive patty's retirement night was but i assume if you jump on tickets immediately before everyone starts reselling #it won't be too too bad???#maybe someone who buys tickets to sharks games regularly can chime in #i hope all the baby cudas are going crazy #that's their DAD #ask #unbenchthekench

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thesmallestmanwhoeverlived · 8 months

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unpopular opinion maybe but i hate this new way of getting tickets. if you didn’t register a year before the concert there’s literally no chance left to get tickets??? even if you change your mind afterwards, you’ll never be able to go??

#i get that it’s to stop scalpers etc #but there’s other ways to do that right??#like that thing ed sheeran did a few years ago??#where you couldn’t resell your ticket for more than the price they bought it for #alina’s thoughts #taylor swift #olivia rodrigo

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girlweepinginstairwell · 8 months

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tried the mitski presale with a friend & it all sold outlike instantly. it’s so over

#I WANT A TICKET...#AND NOT ONE FROM A RESELLER WHO’S SELLING IT FOR $500

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daisiesonafield-blog · 8 months

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Well that’ll be practically everyone since current ticket prices are that high for regular face value tickets 💀

#ticketmaster #boost #irs #taxes #ticket resellers #tickets #ticket help #I couldn’t get over the paywall for this article #so that’s all I have #stubhub

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cryptamen · 2 months

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No, No cause I have more to say about Miku Expo.

[putting a read more cause I have a LOT to say and I'm very angry but I will do a funny video drawing on this soon so whatevs]

They so HEAVILY advertised with the holograms. Even to say you can't bring your own lightstick as it could ruin the whole projection.

Only for it to be the worlds smallest movie theater tv.

I'm disgusted. THEN I FIND OUT. You can't even resell your tickets. They've CLOSED THE OPTION to RESELL the TICKETS.

The staff doesnt know whats going on and neither do we. The band sounds great but its too loud over her voice. (or her voice is too quiet >=[.)

Her model is so tiny on the screen you cant see it from a few feet away or anywhere in the stands and side viewers are COMPLETELY FUCKED.

Not to mention the ridiculous merchandising issues.

Online sold out in a matter of minutes and didn't load for a majority of people to purchase anyhow myself included.

And IN PERSON VENUES ARE WORSE. Under 100 lightsticks at Vancouver, Portland, and San Jose. The MAIN merch attraction. Not that the keychains were much BETTER but lightsticks are incredibly important to the actual LOOK of the show?

THEN! YOU LEARN MIKU AND AQOURS (AND GENSHIN???) DID A LED SHOW AND IT LOOKED BETTER THAN HER 10TH ANIVERSARY SHOW!

AND FINALLY YOU REMEMBER THAT MIKU IS GOING TO COACHELLA APRIL 12TH.

-if shes still an LED we'll not only be pissed but MAJORLY EMBARRASSED.

-If shes a hologram we'll be expecting that SAME ENERGY AT THE DAMN CONCERT THE MAJORITY SPENT HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON.

I'm okay with leds if done correctly but the LIGHTSHOW DOESNT EVEN LOOK GOOD ITS DISTRACTING AT BEST FROM THE TINY ASS SCREEN AND PAINFULLY BAD AT WORST.

My Highschool theater did better lightwork at their production of god-damned Anastasia!

Crunchyroll your ass is GRASS. I have never been more appauled in my life.

You tricked thousands of people into buying tickets to what they expected to be a miku concert for what is essentially a glorified 4D aquarium movie.

A A A A A !!!!!

Personal Tidbit:

I was going for my birthday. And I still am. Not like I have a choice. I can't even resell or refund my fucking ticket.

#miku expo #Miku #Hatsune Miku #Crunchyroll slander #Crunchyroll #Cryptonmedia #Crypton #Hatsune #Miku Expo 2024 #Miku Expo LED screen #Ticketmaster #<<FUCK THEM TOO BY THE WAY I DIDNT MENTION THEM BY NAME BUT YEAH THOSE ARE THE NON RESELLABLE/REFUNDABLE TICKET GUYS #crypt.txt #crypt rants #Its late. I'm angry. Going to bed

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applejee · 7 months

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hello little friends in my phone. i need you to settle a dilemma for me. both are performing the same day and same time and i really really want to see both but i CANNOT DECIDE. SO

reasons for seeing tkay:

it’s her first headline tour

i really liked her latest album and love so much of her music

she’ll surely have more tours in future

it’s standing room only and good vibes

tkay apparently has amazing charisma and puts on amazing shows

she’s aussie and i love to support aussie bands

reasons for seeing måneskin:

no clue if or when they’ll come back to australia

it was sold out and i was sad i missed my chance until they announced last minute tickets

it’s a full stadium tour and i’ve heard great things about their shows

i’ve enjoyed their music since eurovision