Let me just be the first to say fark Ticketmaster.

I wanted to read the article, but didn't want to pay the $1 web page convienence fee.

Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. [imitating Smithers] "Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge".
Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.

British: I wanted to read the article, but didn't want to pay the $1 web page convienence fee.

Epic win.

TickeTron for ever!

Badafuco: Let me just be the first to say fark Ticketmaster.

Then let me be the second!


/Ticketmaster isn't being a rebel; they're messing up SxSW's sand box and saying "We've got the money and the connections you don't. SUCK IT."

I didn't want to pay the $3 "fark Ticketbastard up their stupid farking asses" charge. Though it is a relatively good deal compared to paying MORE to print out the tickets yourself.

British: I wanted to read the article, but didn't want to pay the $1 web page convienence fee.

Don't you mean $8.00 convience fee? Don't forget the shipping/handling fee per connection. (don't click on refresh. That starts the fees over)

Submitter: It's a sad day in music when Ticketmaster is seen as the rebel still in business.


FTFY

The article is funny...just goes to show you that hipsters can also be fascist dickheads.

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IHateNamesWithNumbers:
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. [imitating Smithers] "Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge".
Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.

Badafuco: Let me just be the first to say fark Ticketmaster.

THESE.

Ticketmaster sucks. Hard. I go to the box office when I can to avoid their shenanigans. I swear, they whack you with like $15 worth of FEES.

On another note, I really need to get to SXSW one year - seems pretty awesome.

/Ticketmaster sucks. Get out of SXSW's sandbox, you coporate whores.

I hate the lack of objectivity in reporting today... but it's the internets, so damn.

It's pretty clear, SXSW is a complete, all-inclusive thing. You pay a shiat-ton of money to go EVERYWHERE, so they don't want people throwing private, pay-extra parties and using their name.

They seem to be PROTECTING the party-goers from being taken advantage of... how are they the farkers here?

There's a difference between trademark protection and what SXSW is apparently doing.

Reporting all non-affiliated parties to the police is dirty pool; the permitting rules for hosting events are quite often arcane and contradictory. In essence, if a city wants to shut down any party - they can. There's always a permitting problem or violation somewhere.

This is SXSW farking with non-affiliated event promoters. And I don't care if it's SXSW or if the victims are big corporate types: farking with other promoters is bad form. The way you compete with other events is you do your job and promote yours better than they do.

FiendishFellow05
I swear, they whack you with like $15 worth of FEES.

It's not so much a dollar value as it is almost consistently 15 to 25% (and sometimes more) of the price of the ticket. Do the math, you'll see. It's been like this for years.

TicketFarker can go Fark themselves. I don't go to concerts served by them anymore because the thought of bankrolling those monopolizing motherfarkers sickens me. Local venues and the like that don't use their services are pretty much all I do anymore.

Aren't they owned by the penultimate douche nozzles known as Clear Channel now?

FiendishFellow05: IHateNamesWithNumbers:
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. [imitating Smithers] "Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge".
Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.

Badafuco: Let me just be the first to say fark Ticketmaster.

THESE.

Ticketmaster sucks. Hard. I go to the box office when I can to avoid their shenanigans. I swear, they whack you with like $15 worth of FEES.

Yes... we just got season tickets for hockey, and realized we were saving about 18/game JUST in Ticketmaster "convenience fees" and so on. Made getting the season tickets worth it.

Consider me the rebel here...

But I would gladly pay the ticketmaster surcharges if they would just stop letting scalpers buy blocks of tickets to just sell them on Stubhub for 2x the face value.

TicketBastards... get it right farkers!

Jeet: Aren't they owned by the penultimate douche nozzles known as Clear Channel now?

You are thinking of LiveNation, the production company. And LiveNation has only a loose connection with them now.

For the past several months i have consistently been purchasing my tickets directly from venues or through craigslist and ebay for face value. I suggest everyone to really try to never use ticketmaster again if it is withing their power. Especially for smaller scale shows where they end up doubling the price, just buy them at the door. Remember to always use will call if you absolutely must use ticketmaster, screw that $2.00 email stuff.

Lexx: There's a difference between trademark protection and what SXSW is apparently doing.

Reporting all non-affiliated parties to the police is dirty pool; the permitting rules for hosting events are quite often arcane and contradictory. In essence, if a city wants to shut down any party - they can. There's always a permitting problem or violation somewhere.

This is SXSW farking with non-affiliated event promoters. And I don't care if it's SXSW or if the victims are big corporate types: farking with other promoters is bad form. The way you compete with other events is you do your job and promote yours better than they do.

True, there is dirty pool, as you put it, going on, although you are giving a real cynics view of it. These other guys are already farking with SXSW by throwing private parties that are specifically banned, and SXSW knows that they could sue AFTER the fact, but don't want those parties being related to them, so they get them shut down. Still, it is a shiatty, dirty, 'me first' way of doing it.

I just wouldn't go calling the farkers who are trying to make extra money off of the fan base SXSW already built 'rebels'. That's farked up too.

It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant.

/I was saying Boo-urns.

Woot another green.

Also to respond to mekkab: I didn't say they were being the rebel - only being seen (or billed) as a rebel.

Lexx

How can SXSW (or anyone for that matter) out promote Ticketmaster?

cubsfan07: Submitter: It's a sad day in music when Ticketmaster triple-price ticket resellers that scoop up every good seat available is seen as the rebel still in business.


FTFY

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TableTopJoe: Consider me the rebel here...

But I would gladly pay the ticketmaster surcharges if they would just stop letting scalpers buy blocks of tickets to just sell them on Stubhub for 2x the face value.

KA-THIS

Anarchangel: cubsfan07: Submitter: It's a sad day in music when Ticketmaster triple-price ticket resellers that scoop up every good seat available is seen as the rebel still in business.


FTFY

FTFTFYFY

so this. the hannah montana fiasco should of had congress banning stubhub, and other on-line scalpers.

and all that sxsw is doing is protecting the work and image they have achieved through the years. they have 1200 performances, big name acts have room to play sxsw. if some local promoter wants to leech off swsx, don't use their name and have the proper permits.