Withholding Tickets

[ironpig70]

Artists do have some control over ticket prices, they can choose to take out less extravagant productions and do a more bare bones approach for their shows. The more it costs in production, the higher the ticket prices are for fans.

How many people want that kind of show? Its like saying I can go to the fair or Disney World.


Problem I have seen locally is Craigslist. I bought tickets for a local event and it sold out the day tickets came out. Tickets are double what I paid for my tickets.


And for folks saying $100 for tickets is expensive well it all depends. I once paid $100 for a show and took a 2 hour plane ride each way and a 2 hour car ride after that to go a concert. Spent 24 hours on the ground and flew home. After all said and done I spent about $400 on the concert. It was only 1 of 2 shows done in America.

And yes I would do it again.

 

[ilovefh]

Yes, they were all the exact same price for each concert. This is why I was led to believe it was Stubhub that bought out the concert. If I am mistaken, I'd be very surprised. But yes, I could be.

I have never heard of stubhub buying tickets. Like a PP said it may be an individual who bought tickets in the hopes of making a profit. However, the reason they may all be the same price is that when you list your tickets on stubhub they show you the most recent sales so you can price yours accordingly. If the the ticket cost you $100 but the last 5 sold for $200 wouldn't you list your ticket for $200? I know I would have.

 

[crazyme5kids]

Artists do have some control over ticket prices, they can choose to take out less extravagant productions and do a more bare bones approach for their shows. The more it costs in production, the higher the ticket prices are for fans.

Boy isn't that the truth!

 

[Colleen27]

Artists do have some control over ticket prices, they can choose to take out less extravagant productions and do a more bare bones approach for their shows. The more it costs in production, the higher the ticket prices are for fans.

That's not necessarily true. To go back to my initial example, Kid Rock priced his tickets for his summer tour at $20 to reach more fans. What happened? The event became a high-profit-margin target for scalpers, so instead of the artist making the full profit of the $50-60/ticket that the market will bear he's making his profit on $20 tickets and the resellers that bought up huge numbers of tickets to "flip" are getting the rest.

Regardless of the artist's intentions, the massive secondary market for ticket sales means that prices will settle at the highest point the fans will bear. The only question is who sees the benefit - the artist you're willing to pay to see or the scalper with the resources to buy up blocks of tickets to resell.

 

[Hrhpd]

Good for you for taking a logical response to that statement. I could only laugh at the ridiculousness of it.

And there would not be any music today as all the bands from the 60's, 70's and 80's would have ceased to exist.

Besides, I think many concert goers actually want to see the crazy stuff the band does on stage when drug addled.

You think somebody would bite the head off a bat stone cold sober?

If one doesn't approve, it is very simple. Vote with your pocketbook and don't buy tickets. Also, people have walked out of concerts, demanding their money back. Whitney Houston comes to mind.

But then, I am a child of the 70's

 

[Hrhpd]

Stubhub is individuals with tix they bought who want to resell them.. the people set the price not stubhub.. I'm sure stubhub gets a cut (Not sure how much) but I bought Lady Antebellum tix on there for a LOT more than face value but it was well worth it

Exactly. Many of those pre-sale tickets to fan club members or other that were eligible for pre-sale tickets are the ones you see on stub hub. People buy them during pre-sales and immediately post them on stub hub. There are lots and lots of individual's scalping their tickets.

But as mentioned, tickets always seem to be available closer to the concert. We were interested in the first Billy Joel / Elton John tour. Tickets had been sold out forever. We got onto ticket master about 2 weeks before the concert and there were all sorts of 3rd and 4th row tickets available.

 

[zoemurr]

Exactly. Many of those pre-sale tickets to fan club members or other that were eligible for pre-sale tickets are the ones you see on stub hub. People buy them during pre-sales and immediately post them on stub hub. There are lots and lots of individual's scalping their tickets.

But as mentioned, tickets always seem to be available closer to the concert. We were interested in the first Billy Joel / Elton John tour. Tickets had been sold out forever. We got onto ticket master about 2 weeks before the concert and there were all sorts of 3rd and 4th row tickets available.

Yes, we learned about this here. We got 12th row Miley tickets up against the catwalk about 2 hours before the show. Apparently after they set up the stage they realized they could fit more chairs. We paid $60 each. I told DD to be quiet about it because everyone around us (many with worse seats) had paid over $1,000 a ticket.