Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
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Absolute hachet job on the ticket agencies. I hope it kills them (viagogo and the like) dead, nothing quite like a cartel being felled.
thing is, why pin it on the ticket agencies? the promoters are suppling the tickets. i think it just means they should be selling the tickets at a higher price and being more honest and up front about what they want to charge.
at the end of the day its not actually against your human rights to miss tickets to an event, some of the hand wringing over the matter is quite disproportionate to the non-crime commited.
at the end of the day its not actually against your human rights to miss tickets to an event, some of the hand wringing over the matter is quite disproportionate to the non-crime commited.
thing is, why pin it on the ticket agencies? the promoters are suppling the tickets. i think it just means they should be selling the tickets at a higher price and being more honest and up front about what they want to charge.
at the end of the day its not actually against your human rights to miss tickets to an event, some of the hand wringing over the matter is quite disproportionate to the non-crime commited.
I'm f***ing ecstatic. Brighton just got to a cup final.Ok, so 200 people with viagogo t-shirts on are in front of you in a que for tickets to see Brighton in the cup final and you dont get a ticket cos they bought them all to sell at a profit. Happy ?
Ok, so 200 people with viagogo t-shirts on are in front of you in a que for tickets to see Brighton in the cup final and you dont get a ticket cos they bought them all to sell at a profit. Happy ?
The issue is that they are price discriminating in order to maximise revenues beyond what the market would bear.
i would disagree, the fact they sellout with so many sold at the higher prices suggest the market will bear a higher price. i assume this is arranged so the promoters pocket more money than officially paying to the acts. there might be a degree of PR involved too, i seem to recall a lot of Outrage when Madonna dared charge lots of cash for her show, though it sold out too. looks better to have reasonable "face value" while selling half the tickets at twice as much.
Ok, so 200 people with viagogo t-shirts on are in front of you in a que for tickets to see Brighton in the cup final and you dont get a ticket cos they bought them all to sell at a profit. Happy ?
Having worked in the music 'industry' for both artists and promoters, it is highly unlikely at the lower levels (JLS, Olly Murs etc) that promoters make money from selling on to agents such as viagogo - these guys buy up the tickets and then sell on at a higher retail vaule. The increase in profit does not go back to the promoters, it goes in the pockets of the seller, in this case, viagogo.
Ok, so 200 people with viagogo t-shirts on are in front of you in a que for tickets to see Brighton in the cup final and you dont get a ticket cos they bought them all to sell at a profit. Happy ?
Yes, I saw the programme - I am speaking from my experience of putting on concerts for smaller acts such as JLS and Olly Murs and for small promoters - Having run the budgets for these events, I KNOW that there was no kick back to the promotors for selling tickets for a highly inflated price. As mentioned, I have no idea how this works for larger acts OR larger major promoters or if they do this or not. I can simply state that working for smaller promoters, this NEVER happened.
Interesing that the promoters themselves, such as LiveNation, Metropolis and SJM, take such a massive cut. I wonder what the artists involved think about that?!