{"id":351,"date":"2009-03-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2009-03-08T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:00:00","slug":"postulate-if-ticketmaster-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/03\/08\/postulate-if-ticketmaster-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Postulate: If TicketMaster, Then WereSlaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A short while ago, Sam Roberts<\/a> was in town and Amber and I decided it was high time for a date. Tickets were only $30.50 each and so we saw this as a great opportunity. I bought the tickets just a couple days in advance and so we got some of the last ones, way up top in the back row. As I paid for them on TicketMaster<\/a>, I noticed that besides the GST there was a $10 per ticket charge for using TicketMaster. That’s 33% more than what the ticket was worth. The Jubilee Auditorium<\/a> where the concert was held has 2526 seats meaning TM could have grossed over $25,000 from this one concert. I know there are costs related to each event, but this is really quite excessive. I wonder if Sam Roberts himself, the reason for the concert, the writer of all the songs performed, earned as much as that.<\/div>\n
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What about the gross (or rather disgusting) earnings for a stadium event that can fit 30,000 people? $0.3 million just for selling the tickets? Brutal!<\/div>\n
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Concerts are just ridiculously priced as far as I’m concerned. Leonard Cohen<\/a> is coming to Calgary. I’ve been a fan for almost 20 years. I own all of his albums. But $100 (plus GST and TM fees) for nosebleeders or $250+ for good seats just isn’t worth it.<\/div>\n
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The artists deserve a little slap on the wrists too. Why do they use TicketMaster to begin with when they know their fans are being extorted in such a gruesome way?<\/div>\n
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Then there are the scalpers… ugh.<\/div>\n
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Sam rocked the house though. Great show.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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