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Ticketmaster convenience charge
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| starsearcher |
WTF...just went to check out some tickets and realized ticketmaster not only charges you $4 for a convenience charge (what convenience?!?!) but they also cancelled the option of tickets being mailed to your address :whip: :whip: :whip: Not to mention it costs $4 to print the electronic ticket from a printer at home...so that's the price of the ticket, plus some misterious convinience charge, plus the charge that you'll pick up the ticket, print it, or have it mailed with express post for more rip off :eek:
So now it's inconvenient and rediculously overpriced!!! Who's with me!? :whip: :whip: :whip: :disbelief |
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| Jayx1 |
$4 is the money they make to operate the service. They arent in it for charity. If the ticket costs $30 for example and they add the $4 then they are only making that $4.
The choice is yours. Go to the venue yourself and save the $4 or use their service and pay the fee. I don't think $4 is a lot to ask for the convenience of not having to leave your house to get tickets or being able to get them at a store 5 mins away instead of downtown. |
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| starsearcher |
| It used to be $2 as far as I remember which was ok with me...and usually that $2 included the other stuff like you picking up the ticket yourself and etc...now it's $4, and you have to pay more to pick up the tickets, and even MORE to print them yourelf... :mad: |
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| Jayx1 |
| it still beats wasting gas, time and possibly parking to go get them yourself. |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
it still beats wasting gas, time and possibly parking to go get them yourself. |
not unless you have a metropass which you pay for anyway ;)
basically all the prices are rising...i feel serious inflation coming on!!! :nervous: |
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| rabbitjoker |
Ticketmaster is the greatest business in the world.
Charge the consumer a "fee" to print of the tickets.
Charge the event holder a "fee" to list the event.
God I wish I could buy a piece of that profit engine. |
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Ticketmaster is the greatest business in the world.
Charge the consumer a "fee" to print of the tickets.
Charge the event holder a "fee" to list the event.
God I wish I could buy a piece of that profit engine. |
Couldnt agree more....."Convenience" charge is criminal |
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| MaxTO |
| I can understand and live with the $4 "convenience charge", however, what I cannot live with is that they charge you to print the ticket at home, that's just ridiculous. I can understand them mailing it to you and going to pick it up (they need personnel to do that) but to print it yourself? :rolleyes: |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MaxTO
I can understand and live with the $4 "convenience charge", however, what I cannot live with is that they charge you to print the ticket at home, that's just ridiculous. I can understand them mailing it to you and going to pick it up (they need personnel to do that) but to print it yourself? :rolleyes: |
printing it yourself is a huge convenience and saves you massive time and money. Why should they bother offering the services and building a website so that you can use it for free? Like i said they arent a charity. $4 beats the hell out of money and time wasted otherwise. |
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| Sly_Guy |
Jay, you're an idiot on this one. You're telling me that $4 is the cost of convienience? The ticket you bought is generated electronically, so you're telling me that it costs $4 for the tenth on a second's worth of electricity it takes their computer to process the ticket purchase? Or to pay the programmer the one time cost of the creation of the program which the computer is running? Com'on man, give me a break...
They're making a profit on that service, and they're obviously making a profit on selling the tickets themselves. |
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| Jayx1 |
Do you know how much websites like that cost? Do you know how much it costs to maintain it? What about administration costs? Not to mention that evil profit factor that people seem to forget.
Im not an idiot on this one. Ticketmaster is a business, not a charity. If $4 is too much then go to the venue itself and pick up the ticket.
I'm not someone who takes too kindly to people who think that making any sort of a profit is an evil thing. And folks we are talking $4 here. That's NOT a lot of money no matter how you look at it.
And funny how most people dont even think about costs of goods and what kind of profit people are making in most other industries. But, somehow they suddenly think it's evil when someone in the entertainment industry is making a buck, like they owe it to people to provide a non-profit service so that everyone can get ******ed and have fun. |
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