G@D@MN IT i'm never buying Concert tickets again....

[2rocky]

Back in May I saw that Turnpike Troubadours were going to be playing in Fresno, 4 hours away from me This coming Friday (October 16th). I bought 4 tickets with the idea we would go to it with my girlfriend's family who live in town. Cool, we will visit her family and I'll take them to a show....

Well they all flaked on me, and when I went to list the tickets on Stub Hub, They were worth a Fraction of what I paid. I also realized I paid over $140 in fees to SH. The ticket price is about half of what I paid. This is the second destination concert her family has flaked on attending with us, and I'm just done.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Back in May I saw that Turnpike Troubadours were going to be playing in Fresno, 4 hours away from me This coming Friday (October 16th). I bought 4 tickets with the idea we would go to it with my girlfriend's family who live in town. Cool, we will visit her family and I'll take them to a show....

Well they all flaked on me, and when I went to list the tickets on Stub Hub, They were worth a Fraction of what I paid. I also realized I paid over $140 in fees to SH. The ticket price is about half of what I paid. This is the second destination concert her family has flaked on attending with us, and I'm just done.

They were talking about Stub Hub on the radio the other day. Can't recall if there is a lawsuit against them or not but the jist was StubHub is constantly running algorithms to test the max price for given tickets so you and I could both look at the same concert venue and be getting DRASTICALLY different pricing - like around $100 ticket price difference IIRC. The fees were also mentioned.

 

[Dougfirtree]

Ticket sales is a slimy business that could really use some sort of oversight. And how far you get bent over, when you can't attend, is dictated by whether or not the show sells out. Sorry you got burned.

On the flip side, if you can be flexible, you can often take advantage of the situation and get last-minute tickets for cheap..

 

[brymoore]

Turnpike Troubadours shows are great.

I’ve been on both sides of stub hub on prices. I miss the cash sale for paper tickets in parking lots.

 

[noharleyyet]

Turnpike and Isbell are on my short list.

 

[kodiakisland]

Concert tickets and Stub Hub don’t seem to be the heart of the issue here.

 

[Forkyfinder]

They were talking about Stub Hub on the radio the other day. Can't recall if there is a lawsuit against them or not but the jist was StubHub is constantly running algorithms to test the max price for given tickets so you and I could both look at the same concert venue and be getting DRASTICALLY different pricing - like around $100 ticket price difference IIRC. The fees were also mentioned.

Isnt this also the case with hotel rooms and flights?