Ticket Prices Frustration & Complaints

[Deeshere]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

You can no longer buy a pair of tickets for Dallas unless you go through a reseller. $2500/ticket for 3rd row Christine's side!

Ok, I've got to rant about this. I know this always happens when you want to go to a concert and I know it's too be expected too, but the scalpers drive me crazy and now that Christine has rejoined the band, it seems the ticket scalpers are much worse this time around.

I barely got my tickets at 200.00 a piece before the Dallas show pretty much sold out. There maybe a few single seats left here and there in the arena, but I was told by a man working at Ticketmaster (Monday at 12:30pm) that almost all the tickets left for the Dallas show were single seats ONLY and even those were going fast. He said people were snapping up the single seats up trying to get seats as close together as possible before all the tickets were gone.

Before the tickets went on sale Monday to the general public I tried to get tickets using the AMEX presale and the tickets that were coming up then were crap tickets, so I was hoping they were holding some good seats back to sale to the general public and decided to wait till Monday to buy my tickets. But no, it looks like a good portion of the tickets were actually bought up by the ticket scalpers during the pre-sale and you can now buy your Fleetwood Mac ticket on StubHub at double, triple, quadruple... etc....etc.. the original price

I'm fine with someone trying to make some money, but right now (while I'm typing) there are 1214 tickets for sale on Stubhub for the Dallas Fleetwood Mac Show. The prices range 112.00 (ok price) to $5,502.00 for tickets on the 3rd level in the nose bleed section ?!?! (blood sucker) Not everyone selling their ticket is trying to bleed the regular Mac fan, but the ones that are, are really ticking me off because regular working people can't afford 400.00, 500.00, 600.00 and up for a ticket (and God bless the Mac Fan's that can afford them, because I know your there and you've paid ridiculous prices for your tickets in the past).

And while some may say that, that's capitalism and you snooze you lose, I think it's really FU**ED that anyone thinks it's ok to buy a concert ticket (to any concert) and then turn around and sell it at about a 9100% mark up (60.00 x 9100% = 5,460.00)

And what's even worse is that a large portion of the tickets appear to have been bought during the pre-sale (because I was checking Subhub during the pre-sale too, to see if there were any decent tickets available there and the ticket prices were sky high then too) so not only did the scalpers get a lot of the best tickets to the concert and JACK UP THE PRICES UP, but the BAS**RDS also got them at a DISCOUNTED PRICE TOO.... Scalpers SUX