Ticketmaster, Live Nation in merger talks

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

What? You trust Ticketmaster? So you're saying that there's no way that a huge company like Ticketmaster would never do anything immoral or illegal? Please. Does the collapse of wall street ring a bell? Those huge corporations did nothing but lie, cheat and steal from people every day.

TicketsNow is nothing more than a front for Ticketmasters "illegal scalping" business.

That's all well and good. However, in my case, I actually have a background of knowledge and experience of which to base my opinions on, rather than following popular opinion, a frivolous & meritless class action suit, and, well, idle speculation.

I've promoted literally hundreds of shows where ticketing was controlled by Ticketmaster. A few happened to be pretty hot shows that sold out in a minute or two. Out of pure curiosity, I pulled complete Ticketmaster audits for these shows, (especially after I saw some tickets listed on eBay). I was able to account for each and every one of those prime, premier seats- how they were made available, who they were sold to, where the tickets were sold, etc.- and, to make a long story short, there wasn't a conspiracy. Just a bunch of fans & amateur scalpers.

The whole Ticketmaster conspiracy bull**** (in regards to getting tickets in the on-sale) is SO tiring. I've pretty much given up trying to explain things logically to people, because there's such an emotional component to trying/failing to get tickets online ("even though I was logged in right at the top of the hour!!!!") that there has to be a conspiracy when scalpers get tickets and you don't. (Never mind the fact that there are TENS OF THOUSANDS of people trying to get tickets to the show online, just like you are) But, there simply can be no other explanation, it seems.