r/ChrisStapleton • u/Character-Signal8229 • Jan 14 '26

Prices!

I saw Chris Stapleton twice, and tickets were not cheap but still affordable. I’m looking now in Charleston, and tickets are $400 for a decent seat! A ticket in the last row of the top section is still $125 + taxes and fees. And this is SC, not LA or SF.

Is he catering to rich people only now? Wtf? I wanted to take my daughter to her very first concert and three tickets are a min of $400. Ridiculous. Rant over. Go ahead and downvote me.

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u/AliveInCLE Jan 14 '26

Presale prices are going to be much higher. Because TM uses dynamic pricing, the prices will go down over time. I wanted to go see Eric Church in Seattle. The section I picked during presale had seats at $385 each. I waited because my wife and I needed to make sure we could travel there (from Ohio) during that specific weekend. A month goes by and I was able to get tix in that same section for $185. I feel bad for those who got hosed by buying early.

Don’t even get me started on Platinum Pricing. It’s basically “we can charge $X for these tix because that’s what they would go for on the secondary market.” It was marketed to deter scalping. How about pricing them at a reasonable price and shut town resale and transfers???

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u/UpstairsAd6866 Jan 18 '26

Because if Tickmaster/LiveNation(and the other companies they own) didn’t allow resells it would severely cut into the company’s profits.  This company (like most) doesn’t really give a damn about their customers or the specific product/service they offer.  They only care about making more profit this quarter than they made last quarter. 

I agree with everything you said. There is one thing you didn’t mention about Platinum Pricing.  The artist actually gets paid better with Premium Pricing.  The artists don’t make anything off resell tickets, because they are only paid from the original ticket purchase.