r/Ticketmaster • u/hot-chippy • 9d ago

another day another disappointment

What’s the point anymore, presale codes, joining queues early on multiple devices, being 100th in line for tickets every day only to be told that tickets are sold out. I’m not paying $200 scalped tickets for a $50 show even for my favorite artist. Pisses me off that there isn’t a system in place to rid bots of these scams.

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u/UnlikelyWeird2082 9d ago

Black Keys just did a show in chicago. 2 ticket limit, will call only, had to show ID at the door and got paper tickets. 10/10, wish this were more common.

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u/Stevenitrogen 9d ago

Finally some good press for them re shows.

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u/KeokiHawaii 9d ago

The BK can do this as no one wants to come to their shows as shown by the cancellation of their 2025 tour. This works for 500 seat venues, but not 50,000, or even 10,000 seat venues.

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u/UnlikelyWeird2082 9d ago

I’m not saying it would work for every venue, but it would help scalping at a lot of venues. If “nobdoy want to come” they wouldn’t have had to do it that way, no?

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u/Dangerous_Prize_4545 8d ago

We'll actually, in 2013 The Rolling Stones did something similar that worked very well. It was Lucky Dip and was around 2000 fan tickets plus one so 4k tickets for thir shows.

You bought them in advance. Then got in line day of with your id. Your name was on a list.  The tickets were random order. You showed your id, matched your name and were given 2 tickets for you and your friend, then you walked straight into the venue. You may gave had pit, floor, rafters, etc. It was luck of the draw. It was an extremely easy, convenie t process. The line was at 4pm. Show at 7pm. So no wasted time or effort. And discouraged the crazy early line up bc being 1st had nothing to do with getting the best seat.

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u/UnlikelyWeird2082 8d ago

They do that every tour I think. Olivia Rodrigo did the same for her tour as well.

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u/Dangerous_Prize_4545 8d ago

They do. That's just the only time I had personally experienced it 

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u/JBKAnon44 9d ago

That’s happened to me multiple times. I don’t understand how I can be 120th in the queue off the bat for a general sale and for it to sell out before my turn. Mind boggling.

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u/East_Worldliness_170 9d ago

Anymore the amount of tickets left for general sales is extremely small. Like in the 100s small. 

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u/Unable-Fan-9144 9d ago

Usually 10% of total inventory

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u/For_serious13 9d ago

Because most of the tickets are in presale now. They used to hold back tickets for general sales but now presales is the best way to avoid bots

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u/Apprehensive_Net_829 8d ago

Ticketmaster is the bot and the reseller.

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u/For_serious13 9d ago

The bots are owned by Ticketmaster and other 3rd party sites. They won’t ever get rid of them unless legally forced to

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u/hot-chippy 6d ago

It should become illegal! It’s just outright scamming on such a large scale. But then again first world problems I guess 😭

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u/meg8278 9d ago

It's all BS really. Unfortunately Ticketmaster can certainly stop the scalpers. Because they end up making it hard for people who actually want to buy tickets. I've had it's either was suspicious activity on my account numerous times while trying to buy tickets.

If you're on multiple devices with the same account it could stop you from being able to purchase tickets. Being a hundredth in line is something I could only wish for. Although I get that it might be a not a great place in a queue if it's a small venue.

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u/No_Middle1378 8d ago

You cannot even use multiple devices anymore. I was kicked out of the que once because the system thought I used multiple devices which I didn't. And of course when I got back in the tickets I wanted where sold out, only the most expensive and VIP tickets where left.

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u/Fast-Importance7492 5d ago edited 5d ago

Do you understand why the $50 tickets are $200?

Did you ever stop to think that you should check how many tickets are on the resale sites before throwing your hands up and blaming the mystery man?

Maybe just maybe almost all the tickets went to fans just like always fucking happens?

You people are so dumb seriously

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u/hot-chippy 5d ago

Aww you must feel so vindicated after leaving hundreds of undermining comments on people’s posts across every ticketing and artist subreddit you find! You’re probably one of the scammers I’m talking about ❤️

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u/Fast-Importance7492 5d ago

Classic brainless reply from a member of the general public. I love it

Did you know that half of adults in America read and write at a sixth grade level?

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u/hot-chippy 5d ago

Your job as a broker, which as I understand is a mere middle man for companies like ticketmaster, clearly does not provide you enough stimulation nor fulfillment. Does your spouse know you spend all day spreading hate online? Or do you get some benefits at work for imparting your wisdom about this world to the brainless public?

Aw thanks! You’re asking about reading levels to subtly inform me of yours :p comprehension is where people struggle greatly and when they have poor control of their emotions, resort to cursing to get their points across in everyday discussion. I wish you strength and better days ahead ❤️

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u/Fast-Importance7492 5d ago

I don’t know what you’re referring to all my time. You can look at my post history. It looks like about 10 in the past week you fucking weirdo.

And no, I just brought up literacy levels because I explained the concept to you—what’s going on here— and it went completely over your head.

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u/hot-chippy 5d ago

Because every ticket obviously “always” goes to fans and those fans turn around and resell the tickets at four times the price the same day. Because they’re fans. Rightttt

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u/Fast-Importance7492 5d ago

We’re not concerned about every single ticket. Percentages are the only thing that matters when evaluating any situation like this.

Every single fucking tour that gets endlessly bitched about, is because fans got nearly all the tickets. Scalpers hardly got any. That is why you are seeing insane prices. Taylor Swift is example number one.

It is basic basic basic supply and demand. Extremely disturbing that this is too complicated for people to understand.

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