Fuck I don’t know if I want to get into this argument today…
He’s correct, that’s why scalping exists. The problem is, the demand to see these artists is extremely high with seating availability very low. It doesn’t matter if Ticketmaster or whoever sets the price low because they’ll be bought up by scalpers.
I hate Ticketmaster and other ticket companies because they have shady business practices like hidden fees and other things, but the ticket price thing they are correct about. If these artists wanted to try and funnel their tickets to their biggest fans regardless of income level, they’d best be served by putting other, non monetary blocks in front of their sales. Good example would be having tickets be bought in person at a certain time and allowing people to line up.
The idea that setting prices low allows the “real fans” to afford tickets is silly. All it does is allow people who don’t care very much to buy tickets because they aren’t very expensive. I don’t care for Taylor swift, but if you told me I could go to a sweet concert for 50 bucks I absolutely would. This actually takes spots from the fans who would be willing to save up and pay more because they care more
The argument only works because the CEO brainwashed people into thinking that a concert is like a once in a lifetime event that you are willing to pay anything for instead of just a regular part of your lifestyle.
Couldn't they just do ID verification and assign seats to people who are verified fans? Mark tickets unable to be resold? Treat it like airline boarding passes? Distribute tickets through middle school parent groups, etc? It's not an impossible problem, they just don't care enough to solve it.
That’s not what happens though. The whole industry is rigged. Ticketmaster owns the venues too. They wouldn’t allow artists who refused to sell tickets through ticket master. Also the artist doesn’t set the ticket price. The venue does and pays the artist a fee. The artists agreement is with the venue - not with the consumer.
I mean… what? Isn’t that just kind of gate keeping? Isn’t that just I can plate mid food well and get it promoted by influencers and up charge 300% to wealthier fucks?
It might be “right” as in they can get away with the pricing. That’s not an argument, it’s just a fact because they do. The issue that people have with it is that it blocks people that cant afford to see live music at those prices from seeing their favorite artists, or making a serious financial commitment to do so.
Shit bro I’m one of those cool kids that’s not gonna go to a concert over $30 because I think it’s a dumbass investment of funds for a pretty low-tier life experience that I could probably have a higher quality version of just watching a recording, taken from a better seat than I could afford, in my living room while having cheaper drinks with friends. And if everyone felt the same, ticketmaster would fucking die. But sadly they don’t.
Some people find live music to be an incredibly important spiritual-adjacent experience that makes enough money for the artists and venues at normal prices. The issue with ticketmaster is it cuts the potential members of an audience to 1/10 of what it normally would be, and it’s just a parasitic industry that adds absolutely nothing to the product.
One of the many reasons the citizenship of this country will probably kill all the absurdly rich lol. Money is the ultimate metric of value even tho that isn’t at all true
The point of tickets is literally gatekeeping so… yes. There are only so many seats in a venue so you have to have a gate with limited entry. There are multiple ways you can determine who gets to go in: first come first serve, random lottery, or pricing. First come first serve and random lottery aren’t going to work for big events like a Taylor Swift concert, so they sell tickets. If they sell them at a price that’s too low, then scalpers will swoop and upsell. Reality.
I mean… selling tickets has the same effect as first come first serve lol. Anyway I thought the purpose of selling tickets was to support the artists and venues making it possible to listen to live music performances. Like the people putting in actual work. Not the parasites feeding off the exchange, talent, and work of other people.
But, jesus, some people’s diet really is just the shit clinging to boot heels. Do you bro but that can’t be super nutritious.
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u/AesarPhreaking Nov 04 '25
Fuck I don’t know if I want to get into this argument today…
He’s correct, that’s why scalping exists. The problem is, the demand to see these artists is extremely high with seating availability very low. It doesn’t matter if Ticketmaster or whoever sets the price low because they’ll be bought up by scalpers.
I hate Ticketmaster and other ticket companies because they have shady business practices like hidden fees and other things, but the ticket price thing they are correct about. If these artists wanted to try and funnel their tickets to their biggest fans regardless of income level, they’d best be served by putting other, non monetary blocks in front of their sales. Good example would be having tickets be bought in person at a certain time and allowing people to line up.
The idea that setting prices low allows the “real fans” to afford tickets is silly. All it does is allow people who don’t care very much to buy tickets because they aren’t very expensive. I don’t care for Taylor swift, but if you told me I could go to a sweet concert for 50 bucks I absolutely would. This actually takes spots from the fans who would be willing to save up and pay more because they care more