Adam Conover just did a video on mega mergers and Ticketmaster was prominently featured. I thought it was pretty well done, but hope you like the guy because he takes his personality to 11 on this one.

Fuck these monopoly fucks.

Sounds like everyone should have listened to Pearl Jam thirty years ago when Tickermaster wasn't a complete monopoly.

Idk if it’s possible, but you could try saying you’re now a EU citizen and you want all you data and everything related to you deleted, according to GDPR laws.

I've been to a lot of events the past 2 years and ticket master are the only one to fuck up. They changed the event location and said in the app the tickets would update. They never did. Never got a refund as it was a bank holiday weekend and that's apparently my fault.

Absolute scum cunts.

Preach that shit.

Fucking cunts are worthless. Haven't used that shit since I got deployed to the Middle East in 1996; three days before the KISS concert we payed out the ass for and they wouldn't refund our tickets. One of the very top shitty corporations on Earth. Nobody should ever use them or any of their relative companies.

Even putting the vertical monopoly aside, their app is straight up useless and doesn't work. I spent 3 hours trying to buy tickets for a show today and the app first wouldn't let me log in, then it wouldn't let me put in a pre-sale code to get discountes tickets, then it crashed multiple times on the payment page. So not only are they the only place to buy tickets to a lot of shows, they make it almost impossible to actually buy the tickets from their own freaking service.

I personally haven't gone to concerts anymore because of ticketmaster & ticket costs, no thanks, I'm good.

Sounds to me, like a report to the GDPR – Supervisory authority would be a great option.

You have other options thankfully. If you're in a large city, you can often find small independent retailers which sell tickets. When I lived in Toronto I used to go to a record shop to buy mine.

You can also go to the venue directly. Oftentimes if it's a smaller venue they'll have tickets available as well. Stadiums usually don't go this route, but it's worth a shot.

Lastly there are other online retailers for tickets like https://stubhub.com

Ticketmaster is a goddamn scam. The entire industry knows it, but it makes money for the labels so they tolerate it. There's a reason Taylor Swift and The Cure have been making a big stink about them lately. I personally won't go to a concert if Ticketmaster is the only retailer, but I'm fortunate that most bands I see play in smaller venues.

Dude! I was on this rant a few months ago, too! May their business die, and their pockets (and bank accounts) empty for their shitty monopolistic behaviors.

By the way, the added 20$ is considered a bait and switch, since they don't tell you right away, and wait until checkout. That's illegal. But they're big enough that the laws don't apply, it seems.

I didn't realise these turds were sh** worldwide (can confirm they are rubbish in Australia). If thats the most of your concerns, its not much. The fact they operate their own dodgy ticket scalping reselling website online for double-cuts, is enough for me to avoid them

These days many websites outright block anyone using Tor from browsing them. They want their precious visitor data for resale to advertisers even if many of them block their ads anyway.

I stopped going to concerts years ago. What a peaceful life. Wish I knew it before.

Absolutely rubbish company that has nearly cornered the market on venues artists and events and made the entire process of engaging with live entertainment worse and worse as time goes on.

The awful practices of Ticketmaster/Livenation are many, including many things others have already listed as well as an increasing phase-out out of cash and other anonymous payment methods throughout the entire process, including at the actual participating venues themselves.

I noticed that VPN issue when I tried to buy event tickets a while back. Super scummy. They don't need to know my home IP to sell me tickets. On the app, even if you have location services on, it just refuses you a connection via VPN.

The real place to direct your anger is towards the venues and bands that choose to sell tickets through TM.

The service ticketmaster offers is not selling you tickets, the service is to the producers, artists etc. They get a huge cut off the sales and even get to choose what bullshit fees ticketmaster can use when selling their tickets, but ticketmaster gets the hate for it and they are still in the clear with their fans.

Ticketmaster is the apron these people use to keep themselves clean of the hate while they squeeze every last dime out of their fans pockets.

The one guy that downvoted does not yet know the frustration of the master of tickets

They are Satan incarnate.

not in Estonia