Ticketmaster has teamed up with artists and promoters to scalp their tickets. Using "Platinum Tickets" Showing people corruption one tweet at a time
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Gas stations can’t raise their prices triple while you wait in line for it.
Why is @ticketmaster any different?
@amyklobuchar Ticketmaster monopolistic abuse towards fans needs to stop.
#breakupticketmaster
Ticketmaster resale has 10+ listings on their resale platform that have people violating the ticket limit selling on their site for UFC 334.
We all know Ticketmaster collects massive amounts of fees from both the buyers and sellers, but shouldn’t they be stopping people over the ticket limit, not potentially profiting off of it?
#paystowait
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I highly recommend fans stop using @StubHub until they change the policies that continue to let fans down.
🎟️ Stop using dynamic pricing against customers.
🎟️ Make 24-hour ticket delivery the standard. No more waiting until 3 hours before an event unless there’s a legitimate, known delivery delay when fans may already be on their way or AT the game.
🎟️ Replace the worthless FanProtect Guarantee with a commitment to actually get fans into the event. If they can’t, provide meaningful compensation, including credit that covers the fees StubHub charges sellers. A refund is the bare minimum, not exceptional customer protection.
🎟️ Properly vet sellers and ban repeat offenders who fail to deliver tickets.
Fans spend hundreds or thousands of dollars expecting to attend an event. They deserve certainty, accountability, and protection, not last-minute panic and a refund after their plans are ruined.
StubHub has policies to protect its business. It’s time they had policies that truly protect FANS.
I highly recommend fans stop using @StubHub until they change the policies that continue to let fans down.
🎟️ Stop using dynamic pricing against customers.
🎟️ Make 24-hour ticket delivery the standard. No more waiting until 3 hours before an event unless there’s a legitimate, known delivery delay when fans may already be on their way or AT the game.
🎟️ Replace the worthless FanProtect Guarantee with a commitment to actually get fans into the event. If they can’t, provide meaningful compensation, including credit that covers the fees StubHub charges sellers. A refund is the bare minimum, not exceptional customer protection.
🎟️ Properly vet sellers and ban repeat offenders who fail to deliver tickets.
Fans spend hundreds or thousands of dollars expecting to attend an event. They deserve certainty, accountability, and protection, not last-minute panic and a refund after their plans are ruined.
StubHub has policies to protect its business. It’s time they had policies that truly protect FANS.
This is what happens when an artist stands up for fans. Provided price transparency up front. Isn’t catering to the rich and trying to not milk his fans dry of every center. Just a brilliant job by @samfendermusic once again
Great job of @samfendermusic to get his prices changed lower for fans! It’s refreshing to see an artist care about them.
The majority of artists, promoters and execs only view fans as their piggy banks. Other artists will raise prices like crazy and then deny they have a say in pricing. but they are just lying to you.
Great job to Sam.
Sam Fender says he’s “not happy” with prices for 2027 stadium tour and they’re “getting changed”
He also criticised split standing sections at big shows: "It’s bollocks and it won’t be happening on this tour" nme.com/news/music/sam-fende…
Jay Z get tonight is $22 on resale for full view.
Primary ticket cheapest for upper level $129.
Shout out to all the discord groups who told their members to buy this
#paystowait
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Jay-Z's show at SoFi today has seen a price decline of over 80% since its post-onsale peak on July 27.
The get-in price has fallen from $190 to $34 in less than 90 days.
Worth keeping in mind that while day-of ticket markets are interesting and indicative of demand, the vast majority of ticket holders have already purchased their tickets.
Look at these deals tonight for Rolling Stones Musicians on musicians event tonight featuring Megan Moroney, Alex Warren, Malcolm Todd, and Don Toliover
$9 get in!
$34 orchs
#paystowait
Here is Ticketmaster enabling a reseller to profit off of wheelchair and accessible seating for the front row for Meek Mill.
Shame on whomever bought these tickets, and shame on Ticketmaster for allowing someone to resell them.
Remember when Zach Bryan wrote All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster?!?
Now he’s using Ticketmaster, using dynamic pricing and platinum tickets.
Amazing how much of a sell out these artists become to enrich themselves and make sure they try and take every cent they can from the fans.
Ticketmaster has a massive conflict of interest.
Their job should be getting fans tickets at a fair price. Instead, fans are thrown into panic-inducing queues while resale listings appear the SECOND tickets go on sale.
The same company facilitating the original sale also profits from resale transactions.
Why should fans trust a system where the company selling the tickets can also make money when those tickets are resold for more?
The priority should be getting tickets to fans, not creating an environment where resale becomes another revenue stream.
For Metallica Sphere buyers.
Nice little ticket trick, look up the 2 day tickets: you can get them sometimes cheaper than just a single day.
2 day floors cheaper than Saturday floors.
The onsale today for Calvin Harris only released between 200-600 tickets.
Also the newly added shows had queues of 800,000+
Worst system ever developed by @Ticketmaster with zero transparency for fans.
This is what happens when you have a monopoly, they do not need to make their system any better.
We will be tracking this tour closer to the event and hopefully it’s a #paystowait
Calvin Harris has added 4 more shows to his tour.
These shows were always going to be added. It’s really terrible how they continue to use this tactic to trick fans into panic buying. Now it lets resellers reset and start fresh for the new shows instead of putting them all onsale at once.
Expect queues to have hundreds of thousands of “people” in them again.
Here is just another example that we can add to the things broken in ticketing.
Let’s examine one our favorite #paystowait artists Zach Bryan and his show in Philadelphia.
Center Floor F3 row 2 $784
Center Floor F3 row 3 $447
Now use that special artist code you signed up for
Section 225 row 1 $422
Section 112 row 1 $550
How does any of this make sense? Who’s in charge of pricing and why must they be so stupid?
#paystowait
Ticketmaster no longer has someone selling 28 and 30 seats. Looks like they have reduced the listing to 8 for each night now. They only have seats 23-30 for sale.
Maybe this is just some coincidence that this happened. Doesn’t look shady one bit.
This seems pretty incredible.
Someone has for sale on Ticketmaster resale. Seats 1-30 and someone has for sale seats 3-30 for Andrea Bocelli for the other show.
The ticket limit for this event is 8 for presales and 12 for public sale.
@saumil can you shed some light on what is happening here being the global president of Ticketmaster. You know exactly who bought these tickets and who has them listed for sale.
Congratulations to the @Ticketmaster team and @saumil
Every single popular show has hundreds of thousands of “people” in the queue.
They have successfully created the worst buying experience for any product in the world. Amazing accomplishment.
Every artist has the ability to opt out of Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing.
Every artist has the ability to opt out of Platinum tickets.
just witnessed GA tickets for @Tinashe go from $55 up to $147 right before my eyes. i tried to buy the $55 ticket and it said not available and then changed the price… i hate you @Ticketmaster !!!!!!
this is actually insane like how is this allowed????
