Tour Prediction and Speculation Thread [ARCHIVED] Tour • Page 2175

Could see that, but really hope it’s not a single, exclusive show. I wanna experience them *not* in a festival environment or with a barricade

 

got the 4 pack lawn tickets, came out to like 180 after everything. ridiculous but at least i finally get to see fall out boy

 

all 3 rise against metro shows are officially sold out

 

Idk why people like to clown on it so much. They toured for two years straight on the last tour giving everybody and everyone in every corner of the world a chance to see them. I thought it was cool.

 

Not a Taylor fan by any means…but MAJOR props to her for being literally the only major artist recently that turned off TM Dynamic Pricing.

She left millions on the table.

 

Disturbed tour coming Monday

 

yeah fuck this dynamic pricing bullshit. cheapest Lil Wayne ticket I could find was $296 lol

literally about to start working on plans for sneaking into venues - I've already got it pretty much down at 2

 

$300 to see Lil Wayne in a 1k cap venue is incredible though

 

I'd love to see him in a small venue, but nothing about paying $300 is incredible

 

I don't think there is a single artist I'd pay to see for $300 or more.....

 

Regardless of dynamic pricing, why can't prices just be put out in advance and if we truly do have all this data to anticipate demand of events, why can't tickets be more accurately priced to begin with?

 

but who knows if he'd actually show up

 

He will.

 

I'm glad I gave up on seeing Thrice this year and just accepted City of Caterpillar at a local dive for $20 after fees as a consolation. My inner peace is calm.

 

I paid $210 for rage against the machine and don’t regret it

 

i don't either. but that's only because i got my money back since they finally cancelled after like 3 years of postponements. haha..... sigh...

 

Because, psychologically, if you say tickets are going to be $50 and get people amped about going... By the time it comes to buy the ticket, the person has their heart set on it, and will be more likely to pay the inflated costs. I can guarantee you that if Blink-182 tickets had been announced at the price I paid for them that I wouldn't have bothered.

That's the core of it. But I'm also convinced that they don't really have actual data to support the true demand for so many of these shows before they get announced. So much of it is driven by the secondary market... It's part of the standard conversation now. Shows just don't "sell out fast." It's that they "sell out fast" and "tickets are going for $XXXX StubHub."

I'm so soured on all of this, at this point. It's just really fucked that consumers are literally competing for tickets with companies who are using professional tools and applications in an effort to purchase inventory in bulk. I can't think of anything comparable on the scale that this is happening.

 

this might be the one band I'd pay that much for

 

I paid close to 300 for two tickets for Outkast and that was worth every penny

 

Lucky for me Thrice picked a non live nation venue in STL so I just got my TAITA tour ticket for $38 after fees

 

I don't think the bot issue is as big as we think it is. I mean, sure, it EXISTS but I think that the top 2-3% of touring acts are just THAT much more popular due to streaming exposing people to more music. Going to shows in the 90's/00's there was a fair amount of investment both literally but also in terms of time as you had to buy, illegally download, get music from friends as well as figuring out ticketing logistics. Now everything is 100% digital to the point where actual fans are buying 2-3 extra tickets "maybe to sell".

To the point of sticker shock, yes that would be tough to get over but I feel like that would eventually be accepted and consumers would generally understand that arena/amphitheater shows are going to START at three figures as those are, by market definition, luxury items/events.

 

Yeah, bots are undoubtedly a thing, especially on large tours, but there are fewer out there than people likely realize because they're INSANELY expensive to subscribe to (like a minimum of $1,200 per month per bot, depending on how many accounts you want it to run, unless you are a tech guy and have built your own and just happen to be interested in reselling tickets.)

Beyond just people buying extras to try to make their own tickets free, there's also promoters getting in on the action under the table because it's so easy for them to resell now. Take a look at most major seated tours, and you'll probably notice several sections in the venue that have highly concentrated numbers of tickets, all listed at what appears to be basically face value before fees. You think, how can they make any money on that? Cause it's the promoter, they bought them below face, and without TM fees, and are looking to swing a smaller margin per ticket on a massive block and sell them quick. Happens all the time.

 

Can’t we all just agree that this is one of the worst evolutions of capitalism and sucks for any regular concert goer? Sitting in the nosebleeds or lawn for a show should not be a fucking luxury event lol