Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR (May 21, 2021) • Page 56

Ticketmaster is also having massive, widespread issues unrelated to this sale, which is just compounding the already near impossible stakes. They're a complete mess right now.

 

Ticketmaster should not still be in business. An awful company in so many ways.

 

What's the point of playing smaller venues if people can't afford to come see you live?

 

Someone will buy them :/

 

Tickets were only $50 at the venue she's playing here in Utah. GA, lower tier, and upper tier were all $49.50.

 

Yeah I got to the nose bleeds for 45 plus fee but couldn't get them because every time I selected seats it said another fan beat me to it and then it told me I was trying to get tickets too much And was making too many requests like I was a scalper smh

When I went on the app before tickets even went on sale they said they were having technical issues and wouldn't let me on so mess through and through

 

WTF is the point of a queue if this happens
For high demand shows like this they should take away the “choose your seats” option…like damn I’ll sit wherever just give me tickets

 

100%. Was so much better with “give me the best seats based on the highest amount I’m willing to pay”.

 

when i was trying to get tickets this morning, it didn't make me choose my seats. it just gave me 2 that were availble.

 

interesting, I haven’t had that happen in years I feel like

 

I mean if scalpers buy up the tickets and resell them for hundreds of dollars.

 

As @Matt Chylak was saying, it just shouldn't be legal/possible to resell concert tickets.

 

I think in theory that would be the best solution, but there's definitely A LOT of issues that would need to be sorted out if that happened. That would essentially mean you can't give anyone concert tickets as a gift anymore.

 

I think you should be able to resell tickets but only at the price they were originally sold at or lower. So if someone buys a ticket for $50 it can only be sold for $50 (or lower).

 

I'm willing to lose gifting of tickets if it means we avoid this:

Here's what @Matt Chylak tweeted about it. I think this makes sense. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a lot better than what we have right now.

 

I think there is definitely a solution somewhere between the hellhole we have now and the absolutism of only being able to buy for your self end of story.

 

Olivia’s post on instagram seems to imply that no new dates will be added

 

Yeah, tying tickets to identity would be a huge nightmare. I watched it happen first hand during Fall Out Boy's 2013 club reunion tour where parents had to wait in line with their teenagers for 3 hours to retrieve bracelets because the person who's credit card purchased the tickets had to be the one to retrieve the wrist bands, no exceptions. Very few venues are equipped to handle that kind of box office barrage.

I get the idea, but it would make the venue's lives a living nightmare and make concert going a generally prohibitive experience for a lot of people.

Really, this comes down to bots. Individual ticket resellers who are registering one or two verified accounts and getting in aren't the problem here. It's the multi-million dollar large scale brokerage operations who have the money to sustain what these bots cost per month to run (the good ones are upwards of $2k per month per account.) Ticketmaster has tried a dozen different ways of combating their use, but in the end, every step they take actually makes it easier for bots to prevail and harder for the average consumer. I don't know if there's a solution.

 

Doesn’t Ticketmaster own a lot of these bots and use them to artificially raise prices?

 

I personally think that all of the resale sites are in cahoots with the regular sale sites (and possibly the artists and venues) which is why scalping will never go away

 

depends how deep down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole you go, haha

 

They don't own them, but they certainly don't discourage brokers who use them from utilizing their resale platform. It's kind of a don't ask, don't tell thing. They'll implement their "bot protection" schemes on the front-facing website, but once the tickets are in your account, they'll happily list them for you if you're a resale partner, no matter how you obtained them.

 

I feel like this is the obvious happy medium, but it will never happen because Ticketmaster makes too much money on “verified resale” tickets

 

Ticketmaster Has Secretly Been Cheating You With Its Own Scalpers

Ain’t that deep!!

 

this is so fucked