Was anyone actually naive to think the piss wouldn’t be taken?
Every-Progress-1117 on
Dynamic pricing is a cancer.
Tickets from 1 eur,* not including reservation fee, payment fee,seating fee, fee fee, website fee, non-website fee, postage fee, app fee, electronic deliverer fee etc. And then only one 1 eur ticket is sold, the rest being randomly priced in the 100s.
Concerts, airlines, cinemas….when is this coming to basic food shopping I wonder
ps: *euro, pounds, dollars – choose your currency
TheShakyHandsMan on
I’m happy I got mine on See at a set cost. If the ticket master website actually worked I imagine more people wouldn’t have panic bought tickets at inflated prices.
Surely with the extortionate fees they should be able to have the infrastructure to handle large volumes of tickets.
If they can manage to sell Taylor Swift tickets without the site melting then they should have been able to sell Oasis tickets.
shysaver on
People still paid at the inflated rate, so it’s not like the scheme failed. No one was forced to buy tickets, however Ticketmaster does employ a bunch of tricks to get you to pay up like FOMO, sunk cost fallacy (queuing for hours) and sense of urgency (buy the tickets now otherwise you will lose your spot and have to queue again)
It’s the same with the ticket touts, touts only exist because people pay their rates
Cooljol on
I hadn’t heard of this before. Joined the queue on Saturday at 23000th and got in to buy tickets (Cardiff, Saturday) at 10:55. Errors on every ticket type until I tried “Platinum” and magically I could buy two tickets at £488 EACH! There’s no way I could justify that.
PapaJrer on
I get that people are pissed off. But a dynamic pricing system is (or should be) basically a system of ‘everyone can buy tickets, but they’re cheaper for those at the front of the queue’ as opposed to ‘only those at the front of the queue can buy tickets’.
I’m not convinced the second model is necessarily fairier – especially since some people have significant advantages in the queuing process eg. Not having work/childcare, understanding the technical side better, more devices, stable internet connection.
I remember at the London Olympics you had relatives and friends of athletes who couldn’t get tickets for any price, when people who has never followed the particular sport were watching for £20.
If they use it, they should be far more transparent about it. Live queue updates: “We have x standing tickets left at £150, y at £350, and z at £495 – Are you stupid enough to spend the next 4 hours queuing?”
RandyDandyWarhol on
Just load up your copies of definitely maybe on your streaming service and enjoy your hundreds of pounds saved.
Lo_jak on
The year is 2027 and Tesco have now introduced dynamic pricing on everthing in store & online….. people fight to get in before prices surge, and shop online at 3am while the prices are at their lowest.
Bathhouse-Barry on
Dynamic pricing is a joke. It starts with concerts but then it will be everywhere. I believe they are starting to trial it for fast food in the states.
regprenticer on
I saw some interesting memes at the weekend .. *now Oasis are selling tickets suddenly boomers know how hard it is to get concert tickets”.
And now that Boomers are complaining suddenly the government is doing something about it.
sexdrugsncarltoncole on
Ticketmaster are cunts, theyve always been cunts, ridiculous it took this long
Drummk on
Why not just price the tickets what they are worth?
I can get behind subsidising/capping the price of things like housing and energy. But concert tickets?
mikeh117 on
Liam and Noel never gave a fuck – it was pretty much part of their brand, and why so many people loved them. Those of us who remember their attitude from their 90’s heyday are completely unsurprised by this.
For anyone doubting, Liam was proud that he ripped off his music from other artists (and was sued multiple times). “I don’t give a fuck, you’ll buy it anyway”. And then stood on stage berating his fans and telling them “we’re so much richer than youse”.
Of course they authorised dynamic pricing and gouged fans for as much money as they can get.
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Was anyone actually naive to think the piss wouldn’t be taken?
Dynamic pricing is a cancer.
Tickets from 1 eur,* not including reservation fee, payment fee,seating fee, fee fee, website fee, non-website fee, postage fee, app fee, electronic deliverer fee etc. And then only one 1 eur ticket is sold, the rest being randomly priced in the 100s.
Concerts, airlines, cinemas….when is this coming to basic food shopping I wonder
ps: *euro, pounds, dollars – choose your currency
I’m happy I got mine on See at a set cost. If the ticket master website actually worked I imagine more people wouldn’t have panic bought tickets at inflated prices.
Surely with the extortionate fees they should be able to have the infrastructure to handle large volumes of tickets.
If they can manage to sell Taylor Swift tickets without the site melting then they should have been able to sell Oasis tickets.
People still paid at the inflated rate, so it’s not like the scheme failed. No one was forced to buy tickets, however Ticketmaster does employ a bunch of tricks to get you to pay up like FOMO, sunk cost fallacy (queuing for hours) and sense of urgency (buy the tickets now otherwise you will lose your spot and have to queue again)
It’s the same with the ticket touts, touts only exist because people pay their rates
I hadn’t heard of this before. Joined the queue on Saturday at 23000th and got in to buy tickets (Cardiff, Saturday) at 10:55. Errors on every ticket type until I tried “Platinum” and magically I could buy two tickets at £488 EACH! There’s no way I could justify that.
I get that people are pissed off. But a dynamic pricing system is (or should be) basically a system of ‘everyone can buy tickets, but they’re cheaper for those at the front of the queue’ as opposed to ‘only those at the front of the queue can buy tickets’.
I’m not convinced the second model is necessarily fairier – especially since some people have significant advantages in the queuing process eg. Not having work/childcare, understanding the technical side better, more devices, stable internet connection.
I remember at the London Olympics you had relatives and friends of athletes who couldn’t get tickets for any price, when people who has never followed the particular sport were watching for £20.
If they use it, they should be far more transparent about it. Live queue updates: “We have x standing tickets left at £150, y at £350, and z at £495 – Are you stupid enough to spend the next 4 hours queuing?”
Just load up your copies of definitely maybe on your streaming service and enjoy your hundreds of pounds saved.
The year is 2027 and Tesco have now introduced dynamic pricing on everthing in store & online….. people fight to get in before prices surge, and shop online at 3am while the prices are at their lowest.
Dynamic pricing is a joke. It starts with concerts but then it will be everywhere. I believe they are starting to trial it for fast food in the states.
I saw some interesting memes at the weekend .. *now Oasis are selling tickets suddenly boomers know how hard it is to get concert tickets”.
And now that Boomers are complaining suddenly the government is doing something about it.
Ticketmaster are cunts, theyve always been cunts, ridiculous it took this long
Why not just price the tickets what they are worth?
I can get behind subsidising/capping the price of things like housing and energy. But concert tickets?
Liam and Noel never gave a fuck – it was pretty much part of their brand, and why so many people loved them. Those of us who remember their attitude from their 90’s heyday are completely unsurprised by this.
For anyone doubting, Liam was proud that he ripped off his music from other artists (and was sued multiple times). “I don’t give a fuck, you’ll buy it anyway”. And then stood on stage berating his fans and telling them “we’re so much richer than youse”.
Of course they authorised dynamic pricing and gouged fans for as much money as they can get.