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Ticketmaster: Master of Tickets…and my money.
Written by-Zach- Ticketmaster, the world’s leading ticket company, came up with a great idea. They’ll sell tickets online to most concerts, shows, and sporting events around the world in exchange for a few dollars…and then a few more. They’ve done it well too. I wouldn’t want to do business anywhere else, it’s just SO convenient. Log on, enter credit card number, print. Done. The problem is that they are convenient and they know it. It’s like a pretty girl who knows she’s pretty so she flauntingly wears that miniskirt around (even in the winter) and won’t ever give you the time of day. I hate Ticketmaster the same way I hate those girls.
Unlike girls, Ticketmaster will give you the time of day… for an excessive fee (perhaps some girls operate similarly). I recently bought a ticket to a concert from Ticketmaster, as I had done several times before. I had never realized, though, how much extra was added onto the bill by the time you’re done. I should say, they are not small fees. These fees are up to 1/3 of the cost of the ticket, and there are multiple fees.
If it’s a convenience charge because it was convenient for me to log on and buy a ticket rather than go wait in line at the concert, this makes sense. However, it loses logic when you realize that the whole reason for existence of Ticketmaster is to sell tickets online. Are they saying that they charge me extra just because they exist? That’s pretty conceited, Ticketmaster, pretty conceited. I feel like charging them a fee because I exist. Having customers is pretty “convenient” to a company, wouldn’t you agree? In fact, I might go so far to say that since Ticketmaster charges me because it exists… and Ticketmaster exists because customers like me exist…then, I conclude, Ticketmaster is charging me for my own existence! (This is the most thought I’ve ever given to $8.15.)
2. I see that there is a $1.50 “Building Facility Charge” added to the full ticket price AND the “Convenience Charge”. This is weird to me because if I were to have bought my ticket at the door of the concert, there would be no fee to use the building. The only conclusion I can make of that, is that somewhere between my apartment and the arena is a building that I am being charged for using, but I don’t know which one it is. And apparently I will still need to pay it even if I avoid using every building on the way, because I was not given a choice in paying for the “Building Facility Charge”.
3. It’s nice to know you have the option to pay $2.50 for your own paper and ink used towards printing out your ticket.
4. The heading at the top of the browser says that this is the “Ticketmaster Shipping” page. There is some irony in this, because even though I paid $9.65 worth of fees for my ticket on this page, I NEVER HAD IT SHIPPED!
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