Erm… Springsteen allowed Ticketmaster to price gouge on his most recent tour, so bad example!
But let’s not kids ourselves. Bands aren’t enabling it to they can break even - they do it to milk money out of desperate fans.
For anyone interested in Ticketmaster's price-gouging Platinum 'service', I wrote a blog post about it - with some very specific details, and a gratuitous mention of the Albion.
Yeah, that’s Ticketmaster’s Platinum (surge-pricing) ‘service’ (scam).
They say the promoter sets the prices, not them. The promoter is invariably LiveNation, their parent company.
****s.
Tricky to be 100% certain, because I didn’t f**k about, but I believe there’s a separate queue for each date. So you need to choose early in process.
I was queue number 1271. Was instantly confident.
Just heard of someone with 1850 who didn’t get tickets! Prob v limited presale numbers for...