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Why is this shocking, it's capitalism (major CORPORATE bullshit even), the "market" pays (gouged or not) what it is willing to pay. If you, the consumer, don't wanna pay, then DON'T. It's what YOU buy, not what they sell that counts...and sorry if your favorite group ends up as a cog, blame THEM for being part of the system.

"Ticket prices and fees are determined by 'people’s willingness to pay for them.'"

kinda like... everything else?

yeah, this reminds me of one of those lame facebook schemes i got sent the other day to lower gas prices by refusing to purchase exxon gas, only from smaller companies like BP. it would eventually force exxon to lower their price slightly to compete, and the other companies would follow suit.

theoretically if even small portions of bands and their fans only used ticketswest or ticketweb, marginally fewer tickets would be sold by ticketmaster, making their profits only slightly less than projected every year. but even that makes a difference because while they might not lower their prices significantly, or at all, it might minimize on inflation.

I missed out on tickets to The B-52's upcoming show at the Showbox because I couldn't bring myself to pay the approximately $16 *per ticket* in Ticketshafter fees. The tickets had a face value of $50 and they went on sale Saturday so I figured I'd be okay to wait until this morning to buy them at Showbox (their box office is closed on weekends) where they charge only a small fee.

When I got there earlier today the tickets were sold out. At $50 each. However, Ticketmaster now has an auction up for the same tickets... *starting* at $70 a pop.

I'm kinda wondering how many tickets were actually sold and how many were set aside for secondary resell. Only the promoters and Ticketmaster know for sure.