Lynyrd Synyrd Tickets - £5.25 per ticket commission!!!!

Probably the only language some of these guys understand. In some venues you have the choice to make a ticket reservation and fetch the tickets right before the show.
Günter

Totally agree with everything said here. The scale of extra charges these days is really getting out of hand. As I said on a previous thread some time ago, A friend of mine didn't go to Joe's Glasgow show last year because a £20 ticket was going to cost him nearer £30 including booking fee, fee for using a credit card. etc.

Maybe it's something the consumer watchdogs could be looking at but I'm not sure what action, if any, they could take.

Welcome to the world of Rip-off, or as we prefer to call it here, Ticket-Ripoff-Master. Yes, just when you thought it was safe to order your tickets on line, you get charged a facilty fee, processing fee, handling fee and in some cases, a mailing fee. Oh wait, you want to print them out yourself? Well, there's a fee for that too! Gee, why don't they charge me an arse fee if I get to sit on a chair? Or how about a space fee because Lord knows, I do take up a little space!!

Got a show coming up this Saturday in Chicago that I'm very much looking forward too. Hard to believe that for 2 tickets it was only $30 ($15 each). But wait, the total bill came to $47.50. I guess the moral to this story is, "If you want to play, you've got to pay".

Lets keep in mind it's not the artist that's responsible for this, it's the ticket vendors.

Roy

you think we have problems with concert tickets what about flights?? I have just booked return flight to Dublin for next week,- tickets £4.98 for 2.... total charge is £85.28 !! OK £60 of taxes you cannot do a lot about but 2  x £10 charge for the privilege of checking in online!!

Gee Ian, that's beyond ridiculous! How can they possibly justify something like that?

And Mike, I agree it's possible some fans might get upset at the artist, but the artist has very little control over how the venue sells their tickets or who sells tickets for them. That's where the problem really lies. Normally, when venues sell tickets direct, a person doesn't get charged as bad of service charges as they do when the venue hands over the handling to ticket brokers. Of course, here in the States, we recently had two giant ticket brokers merge; those being Ticketmaster and Live Nation. How they get away with that type of monopolistic behavior is beyond me?

I guess the only way to avoid these charges is like Geoff did and that is, to go to the venue and purchase them from the box office. Of course, if I'm going to see another show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, I do need a bit of assistance with that task.

Geoff, I would so love to see the Isle of Man TT someday!

Roy