So, since they're selling them through Ticketmaster ticket prices will actually start at $51.56, for shitty upper balcony seats, where no one is excited be.
OK I got my tickets...Ticketmaster stopped just shy of asking me for a blood test and my first born child. I also spent approximately $4,000 in convenience charges.
What always kills me is Ticketmaster charging an additional "processing" fee, which only shows up at check out, in addition to the "convenience" fee. That particular insult got my ass down to the Showbox in person to pay cash for a ticket.
Whelp, I guess I'll be cruising craigslist as the date nears... Gotta see Team Coco!!
@ 7 - I couldn't agree more. When I buy through Ticketfuckingmaster, I just have to bite the bullet and do it, those bastards. Didn't Pearl Jam try to take them down a peg or two a few years back?
Yeah, @8, but their efforts pretty much went nowhere. Ticket Monster (or alternately Ticket Tzar or Ticket Mizar as we used to call it when I worked there back in the late '80's) has almost a literal monopoly on the arena concert biz, so basically, they don't give a shit. They'll charge whatever they think the market will bear, which in this case is quite a bit, because none of the other online ticketing agencies have anywhere near their segment of the market.
Coco, this one's for you.
Fuck Ticketmaster.
Whelp, I guess I'll be cruising craigslist as the date nears... Gotta see Team Coco!!
@ 7 - I couldn't agree more. When I buy through Ticketfuckingmaster, I just have to bite the bullet and do it, those bastards. Didn't Pearl Jam try to take them down a peg or two a few years back?