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Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets.
If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 to $55.70. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make roughly 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, band, and label take in combined. Robbery.
via david-noel:rdotm
Luckily I live a couple blocks down from the Mercury Lounge where Bowery sells their tix and I buy them in person. With the money saved I usually purchase an over priced beer.
Im surprised Bowery Presents doesnt have their own online ticketing system in place especially since they own 5 venues.
PS the real robbery is the $2.50 they charge you to print your own tickets!!
This isn’t anything new. Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the Justice Department in 1994 and testified before congress. Ticketmaster is a disgusting Monopoly.
