[i][b]Bruce Springsteen
This is ridiculous.
And now Ticketmaster & LiveNation want to merge!?
WTF?
Antiturst lawsuit waiting to happen hopefully.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-02-04-ticketmaster-live-nation-competition_N.htm
Ticketmaster-Live Nation deal could sound antitrust alarms
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY
NEW YORK
Springsteen’s so fucking awesome
ha ha, i just tried to get tickets for hampton again (been doing it every day) on TM and it doesn’t link me to ticketsnow anymore.
yea if anyone has purchased tickets from ticketsnow you can get refunded by telling them you didnt know the difference and now you paid insane amounts of money and you never meant to do that
and they will pay the extra that you paid, all you pay is face
they put a new letter out back to springsteen
ill find it and post it asap
here it is- the paragraph with asterisks is the one im talking about in my above post
Bruce Springsteen posted an open letter on his Web site today criticizing Ticketmaster for how the ticket service handled his initial onsales earlier this week. Now, Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment, responds.
An Open Letter of Apology to Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau and the entire Springsteen Tour Team:
While we were genuinely trying to do the right thing for fans in providing more choices when the tickets they requested from the primary on-sale were not available, we clearly missed the mark. Fans are confused and angry, which is the opposite of what we hoped to accomplish. We sincerely apologize to Bruce, his organization and, above all, his fans.
We recognize that we need to change our course. We have committed to Bruce and state publicly here that we have taken down all links for Bruce’s shows directing fans from Ticketmaster to TicketsNow. This redirection only occurred as a choice when we could not satisfy fans’ specific search request for primary ticket inventory, but to make sure there is no misunderstanding in the future, we also publicly state that we will never again link to TicketsNow in a manner that can possibly create any confusion during a high-demand on-sale. Specifically, we will not present an option to go to TicketsNow from Ticketmaster without the consent of the artist and the venue, both of whom work together to bring the joy of live entertainment to millions of fans.
If any fans inadvertently purchased tickets in the resale marketplace believing in error they were purchasing from the initial on-sale, we will refund the difference between the actual purchase price and the face price of the ticket. (Please don’t abuse this good faith gesture - we did not give brokers any preferential access to tickets.)
We are committed to helping deliver the most transparent and best live entertainment experience to fans. We will do better going forward.
Sincerely,
Irving Azoff, CEO, Ticketmaster Entertainment
^wow.
that guy missed the point.
we’re pissed off that the only people that got tickets is ticketmaster’s sister/scalper company, not that we’re confused of the difference. I say not good enough.
^ i completely agree, but for people that paid it there is somewhat of an out
i think it blows big time that is all they are doing, i wish i could have gotten some tickets to asheville, its my hometown show and im not going
Damn, so we all could have bought Hampton tickets and ended up getting them for face?
^ if thats what i read correctly