Apparently they won’t sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly
Someone in a different thread told me if you open up a separate browser and put the single ticket in your cart you can buy the seats you want, haven’t tried it yet but I definitely will next time I have the misfortune of using ticketmaster.
Good idea. And from the picture they clearly have single seats in a row left to sell, so someone managed to do it.
That’s started to become standard practice for anywhere with seating. Ticketmaster may implement it, but it isn’t the only company doing so.
It’s the case on every cinema’s website I’ve bought a ticket in the last decade.
Yea i bought a ticket to something recently straight from the venue’s website and they had the same rule.
I’d consider reaching out to the states AG.
There’s no way it’s legal to sell a product but force certain instances of the sale to double their purchase.
Imagine these were bottles of water? It’s either a unit for sale or it isn’t. You can’t pick and choose where it’s convenient.
Further, there’s no way shareholders would want to see you being denied an opportunity to spend your money.
This is fishy.
Are you still considering it, or did you do it yet?
No, this didn’t happen to me, and I don’t know what state it happened in. I was never considering it, I was suggesting it.
Sketchy ass link is sketchy
I don’t know who to use for image hosting these days since imgur went to shit
There’s nothing mild about Ticketbastards.
If Mark Cuban has the resources to take on the drug industry by creating a service to get reasonably priced medicine, can we ask him to make a new TicketMaster that doesn’t rip everyone off?
I have a friend who did this, quitting their job for ticketmaster to run it. If you run a venue, get in touch and I can link you guys up, they have a list of clients, testimonials and competitive pricing, with an ethos based around consumer-fair practices.
Won’t work. Livenation owns the majority of the major venues in the US.
You’re saying you can’t make a new ticketmaster because first you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first…?
That doesn’t mean it won’t work. That just means you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first.
A competing service in the non-Livenation venues would be enough to take a chunk of a Ticketmaster’s bottom line and force them to compete again, something they haven’t had to do in a while.
Not really. Big acts want big venues. Live Nation owns those or has exclusivity agreements with them. It is very much a monopoly.
Sounds like a pretty clear cut antitrust issue
Next step is you will have to buy the entire row for 3 or more people
Bought there a ticket for the first time and oh boy.
How can it be, that they have a centralized login but can’t share a ticket and need to log in to the specific country page.
You already have my login, just show me the damn ticket as “Tickets in country [XYZ]”. (eyeroll)The clostest cinema to me introducted seat checking during covid (where they made shure there is an extra seat free). After covid they tweaked the same feature to make sure mo extra seats are free.
You can see how everyone would leave an empty seat and they’ll won’t be able to sell dozens of seats because of this, right?
Oh noes, the giant corporation might miss out on tens of dollars after charging exorbitant fees! Maybe they shouldn’t leave seats in odd numbers at all then.
The only infurtiating thing here is you feeling entitled to other people’s right to view the show and others’ money - corporate or otherwise.
People like this and the ones who responded to you aren’t thinking. They see the words Ticketmaster or Corporation and immediately lose any sense of higher-level reasoning - they just start metaphorically foaming at the mouth. Other trigger words: libs/trump/edison/GMO/coal/big tech/ you get the picture
On topic to the OP -
- it’s not Ticketmaster setting these rules, it’s the venue
- they probably had the seating rule listed somewhere along the process and you just skipped over it
- you can just… not fucking go
“Everyone I disagree with is just emotional”
You’ll make a woman very unhappy one day with this logic.
Thanks for proving my point. Taking two seconds to think about the trigger word list I put out would lead to the conclusion that no-one would support all of them.
But yea, pop off trying to get a gotcha in. More power to you.
You’re ignoring the relationship Ticketmaster plays with big venues. They collude and often serve as a lightning rod for anger for the venues, they deserve the ire. I might agree if this was an indie venue but it’s owned by MSG group and is thus absolutely a party to Ticketmaster’s BS.
I’m not ignoring it but as you said, their role is to play the lightning rod. Why on earth are people falling for the lightning rod even after knowing about it and not complaining about the venue. Every single comment here is blaming the fall-guy exactly as designed. Why should they ever change their strategy - it’s working exactly as they want.
What the fuck are you talking about? I tried to buy tickets from a site that said tickets were available. Then it said I didn’t buy enough tickets.
Seems like you’ve been licking too many corporate boots to understand this post. Maybe you can buy the extra ticket for me if you feel so strongly about the poor monopolies.
There’s plenty of other seats you can pick that don’t leave a single seat out there. If everyone had their choice they’d have an empty seat between every group of people going to the show. This is to prevent that and perfectly reasonable.
Do you think this should also apply to air travel?
This is standard for air travel at least over here. If you want an empty seat, you got to buy it. 🤷
What airline does this? I can see a concert or something like how I posted above getting away w it when the seats are 50 or 100 USD, but an airline saying you have to buy an extra $1000 or $2000 ticket is absolutely bananas to me. At prices like that I’d happily break up my party than even remotely consider buying an extra seat.
That’s not an apt comparison and while I definitely think it should reach a point in ticket sales where they turn this feature off (about leaving single seats), we both know that people would absolutely leave single seats all over the place if they could (I do it when I go to the movies).
Im also fairly certain that this is analytically driven and been shown to cause less tickets to be sold, which is most likely worse for everyone (not just ticketmaster/the venue).
There are things to call out monopolies on or hate for big corporations, but this is an instance where it may actually be a better overall outcome.
That’s not an apt comparison
Why not? I want space next to me when I fly. And if only a single seat is left I’d prefer to sit next to a friend rather than a stranger. Why are airlines allowed to break up couples and a show venue isn’t? And how is a movie different? Wouldn’t you feel frustrated if movie theaters had this policy?
Hell, why shouldn’t everything come in pairs? If I go to a restaurant with a friend and order 2 of the remaining 3 steaks, should they not sell them to me because it would require one lonely person to order the final one?
Wait. Your first comment wasn’t sarcasm? Or is this one as well? I’m having trouble believing that anyone besides Ticketmaster would honestly feel that way.
If it’s a popular enough show, there will be a single person out there who will still be willing to buy the seat. Or a group who is fine with being split up and will just take whatever seats are left.
If it’s not a popular show, then what exactly is the fucking problem?
Finally, someone who can clean my dirty boots with his tongue
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR MEGACORP’S PROFITS!!!
Ticketmaster is truly the bastard spawn of satan and corporate greed, an evil so foul and repugnant that merely speaking its name sends chills through all that hear it and sends children running to hide under their covers.
It’s your problem because you have no choice, they want to see if you will buy the lone seat :)
Some of us go to concerts alone. It’s not that crazy to leave a single seat open.
Not that that should ever be the consumer’s problem anyway.
