Paradoxically, I’m sure the only people this will inconvenience are regular folks trying to get two tickets to a show. Scalpers will have a way to update their ticket spinners and bypass any form of verification, resulting in shows STILL being sold out 1.3 seconds after they go on sale.
Stop being right!
I’ll watch the neighbours kids do a backyard “concert” before I would pay ticketmaster to see a show. Local gigs and community theatre will be making a big comeback down the road. Ticketmaster can’t sustain their iron grip on venues and touring artists forever. In the meantime though it’s morphed into a service for the elite and the “monied”.
Community theater can be a great choice if you have them in your area. $25 for a bunch of volunteers beats out the outrageous prices charged by megacorps like Ticketmaster any day of the week. I’ve seen many quality community theater productions, and have even seen some actors who have gone on to have professional TV and movie careers.
As a kid & in my twenties I enjoyed attending community theater productions & had some friends who were on stage but as an adult I wonder how they can live spending so much time at neverending process of auditions & rehearsals & performances for NO PAY? There must be a lot of wealthy daddies keeping these people afloat.
“Let’s see how much abuse they’ll take. You know, for science.”
This really feels like the bad place and they are just slowly boiling the frog.
And ew, they use persona.
100% will not ever do this for any company for any reason.
“Nope!”
But you pronounce it with that fuck you kind of “pop” nope.
NO|POPP
Ticketmaster is scalping too, while gathering everyone’s personal data. Gonna be great for the company valuation.
This community is less „mildly infuriating“, and more „watch the US become a fascist‘s dreamland“
I saw this when trying to find my tickets for a concert a month ago. If they ever required this I’d just be done with concerts. Not worth trying to find concerts that don’t use them, or to find ways around it.
time to support your local music scene instead
Surprise, somehow it’s still Ticketmaster /s
Done with live nation and ticket master.
This is the same company that lost half a billion customers personal and financial details. And how they want government IDs. Fk that.
It’s sad how quickly the public forgets and normalises this type of behaviour by companies.
And thats the motto of the world: authoritarianism.
Stubhub is better. Albeit sometimes slightly more expensive. Last time I bought from them (admittedly years ago) I didn’t have to show them anything except a credit card number.
Lmao. Nope. Guess I’m not going.
