This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Ticket Monster
Jan
16
2018
My wife saw that the Harlem Globetrotters would be in our arena soon, and she thought it would be fun to take the kids. Tickets were about $20 apiece, so that seemed reasonable for a fun break from the winter weather.
My wife was looking at the tickets and picking out a good section, but I stopped her when I noticed it was through Ticketmaster. They were a major reason I left my last email address – could not get them to stop sending me email, so I abandoned that email address. They’re probably still spamming it. I wanted to setup a temporary email for this transaction, so we could delete it and be free from Ticketmaster spam after our event.
I started setting up the new email, and in parallel I was on the ticketing website so I could do everything at once. But this time I went farther in the process than my wife had – I selected the tickets and got ready to check out. This time, they showed me the total for the tickets. Usually 6 times 20 is 120, but Ticketmaster said that it was 240.
$240 to buy 6 tickets at $20 each?
Yep.
They’re worse than shady car salesmen (or F&I guys, depending on your experiences). Agree on a price and then the total ends up being different. Only Ticketmaster doesn’t have a loan with monthly payments to hide the different total.
I aborted the checkout process and told the wife that we would have to come up with other plans for that weekend. Taxes and fees of $2-3 per ticket would have been reasonable, but fees equal to the price of the ticket? What exactly is Ticketmaster doing to those tickets to add $20 worth of value? In this day and age of instant downloads and e-tickets, I would hope the Ticketmaster model could go away.
Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?
Matthew 22:17
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January 16th, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Just went through this exact same thing a week or so ago. Tried to buy three $10 tickets to Arena Cross at Wright State. Over $60. Looked at Wright State’s ticket office, and it said you can buy at their ticket office in person without all the fees. So I just did that when we arrived at the event. (It was open seating with extremely low demand, so I wasn’t worried about getting good seats.) Otherwise, wasn’t going to go.