Whats wrong with Ticketmaster?
I can’t complain about Ticketmaster because I can’t even get their site to come up. I am a Safari user but have also tried Zimbra. I’ve tried using links from emails and typing it in myself. I surfed a ticketmaster Help link, but it’s Ticketmaster and even the help page won’t open! I’ve always used TicketM from a Mac before. Does anyone know what’s up?!!! I’ve missed out on ‘presale’ opportunities to two different concerts now! Can’t even get to TM to see if tickets still available.
During your encounters on the phish.net and at Phish shows, you will likely encounter some hostility expressed toward Ticketmaster. Some who object to Ticketmaster’s virtual monopoly on ticket sales — that is, being the sole distributor for virtually all tickets at a significant number of major venues nationwide, and with service charges on tickets and orders that in some cases consistute a 25% or higher surcharge — refer to the agency, derogatorily, as Ticketbastards. Circa 1993, a suit was filed against Ticketmaster by Pearl Jam, challenging the agency’s monopolistic position in an effort to express their desire to have less expensive tickets. A few years later (late 1995), Green Day managed to tour with inexpensive Ticketmaster-distributed tickets, and (in an MTV interview aired Dec. 1995) credited Pearl Jam’s efforts for the low price of their tickets.
