CAN ANYTHING BE DONE ABOUT ONLINE TICKET SCALPERS????
this post I made on mp.com is probably worth sharing again. Not that the Varsity Theater
really has any concern about it, but it doesn't change the fact
something should be able to be done about it, and it likely never will.
I really LOATHE the way some of these concerts, the ticket sales get
BOGARTED by the SCALPERS and all the tickets are sold out in 10 Minutes,
and then soon after put up on sites like Stubhub.com for 2, 3 or as
much as 6 or 7 times the cost.
The Venues don't seem to care since they are still selling out their shows.
It happened last year for the Gotye shows (in Minneapolis among other
towns), and it just happened with Fitz & the Tantrums. The venue,
The Varsity Theater, usually sells some tickets via their sister club,
The Loring Pasta Bar. But they decided to make the Fitz & the
Tantrums concert on June 17th, an ALL-INTERNET sale show. Tickets went
on sale on the Ticketfly.com link to their site, and they were totally
SOLD OUT in 10 MINUTES. I find this out on Saturday when trying to buy
tickets in person at both The Loring Pasta Bar and another Ticket
outlet, the record store, The Electric Fetus. I then check Stubhub.com
and find 82 different tickets being sold on that site for the show
ranging in prices from $72-$155 PER TICKET, which were sold on TICKETFLY
for $25-$35.
Something should be done about this unfair
system for selling tickets. But other than Presales, I'm not sure what.
SCALPERS have gotten away with this BS for decades, and it never seems
to end.
