Big fuckin' whoops. Maybe ticket fees will only be $7 instead of $8. yay

Good luck. How can anyone make money selling tickets at a service fee less than $8? Not to mention the rapidly increasing cost of producing PDF tickets for people to print on their computers. This is a tough business and better suited for a crooked monopoly to run.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

I had a crooked monopoly once. It got that way from the weight of the chutes and ladders, and candyland games that were resting on top of it.

yeah dont you guys think this is out of control? 10 dollar ticket to Knitting Factory turns into a 13.25 dollar ticket via ticketweb? What the hell, a 30 percent increase?

Get off your ass and go to the venue to buy tickets.

Live Nation's the one company who dares take up against TicketMaster's monopoly? i'm going to wait until Live Nation separates before i can bitch and complain about how their service fees compare.

not all venues sell tix beforehand.

Totally pains me that Ticketmaster does the bower presents shows now. No respect for either of them.

what people don't seem to understand is that ticketmaster has two fees - one imposed by ticketmaster that no one has control over and one imposed by the venue which the venues seem to control. if you compare bowery vs gramercy tix bowery always seem to be lower - anyone have hard evidence to back this up?

If you want to back that up into something hard I think the prices for something like that are significantly higher.

they'll be the same price w/ no competitions. Like when oil companies get together to plan how much to gouge you at the pump.

an oligopoly instead of a monopoly, you mean.

When Bowery switched over from Ticketweb to TM, the fees essentially remained the same.

"Get off your ass and go to the venue to buy tickets."

amen. not that these companies aren't reality's incarnation of darth vader, but i've been doing this for a long time and saved so much money because of it. irving plaza for livenation stuff, mercury lounge for bowery presents stuff, venues themselves for neither.

ticketweb is owned by ticketmaster. their fees are generally lower. ticketmaster's profit is the convenience charge and they shockingly charge you more to do the work yourself when you print the tickets via email. all these fees that weren't always there - "order processing fee". what was the 8 buck convenience charge for if it doesn't process my f'ing order? then when you go to a joint like the beacon, they tack on a "facility fee" of a couple bucks a ticket just because they can. i buy 4 tickets to something and i am literally paying for a 5th ticket in fees

The the thing is, try buying a ticket for a big draw act in person...impossible.

At least online you have a reasonable chance without camping five days earlier.

I think NYS passed a law that there had to be at least one physical outlet to buy tickets without those extra fees, that's why Mercury Lounge / Irving Plaza ticket booths even exist. I do go to Merc and Irving to buy tickets, however I do feel bad for people that don't live in the city. I guess it's one of those perks we have, to drop by on lunch or after work.