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Why, I mean why why why do we need an app to show the ticket to Ed Sheeran's concert???

Why can't I just get the pdf instead of installing the app, create an account there and import the ticket from my online account?

Sometimes I wonder what the world is becoming. And yes, I feel like a proud boomer who regrets the old days of tech. Just send me the damned pdf!!!!

"Maybe, something like this [anti-genocide boycotts] will shame this will scare, or shame ... festivals or companies or whatever into making more ethical choices.

I mean, this is before we even get onto the antitrust case that the US DoJ is taking against TicketMaster and Live Nation, which is next March I think that starts. Big money is never clean."

#UnaMullally, 2025

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Is there a more shit ticketing platform than Ticketmaster?? Forced a password change in the middle of buying tickets. Lost my place and had to start all over again. No option to enable 2FA. Cunts.

And let's not even mention the nearly $10 handling fee for DOING MY OWN FUCKING HANDLING.

On the plus side we're off to the Tillies ⚽ #Ticketmaster #Matildas #Tillies

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“Young, 79, is preparing for his Love Earth tour with his band the #ChromeHearts, with performances across Europe and north America between April and August. Young will play two concerts in the UK, headlining Glastonbury festival on 28 June and BST Hyde Park on 11 July.

The most notorious recent example of dynamic pricing was for Oasis’s UK tour: the huge demand meant that #tickets that were originally £148.50 rose to £355.20. Fans were outraged and culture secretary Lisa Nandy called out the practice, saying it was “incredibly depressing”.

#LiamGallagher was initially unrepentant, telling a fan to “shut up” after they complained about the prices, but the band later distanced themselves from the issue, saying: “#Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management”. While calling dynamic pricing “a useful tool” they also acknowledged its use in the UK ticket sales resulted in “an unacceptable experience for fans”, and did not use dynamic pricing for other territories on their world tour.

Not only have #TheCure banned dynamic pricing for their tours, they also set ticket prices low and have confronted Ticketmaster over other fees. In 2023, after seeing that US fans were being charged service fees that were sometimes greater than the face-value cost of the tickets, Smith took the company to task, saying he was “sickened” by the fees. #Ticketmaster backed down and offered a $10 refund on the affected tickets.”

<theguardian.com/music/2025/mar>

The Guardian · Neil Young rejects dynamic pricing for concert tickets, credits the Cure’s Robert Smith for decisionBy Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Just finished watching the #Blur documentary to ‘To the End’ about the journey to their Wembley gig in 2023. Brought back all the memories of an absolutely amazing night.

Then saw latest #Oasis reunion misery. Ticketmaster declaring without disclosing the evidence that some fans are bots and cancelling their tickets. This, after dynamic ticket pricing.

#Ticketmaster curdles music.

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Dreams ‘crushed’ as Ticketmaster cancels fans’ Oasis ’25 ticketsBy Nadeem Badshah

#Ticketmaster er koko på mange vis. Et av dem er at de med tilfeldige mellomrom insisterer på nytt passord, et annet er at de tar vare på de gamle passordene så de ikke kan gjenbrukes, og da har vi ikke en gang kommet til at appen ikke funker med noe annet enn Chrome som default browser. Firefox får en blank side, ikke en feilmelding engang!