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Every concertgoer, no matter their musical preferences, can agree on one thing: service charges are way the eff out of control. Say, for example, you wanted to buy a pair of tickets to see Tori Amos at DAR Constitution Hall on Aug. 1. You have no real choice but to go to Ticketmaster.com and cough up $45 for each ticket, plus an $11.15 "convenience" charge per ticket, plus another $1.50 each for something called the "building facility charge." They even try to charge you $4.75 for the privilege of printing your own ticket at home, and then, in the checkout process, add on an extra "order processing charge" of $5.60, bringing the grand total for two people to attend this single concert to a whopping $125.65. It's hard to fathom how getting ripped off to the tune of more than $30 qualifies as "convenience."
With all this said, some better news: Bristow-Va.-based concert promotion giant Live Nation announced today that it is dropping various service charges on Wednesdays for the rest of the summer. From the release:
Throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation becomes Free-Nation, as it offers a variety of “No Service Fee Wednesdays” specials at www.LiveNation.com, making Wednesday the biggest day of the week for savings on concert tickets for hundreds of shows and millions of fans.The first promotion starts at 12:01 a.m. local time this Wednesday, June 3, and is only good for lawn tickets to LiveNation.com-ticketed Nissan Pavilion shows. Other Wednesday promotions later in the summer will offer different sorts of service charge discounts. Check in at www.LiveNation.com to see if there are shows you'd planned to buy tickets for and set your alarm for early Wednesday morning.
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i'd pay double service charges to go to a concert anywhere other than the Nissan Pavilion.
Since they just got bought out about Ticketbastard, this is obviously a stupid PR stunt to distract people. How that disgusting monopoly continues to be able to gouge everyone who wants to buy a ticket to anything ever, I'll never understand.
The catch is this is only for lawn tix, and any other fees conveniently included (like parking) are still being charged.
Wow, how generous. Here's hoping for Congress to wake up and pass legislation capping ticket fees the way they did on credit card companies' fees. If there ever was a monopoly in the US, LiveNation/Ticketbastard are it. And I doubt I'd go to a Nissan Pavilion show even if the tickets were free (after I witnessed last year's Radiohead debacle).
Utter b.s. public relations move.
amen. if they were to get rid of all the charges, and just do like the 9:30 box office ($1 per ticket, period), then maybe i'd feel some warm fuzzies about this. otherwise, no dice...
what's worse is that the title to this story is somewhat misleading too. Sommer, please add a big fat: Maybe?! to the title
Title should read: Concert Goers Dropping Trousers for Service Charges.
Am I right Tori Amos fans?
Wouldn't this deal still require you to actually go to the Nissan Pavillion? I think that's an experience we can all agree is worth paying money NOT to have.
Radiohead 5/07 NEVER FORGET
Um, what happened at the 5/07 Radiohead show??
Absolute horrors. Read this archived post all about the Radiohead show.
Um, what happened at the 5/07 Radiohead show??
here's an idea, if you're just looking for crappy lawn seats go the day of the show and get them half price from a schmuck who bought too many/is being stood up/etc.
Sommer, Live Nation is based out of Beverly Hills, California, not Bristow, Virginia.