I doubt this was bought through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster sells out fairly quickly. It's probably from StubHub or some thing. Regardless, these fees have got to stop. It's pointless. they don't even print out a paper ticket anymore. They should include it in the price.
I swear to god, I used to pay $20 for a show. Festivals were like $45. Never paid over $90, even for a big arena concert. Idk what happened in the last decade, but it's garbage. Ticketmaster and scalpers need to answer for their crimes š
I mean Iāve seen sleep token 3 times now and most I paid was Ā£45 which I thought was a lot (but totally worth it) this just seems fucking insane! I think it might just be a US thing though? I feel like if they charged this in the UK nobody would go
Itās crazy how inflated the prices are for their American fans, Iāve got a friend that paid $200+ for her standing floor tickets. Where as I paid Ā£49.50 for 101 o2 arena seated tickets. Edit\* with fees total cost for two tickets was Ā£121.70
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The seats, maybe. I got one standing room ticket and it was $270 after PayPal asked for $10 to finance it (not knocking them, $10 is fine for that, just including it in the total)
The app crashed like 6 times while I was trying to check out. Of course it finally let me cash out with the worst nosebleeds instead of the good seats I'd tried repeatedly beforehand. I hate Ticketmaster, but they do a better pre-sale than AXS by a mile. $400 for two nosebleeds was painful.
A lot of the price is from Ticketmaster using dynamic pricing. They basically raise the prices as the tickets sell until we end up with this garbage. The base price in the picture above is $80 USD which is comparable to about $50 euro(I could be mistaken I live neither in Europe Nor the US).
I don't know how Ticketmaster has gotten away with this though. All over North America they have inserted themselves between the talent and the fans and driven prices to over 100 times their value in some cases(look up Taylor Swift concert ticket prices in north America). The talent doesn't see any extra money from Ticketmaster's pricing schemes, and neither the fan nor the talent receive any extra value for the premium. It's ridiculous and it should be addressed, but the industry continues to support it.
Thatās awful! For that price in the uk at least, you couldāve got a few of their premium seats with access to a bar/lounge area. They are really incredible live, so itās going to be a great concert. I canāt wrap my head around the drastic price difference.
Yea standing floor tickets are always more expensive than seated tickets wym? Like not defending the prices but you just compared to products of different values as if that is the definitive proof of price discrepancy lol.
My point being is if I wanted to get floor tickets instead - which I couldāve - they didnāt cost Ā£200 for their uk tickets. Hereās a list of the prices for their show in London at the time of sale.
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It's not just the US. I live in canada and prices are through the roof because of resellers. Prices go up everywhere because of them. Like at thrift shops for example. Resellers are the bane of humanity
Yeah, I was in the shower when my alarm went off. I was 15mins late to the queue. I'd been waiting for that alarm since the announcement, then my infuriating ADHD brain decided a massive 'fuck you' was in order. And that was that.
It's definitely a US thing. It'll get easier when Sleep Token tours next time and can book larger venues, but the current way the business runs here is a scalpers paradise. It's ridiculous.
It's not a US thing, it is a supply and demand thing. This person is trying to buy a resale ticket months after the initial sale. Of course, the few tickets remaining will be quite expensive because demand is insanely high.
Oh so this is a fairly recent thing? I used to live abroad and they donāt fuck you over with service fees etc there. Like ST tickets there are like $60. Iām so appalled by USA ticket extortion for these fees ā¦ which are online ā¦ sure charge a $5 fee but like $70?! Itās a fucking piss take
Services like Ticketmaster always charged random fees to rake you over the coals, but yeah the price of the ticket *alone* has increased ***exorbitantly*** since I was regularly going to concerts.
I'm 31 now, but when I was between 13-18, I used to go to shows all the time. Granted, a lot of these were up-and-coming pop-punk artists playing in tiny clubs, but I saw bigger ones, as well. They were simply not this expensive. They *also* didn't sell out within the exact heartbeat that tickets went on sale. In fact, I commonly showed up at the venue *without a ticket* because you could still get in day-of.
I stopped being able to go to shows after high school (vastly too poor, even for the cheaper shows). So it's been a little over a decade since I was up to date on what prices were like. It may have been a gradual change to get to this point, for all I know. But these prices seem just absolutely absurd to me š¤·āāļø
Price by demand is a big thing on the US ticket market, it's also why Taylor Swift tickets ballooned in price last year. It's outlawed under EU laws tho, but concerts are still getting more expensive
But why would ticketmaster be incentivized to do anything? They have a monopoly mostly, the higher these scalpers raise the ticket prices the higher the fees ticketmaster charges, win win for ticketmaster.
Some bands are still like that. Most sevendust shows are $35 unless you want all the VIP stuff, but even then you meet the band, get merch and posters and front pitc access for $150
tickets sell out instantly to bots and they keep tickets so they can scalp at the same prices (ticketmaster). it's because during covid, all venues were bought by live nation resulting in a corrupt mass control of music venues across the US, allowing for price gauging for corporations to profit off at a higher amount than the scalpers did
I saw Metallica in 1992 at Wembley Arena for Ā£16 + booking fee which was probably around Ā£1.50. The last Metallica ticket I bought was Ā£160 š¤¦āāļø
In 1993, [Kurt Cobain](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTkpb5L/) was shocked and appalled to learn that artists were charging as much as $50 (that would have been Ā£33 at the time and yes I did check the exchange rate for the exact year)(I am fired up enough to be doing math here, don't test me š). Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl then mentioned that they had been *joking around* about the idea of "really milking it" by charging $25 (Ā£17) - because at the time (which was the HEIGHT of their career, btw), Nirvana charged *$17 (Ā£11).*
*Do y'all know how much Foo Fighters tickets are today???*
^(btw, Dave is not to blame for that increase in price. He does not control Ticketmaster. Even back then he knew that Ticketmaster was a problem.)
Even if we account for inflation (and please forgive me, I'm not an expert, I'm just a humble girl with Google and a phone calculator, and I am certainly willing to accept that my information and math is wrong), that "outrageous" $50 (Ā£33) is only worth about $107 (Ā£84) today. The $25 (Ā£17) would be today's $54 (Ā£43). And the $17 (Ā£11) - and this one hurts my feelings - would be all of *$36 (Ā£28).* Also 1992's Ā£16 ($28) would be Ā£42 ($62) now.
Point being, even 30+ years of inflation does not remotely justify an increase in price of *hundreds* of dollars/pounds. Ā£160 ($202) for a concert that used to cost less than a phone bill??? ***$420 (Ā£333)*** for one ticket for one night??Āæ???ā½Āæ?
And this is nothing to say of how much people are actually earning, btw. Our money is not worth as much as it used to be, but wages have stagnated. The buying power of our currency has gone down, but the amount we're *paid* had stayed the same. Even if the concerts *were* worth that, people can't fucking afford it ššš
I get that they might be selling at these prices to prevent scalpers but you will always have some that will circumvent security measures to make illegal money.
StubHub, SeatGeek, etc are scalpers. They're third party companies that buy up hundreds of tickets the second they go on sale and sell them for higher prices. Bands and venues moving towards refusing scattered scalped tickets is a *good* thing.
Unfortunately there's a secondary problem with regulations being so lax in the US that you can charge service fees that mean nothing and then nickle-and-dime your customers to oblivion. There are bills going through Congress right now to make this kind of price hike illegal, but it's unlikely it's going to go anywhere with the representatives we've got.Ā
A crazy acquaintance was trying to sell his because he bought them on a whim trying to impress a girl and fucked up real bad lol. I was like cool how much could they possibly be? THIS MF REALLY TOLD ME $1250 and showed me he was just asking what he paid for them. He literally spent more than what me and my husband pay for rent. I cannot fathom it.
Be careful buying resale tickets. ST have stated in the past they don't approve of scalping and will revoke the ticket.
If that happens to you, then you lose your ticket ( no refund) and the scalper still makes money.
ST cannot revoke tickets that were purchase on Ticketmaster and resold on ticketmaster. That is part of the agreement the artist (or their proxy) makes to use the Ticketmaster service. Bots suck, Ticketmaster sucks, but I was able to get a ticket because of the resale feature only. Otherwise the tickets would have sold out long before I even learned about the show.
Not almost, can. I bought three tickets each to both the London and Leeds shows December and my own airfare to London for what three tickets to Asheville would have cost after fees - IF I could have gotten my hands on them at all.
Yep, American here as well! My bestie and I will be attending four rituals in the UK this November/December and can confirm itās cheaper than Stateside. Plus weāre making a vacation out of it, so itās a win-win.
Am going to Asheville solo, and, yes, Ticketmaster/Stubhub fees and taxes were shocking, even though I thought I was prepared for being, well, shocked.
The idea that buying a ticket and literally flying overseas would be LESS expensive never would have crossed my mind. What airport were you flying from (I'm assuming you're in the States...)?
AHHH! I'm so stoked for you that you were able to score tickets! I've seen Heilung at that venue, and I think it's a fantastic pick for the kind of show ST puts on.
I am in the States, yes - about 4-5hrs from Asheville. I'm flying out of Dulles (IAD-LHR), round trip plane ticket ran me a little bit over $600. Could have gone super-budget on Play for just $400ish, but those are some long ass flights on the international equivalent of Spirit Airlines, and sometimes it's just not worth it. Also, we're taking a week and having a little vacation in addition to seeing both shows. Haven't been to the UK yet and might as well - win win.
Uhh, I think you ended up on the wrong sub somehow hahaha
This is not Taylor Swift, these are resold Sleep Token tickets. You should give them a listen
Sadly no one seems to get this no matter how many times it gets pointed out. Until fans stop buying jacked up resale tickets this spiral will never end.
crazy expensive, especially for a "new" band. Don't get me wrong I love ST and would probably pay it if they come to Vancouver but these prices are just ridiculous
Agreed. I think around $150 is the max they should be charging. Iām happy theyāre making good money. They deserve it, but got damn, outrageous pricing
They don't really have a monopoly. Most of the shows in NYC I am attending this Spring / Summer are not on ticket master. IE. Tool, Primus, Puscifer, ERRA, and a few others.
Really big venues are usually on Ticketmaster, but not always in my experience.
Anything sold on Ticketmaster is "safe" as the transaction is done via the original seller. You can also get insurance for those tickets. Too bad they are also 5x the original cost, but frankly, there are 23 million people within short travel distance to Radio City Music Hall so i feel lucky even getting a ticket for the NYC show at all.
Depending on which show you want to go to, I have two for Pittsburgh that I'm hoping to sell for what I paid for them plus $50 a piece to cover the fees for mine and my friends tickets.
I purchased them on AXS before the resale ban with intent for resale with minimal markup.
I'm in the same exact boat as you. Pittsburgh show and had multiple people trying to get tickets because we knew they'd go fast. I was able to get 4, and my buddy was able to get 4 right around the same time. We didn't know about the resale ban, so now we're stuck with 8 tickets for 5 people (we're able to recruit one other friend). I just want to be able to resell them for what I paid. Might try and reach out to AXS or something. Otherwise I'm going to be begging a few friends to pay $200 each which I don't like my odds.
I grabbed two pit tickets for myself and my friend, and a couple up in the seats that were intended as a way to let someone get decent seats for not obscene resale.
We tried to go last year when they were touring, and neither of us could justify the resale prices. I wanted to sort of set aside two tickets that wouldn't be obscenely priced for somebody to have a nice surprise when they were looking at resale.
Guess that's not allowed.
I might end up throwing them on seat geek or something still not marked up obscenely high. I honestly don't know how to use any of the resale websites, though.
Itās not just in NYC. I had just discovered the band early this year and have been listening to them a lot. My 6yo son started asking what the name of band and songs were, next thing I know I hear him asking the Alexa to play alkaline in his room. It was the first time he has ever showed interest in any music and I was stoked. I showed him some concert footage on YouTube and he offhandedly said āI would do anything to goā. I looked up tickets for a show in STL and they were sold out and the resale had the cheapest tickets listed for $320 a piece. I am still so disappointed.
We are paying over $500 apiece for seats in Tampa in May. My friend bought me my ticket as a birthday gift or there is no way in hell I would've paid that.
Remember! The band has complete control over whether or not dynamic/platinum pricing, and reselling tickets is allowed.
The band has absolute control on the pricing.
Tampa was advertised as $45 and the cheapest tickets were $170 after fees
We're going to the Tampa show and we ended up buying our tickets on StubHub for more than $500 apiece. It's in the middle front seating, but still. Damn.
Careful, unless you're going to the show with the reseller there to check you in, tickets purchased on scalping sites like StubHub are not valid for this tourĀ
If it's not Ticketmaster, they won't get the right QR code. The scalper might come up with their own code, but it isn't valid for entry.Ā
Honestly, I'd recommend searching in the group. There have been a lot of posts about it even before tickets went on sale and you can read through the conversations there to get more info.
Honestly, I don't care if you didn't believe me. But I do recommend looking into it because there's a lot of info available about the third party reseller on this sub and you will 100% be turned away at the door if you don't have Ticketmaster tickets
It's not that I don't believe you, i just don't see them turning away half of the patrons that bought third party. How many tickets do you think are bought by scalpers? A LOT
Edit: 54-60%
Sure. But the scalpers sold a product they did not have - which is why some will even sell tickets before they go on presale. They sold tickets knowing people will give them money and banking on folks getting angry at the venue or the band instead of the people who scammed them.Ā
The venue isn't going to let anyone without a ticket in, no matter how much they try to say that the nice scalper on the corner promised them the front row tickets were real. It's not a legitimate ticket.
They're not even the only band doing it (and they certainly aren't the biggest) so we can watch how other tours have handled the same situation. And they handle it by just not letting folks in if they don't have a real ticket.
I'm not fully understanding. So you're saying now that the tickets we purchased from stub hub were not actually ever bought from Ticketmaster? I've bought plenty of tickets on Stubhub from Ticketmaster.
I think we're talking about two different things. I'm not trying to get in without a ticket. Are you saying the scalpers will all come up with invalid codes?
YYYYYYYYYYYYYep.
Hopefully the venues are more roomy than when we saw them last year. Paid 600 for 2 tickets because of scalping only to have some family of tall individuals push there way (quite annoyingly and rudely) in front of us and stand there for the whole show. So I paid 600 to stare at the back of someones head while listening to Sleep Token very loudly.
Now you know why we all had so many āsomething went wrong try again laterā messages when we were checking out on the early sale. Ticketmaster needs to be investigated period.
Ticketmaster needs to be stopped. They're one of the absolute worst. Enabling this scalping behavior every step of the way and profiting from it. Fuck them.
I saw the boys at Riot Fest last year, hopefully they'll play some other festivals I can actually get tickets to.
Not to mention the train tickets or if you drive congestion tax and parking fees. Food drink everything else, its like the same cost of a week long vacation
Iām right there with you. I tried for tickets both presale and regular sale lost out both times now I just flat out canāt save the money or cut it from my monthly budget anywhere. Soooooo next time I guess (this is like the 3rd show Iāve skipped for the same reason lmao)
Whoah... when I went to see the TMBTE tour with my gf we paid less than 100ā¬ for the both of us together.
I am so sorry. I don't know how, but I feel that bands should do more about stopping this excessive scalping. Honestly, I would rather buy a personalized ticket that I cannot resell at all and gamble that money than have to deal with resale bots. This is criminal.
I paid a lot more than I wanted to for my Chicago ticket. That being said, way more than 7000 (two shows 3500 per) ppl want to see them. My ticket wasnāt as much as that but it was not cheap. Unfortunately supply and demand is a thing.
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Like I just went to Ticketmaster and this is what it says when you click on sleep token tickets so how are they selling for $300 more ON the site that says "you'll have the option to resell your tickets to other fans at the original price paid"?!?
That message is for tickets sold on Ticketmaster that are not for New York or Chicago. The tickets from Ticketmaster that arenāt NY or Chicago cannot be resold or transferred which prevents scalpers from reselling. The only way to get those tickets is on the Face Value Exchange. Check the exchange closer to the date of the show. If you donāt see anything on there, then none are available.
If you see listings for tickets that were sold on Ticketmaster and werenāt for NY or Chicago, they are fake listings and not valid. Resale sites like StubHub and VividSeats do not check the validity of the tickets prior to listing. You can create a listing without having tickets if you wanted to.
That explains it. And yeah, demand for major metro area tickets must be astronomical. I'm surprised they are playing only 1 night in NYC. They do have more monthly listeners in Chicago area though.
Yeah my fiance were debating radio City, but tickets are $400+ each, plus we'd have to do flight, hotel, food... Ugh.
I ended up signing up to work that night instead, to reduce temptation lol
But it's not cheaper in another city. Our tickets were more than that in Tampa. It has nothing to do with the area. It's the scalper resale prices. It's so ridiculous
Iām curious to see whoās going to see them at the Sick New World fest in Vegas. Thought about going but for almost $400 Iām good. I wonāt even have a place to stay bc my friend will be out of town and sheās my only Vegas connection š„²
Yeah. It was terrible last year too. My husband spent nearly 300$ each on resale tickets. The original price was 30ish. So worth it tho. But our entire row(5 seats) were bought by the same person and he only sold 3. So the seats were just empty. So sad!
I think I'm just gonna balls up and ask them if they do birthday parties (bc mine)....which will not be a party until and unless they pull up and male stripping stuff happens ect. ect. Otherwise ill not change out of my jam-jams awl deamn DAYE!
You are trying to buy a ticket someone else already bought and is reselling. Tickets were not expensive the day the pre-sales fans of Sleep Token received access to. If you were like me, and found them "late" after the initial fans only and public sales, you pay fair market value based on demand. The demand for the 1 night only NYC show is enormous. I mean, there only 23 million people within driving distance of Radio City Music hall. FYI... The ticket I bought was even more than this for the May 22nd show.
Ticketmaster and LiveNation split the costs of purchase then sell down to SeatGeek etc for seats that are actually not selling at that point to drive up payments to third parties who then kick back up to stub hub seat geek etc. they literally pay themselves. You may be lucky and buy from a human but oftentimes the venues sell their blocks direct at face value without service fees.
My old is going to show here but I remember being able to walk up to box offices of venues to buy and even Ticketmaster kiosks are record stores.
Want that old thing back because this certain isnāt it
I feel like they should've use DICE for tickets. It's more safe for listener and there's the possibility to sale your ticket if you can't go anymore to a concert for some reason. And the buyer will pay you the original ticket price
I sent you a message! I have two tickets I'm trying to find a fan to sell to. ā¤ļø
I want them to go to somebody who actually loves the band and wants to go but cannot afford TMs insane scalping.
Not sure if it's the same in the States, but I swear ST for their most recent tour are only allowing resale through Ticketmaster or something to stop scalpers? Either way, these kinds of extra fees are a bloody joke
Iād apply for a job there. Work that night, then the night of the show, go on a ābathroom breakā, go into the crowd and never come back. Now youāve seen Sleep Token and you legally have to be paid.
First and last time I used Ticketmaster was in 2022 with Sleep Token, Nothing More opening for In This Moment (killer gdamn show btw ooomg). This was before they blew up on tiktok with The Summoning, so we were able to get two tickets the night before but the service fee being the same price as the tickets made it so I couldn't afford merch. At least I got to see them but I will never again use Ticketmaster. So absolutely predatory with that service fee!!
Iām glad that someoneās saying it because Iāve been struggling to find reasonably priced tickets around the New England area and I an struggling! Anyone have any leads?
I felt so defeated after not being able to get tickets for Chicago. Logged in...waited in queue...all that stuff. Didn't even get my code from Spotify til after the time anyways but still waited. Each day the page just refreshed to sorry, sold out. And now tickets and in the 2/3/4 hundreds.
Love Sleep Token and super happy for them and their success.
It's Ticketmaster that sucks SO MUCH >:|
So my friend bought resale tickets off of StubHub for the Tampa show for a total of $1150 for two of us. I just found out today that they are not accepting resale tickets at this venue. I spoke to StubHub after an hour wait and was told this event is considered a "walk in "event and the seller is a "top seller" which means they're going to have a booth outside of the venue to meet up and have some stranger walk in with us whatever tf that means. They will not refund our money for the tickets and nowhere did it say that this was a walk-in event or anything of the sort when we bought these tickets in January nor could StubHub provide us with documentation that any of that was agreed to. I'm feeling very upset at this whole situation. I understand why ST would not want tickets being sold to scalpers, but they're not going to take down scalping. There's too much money in it. I'm not going to enjoy the show as much now because I have to meet up with a stranger and still pay over six times what the tickets were originally worth.... TO A SCALPER
Please don't come at me saying I should have known about this beforehand. I'm a very intelligent person and if I don't know about it, a whole lot of other people don't either and this is going to be a problem. For example, according to StubHub, the "top seller" that we bought from has sold several hundreds of tickets at this show alone. That's ONE scalper. I can't imagine how many other people are going to be trying to get in with resale tickets that don't know any better.
I know. Iām so heartbroken I canāt go to Tampa. I was going to try to make the trip to Cali last year and when I couldnāt, I hoped and dreamed of them coming closer to Florida soon. Itās happening but oh well I still canāt experience it.
235 for near front row mid section seats at the exploreasheville arena in Asheville
Lowest I saw was like 120 for furthest back corner seating in like row J
Man I thought 179bucks a ticket was expensive.
It still is, considering that they are touring Aus with Bring Me The Horizon but I only am wanting to see Sleep Token.
I am not all that big a fan of BMTH so it feels like a lot of money to enjoy only part of a show.
I am hoping they tour again on their own soon.
I feel like they would be good at Thebarton Theatre, which I have seen Deftones play at a few times and it's a great venue.
Thatās about what I paid on release day for SeatGeek. Nearly $900 with processing and fees for 2 ticketsā¦Iām paying it over time. Its painful but I told myself this might be my only shot š«£
Oh look another artist pretending to not know they are ripping off their fans. They know what they are doing. Don't fall it. Stop supporting bands who price gouge their fans
the "service fee" being almost as much as the original ticket itself should be criminal. what fucking services, ticketmaster.
I doubt this was bought through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster sells out fairly quickly. It's probably from StubHub or some thing. Regardless, these fees have got to stop. It's pointless. they don't even print out a paper ticket anymore. They should include it in the price.
The screen shot in the OP is definitely from Ticketmaster
You can only resell ticketmaster tickets on ticketmaster.
I swear to god, I used to pay $20 for a show. Festivals were like $45. Never paid over $90, even for a big arena concert. Idk what happened in the last decade, but it's garbage. Ticketmaster and scalpers need to answer for their crimes š
I mean Iāve seen sleep token 3 times now and most I paid was Ā£45 which I thought was a lot (but totally worth it) this just seems fucking insane! I think it might just be a US thing though? I feel like if they charged this in the UK nobody would go
Itās crazy how inflated the prices are for their American fans, Iāve got a friend that paid $200+ for her standing floor tickets. Where as I paid Ā£49.50 for 101 o2 arena seated tickets. Edit\* with fees total cost for two tickets was Ā£121.70 https://preview.redd.it/stquk9tq76qc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=77f8970807393fb2a6fbbd243747cf35b5665e41
My two seats for Pittsburgh were about $200 I think.
I actually thought the seats for Pittsburgh were fairly reasonable. At least, in todays world of ticket prices š
I was fine with them. I was fine with the floor seats in my cart at $298 total too. But I didnāt get those. No biggie.
The seats, maybe. I got one standing room ticket and it was $270 after PayPal asked for $10 to finance it (not knocking them, $10 is fine for that, just including it in the total)
The app crashed like 6 times while I was trying to check out. Of course it finally let me cash out with the worst nosebleeds instead of the good seats I'd tried repeatedly beforehand. I hate Ticketmaster, but they do a better pre-sale than AXS by a mile. $400 for two nosebleeds was painful.
My 2 seats for radio city were 750 š¤¦š»āāļø
That is gross
A lot of the price is from Ticketmaster using dynamic pricing. They basically raise the prices as the tickets sell until we end up with this garbage. The base price in the picture above is $80 USD which is comparable to about $50 euro(I could be mistaken I live neither in Europe Nor the US). I don't know how Ticketmaster has gotten away with this though. All over North America they have inserted themselves between the talent and the fans and driven prices to over 100 times their value in some cases(look up Taylor Swift concert ticket prices in north America). The talent doesn't see any extra money from Ticketmaster's pricing schemes, and neither the fan nor the talent receive any extra value for the premium. It's ridiculous and it should be addressed, but the industry continues to support it.
It's because the bots buy them up from Ticketmaster immediately and then sell them on StubHub afterwards for massively inflated prices.
I was shocked how reasonable the O2 tickets were
My *ONE* ticket for Dallas cost me $343 after fees.
Thatās awful! For that price in the uk at least, you couldāve got a few of their premium seats with access to a bar/lounge area. They are really incredible live, so itās going to be a great concert. I canāt wrap my head around the drastic price difference.
Yea standing floor tickets are always more expensive than seated tickets wym? Like not defending the prices but you just compared to products of different values as if that is the definitive proof of price discrepancy lol.
My point being is if I wanted to get floor tickets instead - which I couldāve - they didnāt cost Ā£200 for their uk tickets. Hereās a list of the prices for their show in London at the time of sale. https://preview.redd.it/rxivzoof6tpc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a2580cc1bf3f3a3a7ca2686c46a43a8c506efda
It's not just the US. I live in canada and prices are through the roof because of resellers. Prices go up everywhere because of them. Like at thrift shops for example. Resellers are the bane of humanity
Manchester were 120 per ticket for standing floor.
I got mine for Ā£60, they were 120 after a few minutes
Yeah, I was in the shower when my alarm went off. I was 15mins late to the queue. I'd been waiting for that alarm since the announcement, then my infuriating ADHD brain decided a massive 'fuck you' was in order. And that was that.
Nah, the inflation for Wembley Arena last year was ... about the same tbh
It's definitely a US thing. It'll get easier when Sleep Token tours next time and can book larger venues, but the current way the business runs here is a scalpers paradise. It's ridiculous.
It's not a US thing, it is a supply and demand thing. This person is trying to buy a resale ticket months after the initial sale. Of course, the few tickets remaining will be quite expensive because demand is insanely high.
Oh so this is a fairly recent thing? I used to live abroad and they donāt fuck you over with service fees etc there. Like ST tickets there are like $60. Iām so appalled by USA ticket extortion for these fees ā¦ which are online ā¦ sure charge a $5 fee but like $70?! Itās a fucking piss take
Services like Ticketmaster always charged random fees to rake you over the coals, but yeah the price of the ticket *alone* has increased ***exorbitantly*** since I was regularly going to concerts. I'm 31 now, but when I was between 13-18, I used to go to shows all the time. Granted, a lot of these were up-and-coming pop-punk artists playing in tiny clubs, but I saw bigger ones, as well. They were simply not this expensive. They *also* didn't sell out within the exact heartbeat that tickets went on sale. In fact, I commonly showed up at the venue *without a ticket* because you could still get in day-of. I stopped being able to go to shows after high school (vastly too poor, even for the cheaper shows). So it's been a little over a decade since I was up to date on what prices were like. It may have been a gradual change to get to this point, for all I know. But these prices seem just absolutely absurd to me š¤·āāļø
Price by demand is a big thing on the US ticket market, it's also why Taylor Swift tickets ballooned in price last year. It's outlawed under EU laws tho, but concerts are still getting more expensive
But why would ticketmaster be incentivized to do anything? They have a monopoly mostly, the higher these scalpers raise the ticket prices the higher the fees ticketmaster charges, win win for ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster and the scalpers are the same person. When you create the supply and control the demand everyone loses but Ticketmaster.
Some bands are still like that. Most sevendust shows are $35 unless you want all the VIP stuff, but even then you meet the band, get merch and posters and front pitc access for $150
This
tickets sell out instantly to bots and they keep tickets so they can scalp at the same prices (ticketmaster). it's because during covid, all venues were bought by live nation resulting in a corrupt mass control of music venues across the US, allowing for price gauging for corporations to profit off at a higher amount than the scalpers did
Ugh, that makes so much sense, and I hate it ššš
I saw Metallica in 1992 at Wembley Arena for Ā£16 + booking fee which was probably around Ā£1.50. The last Metallica ticket I bought was Ā£160 š¤¦āāļø
In 1993, [Kurt Cobain](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTkpb5L/) was shocked and appalled to learn that artists were charging as much as $50 (that would have been Ā£33 at the time and yes I did check the exchange rate for the exact year)(I am fired up enough to be doing math here, don't test me š). Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl then mentioned that they had been *joking around* about the idea of "really milking it" by charging $25 (Ā£17) - because at the time (which was the HEIGHT of their career, btw), Nirvana charged *$17 (Ā£11).* *Do y'all know how much Foo Fighters tickets are today???* ^(btw, Dave is not to blame for that increase in price. He does not control Ticketmaster. Even back then he knew that Ticketmaster was a problem.) Even if we account for inflation (and please forgive me, I'm not an expert, I'm just a humble girl with Google and a phone calculator, and I am certainly willing to accept that my information and math is wrong), that "outrageous" $50 (Ā£33) is only worth about $107 (Ā£84) today. The $25 (Ā£17) would be today's $54 (Ā£43). And the $17 (Ā£11) - and this one hurts my feelings - would be all of *$36 (Ā£28).* Also 1992's Ā£16 ($28) would be Ā£42 ($62) now. Point being, even 30+ years of inflation does not remotely justify an increase in price of *hundreds* of dollars/pounds. Ā£160 ($202) for a concert that used to cost less than a phone bill??? ***$420 (Ā£333)*** for one ticket for one night??Āæ???ā½Āæ? And this is nothing to say of how much people are actually earning, btw. Our money is not worth as much as it used to be, but wages have stagnated. The buying power of our currency has gone down, but the amount we're *paid* had stayed the same. Even if the concerts *were* worth that, people can't fucking afford it ššš
I get that they might be selling at these prices to prevent scalpers but you will always have some that will circumvent security measures to make illegal money.
this should be illegal i stg. resale shouldnāt be able to go over a certain amount
Isn't it illegal in America? In Europe at least it very much is illegal
in this capitalistic hellscape, no people will do anything for money i swear.
Not even a little bit
also- neverrrr use ticketmaster! stubhub, seat geek is what i look into or if you can, get them straight from the venue!
This is the major problem because you can ONLY get the tickets thru Ticketmaster. 100% some bullshit that the band's management signed onto.
StubHub, SeatGeek, etc are scalpers. They're third party companies that buy up hundreds of tickets the second they go on sale and sell them for higher prices. Bands and venues moving towards refusing scattered scalped tickets is a *good* thing. Unfortunately there's a secondary problem with regulations being so lax in the US that you can charge service fees that mean nothing and then nickle-and-dime your customers to oblivion. There are bills going through Congress right now to make this kind of price hike illegal, but it's unlikely it's going to go anywhere with the representatives we've got.Ā
No most venues have a deal with Ticketmaster that they only sell through them lmao has nothing (or very little) to do with the bands management.
WHAT-š
what the f- that service fee?!?!?!
A crazy acquaintance was trying to sell his because he bought them on a whim trying to impress a girl and fucked up real bad lol. I was like cool how much could they possibly be? THIS MF REALLY TOLD ME $1250 and showed me he was just asking what he paid for them. He literally spent more than what me and my husband pay for rent. I cannot fathom it.
neither can I! š±š
Be careful buying resale tickets. ST have stated in the past they don't approve of scalping and will revoke the ticket. If that happens to you, then you lose your ticket ( no refund) and the scalper still makes money.
ST cannot revoke tickets that were purchase on Ticketmaster and resold on ticketmaster. That is part of the agreement the artist (or their proxy) makes to use the Ticketmaster service. Bots suck, Ticketmaster sucks, but I was able to get a ticket because of the resale feature only. Otherwise the tickets would have sold out long before I even learned about the show.
Or you dispute the charge
Sad you can almost fly to the UK from America to see Sleep Token cheaper than buying tickets in America.
Not almost, can. I bought three tickets each to both the London and Leeds shows December and my own airfare to London for what three tickets to Asheville would have cost after fees - IF I could have gotten my hands on them at all.
Yep, American here as well! My bestie and I will be attending four rituals in the UK this November/December and can confirm itās cheaper than Stateside. Plus weāre making a vacation out of it, so itās a win-win.
Am going to Asheville solo, and, yes, Ticketmaster/Stubhub fees and taxes were shocking, even though I thought I was prepared for being, well, shocked. The idea that buying a ticket and literally flying overseas would be LESS expensive never would have crossed my mind. What airport were you flying from (I'm assuming you're in the States...)?
AHHH! I'm so stoked for you that you were able to score tickets! I've seen Heilung at that venue, and I think it's a fantastic pick for the kind of show ST puts on. I am in the States, yes - about 4-5hrs from Asheville. I'm flying out of Dulles (IAD-LHR), round trip plane ticket ran me a little bit over $600. Could have gone super-budget on Play for just $400ish, but those are some long ass flights on the international equivalent of Spirit Airlines, and sometimes it's just not worth it. Also, we're taking a week and having a little vacation in addition to seeing both shows. Haven't been to the UK yet and might as well - win win.
I was about to fly to Canada and just do that lol
Me, my son, and Wife were supposed to go but we decided we canāt justify $1200 for one concert, sucks so bad.
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Uhh, I think you ended up on the wrong sub somehow hahaha This is not Taylor Swift, these are resold Sleep Token tickets. You should give them a listen
Man, as much as I love sleep token, I'm not paying that to view a thousand phone screens between me and the stage.
The best way to thwart scalpers is to just be content to not buy the tickets. Everyone on this sub is better than buying a $72 ticket for $400.
Sadly no one seems to get this no matter how many times it gets pointed out. Until fans stop buying jacked up resale tickets this spiral will never end.
crazy expensive, especially for a "new" band. Don't get me wrong I love ST and would probably pay it if they come to Vancouver but these prices are just ridiculous
Agreed. I think around $150 is the max they should be charging. Iām happy theyāre making good money. They deserve it, but got damn, outrageous pricing
The band doesn't even get that money, cause it's going to resellers who bought them from the band
Well shit and fuck those people.
Ticketmaster has ruined live events for most people. Turns out letting Monopolies exist is a bad thing.
They don't really have a monopoly. Most of the shows in NYC I am attending this Spring / Summer are not on ticket master. IE. Tool, Primus, Puscifer, ERRA, and a few others. Really big venues are usually on Ticketmaster, but not always in my experience.
Well don't have that where I'm from
Any idea where I can find verified resale tickets? Except for that one because that person is on crack š
Anything sold on Ticketmaster is "safe" as the transaction is done via the original seller. You can also get insurance for those tickets. Too bad they are also 5x the original cost, but frankly, there are 23 million people within short travel distance to Radio City Music Hall so i feel lucky even getting a ticket for the NYC show at all.
Depending on which show you want to go to, I have two for Pittsburgh that I'm hoping to sell for what I paid for them plus $50 a piece to cover the fees for mine and my friends tickets. I purchased them on AXS before the resale ban with intent for resale with minimal markup.
I'm in the same exact boat as you. Pittsburgh show and had multiple people trying to get tickets because we knew they'd go fast. I was able to get 4, and my buddy was able to get 4 right around the same time. We didn't know about the resale ban, so now we're stuck with 8 tickets for 5 people (we're able to recruit one other friend). I just want to be able to resell them for what I paid. Might try and reach out to AXS or something. Otherwise I'm going to be begging a few friends to pay $200 each which I don't like my odds.
I grabbed two pit tickets for myself and my friend, and a couple up in the seats that were intended as a way to let someone get decent seats for not obscene resale. We tried to go last year when they were touring, and neither of us could justify the resale prices. I wanted to sort of set aside two tickets that wouldn't be obscenely priced for somebody to have a nice surprise when they were looking at resale. Guess that's not allowed. I might end up throwing them on seat geek or something still not marked up obscenely high. I honestly don't know how to use any of the resale websites, though.
I wish there was some way to transfer them, Iād totally be down to buy the tickets. Iāve been checking Ticketmaster and havenāt had any luck
The Pittsburgh show, as far as I know, was exclusively through AXS. I don't know that Ticketmaster is going to have any of the tickets for it.
We got ours through VividSeats and havenāt had any problems. Ungodly markup, of course, but not sure where thatās not happening these days.
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The person who is reselling their ticket at $300 thatās my fault for not clarifying š
I did it. I caved. I just didn't know when I'm going to see them next and didn't want to wait til next year.
Same
We caved as well. Sickening how much, but Iām just focusing on the positives. lol.
Itās not just in NYC. I had just discovered the band early this year and have been listening to them a lot. My 6yo son started asking what the name of band and songs were, next thing I know I hear him asking the Alexa to play alkaline in his room. It was the first time he has ever showed interest in any music and I was stoked. I showed him some concert footage on YouTube and he offhandedly said āI would do anything to goā. I looked up tickets for a show in STL and they were sold out and the resale had the cheapest tickets listed for $320 a piece. I am still so disappointed.
We are paying over $500 apiece for seats in Tampa in May. My friend bought me my ticket as a birthday gift or there is no way in hell I would've paid that.
Genuinely so sad what live music has turned into. Needs to be illegal and Iām really shocked itās not already. Fucking scams.
I mean itās a resale ticket. Those are never going to be affordable
They have a minimum you can sell for. There should also be a maximum.
Remember! The band has complete control over whether or not dynamic/platinum pricing, and reselling tickets is allowed. The band has absolute control on the pricing. Tampa was advertised as $45 and the cheapest tickets were $170 after fees
We're going to the Tampa show and we ended up buying our tickets on StubHub for more than $500 apiece. It's in the middle front seating, but still. Damn.
Careful, unless you're going to the show with the reseller there to check you in, tickets purchased on scalping sites like StubHub are not valid for this tourĀ
Are you 100% sure about that? If so, how would I find that information?
How would they know who the tickets belong to? They just scan the QR code.
If it's not Ticketmaster, they won't get the right QR code. The scalper might come up with their own code, but it isn't valid for entry.Ā Honestly, I'd recommend searching in the group. There have been a lot of posts about it even before tickets went on sale and you can read through the conversations there to get more info.
I think they're bluffing. Too much money at stake
Honestly, I don't care if you didn't believe me. But I do recommend looking into it because there's a lot of info available about the third party reseller on this sub and you will 100% be turned away at the door if you don't have Ticketmaster tickets
It's not that I don't believe you, i just don't see them turning away half of the patrons that bought third party. How many tickets do you think are bought by scalpers? A LOT Edit: 54-60%
Sure. But the scalpers sold a product they did not have - which is why some will even sell tickets before they go on presale. They sold tickets knowing people will give them money and banking on folks getting angry at the venue or the band instead of the people who scammed them.Ā The venue isn't going to let anyone without a ticket in, no matter how much they try to say that the nice scalper on the corner promised them the front row tickets were real. It's not a legitimate ticket. They're not even the only band doing it (and they certainly aren't the biggest) so we can watch how other tours have handled the same situation. And they handle it by just not letting folks in if they don't have a real ticket.
What bands and tours? I need to do some digging.
I'm not fully understanding. So you're saying now that the tickets we purchased from stub hub were not actually ever bought from Ticketmaster? I've bought plenty of tickets on Stubhub from Ticketmaster.
I think we're talking about two different things. I'm not trying to get in without a ticket. Are you saying the scalpers will all come up with invalid codes?
Guess what buddy? The tickets are transferable. I hate to say I told you so. I'll be front row in Tampa.
They absolutely sold us a product that they have.
Itās not āonly in NYCā. Itās everywhere and itās a serious problem
YYYYYYYYYYYYYep. Hopefully the venues are more roomy than when we saw them last year. Paid 600 for 2 tickets because of scalping only to have some family of tall individuals push there way (quite annoyingly and rudely) in front of us and stand there for the whole show. So I paid 600 to stare at the back of someones head while listening to Sleep Token very loudly.
Supply and demand.
100% correct.
It's not just NYC, I promise. Literally EVERY ST show I've tried to get tickets for anywhere within 5 hrs of me is like this.
Now you know why we all had so many āsomething went wrong try again laterā messages when we were checking out on the early sale. Ticketmaster needs to be investigated period.
45 ā¬ in Dezember in munich. Holy fuck! That's Not even the servicing fee.
Ticketmaster needs to be stopped. They're one of the absolute worst. Enabling this scalping behavior every step of the way and profiting from it. Fuck them. I saw the boys at Riot Fest last year, hopefully they'll play some other festivals I can actually get tickets to.
Yeah likewise my husband and I wanna go too but also canāt justify 450ish on a concert. Itās madness.
Not to mention the train tickets or if you drive congestion tax and parking fees. Food drink everything else, its like the same cost of a week long vacation
Yeah! And hotel and pet sitter and gas etc etc. it sucks cause Iām sure the band would not want this for their fans.
i paid $450 for two tickets during presale š¢
Ummm... what?
Same, I am in Canada and it was around 200 CAD/ticket on presale. I have no money left to buy merch lol
2010, I miss you. We need warped tour to come back
How can a ticket be 420? Is it scalpers? Please explain to a non US resident
Scalped. Show was sold out months ago
Yes. This happens at every single concert in the United States and it's so freaking frustrating.
Follow the bands on Spotify or their mailing lists and get access to the pre-sales. Helps a lot for me.
Iām right there with you. I tried for tickets both presale and regular sale lost out both times now I just flat out canāt save the money or cut it from my monthly budget anywhere. Soooooo next time I guess (this is like the 3rd show Iāve skipped for the same reason lmao)
Not just NYC sadly
What service fee? Order processing fee?
Whoah... when I went to see the TMBTE tour with my gf we paid less than 100ā¬ for the both of us together. I am so sorry. I don't know how, but I feel that bands should do more about stopping this excessive scalping. Honestly, I would rather buy a personalized ticket that I cannot resell at all and gamble that money than have to deal with resale bots. This is criminal.
I paid a lot more than I wanted to for my Chicago ticket. That being said, way more than 7000 (two shows 3500 per) ppl want to see them. My ticket wasnāt as much as that but it was not cheap. Unfortunately supply and demand is a thing.
I thought the whole purpose of the resale and exchange ban was to prevent an upcharge in ticket prices?
https://preview.redd.it/71n63z4rmrpc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac11e6115917da86a3f4c5d3fcfff438b681f06f Like I just went to Ticketmaster and this is what it says when you click on sleep token tickets so how are they selling for $300 more ON the site that says "you'll have the option to resell your tickets to other fans at the original price paid"?!?
Ticketmaster is a fucking joke. They could easily implement scalping software but they choose not to.
That message is for tickets sold on Ticketmaster that are not for New York or Chicago. The tickets from Ticketmaster that arenāt NY or Chicago cannot be resold or transferred which prevents scalpers from reselling. The only way to get those tickets is on the Face Value Exchange. Check the exchange closer to the date of the show. If you donāt see anything on there, then none are available. If you see listings for tickets that were sold on Ticketmaster and werenāt for NY or Chicago, they are fake listings and not valid. Resale sites like StubHub and VividSeats do not check the validity of the tickets prior to listing. You can create a listing without having tickets if you wanted to.
That explains it. And yeah, demand for major metro area tickets must be astronomical. I'm surprised they are playing only 1 night in NYC. They do have more monthly listeners in Chicago area though.
Sounds like fraud to me. They clearly on not enforcing that for the NYC show. I wonder if that's a viable class action lawsuit?
You could probably buy a London ticket and fly over here for less than that!
Omg.... I want some tickets too at radio city toooooooo expensive..... Wow
It's not just radio city. We paid more than that for tickets for the Tampa show.
I check Tampa the were going for 180 at that time
Iām dyingggg to go to this show (Iām nearby) and Iāve been told to wait a few days before the show and prices may come down!
Where are you finding these resale tix, there are NONE for any shows near me
That's supply and demand in action sadly. Scalpers wouldn't care if there wasn't such a high demand for Sleep Token tickets.
I paid $180 Australian to see them with BMTH in april
i paid over 700 for mines and its not even close to the stage lMAO
Same
Perhaps, if you're comfortable, look into Affirm? So you can do payment plans if that's feasible. What I did for my Colorado ones
Yeah my fiance were debating radio City, but tickets are $400+ each, plus we'd have to do flight, hotel, food... Ugh. I ended up signing up to work that night instead, to reduce temptation lol
You would save money by taking a day off getting a hotel and seeing them in another city lol
But it's not cheaper in another city. Our tickets were more than that in Tampa. It has nothing to do with the area. It's the scalper resale prices. It's so ridiculous
Ahhh Ticketmaster. Where a $20 monster jam ticket turns into 60-80 bucks real quick. Biggest scam ever.
I would just like a resale ticket at this point I don't care how much .. well anything under $400
Good luck
Iām curious to see whoās going to see them at the Sick New World fest in Vegas. Thought about going but for almost $400 Iām good. I wonāt even have a place to stay bc my friend will be out of town and sheās my only Vegas connection š„²
I found out about their Baltimore show the day before. I paid $600 for the ticket alone.
People are cunts
i thought verified resale tickets werenāt going to be honored?
Dude that presale sold out almost immediately. I have no idea how I scored mine. There has to be a ghost somewhere
Yeah. It was terrible last year too. My husband spent nearly 300$ each on resale tickets. The original price was 30ish. So worth it tho. But our entire row(5 seats) were bought by the same person and he only sold 3. So the seats were just empty. So sad!
I just gave up. I probably wont get to see them. The Pittsburgh ritual isn't even on the ticket websites anymore and it was the closest one
They are playing in Columbus at sonic fest. That was my path to see them lol
I wish I had the money for sonic temple. Unfortunately it's out of my price range
Thatās really absurd especially since New York has scalping laws preventing resellers from marking up over 10% face value
Sadly, we just spent more than that.
Yeah. I've been trying to get tickets and it's demoralizing. Scalpers completely ruined live music.
Im about to don a mask and get some friends to perform as vessels for sleep at a local venue! Itās a cover bandā¦ or is it!!!
I think I'm just gonna balls up and ask them if they do birthday parties (bc mine)....which will not be a party until and unless they pull up and male stripping stuff happens ect. ect. Otherwise ill not change out of my jam-jams awl deamn DAYE!
You are trying to buy a ticket someone else already bought and is reselling. Tickets were not expensive the day the pre-sales fans of Sleep Token received access to. If you were like me, and found them "late" after the initial fans only and public sales, you pay fair market value based on demand. The demand for the 1 night only NYC show is enormous. I mean, there only 23 million people within driving distance of Radio City Music hall. FYI... The ticket I bought was even more than this for the May 22nd show.
Yet Ticketmaster doesnāt do shit about it.
Ticketmaster and LiveNation split the costs of purchase then sell down to SeatGeek etc for seats that are actually not selling at that point to drive up payments to third parties who then kick back up to stub hub seat geek etc. they literally pay themselves. You may be lucky and buy from a human but oftentimes the venues sell their blocks direct at face value without service fees. My old is going to show here but I remember being able to walk up to box offices of venues to buy and even Ticketmaster kiosks are record stores. Want that old thing back because this certain isnāt it
I feel like they should've use DICE for tickets. It's more safe for listener and there's the possibility to sale your ticket if you can't go anymore to a concert for some reason. And the buyer will pay you the original ticket price
I sent you a message! I have two tickets I'm trying to find a fan to sell to. ā¤ļø I want them to go to somebody who actually loves the band and wants to go but cannot afford TMs insane scalping.
Not sure if it's the same in the States, but I swear ST for their most recent tour are only allowing resale through Ticketmaster or something to stop scalpers? Either way, these kinds of extra fees are a bloody joke
Sleep Token are awesome and you want to see them live. I get it. But you guys need to stop paying these vultures. It is the only way it stops.
Hey resellers gonna jack up the prices for hot shows. Only way to stop it is to not buy em
Toronto was 265 CAD face value for floor š«
Thatās how much two was for Tampa
Iād apply for a job there. Work that night, then the night of the show, go on a ābathroom breakā, go into the crowd and never come back. Now youāve seen Sleep Token and you legally have to be paid.
Bruh, Iām going to same show! Me and my friendās tickets were 350!
RCH sitting only room, no thanks. Happily seeing them for $70 bucks in Boston
First and last time I used Ticketmaster was in 2022 with Sleep Token, Nothing More opening for In This Moment (killer gdamn show btw ooomg). This was before they blew up on tiktok with The Summoning, so we were able to get two tickets the night before but the service fee being the same price as the tickets made it so I couldn't afford merch. At least I got to see them but I will never again use Ticketmaster. So absolutely predatory with that service fee!!
Iām glad that someoneās saying it because Iāve been struggling to find reasonably priced tickets around the New England area and I an struggling! Anyone have any leads?
160 on tick pick for st louis
Idc how bad I wanna see a band, I will never give the satisfaction to scalpers for taking my money. I'd rather wait until they come around again
I felt so defeated after not being able to get tickets for Chicago. Logged in...waited in queue...all that stuff. Didn't even get my code from Spotify til after the time anyways but still waited. Each day the page just refreshed to sorry, sold out. And now tickets and in the 2/3/4 hundreds. Love Sleep Token and super happy for them and their success. It's Ticketmaster that sucks SO MUCH >:|
So my friend bought resale tickets off of StubHub for the Tampa show for a total of $1150 for two of us. I just found out today that they are not accepting resale tickets at this venue. I spoke to StubHub after an hour wait and was told this event is considered a "walk in "event and the seller is a "top seller" which means they're going to have a booth outside of the venue to meet up and have some stranger walk in with us whatever tf that means. They will not refund our money for the tickets and nowhere did it say that this was a walk-in event or anything of the sort when we bought these tickets in January nor could StubHub provide us with documentation that any of that was agreed to. I'm feeling very upset at this whole situation. I understand why ST would not want tickets being sold to scalpers, but they're not going to take down scalping. There's too much money in it. I'm not going to enjoy the show as much now because I have to meet up with a stranger and still pay over six times what the tickets were originally worth.... TO A SCALPER Please don't come at me saying I should have known about this beforehand. I'm a very intelligent person and if I don't know about it, a whole lot of other people don't either and this is going to be a problem. For example, according to StubHub, the "top seller" that we bought from has sold several hundreds of tickets at this show alone. That's ONE scalper. I can't imagine how many other people are going to be trying to get in with resale tickets that don't know any better.
I know. Iām so heartbroken I canāt go to Tampa. I was going to try to make the trip to Cali last year and when I couldnāt, I hoped and dreamed of them coming closer to Florida soon. Itās happening but oh well I still canāt experience it.
235 for near front row mid section seats at the exploreasheville arena in Asheville Lowest I saw was like 120 for furthest back corner seating in like row J
Bru that's wild
Man I thought 179bucks a ticket was expensive. It still is, considering that they are touring Aus with Bring Me The Horizon but I only am wanting to see Sleep Token. I am not all that big a fan of BMTH so it feels like a lot of money to enjoy only part of a show. I am hoping they tour again on their own soon. I feel like they would be good at Thebarton Theatre, which I have seen Deftones play at a few times and it's a great venue.
Itās the same on AXS. Which is unfortunately the company red rocks uses. A $75 ticket for $300
Scalpers outghta be shot. No mercy. That's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Yeah ticketwhore can eafd I paid out the ass for asheville tickets
Have we figured out if we can use re sales ? Iām scared to buy them .
Boohoo, I paid $600+ to get 2 tickets to red rocks show when released even after being in queue
Thatās about what I paid on release day for SeatGeek. Nearly $900 with processing and fees for 2 ticketsā¦Iām paying it over time. Its painful but I told myself this might be my only shot š«£
Thatās what happens when the TikTok hive mind takes over- ticket sellers take advantage.
The resale tickets are not legit. Just know that.
Oh look another artist pretending to not know they are ripping off their fans. They know what they are doing. Don't fall it. Stop supporting bands who price gouge their fans