[chagrinfalls]

From the article:

"Live Nation admits for the first time that brokers and bots made millions, leaving many fans shut out...Berchtold estimates resellers made an estimated $25 to $30 million in markups on the Hip's tour."
"Ontario's attorney general announced yesterday the government will table legislation to outlaw ticket bots."


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[Rye]

There were multiple ticket drops for every show on the tour except Kingston (and apparently even for that one people outside the box office had luck day-of-show). If people paid scalpels, that's their choice. Had they just showed some patience, like with almost every arena show, there were lots of tickets to be had closer to the show for face value on Ticketmaster. Additionally, other than the Ontario shows, many tickets on Stubhub were going for close to face value or lower closer to the dates. Inexperienced or overly emotional ticket buyers got hosed and people that know how the ticket buying system works got in the door for face value.

[thebends]

There were multiple ticket drops for every show on the tour except Kingston (and apparently even for that one people outside the box office had luck day-of-show). If people paid scalpels, that's their choice. Had they just showed some patience, like with almost every arena show, there were lots of tickets to be had closer to the show for face value on Ticketmaster. Additionally, other than the Ontario shows, many tickets on Stubhub were going for close to face value or lower closer to the dates. Inexperienced or overly emotional ticket buyers got hosed and people that know how the ticket buying system works got in the door for face value.

Fact is there is still a a big problem.

[bouche03]

No surprise to hear this at all I was lucky enough to go to Victoria, Vancouver X 2, Toronto x 2 and Kingston but they were incredibly hard to come by, especially Vic and Kingston...something needs to be done!