Ridiculous Ticket Surcharges Problematic For Bands

[watsername182]

Usually in Australia tickets for the larger venues start from around $85.00 AUD and up.

There is also postage and handling which can be anything from $6.95 to like $10.00

Plus the transaction fee of like $4.95.

[Angela.]

For 3 GA tickets for the GD show I'm going to, the total cost (including fees) was $178.25. But compared to some other... um, popular... acts in today's society, GD tickets aren't so bad. For example, I compared the cost of 3 Jonas Brothers tickets to 3 GD tickets. 1 JB ticket alone (for the Mellon Arena show on July 25th) is... $89.50. (For the best seating, that is.) So, 3 of those tickets without the extra fees would be... $268.50. 1 GD ticket (with the best seating, for the 7/22 show at Mellon Arena) is... $47.25. So, 3 of those tickets without the extra fees would be... $141.75. That's a BIG difference. In fact, that's a $126.75 difference.

In general, Green Day tickets are a lot cheaper than tickets from other bands. Yes, the fees do suck. A lot. But I'd rather only have to play a little more for service fees than pay a lot more for tickets.

[iLozza!]

What a rip off.

I don't think we payed a surcharge of that much.

And if we did, well I'm just ignorant.

[warning11945]

I see Paul McCartney's tickets are like $250!

I knwo some who wen to see Brittney Spears (I don't know why though), but her mom payed $600 for ONE and she bought two.

[punkrockerlori]

I bought my tickets off stubhub. MASSIVE SURCHARGES THERE! :@

[Isabel]

When I saw Green Day on the American Idiot tour, tickets were only €30 but this time around they're €50. It's in the same venue, but the name has changed and the entire place has been revamped and made into a very modern, 14,000 capacity venue which is probably alot more expensive to run. So either MCD/Warner Bros. are greedy bastards or this recession really is a bitch.

[Nova-Caine]

GD have always tried to keep prices down, what they can't control are the venues being turned into corporate whore houses and booking fee's. We have a thread about this on the IC that I started last year discussing how vile the hiking of tickets had become by certain bands then when booking fee's go on top its near on impossible to afford. I just about begged GD not to hike their prices in that thread as well.

I refuse to pay over £50 for any band now. The day GD charge that amount is going to be a very painful one for me and I'm not sure what my decision would be

[gloria.]

Mmm, I paid 60 dollars for my Green Day concert this summer.

I have seats, but they're in the third row of the very first section.

I'm not sure if it's a bargain, an adequate price or a rip off.

As long as they're not asking for 200 dollars, I'm just glad I'm finally seeing the band I love.

[Iwannajumpout]

I do agree these extra charges are bull. I went the paperless ticket route and got hit with a "convenience" charge equal to 15% of my ticket, plus venue fees, and a processing fee. Kudos to GD for not charging something obscene for their tickets, since these extra fees quickly put you in that category anyways. And do I need to mention the whole Springsteen vs. Ticketmaster incident?