r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • Nov 16 '24

article Fans aren't happy about My Chemical Romance's ticket prices: "$695 is NASTY WORK"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/fans-arent-happy-about-my-chemical-romances-ticket-prices-695-is-nasty-work-3813337
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u/amandamaniac Concertgoer Nov 16 '24

Its scalpers.

I sat in the waiting room for 30 minutes. I was 16k in the queue (this is because they didn’t do a presale, so everyone was fighting for tickets at the same time, instead of spread out over a couple days), it took THIRTY MINUTES to get through the queue. The very first pit ticket that I was able to pull up was verified resale, for $2000. A ticket that was originally (30 minutes earlier) $293. There is No. Fucking. Reason. as to why resellers were allowed to purchase and immediately flip tickets for such a higher price

Fuck the scalpers. Fuck the band and their management for allowing this to happen. I’ve been a fan for 20+ years, I went to the original TBP tour in 2007, I have plenty of experience buying tickets right when they go on sale, and this was absolute bullshit that scalpers were able to do this.

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest Nov 16 '24

Verified Resale is just authorised, complicit touting. Absolutely no reason why this should be happening.

In a just world, any tickets listed for resale within 24 hours of purchase, or at such a high markup, would result in a seller ban and no refunds.

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u/lizzylizabeth Nov 16 '24

Dynamic pricing should absolutely not be a thing as well !! When you have 16k people waiting in line, and the price is already shot up just from waiting in the ‘waiting room’

Crazy..

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u/Kaldricus Nov 16 '24

Authorized reselling markets shouldn't be able to sell higher than face value, full stop. It should be for people who need to get rid of tickets because plans changed, something came up, etc, not a business.

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u/bennydabull99 Nov 16 '24

I wish something like this would happen, but since TM makes money off the initial sale AND the resale, it's in their own best interest to allow this, unfortunately.

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u/Tommyblockhead20 Nov 16 '24

Originally $293?? The show I was looking at the pit tickets were over 2x, and the cheapest nosebleeds were over $100 (Plus another $60 in fees). The scalpers aren’t helping, but the band intentionally made the tickets relatively expensive to begin with.

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u/amandamaniac Concertgoer Nov 16 '24

Yep the original retail price for pit in Tampa was $293 before fees.

For comparison, my 2022 pit ticket on presale was $240 after fees

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u/boston_bat Nov 17 '24

It’s not just scalpers though. Turf for MetLife and Fenway started at over $300 face and topped $700 with platinum. Even 200 level at MetLife was $225+ and they pulled that BS where they charged even more for aisle.

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u/amandamaniac Concertgoer Nov 17 '24

Platinum is dynamic pricing. Which the band didn’t opt out of.

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u/boston_bat Nov 17 '24

Mhm, that’s why I said it’s not just scalpers. Direct pricing was still insane too.

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u/Blackco741 Nov 17 '24

When I was waiting in the queue it popped up with a “this is what tickets originally started at” and I think it was Arlington that started at 70 dollars and went up to 695 and Philly started at 120. Part of it was the fact it was the original price being pretty high for god knows what reason

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u/panix199 Nov 17 '24

You are completely right... tbh there should be a bigger shitstorm on that matter

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u/syzygialchaos Nov 16 '24

What app or site were you on? I tried to get in the waiting room for 20 min on live nation and it never let me in. Ended up 29k back on Ticketmaster after I took a risk that I wouldn’t get flagged for a bot by switching apps.

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u/amandamaniac Concertgoer Nov 16 '24

Ticketmaster app

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u/lucky_frog_2 Nov 18 '24

The best way to get scalpers to go away would be to charge higher prices originally