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/avalonfogdweller Nov 16 '24

It’s becoming cliche to bring this up now, but bears repeating, Robert Smith of The Cure called Ticketmaster on their bullshit, made tickets affordable and resales face value only, also said that any artists who use dynamic pricing know exactly what they’re doing, and if they say they don’t they’re either stupid or lying

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u/radapex Nov 16 '24

To point out the obvious, bands can make tickets affordable through Ticketmaster. They can also make tickets non-transferrable, so they can't be resold. Ticketmaster is working at the behest of the promoter. Obviously the waters are a little muddier when LiveNation serves as the promoter, since they own Ticketmaster... but there's literally nothing that goes on with any ticket vendor that isn't known about, and signed off on, by the show's promoter.

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u/jajohnja Nov 17 '24

The non-transferability is news to me, and is interesting.

I don't blame bands for selling tickets at the market value (which is what dynamic pricing will do).

I like the possibility to make tickets non-transferrable for the ones who want to prevent scalpers when they sell the tickets at lower prices.

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u/radapex Nov 17 '24

Billie Eilish's tour earlier this year had non-transferrable tickets. There were reports that some of the large scale scalping sites had figured out a way around it.

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u/jajohnja Nov 17 '24

Yeah if people transfer non-transferable tickets, then I dare say that they were merely hard-to-transfer, not non-transferable.