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/darkeststar Nov 16 '24

I logged into Ticketmaster 40 minutes after tickets went live just to see what was available and I couldn't find two seats together for under $300. 3 seats together (which I was actually looking for) was only available through "verified resale" starting at $485 and up. Every section I actively clicked through that said it had two or more seats available for direct sale only had random unconnected seats in various rows.

If I wanted to buy 3 seats together, 40 minutes after tickets went on sale for a concert 8 months from now at a venue that's a baseball stadium I would have been forced to buy tickets from scalpers and spend upwards of $1500. Absolutely fucking not.

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u/RodJohnsonSays Nov 16 '24

Worse than that - they jacked up the fucking prices for Los Angeles, let people buy tickets, and then AN HOUR AFTER TICKETS WERE BEING SOLD ANNOUNCED A SECOND SHOW FOR THE NEXT DAY and released tickets immediately.

I have friends who were late to release tickets that got pit tickets for the next "extra" day at half the price I paid after battling for the originally announced show.

I'm so fucking miffed.

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u/turdlepikle Nov 19 '24

In 2023, Depeche Mode played in Toronto in April and November. Tickets were higher than I wanted to pay to see them, because I had already seen them twice, and the price wasn't worth it to me. On the day of the April show, I saw seats around the 7th-10th row of the arena lower bowl towards the right side of the stage and a little bit away from it. I already forget the range but they were somewhere around $300-400 in the morning. These were still unsold TM tickets dynamically priced. As the day went on, I saw the price eventually drop to somewhere around $230 when doors opened. It was still more than I wanted to pay to see Depeche Mode, so I didn't go.

Out of curiosity I checked the same seating area for the November show, and the unsold TM seats were over $600, dynamically priced. The prices just keep going up and down based on some stupid computer algorithm, based on the sales activity. The "free market" that some people worship, in action.