Apparently they won’t sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly

  • Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    If Mark Cuban has the resources to take on the drug industry by creating a service to get reasonably priced medicine, can we ask him to make a new TicketMaster that doesn’t rip everyone off?

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        10 months ago

        You’re saying you can’t make a new ticketmaster because first you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first…?

        That doesn’t mean it won’t work. That just means you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first.

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          10 months ago

          A competing service in the non-Livenation venues would be enough to take a chunk of a Ticketmaster’s bottom line and force them to compete again, something they haven’t had to do in a while.

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            10 months ago

            Not really. Big acts want big venues. Live Nation owns those or has exclusivity agreements with them. It is very much a monopoly.

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      10 months ago

      I have a friend who did this, quitting their job for ticketmaster to run it. If you run a venue, get in touch and I can link you guys up, they have a list of clients, testimonials and competitive pricing, with an ethos based around consumer-fair practices.