Anyone else feeling rage….

[AyeshaErotica 1,573]

I don't like the kind of preferential treatment in pre-sales for mobile phone contract holders of specific telecommunications providers, as is the case in some countries Everybody should have equal "starting positions"!

It's a disadvantage for those who are with smaller providers to prevent monopolies from forming, or who simply offer better deals. Indirectly, Lady Gaga's team helps capitalists to make even more sales and become a monopolist in the mobile phone market and the less competition, the higher the prices ultimately will be.

It's obvious that these monopolists pay Lady Gaga's team money to get people to sign such contracts in order to bind them to their company for long-term contracts. Legally OK, but not morally OK, imo!

 

[HORRORHOLIC 95]

  On 4/3/2025 at 12:45 PM, Guillaume Hamon said:

Since everybody say artists can refuse dynamic pricing... I guess she changed lol.

Or there's a contract clause in her case that place it out of her control idk... Hope it's that. 😆 

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She could 100% choose to refuse

[Guillaume Hamon 6,189]

  On 4/3/2025 at 5:23 PM, HORRORHOLIC said:

She could 100% choose to refuse

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That's depressing...

[AyeshaErotica 1,573]

  On 4/2/2025 at 10:35 PM, Murakami27 said:

As long as they can profit from it and as long as there are people willing to pay these prices, they won’t care about any complaints. Unless the fans collectively stop buying tickets, or unless our governments actually care about protecting consumers, nothing will change sadly. 

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Ultimately, this is a consequence of globalization and the fact that English has become the global lingua franca of youth. In the past (30 years ago), there was one artist, and the audience was usually limited to the Western market plus Japan, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, and Moscow/St. Petersburg. This means that the supplier-buyer relationship was "regulated by a fixed market." Now, the number of potential buyers has grown much larger because there are many more people outside the West who are willing to pay the same amount and fly to the West or to concerts taking place outside the West.

Nowadays, e.g. the British middle class also competes for concert tickets with the Romanian upper middle class, the Serbian upper middle class, etc. The American middle class competes with the Brazilian upper middle class for concert tickets. Eastern Europe, East Central Europe, and Central and South America are emerging as competitors, driving up prices.

Singapore has also emerged. The country is actually quite small, but it's the Malaysian, Thai, and Indonesian upper middle class that travels to Singapore, allowing Singapore to be a concert performer, which leads to concerts elsewhere in the world being diverted to Singapore; which causes concert ticket prices elsewhere to skyrocket a bit more.

In Europe, there used to often be no infrastructure that enabled concert purchases digitally in English everywhere, hotel bookings entirely in English everywhere; you no longer have to speak the local language to attend a concert in those countries and organize travel there. There were many barriers that made it easier for local Western fans to see their stars and limit the costs. There are more airports, more hotels, more connections, more travel, more people traveling, all of which drives up costs because more people have to share one star. This wasn't the case in the past (30 years ago). The problem is simple: there's only one Lady Gaga, but a growing number of people outside the West who could potentially attend concerts.

I don't think there's a solution to this problem. It would obviously be unfair and unjust, and impossible anyway, to prohibit others from doing so or to reverse globalization.  We have to assume that concert ticket prices will continue to rise for A-list prime stars and that the youth of the future will consider 2025 concert ticket prices as cheap because theirs will be much more expensive in future. I think in 20-30 years, they'll be three or four times as high, simply because, of the 1,4 milliard Indians, 210 million Brazilians, and hundreds of millions of Southeast Asians, of whom there will be a larger upper middle class that will also compete for concert tickets, and as I said, Lady Gaga can't be cloned. We should be grateful to China for sealing off its market, because if Western stars performed there, they would reduce the number of concerts in the West, which would drive up concert ticket prices there. Tickets would probably be 10% more expensive if the Chinese were also competing for them.

If we want to have an "affordable" concert, we must opt for C-list stars because for A and partially B-list stars concert-attendance will be a luxury.

 

[Tinnitus15 51,090]

Now you see why some fans, who have some knowledge about tours, were “whining” about the arenas and not stadiums. Don’t get me started on the dynamic prices. Taylor Swift you’re the best with your tours. Gaga, shame on you tbh. 

[sagybp 170]

I am so so disappointed, angry, sad and frustrated. I've never missed a Gaga concert, and in some I even went to 2 shows, but here I couldn't get any tickets, not even in the pre-sale, in any of the locations, unless I was willing to pay 500+ EUR (for a not-so-good seating ticket). That's outrageous and I'm starting to understand this will be Gaga's first concert I'll miss.

[ryansamonster 1,654]

It’s been a complete disaster. Tried all the same presales as you. We lucked out today finding 4 tix on StubHub for cheaper than the resale price on Ticketmaster. Even though the general on sale started today!! It’s insane that there’s all this bot protection and 90% of tickets are resale. 

I hope Gaga sees how painful and frustrating this was for the fans. 

Anyways, our tickets are for Wednesday Chicago. 300 level. After fees $294. Thank god I’m going to Coachella. 

[gagaforgaga2010 120]

TM is such a scam. People are selling tickets for triple face value

 

[Duda 23]

I’m so disappointed 

[RudraCNG 14,471]

You know what... I've been wondering... I haven't read anybody saying "oh yeah, when I was able to buy a ticket there were plenty of seats available". No, everyone sweated to get a ticket. Today, my friends were trying to get a ticket since the waiting room was opened and there were none left when they finally got to the purchase site (after ~15 min wait). I think Ticketmaster is scamming again like they have done before and they held most of tickets to resale them themselves. On top of that, everyone seems to have paid a lot more than expected to get a ticket.

I'm mad cause, even if I was able to get a ticket during the presale (pretty far, tbh) none of my friends could get one. It was simply impossible even when she's coming 3 days to my city.

[PartySick 151,812]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:21 PM, gagaforgaga2010 said:

TM is such a scam. People are selling tickets for triple face value

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Scam?

No waaaay this is totally fair

[PartySick 151,812]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:38 PM, RudraCNG said:

You know what... I've been wondering... I haven't read anybody saying "oh yeah, when I was able to buy a ticket there were plenty of seats available". No, everyone sweated to get a ticket. Today, my friends were trying to get a ticket since the waiting room was opened and there were none left when they finally got to the purchase site (after ~15 min wait). I think Ticketmaster is scamming again like they have done before and they held most of tickets to resale them themselves. On top of that, everyone seems to have paid a lot more than expected to get a ticket.

I'm mad cause, even if I was able to get a ticket during the presale (pretty far, tbh) none of my friends could get one. It was simply impossible even when she's coming 3 days to my city.

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I got extremely, extremely lucky with mine. I was nearly first in the queue and snatched tickets immediately at face value (still a lot). Then later on I managed to grab another cheaper seat (less than $200) for a friend and it only took like five minutes.

I think I used all my luck for the next year so let me avoid cross walks, loose shelves, sugary food, and mean looking strangers

[HORRORHOLIC 95]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:38 PM, RudraCNG said:

You know what... I've been wondering... I haven't read anybody saying "oh yeah, when I was able to buy a ticket there were plenty of seats available". No, everyone sweated to get a ticket. Today, my friends were trying to get a ticket since the waiting room was opened and there were none left when they finally got to the purchase site (after ~15 min wait). I think Ticketmaster is scamming again like they have done before and they held most of tickets to resale them themselves. On top of that, everyone seems to have paid a lot more than expected to get a ticket.

I'm mad cause, even if I was able to get a ticket during the presale (pretty far, tbh) none of my friends could get one. It was simply impossible even when she's coming 3 days to my city.

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I got in after about 30 seconds  with 59 people ahead of me. It was literally just resales 😡

[hamartia 543]

People behind the stage are reselling their tickets for $400CAD for the Toronto show  

Part of me is glad that I didn't take time off work to try and get the presale, because it would have been even more upsetting to have done everything right and still missed out  

[JSRD 152]

  On 4/3/2025 at 6:39 PM, PartySick said:

Scam?

No waaaay this is totally fair

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I hate this world so much.  Everything is terrible.