MAYHEM Ball Suffering from Possible Scalping Attack? (Not the good kind)

[Defmix100 6,208]

7 hours ago, Charliie said:

Yes, I'm so mad right now.

I have never seen anything like this from her previous tours.

When I made it to pick my seats this afternoon, there was nothing but resales at ridiculous prices. Ticketmaster shouldn't allow resales at this point. They should start offering ''store credit '' or some other alternative but not reselling. Ugh

I resold a Mayhem ticket through ticketmaster and they lock it at face value which I thought was a good way to stop this sort of thing, but maybe it's venue or country specific

[Bronco 8,916]

As everyone is saying, this is sadly the norm now. 

And ticketmaster/livenation will do nothing about it because (they likely own a lot of the scalpers) the tickets get sold regardless. Scalpers dont get refunds if tickets don't resell, but the original promoter makes the money they wanted if not more when dynamic pricing is turned on. 

[LauraPalmer 509]

i’ve seen some artists like Billie Eilish and Bleachers do a “face value ticket exchange” where you can resell a ticket through TM, but ONLY at the price you paid for it. i don’t see any reason why all artists can’t do this. 

[salty like sodium 1,223]

7 hours ago, PartySick said:

This one was my favorite  

Yes this is real, I found it myself This person could not have been serious  

I don't understand why resale is allowed period. I know Ticketmaster takes a portion of the profits from resales so I understand why they allow it but why is TM allowed to do it?  

You buy a ticket for $300 and you end up not being able to attend you should be able to either get a refund (minus the fees) from TM or list that ticket for $300.

Anything else is absolutely just scamming and should be a crime.

Dynamic pricing should be a crime too. Here in Florida businesses are literally charged and fined to hell and back if they jack up their prices for essentials (food, water, gas, etc) before a hurricane hits so why is perceived demand allowed to take a ticket that should be ~$200 and make it ~$700?  unless Gaga gets her hottest dancers to call me by name and spit in my mouth there's no reason it should have been that much.

At this point, some of the biggest artists' concerts just feel like one huge scam and we're all being stolen from.

/Soap box rant

In Europe/the UK you aren't allowed to pick the resale price unless it's lower than what you paid for. Otherwise you can only resell for the amount you paid. What sucks is ticketmaster then adds like a 20 or 30% "admin fee" on top of that so they still make even more money when you resell the ticket. 

[Guillaume Hamon 6,247]

1 hour ago, LauraPalmer said:

i’ve seen some artists like Billie Eilish and Bleachers do a “face value ticket exchange” where you can resell a ticket through TM, but ONLY at the price you paid for it. i don’t see any reason why all artists can’t do this. 

Wish Gaga had done that + refused dynamic pricing like Sheran, Swift, The Cure, Neil young and smaller acts... Maybe she's blocked by her contracts but seing all types of artists doing leaves questions. 

 

[nATAH 46,356]

9 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

Born This Way Ball was exactly the same.

 

9 hours ago, Charliie said:

I have never seen anything like this from her previous tours.

[salty like sodium 1,223]

2 hours ago, nATAH said:

 

I saw the BTWB in ASIA and the demand was so high there that the show sold out in minutes and it was impossible to get tickets without going through scalpers. But then there were tickets on the day-of at the box office for some reason.

Edited 5 hours ago by salty like sodium

[Charliie 1,790]

2 hours ago, nATAH said:

 

I live in CA. I had no issues getting regular priced tickets for TCB. For Joanne as well. I was close to the stage and bought regular priced tickets  (days after the general sale.)