"It's like we are penalized for being fans" - Ticket buyer learns some basic lessons

"It's like we are penalized for being fans."

That's why I prefer to be a discriminating consumer. A fan is a sucker to be taken advantage of. Loved waching the video and especially reading the comments but she is simply learning the lessons event patrons have been learning for decades, you don't buy any tickets you aren't using yourself unless you are prepared to light them on fire. Or the lessons of anyone who bought anything ever, prices can change.

The constant delusion of fans that they should be immune from market forces that govern any other good or service varies from amusing to dangerous. Well, possibly financially disadvantageous to people like me who took the time to learn how the system works and use it my advantage even at risk of missing the show, an education that wasn't free. Such as this person in the comments "I feel like dynamic pricing should be illegal. I really want to sue because it's not fair to pay more." Gawd forbid this bolshevik be put in charge of any public policy.

Another fan delusion is that a consumer of mass market corporate entity is seen as anything but a number and a paycheck by said entity, or at least it's representatives. You know ticket prices are entirely based upon what they expect to be paid, right?

I will go further and say I have long since recognized being a hardcore fan of anything is really a form of OCD, mostly harmless when you see it for what it is, assuming you don't cross any lines, make your living space unsafe or end up on the streets for spending the rent money on a concert ticket. Being a fan and your love of a performer certainly doesn't convey any sort of exceptionalism upon you. Not sure how you can actually legislate that. At least not without putting Gene $immon$ and Paul $tanley in prison.

Occasionally someone states the obvious and something I knew for 25 years - it's like buying an airline ticket, everybody on the plane paid a different price. The concert industry made that connection decades ago though it took awhile to get the algorithms in place and monetize it to the extreme.

Another highlight in the comments: "Box office manager here! It's not Ticketmaster, it's Jonas Brothers team reaching out to venue box office and asking them to "flex down." Yep, as usual Ticketmaster takes the blame. Parent company LiveNation may have promoted and priced the entire tour but the band or it's representatives is the ones who signed on the dotted line with these terms and conditions.

We were actually looking into Jonas Brothers at Dodger Stadium because tickets were so cheap but not sure what came up. Could have been anything really.


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