So today Dave Matthews tickets went on sale. I'm not the typical "IT" guy who listens to techno music and drinks Mountain Dew all day, although I can lose a day on the Xbox or fiddling around on my laptop, I actually like real music :) and DMB puts on a great show.
Apparently Live Nation's web site doesn't work well with Firefox or with *my* installation of Firefox because it sat there for a good 10 minutes trying to load the page. After getting frustrated, and worried that the show would sell out, as it did last year, I finally switched to IE and was able to buy my tickets. This is something special for Merinda and I, and I wanted to make sure I could got the tickets.
Here's my irritation. Two lawn seats at Nissan Pavilion (I refuse to call it jiffy lube live) at $40.50 each and an additional 12.50 "convenience" charge per ticket. What convenience? Your website isn't convenient. Ticketmaster/Live Nation have a monopoly on concert tickets. It might be convenient for THEM but it isn't for ME. Why are they allowed to monopolize tickets and add on whatever fees they want. Factor in their ownership of TicketNow and they really control most of this industry.
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Then I get charged $30 for VIP parking. This doesn't bother me because it eliminates the hour+ wait to get out of the lot, and then $14.50 to have the tickets sent via UPS. What the hell happened to printing the tickets? Apparently Nissan Pavilion won't mail the tickets (the free option) and we're not allowed to print them. So, my question to Live Nation is, how was this convenient? I had to spend $40 for unnecessary shit.
Total cost: $150.50 for 2 lawn seats.
At least the show will be worth it.
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