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Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Right, because if I don't buy the ticket to go see Micky Dolenz, no one else will, Ticketmaster will see the error of its ways, and they will change their business practices. And while we're at it let's tell dads not to buy tickets to Taylor Swift for their teenage daughters, so no one will go to her concerts. That will change everything.
You live in a fantasy world if you think "Don't go" is a feasible alternative. If I don't go, someone else will, and all I've done is deprive myself of something that I want to make a point - a point that won't matter a tinker's damn to Ticketmaster. There's no way that there would realistically be a public boycott big enough to make any difference.
I'm absolutely not one for big government, but this is the definition of a monopoly and should be dealt with. But while the CEO of Ticketmaster has three gold toilets, they've bought and paid for four golden toilets for those in Congress through lobbying (aka "legalized bribery"), so nothing will be done. So again, it's pay up or give up something that I want. I don't buy tickets to events that I don't care about just to have something to do, but there are acts that I don't want to deprive myself of just to make a point to Ticketmaster or try to force them to change their ways through boycott. Because neither of those things will make a single solitary difference as long as they have their paid governmental exception.
Come on mate, you could say this about any kind of protest or boycott.
Yes that is exactly how boycotts work. You make a personal sacrifice as a protest against something that's unfair or immoral.
If you're not prepared to make a sacrifice, that's OK, but at least have the honesty to admit you just don't care enough about this particular issue.
My point was, if I make the sacrifice and don’t go, somebody else will buy the ticket. So it’s not that I don’t care enough, it’s that it won’t make a difference. There simply cannot be enough of a boycott from the general public to make any difference to Ticketmaster’s bottom line. Only government intervention and anti-monopoly enforcement will, and that isn’t going to happen either with politicians in Ticketmaster’s pocket.
In the end I’m missing out on something that could be my last ever opportunity (in the case of the Micky Dolenz concert I discussed earlier), while not losing Ticketmaster a dime.