Apr 02 : ONLINE SALES MAKES TICKETS HARD TO GET
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The Jonas Brothers were mentioned in the New York Times article on online tickets. Full Article here
The concert business is booming, with top tours grossing more each year. But as the economy constricts, consumer frustration is beginning to reverberate throughout the industry. Fans complain that the once simple process of getting tickets has been transformed into a complex and expensive digital chore…
…Jonas Brothers fans faced a similar situation when the band’s five New York-area concerts sold out over the weekend. Elizabeth Bohl, a payroll manager from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., said she could not find tickets at list price or afford to take her daughter, Emily, 11, at scalpers’ rates.
“I’m not going to spend a month’s worth of groceries to get two tickets to see the Jonas Brothers,” Ms. Bohl said.
Two years after the repeal of New York State’s decades-old anti-scalping laws, the ticket marketplace has become a fiercely competitive game in which major corporations compete over resale prices with the fan next door, scalpers have a Washington lobbyist and thousands of tickets disappear in a fraction of a second…
…“A concert ticket should be for someone’s spiritual life-enhancing experience of art,” he said in a telephone interview. “Not just another commodity, another stock or mortgage, something people flip for the biggest profit.”
Source: New York Times
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