Ticketmaster and dynamic pricing

But that’s not true for Taylor’s. VIP was all over and people were giving out about the amount of them. Look back on the thread.

The issue I have is around the randomness of the high prices. Demand outstripped demand from the start.

I wonder would Ticketmaster look at your account history before assigning you a €400 standing ticket vs €87?

If you knew someone had bought a ticket for that price before they would be a better bet than someone who regularly buys cheap tickets

Very good point. Potential use of targeted selling due to the use of TM account history.

In a sense I'm lucky with my advancing years in that anyone I really wanted to see is either deceased or definitely will have retired within five years at the latest. There's only two acts capable of pulling off the particular magic of a massive stadium show and that's ACDC and The Stones. Paying that kind of money for Adele, Coldplay and Taylor Swift is laughable.

BTW does anyone know the real reason Prince's 2008 Croke Park gig was cancelled? Standing was €90. Seats €125. Prince was sued by MCD and there was a settlement. No real information was ever given. 55,000 tickets were sold.

So there's currently a ticket for sale for the saturday up in the Davin - 721 - it's 517 odd euro.

There's a standing as well for Sunday at 437.30.

Not sure whether those include fees, probably not.

Now, these obviously no major queues (a small one maybe) today - but do people think that ticketmaster are doing anything wrong with their practices in selling these tickets versus what they were doing last weekend?

Less of an issue now. I queued just to see, took me 20 seconds and I can see the price, I'm not being put under time pressure and if people paid €x for them, then it's fair they can sell them on at the same price. I'm not super cool about ticketmaster being able to get fees on the resale again though.

The thing is, you could see the price you were being offered the tickets at over the weekend as well, once you got to the top of the queue - same as today - just the queue was smaller today, but the prices were similiar (depending on when you got to the top of the queue over the weekend).

I don't have issues with people reselling tickets using ticketmaster however that's not really the point I am making.

If there is anough demand tickets of these prices points are very easily justified from the "sellers" perspective. Morally, different kettle of fish.

There wasn't anyone with a gun to anyones head over the weekend either (maybe there was on an individual basis) - if you think a queue of hundreds of thousands long is a "pressure tactic" you're mistaken. Thats the reality of a very popular event for which there is high demand.

The timelines to make a decision were very similiar today (a couple of minutes, granted without the long queue) - and two people made the decision, after all the talk of the past few days etc) to spend hundreds of euro on tickets…….

again as repeated here, it’s the same for all high demand events, whether it’s six nations or whatever. When it’s your turn to buy they offer what’s available at the set prices. If you walk up to box office at a Broadway play after queing for ages and they tell you that only expensive seats left for tonight.
The dynamic price wasn’t actually dynamic it said the same. Now the only issue is that dynamic price wasn’t advertised in advance. Mcd/oasis not publishing price list is a failure.

Even if every ticket price tier were advertised in advance(as they should have been) the mechanics of an in demand and oversubscribed event would mean that it would only be when you got to the top of the queue before you know what options were left from that pre published list of tickets prices.....you'd still have to make a decision with the information available to you at that point in time. It is very obvious to me based on the example from earlier today when people had plenty time to make decisions that there are enough people out there willing to pay big money for tickets no matter what queues exist.

Thats the crux of this issue, setting enforced top prices for tickets may solve it but is that right?

not the same in the UK apparently.

not even close lol

Remember years ago when Ticketmaster set up a resale company. I think recent laws stopped it. I recall because I got ripped off on it by Ticketmaster when I resold tickets. I had to cough up money.