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    Quote Originally Posted by gojikranz View Post
    ticketmaster makes it more confusing now too as they have scalpers hosted on the site so you think you are buying a ticket but it is really a reseller. so even though ticketmaster may be "selling" tickets for X price that might not have been the price when they went on sale.
    Plus, tickets are obviously going to be most expensive in the most expensive place to live in the country. So tix prices will be much higher in NYC than in Cincy or Tulsa OK, etc. Of course, salaries are generally higher for the same work in NYC than those cities, so its all relative. Plus, NYC is a market of 20 million people competing for the same finite amount of seats for any particular concert, which again forces ticket prices higher.

    add--having said that, I just found in a 3 minute search on TBstd seats in the 100 level of Barclays, 117 row 7, for $225 each and even better seats in the lower part of the bowl (Sec 20) at $230 per rather than $350 per.
    Last edited by DocProgger; 06-04-2018 at 12:32 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gojikranz View Post
    ticketmaster makes it more confusing now too as they have scalpers hosted on the site so you think you are buying a ticket but it is really a reseller. so even though ticketmaster may be "selling" tickets for X price that might not have been the price when they went on sale.
    Yup, I know quite a few less experienced ticket buyers who have burned by that. They think they are buying regular price tickets, since it is through ticketmaster, but they are actually buying re-sale tix. It has gotten a lot more confusing in recent years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splicer View Post
    This is certainly off the topic, but if I bought a ticket to a concert in 1980 for $20, the rate of inflation for the dollar says it should be $61 in 2018. If it costs $200, then either there is a lot more profiteering going on or too high a cost for putting on events.
    Here's a clue: this survey of executive salaries shows that the CEO of concert promoter LiveNation makes almost 3,000x the median employee pay at the company (the second-highest ratio of all the companies included in the survey):
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/b...-packages.html

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