I have thought about this post all afternoon - My gf and I and a friend of mine and his wife had made plans to attend Crossroads 2010 this year - So, I get on here this morning a couple minutes before tix go on sale - I kept hitting refresh, and the exact second they went on sale, I clicked on 4 tickets and waited several minutes - 4 tickets popped up, they were all the way in the back, 18 rows up - So, I wasnt going to buy those, so I click search again to go for GA tickets - Well, I had to wait about 11 minutes this time, so by 11:20 est, the friggin place was completely sold out!

Now for my rant - I think its complete BS that these online scalpers are able to purchase the amount of tickets that they do - however this works out, it should be regulated - I was only allowed to purchase 4, so how does this work? The tickets are not hard to find, they are all over these online scalper sites for 2x,3x,4x the original price - I have seen then for over $1000 bucks - its rediculous and complete BULLSH** that normal every day folk cannot even get concert tickets anymore without paying out the $@! for it - sad!

Something should be done, jmo!!!

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I completely agree, online ticket sales were cool at the beginning but now it is 100% BS.

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

i completely understand where you are coming from. my dad and i couldnt find good tickets for a john mayer concert becasue within 1 hour they were all sold out. so we had to pay 3x as much to go to the concert becasue we had to buy off of stub hub.

I don't waste my time going to concerts anymore. The cost and the outrageous surcharges have made me realize that I just prefer to hang at home and listen to the CD.

I don't waste my time going to concerts anymore. The cost and the outrageous surcharges have made me realize that I just prefer to hang at home and listen to the CD.

I paid $14 for tickets to Kiss in Australia in early '80 (late '79?). These days I can rarely afford tickets, even though they're trying to stop ticket scalping here.

Would limiting tickets sales per person and preventing reselling help?

Apparently not, they had it limited to 4 per person, but still, somehow, it sold out in 20 minutes and sites like "stubhub" has 800 and some tickets available this afternoon - saw some other sites that had tons of them - Heck, within 6 minutes of them going on sale, they were already listed on ebay for 3 times the ticket price!

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at joe louis arena in detroit, you are not allowed to sell tickets neear the arena. if you are caught, you are subject to arrest. this applies even if you try to sell at face value. the intent was to stop scalpers.

but as a previous poster stated, you can find them at stub hub for a higher price. how is this not scalping?

frankly, with the prices these days, and the extra fees charge by ticketmaster(i have another name for them) i don't go out of my way to go to concerts, or sports events for that matter.

I wait for the DVD then I can go to the concert more than once and I don't have to wait in line for the bathroom.......

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It has been like this since before the web. I will take the same group fenderstrat63 mentioned Kiss. In 1978 I went to the Garden the day tickets went on sale when I got to the window the best I could get was green seats which in the old garden was the tier below the top. I was screaming how could about 15,000 tickets be sold already. Anyway I went with my girlfriend and was standing outside when I heard an anouncement that floor seats were still available, and this was two months later. I walked my 16 yearold $@! around the block sold the tickets I had for face value and went up to the window and bought floor seats.

Not till I was a little older did I learn this whole scam. Well to be honest the web even makes it easier for them to do it.

It is total BS to pay all these fees and surcharges to brokers just to get tix to our favorite shows. The only time I've bothered to make the effort for tix in the last 10 years was KISS shows.

I joined the KISS Army last spring to get in on a presale and was able to get 20th row for them in Milwaukee at Summerfest. So granted I paid $50 for membership (got a free shirt and some other swag for being a club member) and than our tix were around $80/pc for a 20th row just off center seat. So considering what some fees and prices are I thought it was a pretty good deal.

It was pretty awesome to take my 16 year old to his first show, and a KISS show is always fun, to me anyway.

There's too much money to be made for the brokers to just go away now though. The only way to stop it is for everyone to just quit buying tix to any live event, but that's not gonna happen.