Actually, it's not 100% of profits that go to charity. It's 100% of STING's net profits...
-----Original Message-----
From: amaryll [mailto:amaryll@norwoodlight.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:01 PM
To: Maggie White
Cc: police(a)mailman.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [Police] TicketBastard
I read about this last spring. Basically, the venues and ticketbrokers were
always given most of the best seats before they even went on sale through
ticketmaster, now that TM is getting big chunks of tix for their 'auctions'
as well, that leaves even fewer seats on sale for the general public. hey,
after tix are given to the band's fan club, venue, brokers, and tm auctions,
that will leave about 10 tix to go on sale at regular price to the general
public lol!! wonder what charity these proceeds are going to? i notice they
say 100% of the NET PROFIT goes to charity, so i assume that's after TM
takes it's cut of convenience fee, facility fee, mark up fee, profit fee,
parking fee, income tax fee, handling fee, etc. this might leave about 2
cents/ticket as NET PROFIT to go to charity. i'd really love to see the
breakdown of how much money is actually netted an dwhich charity it goes to.
i'd prefer it if they just took $1 per ticket and gave that to charity.