all of this is such a shame. my wife recently asked me to take her to see fleetwood mac - avr. ticket price was about $100. their RUMORS album alone has sold almost 30 million copies in the usa! are they all in the poorhouse? same with the eagles, $100 a tix to see them. the eagles - greatest hits vol. 1 has sold over 26 million copies in the usa. that's just one record! they have 6 studio albums, 2 live albums, 2 greatest hits records (and another new one coming out!) and a boxset. who buys all these stuff? the fan. and how are they rewarded for this? with a $100 ticket price. bottomline is that there has to be a movement with the fan to boycott concerts, to stop paying these exorbitant prices, to force these prices to come back to earth. it worked on cds - at least it worked with universal, which, because no one is buying cds, recently announced it was slashing cd prices. in a related story, i was watching cnn yesterday: the program on at the time they had some segment dealing with pop culture, and the segment's introduction music was the beginning part of "brand new day". i wonder who much $$$$ our man fetched in licensing fees for that?!!!! maybe he'll knock a couple of cents of his concert tickets - in the future, anyway. man, i have posted a lot of ramblings today... rich --- Fred Berthelot <F.Berthelot@Ramsa.com> wrote:
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@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.
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