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. on 9/18/03 12:51 PM, Maggie White at mwhite@gw.smbsd.k12.ca.us wrote:

It pisses me off, because sometimes I'm lucky enough on the computer or stand in line long enough to get a great single seat near the front. I was front row for Annie Lennox a few months ago through some miracle on TM. But now, I won't even have the chance to get lucky on a ticket. The best seats will go straight to auction. I go to a lot of concerts, but I'm afraid I might be priced out of some of them, now. I suppose I'll go to more shows for newer/smaller artists who are currently not on the TM radar.