I Hate You TicketMaster

by Matthew on Aug 4, 2008 10:22 AM PDT Comment 20 comments

Full Price Adult	US $47.00 x 1
Total Convenience Charge(s)	US $7.45 x 1
Additional Taxes	US $0.67
Order Processing Charge(s)	US $4.20
Retail Location Pickup	US $1.00

Total raping: $13.32, which amounts to a 28% markup. It probably wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't call the fees such candyass names like convenience fee or order processing charge? Really? Like it takes any effort for your servers to process my order? Just call it profit fee: $12 and I wouldn't bat an eye.

On the other hand: PATS!! Wooooooo

Also nabbed Eagles and Niners. Everyone else?

A place to bury strangers.

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At least they finally upgraded their servers

I got the regular season game of the millenium, Deadskins, Packers, Niners and Cards

by Robert on Aug 4, 2008 10:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I nabbed the 9ers, Cards, Jets and Eagles. So stoked! The most games ive ever been able to go to in previous seasons: 1…

But yea TM is a total scam. But thats still cheaper than stubhub which was my fallback plan so Im happy.

Bringin' the outside heat.

by FizzleDrip on Aug 4, 2008 10:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Going to the Packers and Pats

I wanted to see the Rams and Eagles, but after the price of the first two tickets, I had to stop.

by katal on Aug 4, 2008 10:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

So do you get to bypass ticketmaster fees with season tickets?

Cause if you do, My 5 tickets cost 75 dollars less than a full 10 game package

by Robert on Aug 4, 2008 10:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Got tickets for each game. Thank god I only had to buy the Pats seats completely on my own....

Redskins: Section 316, row EE, seats 32-33

Patriots: Section 325, row S, seat 20; Section 317, row K, seat 6; Section 316, row W, seat 45

Packers: Section 309, row QQ, seat 15; Section 317, row Y, seat 11

Jets: Section 340, row V, seat 16; section 340, row L, seat 6

Rams: Section 340, row DD, seat 6; Section 340, row II, seat 4

Eagles: Section 304, row AA, seat 22; Section 330, row EE, seat 11

49ers: Section 343, row DD, seats 22-23

Cardinals: Section 303, row EE, seats 15-16

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A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Aug 4, 2008 10:46 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Start season start

by katal on Aug 4, 2008 10:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

So tickets to the Raiders preseason game are around 11 dollars

And guess he would be taking the majority of the snaps for that one….

by Robert on Aug 4, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I remember the days when I used to get season tickets

for the 6th row on the 50 yard line for $35 bucks each game. That was back in 1995 though when the stadium wasn’t as nice.

by LantermanC on Aug 4, 2008 12:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

28%? you gotta bargain.

i bought a $20 bleacher seat to a baseball game yesterday and ended up paying $29.25 through the cardinals online ticketing, a 46% markup. i was charged $1.75 just for the right to “print my tickets at home”

by stlcardinalsfang on Aug 4, 2008 4:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Looks like they're all sold out already

Hopefully I can find a decent deal on Stub Hub for the Rams game.

by Benne on Aug 5, 2008 12:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Season Tickets, bitches!

And yes, I thoroughly enjoy not having to put up with Ticketmaster’s crap. I’m duly impressed though at how many games a few of you were able to snag. Nice work.

"Hey, guess what? Nobody cares who would win in a crazy fantasy fist-fight between Anne Frank and Lizzie Borden." The Monarch

by crushedoptimist on Aug 5, 2008 9:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We're mad.

We have had a major pain in the ass getting our season tickets straightened out this year. They had to reprint ours because of a printing error, which delayed the tickets’ arrival to us until after we were supposed to go on vacation.

The Seahawks ticket office has been dismissive and unhelpful. This has never been the case with them before. We finally got Fed Ex to help us out with the delivery options.

It seems like every year we’re having more of a problem getting our season tickets that we’ve held for 3 years. I don’t get it.

I’ll feel better about it in September.

--Shrug
Field Gulls - The SBN Seattle Seahawks Blog

by Shrug on Aug 5, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You haven't gotten them either?

Annoying as hell, to say the least.

"Hey, guess what? Nobody cares who would win in a crazy fantasy fist-fight between Anne Frank and Lizzie Borden." The Monarch

by crushedoptimist on Aug 5, 2008 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope.

They are now scheduled to be delivered here on August 8th, but we can’t be there. Thankfully Fed Ex called us immediately after I spoke to their customer service rep and offered to deliver our tickets on the spot when we asked for them.

We’ve had problems before. We almost lost season tickets that we had paid for a couple of years ago because our sales rep at the Seahawks office switched, and our account was temporarily lost in the transition.

This year it was a misprint on the tickets (I don’t know what), so everybody had to wait until it was corrected at the printing plant, which is located in that great Pacific Northwest city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

You know, an apology from the Seahawks ticket office would have been nice. But I guess it’s the Goodell Era of customer relations now.

--Shrug
Field Gulls - The SBN Seattle Seahawks Blog

by Shrug on Aug 5, 2008 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You should cancel your season tickets so I can have a shot of getting them in the next 50 years.

by Robert on Aug 5, 2008 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I get to go to one game a year because I can never buy tickets.

Thankfully my younger cousin is deaf and fluent in ASL. He gets to sign the National Anthem, I get to stand on the field for it, then I get to go sit up in the upper-deck to watch the game.

I love taking advantage of the disabled.

by BrianL on Aug 7, 2008 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs