April 14, 2012

Lady Gaga fans irked as £80 UK gig tickets go for £1100

Wanna know why Gaga's tickets sold out in the UK in 60 seconds.  Read on.  When fans tried to buy tickets on Ticketmaster's website for £80, they were quickly disappointed to learn that the tickets were sold out.  They were then directed to Ticketmaster's sister site Get Me In where the tickets are being sold for a whopping £1100.  Holy smokes!! 

I see a clear case of consumer manipulation here.  What if the tickets were never really available on Ticketmaster and were planned ahead of time to be allegedly "sold out" so that fans were forced to buy them for the highly inflated price instead?  I think it's very likely.

Get Me In is a site for people to resell tickets they already purchased.  Sort of like a Craigslist but Ticketmaster receives a cut from the selling price since they own Get Me In.  The fact that tickets were already listed on Get Me In immediately after the supposed 60 second sell out sale is highly suspect.  Even if it were scalpers that bought all the Ticketmaster tickets and listed the tickets on Get Me In, it's very unethical for Ticketmaster to get rich from crooks. Then again corporations are crooks so if it walks like a duck.....

I personally do not believe it was scalpers.  I think it was Ticketmaster's intent from the start to sell most of the tickets through Get Me In and only a small number were allocated under the Ticketmaster umbrella thus resulting in a quick sell out.

Looks good for Gaga and she also gets a much higher profit for herself.

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