{"id":12685,"date":"2023-03-30T02:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2023-04-25T02:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:18:04","slug":"ticketmaster-gets-cured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/30\/ticketmaster-gets-cured\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster Gets Cured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/03\/29\/the-cure-robert-smith-ticketmaster-concert-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith took on Ticketmaster \u2026 and won<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The decades-long case of The American People vs. Ticketmaster has gained an unlikely ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/author\/ross-raihala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ROSS RAIHALA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0E9urVs-2o?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The decades-long case of The American People vs. Ticketmaster has gained an unlikely ally in Robert Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the goth rock icon announced his band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/the-cure-saint-paul-minnesota-06-08-2023\/event\/06005E49D7DE7A3B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Cure<\/a>\u00a0was hitting the road for a summer tour. And bucking the current pricing trends that have resulted in $5,000 seats for Bruce Springsteen, the 63-year-old Smith\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2023\/03\/09\/the-cure-st-paul-concert-xcel-energy-center-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vowed there would be no dynamically priced or platinum tickets<\/a>\u00a0for the shows, which are priced \u201cto benefit fans.\u201d Would-be ticket buyers were told to sign up for Ticketmaster\u2019s Verified Fan program, which supposedly adds a layer of protection to ward off bots and scalpers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Dynamically priced tickets are akin to airline seats and hotel rooms in that the higher the demand, the higher the ticket price. Ticketmaster calls them platinum tickets, although they don\u2019t come with any extra perks and they\u2019re not necessarily great seats in the first place.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some folks were delighted when they were actually able to snag seats for the Cure at reasonable prices. But then came the fees. One fan tweeted his Ticketmaster receipt for four $20 tickets that showed a service fee of $11.65 and venue charge of $10, both per ticket, along with a $5.50 order processing fee, bringing the total to $172.10. (That person has since made their Twitter feed private and, presumably, retired to a darkened room to pet their cat, guzzle red wine and wallow in existential gloom.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That got the attention of Smith, who made a remarkable move that the far more powerful likes of Springsteen and Taylor Swift have not. He got Ticketmaster to refund some of those fees to all ticketholders.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecure.com\/news\/2023\/03\/north-american-tour-general-sale-ticket-fee-refunds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A message on the band\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0says that Ticketmaster has \u201cagreed with us that many of the fees being charged for the shows are unduly high, and as a gesture of goodwill\u201d the company is refunding either $10 or $5 per ticket, depending on the type. That includes those who bought seats for the Cure\u2019s sold-out June 8 concert here at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine that. Robert Smith fought Ticketmaster. And he won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/03\/29\/the-cure-robert-smith-ticketmaster-concert-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at the Mercury News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The San Jose Mercury News How The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith took on Ticketmaster \u2026 and won The decades-long case of The American People vs. Ticketmaster has gained an unlikely ally. By\u00a0ROSS RAIHALA The decades-long case of The American People vs. Ticketmaster has gained an unlikely ally in Robert Smith. 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