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Wednesday May 14, 2008 at 09:00 AM |
Scalpers: they lurk outside venues offering potentially-fake tickets at gloriously marked up prices. But those were the days of yore. If you want to get tickets to a sold out show now you head online to places like Craigslist. However, one online ticket retailer, StubHub, where fans sell tickets to each other, has officially become legit. How, you ask? One word: Madonna.
Madonna has named StubHub the official ticket re-seller of her upcoming tour, the first time a ticket re-seller has been involved in an official capacity with an artist. Now, I don't know much more than what the WSJ tells me, but I do know how easy stubhub is to use. I've used it to get baseball tickets in the past and it's as simple as a ticketing website can be.
As musicians, this is the first time an artist is getting any money from the re-sale of tickets which seems both good and bad. On the good side, a percentage of the ticket sale goes back into the artist's pocket. On the bad side, a percentage of the sale goes back into the artist's pocket. Is it right for an artist to profit from inflated ticket prices? Discuss.
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Wednesday May 14, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Complicated thing when it gets about the great and famous big tours.There are soooo many who participate,not only y the artist and i think it is good so.On the other side when ever you can get costs down in a business thing it is clever to do.And when this ticket seller gets money,it is a cost and when there is another way to do the same thing without this extra cost,why not.This thing, the people call buisness.If i like it or whatever is not that thing.There are costs and there is not longer a reason to have this costs and so it is.This is normal and not only in music.
The online market gets more and more interested in all parts of business and i have the feeling we are only at the start of many many changes and some people will say "Ooooops this i had never think"
Ok back to your Question."It is ok when the Artist gets the costs more down and then he /she had more profit."On the other side i know there is someone who loose something but sorry this is business.
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