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Ticketmaster, Live Nation Consider Merging, Destroying Concertgoing Forever
The two companies most responsible for making your next live entertainment experience a financial disaster may announce a merger as early as this week, reports Reuters and the WSJ. If it goes ahead, the new company will apparently call itself Live Nation Ticketmaster, not "Satan's Boxoffice" as one might expect. The merger will raise antitrust issues, but if Sirius/XM has taught us anything, it's that those issues can be ignored at the expense of consumer choice and pricing.
Post by Fishing Maniac on Feb 4, 2009 14:10:27 GMT -5
I view this as a good thing. It means there is only one enemy to fight. It's like if democrats and republicans merged. That would open the door for people to be think on their own and be truly free. The future is in the prols.
After the horrendous fiasco with Livenation and Phish tickets this past weekend......and the fact that every venue here in Philly has gone Livenation and getting tickets from them is the most ridiculous run around you've ever experienced, I can actually say that this just might be kinda, maybe a good thing. I just want to be able to go to my usual ticket buying spot and get tickets early for Philly shows, and I can't do that much anymore.
Post by destinyunbound on Mar 12, 2009 7:33:45 GMT -5
Well ticketmaster was always ridiculous, but Livenation SUCKS! Anyone that tried to buy tickets from them for phish summer tour understands this. I don't understand why bands don't do something about it. Just stop using these companies and just sell them by phone or something. Scalpers sit there with programmed computers that buy up as much tickets as possible, jamming up the system for everyone. There is nothing more frustrating than waiting for tickets, failing, and then instantly seeing them on ebay for 600% price increase. What ever happened to waiting on line? or ordering by phone? You get queued, wait, talk to a REAL PERSON not a computer, get your tickets, and hang up with a ;D.
