Originally Posted by
tkey75
It made a giant, faceless corporation even bigger. You're right, though. There'll be little to no effect, except for a small handful of bands that refuse to play LiveNation venues or have their tickets sold through TicketMaster.
They all break eventually, though. Even Pearl Jam gave up when they had no where left to play.
I am not a fan but think they are about as close to a definition of a monopoly that exists today.
Do you know anything about the Marketplace thing they run. I have some pretty good tickets but I would bet that something even better will show up eventually. Right now the cheapest on the Marketplace is running about $100 over face...which is incredible since they about blew my pocket out to begin with at $195. So, assuming that a few better tickets show up and I grab them and then they are gone again, is it reasonable that if I undercut that stuff by only selling at a $50 premium they would sell pretty easily? I know it's all market speculation but I was just wondering what you thought.