Originally Posted by
hitherandyon
Exactly dcpatti - the public has just gone along with it. No other company charges these across the board fees and gets away with it. But since all of them do, what choice do we have? What a great marketing tool to reduce the fees - I'm all for it.
Trip insurance is a joke.
Want fee insanity? Try buying event tickets. Ticket....... charges you $12 to place the order, $6 per ticket to buy them, and $2.50 per ticket for the privilege of using your own paper and toner to print your tickets at home. There are smaller competitors but their venue selection tends to be really limited. Tickets.com started out with very reasonable fees but are now priced inning with Ticket........ If your event is cancelled you get most of your money but at least one of those fees is not. And that's if the artist or venue cancels! With the tie-up between Live Nation and Ticket......., the consumer is really screwed, and the fees are just outrageous.