I knew this for fact for a while, but i couldn't prove anything. A couple years back i was photographing/writing for a media printing outlet in Jacksonville, had my biggest shows there. But anyways, I was suppose to shoot this radio fest in Orlando. When i got there i was instructed to get an envelope from the box office. Turns out it had 35 tickets to this fest, that was sold out, which sold for $50 each. Basically for our outlet's services, they were giving us tickets to sell outside the gate at inflated prices (The security were informed who was who, so they never bothered our guys about it), and they got to keep a percentage of whatever was sold while TM/the fest kept the rest. For that and a few other non related reasons, i didn't work for the again.
It really sucks how everything turned out after they lost that class action lawsuit. They paid it off with their own shitty coupons and doubled down on their extortion tactics.
"sorry we stabbed you all in the back again. heres a free ticket to the upcoming fall out boy tour with purchase of another show (which we choose). we cool?"
Yeah all the Denver clubs just signed a decade long deal with ticketmaster. Pisses me off. A semi dormant venue in the burbs started booking all the non tm and DIY/independent shows though. It still pisses me off though. Seeing these punk and metal venues that I've been going to since I was 14 turn corporate hurts.
I'm thankful that only our two big amphitheater venues and our House Of Blues uses TM, all the others use other services, and they all beat the shit out of TM. Won't last forever, but I'm not taking it for granted.
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"sorry we stabbed you all in the back again. heres a free ticket to the upcoming fall out boy tour with purchase of another show (which we choose). we cool?"
even isis was through tm.