Let me start off by saying I am an Eddie Vedder fan and Pearl Jam did try to fight the good fight against Ticketmaster price fee gauging back in the day, but I have been occasionally checking in on. the Vedder dates at the Beacon Theatre scheduled for this week and I am wondering if he has any say on ticket pricing for these gigs. The shows have been periodically “sold out” making his real fans anxious in these live music scarcity times, to sporadic seats at hundreds of dollars for sale popping up occasionally, to today where entire rows for both gigs have suddenly become available at a slightly more reasonable $281 plus (it makes me glad I took a road trip with Mr. Nut to see a solo Vedder sitting in a giant hand chair at an Albany, New York theatre some years back). Ticketmaster’s “dynamic” pricing is completely out of control, and I suspect many ticket purchasers do not even realize they are being hosed. A couple of weeks ago I was contemplating picking up Zac. Brown tickets at Citifield (ugh) for my wife, and while I hesitated buying the approximately $130 pit tickets when they first went on sale, the prices jumped 20 or 40 bucks.” out of nowhere. Right now the Zac Brown prices are all over the map; it is really rather insane, like trying to hit a moving target to get a good deal, or to just not get ripped off.
Who is making the money on these wild pricing variations, the performer or the promoter?
Mr. Vedder, your fans should not have to pay over $600 per seat in desperation only to have similar tickets sold for less than half of that today (I will not even get into what the TM charges could be on a $600 ticket).
Jones Beach Theatre just added a couple of more shows for the summer that include a Black Keys/Band of Horses concert. Hopefully the summer outdoor concert season pans out and life can continue toward normal.
in the meantime, I will check the Beacon day of show in hopes that some standard price tickets for Vedder pop into the system; otherwise I will be skipping this one.
Earthling
Rock on!
GQ