As I had predicted, tickets for last night’s Eddie Vedder concert at the Beacon Theatre came back down to earth with entire rows of tickets sold at standard face value prices of $199 snd $179 (with $32 dollar TM charges, but that is another issue) put on sale day of show after weeks of “sold out” venue $600 “platinum” seats popping up sporadically. Today, Friday, there is an entire row of $601.00 orchestra seats for the second night tonight for sale. If they don’t sell early, you can count on the same seats going for $199 this afternoon. The price gauging, the “bait and switch”, the fake “sold out” venue to give the appearance of the hard to get ticket is outrageous. Does Eddie Vedder see this? Has his management waved the white flag? I had wanted to check out these shows but I will pass; the weather sucks, ice storm imminent and these games played by Ticketmaster leave a bad taste in my mouth. Music lovers are getting hosed; how would you feel if you bought a “platinum” seat for the “sold out event only find out the person next to you spent $400 less on the day of show- ripped off? TM is not doing a good job disguising their deceptive sales practices; it is a sad state of affairs.

Buyer beware!

Guaranteed

Rock on!

GQ