Thanks to Bob Lefsetz.....sweet.
http://variety.com/2013/music/news/kid-rock-gives-the-t-shirt-off-his-back-to-cut-ticket-prices-1200479033/
Kid Rock Gives the T-Shirt Off His Back to Cut Ticket Prices
May 10, 2013 | 03:00PM PT
A Robin Hood pact with promoter Live Nation on ancillary coin might redefine the concert biz
Bob Lefsetz
@lefsetz
Where I grew up, there were no rich people. No bankers, no rightwing titans ranting the poor were lazy and the government was taking all their hard-earned money. Some dads worked for the electric company, others sold insurance or held blue-collar jobs.
Hey Sheri!
Posted my comment on community blog.
I wanted to reach out to someone and tell you about my recent experience trying to purchase Pre-Sale tickets on Monday 11/22/10, for Kids Birthday Bash at Ford Field 1/15....
At 2:50p on Monday 11/22, I sat ready at my computer, credit card in hand...ready to purchase 2 tickets to the show.... at 3p the "Buy Tickets" button popped up. After I clicked the button, a page containing the seating chart tried and tried to load... It took several "re-freshes" and several minutes to load... (I have 8g of memory on my computer, so I know it wasn't an issue on my end..."
by the time the seating chart loaded, and I was able to type in how many tickets I wanted, my request came back as, "Sorry, there are not 2 seats available together in that price range...at this time it was about 3:05p.....so I continually tried different sections... same answer "Sorry, there are not 2 seats available together in that price range" and by 3:08 all the repeated requests, and re-waiting for the seating chart to load... everything came back as sold out.....
3:08.....and it appeared all the pre-sale tickets were gone......
I was so disappointed......and slightly peeved that Artist Arena ticketing system wasn't smoother..
The next day I checked ebay, wondering if any of the 1/15 Ford Field tickets had made it on an auction yet...and oh ya ...there were plenty to choose from. Alot of them had section, row numbers, etc... so I pulled up a yahoo search page to see if I could find a Ford Field Seating Chart... (....cont)
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While browsing for that, I ran across web sites: gruvr.com, ticketstogo.com . I clicked on gruvr.com... TONS of tickets for the Kid 1/15 show! Tickets that were only supposed to be Pre-sale to FANS. Days before tickets were supposed to be available to the general public (Fri 11/26 10am) ! I couldn't believe it! ...AND, all the tickets I saw, were $100 more per ticket... Click on the "Tickets" button on gruvr.com web page. Towards the bottom of the page on the left hand side it says: " Powered by TicketsNow.... a TicketMaster Company..."
Are you kidding me?! So, let me get this straight.....TicketMaster sells the original ticket, somehow gruvr.com gets a huge amount of pre-sale tickets, they tack on $100 extra per ticket... gruvr.com is run by a Ticketmaster company... Do the math... Ticketmaster is selling the ticket twice. While me, a fan who just wants to see my fave Michigan boy, lost out on 2 pre-sale tickets after just eight minutes of sale...
I was so upset, and disappointed.... Seeing Kid in concert makes the short list, of things in my life that truly make me happy... I am so upset about the whole situation...Seems so crooked... I decided not to buy tickets at all... Sorry Kid.
I will have to wait until August 2011, and hope Kid comes back to Boyne Mtn..... He skipped us last August...
Sincerely, Sonya Wurm
Cedar, MI
Someone needs to stop all these brokers from buying up all the tix. Couldn't get tix for Ford Field, or this summer at DTE. I REFUSE to buy any tickets from scalpers or brokers.
Sounds like everyone got screwed between Ford Field and ticketmaster. Its bull that these people buy tickets and scalp them for double, triple what they paid. And the people who work hard and dont try to screw anyone cant even get a ticket.
Seriously, I was on ticketmaster right away and could not get any tickets. What's it take for the average person to be able to get tickets