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Live Nation Announces Sounds-Too-Good-To-Be-True Unilmited Show Pass, Actually Pretty Reasonable

by Metal Insider | Sep 17, 2009 | Ticketing

Live Nation has expanded its “no fees” agenda with the ambitious “Club Passport”, and unlimited pass to select clubs in select cities through the rest of the year for $49.99. The first thing that popped into our heads, of course, was to look...

Ticketmaster Accused Of Attempting Shady Back Room Scalping Antics

by Metal Insider | Sep 1, 2009 | Shady Business, Ticketing

The Wall Street Journal published a pretty damning article last week about Ticketmaster and its CEO Irving Azoff, revealing an allegedly attempted plan to pass premium tickets directly to ticket brokers (scalpers) in exchange for a percentage of the profits. The deal,...

Ticketmaster Sells Tickets For Events That Already Happened, Too (With Service Fees!)

by Metal Insider | Aug 19, 2009 | Ticketing

This isn’t really metal related, but hey, we rag on Ticketmaster as much as the next site, and this is a pretty ridiculous story. Apparently they are still selling the unsold tickets to Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle’s perfect game. From back in...

Gov’t Begins Scrutinization Of Ticketmaster, Live Nation Merger

by Metal Insider | Jul 28, 2009 | Ticketing

The train is starting to pull out of the station for Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s proposed merger, a venture which is expected to be closely scrutinized by the Justice Department, according to the chair of a Senate antitrust subcommittee and 50 members of the...

Forget “No Fee Wednesdays”, Cah-razee Eddie’s Live Nation Launches BOGO

by Metal Insider | Jul 22, 2009 | Ticketing

Live Nation’s special deal Wednesdays continue, this time dropping the successful “No Fee” offer in exchange for a buy one get one free deal. Just on the (originally priced at $30) lawn seats. With the fees back in. It’s interesting that Live...

“Paperless” Ticket Technology Might Be Scaring Off The Younger Kids And Old People

by Metal Insider | Jun 16, 2009 | Ticketing

Not to my surprise, Ticketmaster’s experiment with mandatitorily introducing “paperless tickets” on a major tour might not be going so well.
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