DO THE RIGHT THING TICKETMASTER!!!
Posted by Matt on February 4, 2009
I’m sick of Ticketmaster. As I have noted in a previous post, they are pure evil, but we have no choice but to use them as they are the only source to buy tickets at face value. The last straw came on Monday morning at 9am as I went into work early to make sure I was at my computer to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets. As many know, Bruce is my favorite musician, so I was very much looking forward to buying tickets to his concert at Nassau Coliseum after his kick-ass halftime show and his great album just being released.
So, at 9am I went to buy tickets and waited in the “internet line” for about 15-20 minutes. When my turn finally came around I received ths message:
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Our ticketing system is currently unavailable due to routine maintenance. Please check back at a later time. |
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Sucks, right? I tried buying tickets again even though I realized that the show was probably sold out at that point. After waiting in line for the second time, I again received the same message. I emailed Ticketmaster about my problem but have not heard back yet. I noticed today that I am not the only person who had this problem (http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/02/03/ticketmaster-admits-springsteen-sale-wasnt-our-finest-hour/) and (http://www.newsday.com/iphone/ny-nyspring0204,0,5620915.story). I am calling for Ticketmaster, the personification of greed to DO THE RIGHT THING FOR IT’S CUSTOMERS! How dare they try to advertise their “used to be illegal” TicketsNow website and scalp tickets for way over face value on their website. If those are Ticketmaster’s tickets (which I am not sure they are), they should let people like us, who were online at 9am be able to buy at face value. SHAME ON YOU TICKETMASTER. According to Rolling Stone, there are 697 tickets available on TicketsNow, enough to satisfy a lot of angry customers. The article on Newsday noted that Ticketmaster claims that only a few people experienced this problem. Well, if only a few people had this problem, then it will not be a burden to your company to fix your mistake and let us buy the tickets we earned by logging on at 9am! I doubt that this will be rectified or that Ticketmaster will even respond to my email (I am still waiting). Ticketmaster has been nothing but a disappointment. But what else should I expect, they cannot be held accountable for their actions. However, US Rep Bill Pascrell is calling for a federal probe on a conflict of interest between TicketsNow and Ticketmaser. I have no clue what could come of that but no matter what, it looks like I am stuck here without Bruce Springsteen tickets and will have to resort to trying to buy them for way over face value. Unless Ticketmaster DOES THE RIGHT THING FOR ITS LOYAL CUSTOMERS INSTEAD OF THINKING WITH THEIR WALLET. If you are a loyal reader to Mattisblogging I urge you to email Ticketmaster about this matter on their website. Annoy @ http://ticketmasterus.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ticketmasterus.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php |
Anonymous (for safety reasons) said
Springsteen sucks.
Matt said
How is that relevant to this post? Thanks for wasting everyone’s time.
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The topic is quite trendy on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay attention to when choosing what to write ?
Matt said
Well this is an old post from February (I haven’t been able to find the time to write unfortunately). I usually just write about things that affect me personally, I have had a huge problem with Ticketmaster for a long time now and I reached my breaking point. For some reason, I have had the luck of writing about things before they hit the height of their popularity. Around the time when I wrote this post (February), I wanted to write a post (but never got around to it) about how silly it is that there are still pirates roaming the seas and two months later it is a major topic in the news.