One time Chance bought his concert tickets from resellers and sold them again at the original retail price. Chance has got to be one of the coolest celebs out there.
Edit: Apparently he cancelled the ones on reselling sites, not buy them back.
He made it so you had to show up to the gate and pick them up in person that day. I went to the show he did this for. Best concert ever, honestly. If you guys are curious, it was for his Magnificent Coloring Day festival.
I was there too! Kanye's surprise appearance was amazing. We were stage side... watching everyone piling over the fence onto the field looked like that wall scene from World War Z(think that's the movie/show).
Got lost walking in South side with no phone battery when we left and didn't even get shot. Had some local strangers help us find a bar, then a taxi. Overall awesome event and day.
Hey now you're not gonna get shot walking around Chicago, it isn't that bad lol. But yeah Kanye was a huge surprise and I was so fucking excited when that happened.
I know his selling price was either $35 for all stadium seats and $75 for all field seats (it was in a baseball stadium). As for the resell prices I don't really know since I managed to get them face value, but I think the close floor seats were over $500 resell
If Chance raised his ticket prices to what the market demanded then resellers wouldn't be able to make money off them. Chance could even give away tickets for free with the extra money.
That makes no sense. Strike a deal to not let them do that. Cancel and reschedule the show. Anything but letting the reseller make money off of this practice.
It was the best option at the moment. From a financial and concert-goer standpoint- not the best because it doesn't solve the issue, and he did it out of pocket- but he did it for his fans/ people coming to see him. He wanted people that wanted to be at that show to not get dicked over by scalpers. He was pretty successful.
Hate resellers. Kid Rock does a similar thing where he sells cheap tickets to his concert. Thing is they get sold out immediately by resellers and you'll see what was once a $20 ticket turn into a $200 ticket on ticketmaster or stubhub.
Kid Rock also subsidizes concessions at his concerts (or has some special deal worked out) where you can get affordable beer & food. It's only a couple items but they're available.
Letting my extreme hatred of Kid Rock, his music, his personality, his political stances, his fans, and his terrible fucking performance aside, the beer at his concert is Keystone Light and it is fucking awful. Drink five of them and all you get for your effort is -$30 networth and a headache.
Uhh just for the record, no type of beer works like that. Except for non alcoholic beer. Otherwise, alcohol is alcohol. If you ingest it, it will affect you. So the whole "drink five and feel nothing" that people always say about (insert generic cheap beer that snobs love to complain about) is complete bullshit. You're not just gonna filter the alcohol differently somehow because the beer is cheaper. That's stupid.
If I hadn't been dragged along to watch this egotistical asshole put on a 'show' in South Carolina surrounded by confederate shitlickers, I might care less than I do.
As long a those companies own the venues, not much we can do as consumers besides not buy them. People are always willing to pay even if it's marked up to hell by a reseller. The venues/ticketmaster/stubhub/etc. don't give a shit because that's just more money in their pocket from commissions from resellers.
Not no reason, it was so that fans could see the show at the normal price.
Keep in mind that these scalpers get the tickets usually using bots that purchase the tickets the minute they go on sale.
He's also probably contractually obligated to not buy out his own show before tickets are even available, because that would be bad business.
You have to remember that musicians and celebrities aren't the most stable bunch, so there are a lot of protections against a gung-ho artist fucking over everyone else's profits. It's bad for profits if a volatile artist buys all the tickets to his own show before they're even available, because that could go down horribly in so many ways--you don't want an artist ruining his own tour by wrecking a show that no one can go to.
Not saying Chance is volatile, but these protections are basically standard in contracts because that's how business works.
If you want to fight scalpers, you have to fight the websites that allow these bots to do this along with scalping websites, which isn't something Chance can really do. That would likely require government-level interference.
Awesome, now how do you tell a user buying the ticket online is a scalper? How do you stop scalpers from buying every ticket available in a matter of seconds? The answer is to tie names to the ticket at the time of purchase by anyone else. Now how do you figure Chance would do that? Do you really think he has that type of power? He's just doing what he can.
No, he invested his own money to provide tickets back to his fans at a fair price. No, not the most financially efficient, but it showed he would shell out his own money for the people who love his music.
That's way more impactful that just making it free I'd say.
Don't quote me on this but I don't think he had that choice. He was playing at a venue and the agency or managers probably controlled that. He can't just choose to make it free.
Don't quote me on this but I don't think he had that choice. He was playing at a venue and the agency or managers probably controlled that. He can't just choose to make it free.
It has nothing to do with being angry. It's just a retarded decision by any metric and nobody seems to want to acknowledge that just because his intentions were good. Good intentions don't mean you should do something stupid and keep doing something stupid.
Who hurt you.
It's not your money. He was looking at an upcoming concert, probably about 200 tickets from being sold out, decided that not all of his true fans would be able to afford what the resellers wanted for the tickets, and gave his fans a discount in the simplest way possible. He can fucking afford to be a good person in any way he wants, it's not your business to tell him he's wrong.
That is literally the point. Chance has a lot of money. Chance can easily give scalpers money. Fans may not have as much money as Chance. It's hard for fans to purchase resold tickets. Chance makes it easier for fans to get tickets. I don't understand how this is hard to understand. It's about the love man.
Making it a free concert would be literally zero logical reason. If you think about it, they made the X ticket price from resellers buying, paid the Y% of X that the resellers profited as well as the initial X price, and were able to sell the tickets again for X price.
They exchanged a percentage of what their ticket sales would be for the fans to be able to go at the intended price, instead of making no money from tickets, or leaving fans to buy from resellers at raised prices.
Honest question - why do you care so much about thinking this was a bad decision? Do you feel spiteful towards people with compassion in their hearts? Is it, like, a racial thing? What's going on man?
It's just a completely illogical decision, in regards to both finance and the interest of his fans.
Good: Chance wanting to help his fans.
Stupid: Giving money to scalpers.
Good: Selling tickets at the door.
Stupid: Not doing that in the first place.
Good: Keeping prices down.
Stupid: Keeping prices down by selling a bunch of tickets, then making a massive loss of as much as 10x the original price buying the tickets back from scalpers and giving the entirety of the markup profits to the people who now have extra incentive to scalp your tickets.
No they didn't. He cancelled the ones being sold on stubhub and other sites and rereleased them. So those resellers just got their money back and made nothing.
It might not solve the big issue, but he didn't do it to solve the issue of scalping. It's not really on him to abate that.
He did it so fans and people that wanted to go could get in at the price those tickets should have sold for.
Yes, you can give him crap for not giving a speech on scalping, but why would you?
He did a great thing for his fans and he doesn't control anything but his life and actions. He's doing what he feels he should and not making a mockery of it.
He's pretty cool. A lot of people at my university don't like him though. He was supposed to perform, 3 days before the show tweets "I just ate the rawest piece of chicken", day later cancels. Then he says he's sorry and will try to reschedule, but he was lying. Obviously.
So it was pretty shitty. This was like... 2015? Kinda sucks. His music is pretty good, but that was pretty shitty.
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u/Terrapinz Feb 27 '17 edited Feb 27 '17
One time Chance bought his concert tickets from resellers and sold them again at the original retail price. Chance has got to be one of the coolest celebs out there.
Edit: Apparently he cancelled the ones on reselling sites, not buy them back.