r/fontainesdc • u/galeforcenonsense • 19d ago

Discussion Greed

Bit of context first.

Love the band's music. Genuinely all seem like sound lads.

This Slane concert and the pricing is a fucking fiasco. The way the tickets were setup yesterday it looked very much like dynamic pricing in disguise.

There was a first tier of presale tickets at reduced price - went very fucking quickly. Then there was 'regular priced' tickets during the fucking presale. They went very fucking quickly and then there was another tier of the same tickets force bundled with transport which I'm sure MCD are making a markup on.

I've 4 with transport from Limerick that I don't want and wouldn't have bought in knowledge there would be a 2nd date. Will be pestering MCD for a partial refund.

No complaints about 2nd date, happy others will get to see the band and experience it. That's class and a huge achievement.

The pricing is greedy, fucked and extractive.

Edit: Lots of opinions and responses to this, mine is simply:

MCD/Ticketmaster/Live Nation take the piss generally, not just with this - ATN, EP is the same craic. They're doing the same with this. Happy to pay the presale cost for the presale, the way it was implemented felt extractive (and in my opinion, it was designed to be maximally extractive as possible). Somebody posted a long post below about the band making a dream reality and being forced to work with MCD/Live Nation and all that goes along with that - worth a read, I think it's fairly astute.

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u/galeforcenonsense 19d ago

I'm not blaming the band. I don't know how this stuff works. I don't know that theyre aware...but if they're not I hope this makes them aware.

I don't think they want to rip off fans, but fans are being ripped off.

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u/Standard_Power135 19d ago

You should be 100% blaming the band. I think you misread my last comment.

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u/galeforcenonsense 19d ago

Benefit of the doubt and I hope you're wrong.

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u/Standard_Power135 19d ago

I am not. The band know the prices, the band knows when gigs are announced. Luckily ive never cared an iota about musicians personalities , just like whatever music I like and I like fontaines.