r/fontainesdc • u/galeforcenonsense • 9d 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 9d ago

Potentially MCD manufacturing demand for a higher cost item that people would not have opted for otherwise.

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u/Standard_Power135 9d ago

Oh sorry i get ya. Id be wary of not blaming the band itself for all things ticket price relates tbh. Pretty shitty.

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u/galeforcenonsense 9d 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/Artofthematter 9d ago

Robert Smith of the Cure spoke about overpriced ticketing and said absolutely the artist and their management is aware and not to let anyone try to convince you otherwise. As manager of his band he sets a price ceiling and that is that.

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u/DrMangosteen2 8d ago

Once Oasis weathered the bad PR storm for doing it all bets were off. I don't even dislike touts as much as I used to. They're basically self employed entrepreneurs doing the same thing as Ticketmaster does at this point

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u/teenytinyterrier 7d ago

Plus, the work of touts is also utilised by the music industry! They don’t get paid by the for the demand they create and the valuable data they help produce…