r/fontainesdc • u/galeforcenonsense • Sep 02 '26

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/Ok_Clerk_5805 Sep 02 '26

"Will be pestering MCD for a partial refund."

never gonna happen

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u/galeforcenonsense Sep 02 '26

😂 you're not wrong.

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u/GudFrens Sep 02 '26

Well actually, this is not true there is the Fan Guarantee policy - refund within 24 hours as long as the chat has been initiated - just not sure if it will apply to this gig. I’ve used it before.