Oh, the shows are great. But the ticket purchasing experience is only slightly better than a root canal, and is typically more expensive.

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bobthepanda 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's hard to sympathize with the experience between scalping, which is bad, but also now there's all sorts of priority queues for people with various levels of pay-to-play which are pretty distasteful. AMEX presale, cell carrier presale, etc. all feels terrible. And the show is fun but my local arena renovated within the last decade and now feels like an airport terminal with all the tiered lounges, ripoff concessions even for an arena (I saw a $48 espresso martini), etc.

Similar to how I hear that Disney has basically made going to its resorts and scheduling Fastpass basically a second job.

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pavel_lishin 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh, for what it's worth, I might only go to an arena show once or twice more in my life, to see those "would like to see them in my lifetime before they break up or die" bands.

	▲	bobthepanda 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately, in my city the arena is now the medium size venue, between "slightly larger than a large nightclub" and "a whole stadium for multiple tens of thousands of people"

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billylo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

FIFA world cup has been selling opportunities for Right-to-buy. Monopolistic behavior.