I wanted to go see a concert tonight for the first time ever. The venue offered tickets online through ticketmaster (henceforth referred to as ticketbastard) with a note that any remaining tickets are available at the box office once the show starts. Checking their website more, I found that they sell tickets in-person during posted hours, so I figured I could just go buy a real ticket and avoid the ticketbastard garbage.
Two hours later I’m realizing that A) The in-person ticket is like 25% cheaper than if I bought it online B) It’s still through ticketbastard despite me showing up in person C) I can still only get in by getting a barcode through the fucking ticketbastard app. They have no web portal. D) They offer no refunds.
Yeah, I just won’t go to the one or two venues in my metro area that use it anymore.
If it’s something that I really want to see, there’s a couple of other cities nearby that have decent large venues (they operate their own actual box office) so I just have to hope that they play at one of those and I can get off work early enough.
I normally just go to small places where you can pay on the door though - fortunately I’m not too bothered about most of the people in those tb-only, venues.
Missed Jethro Tull recently though because of tb, sucks, more than ‘mildly’ for me though.
Jethro Tull are still going? Bloody hell.
Back in the 90’s, I saw them play and Ian Anderson was rolling around in a wheel chair on stage with a broken leg. I’m convinced the man won’t stop playing until his death
I’m not sure even death will stop him.