You hate to kick the EVT while it's down ...
.. and granted, it’s New Year’s weekend. Still, here’s the front-and-center well of its front page this a.m.:
p.s.: Heat City is reporting that the paper’s editor, Chris Coppola, is leaving—for an editing job at the Arizona Republic.
1:59 AM
Ticketmaster-by-the-Lake, continued
A few days ago, Hoodlums, the Tempe record store, announced it wouldn’t sell folks tickets to the upcoming Phoenix show at the Marquee. (That’s Phoenix the French rock band.) The store was protesting a new $3 fee added by the promoter, Lucky Man.
Details here.
This a.m. PHXated, considering going to the show, took a whack at buying tickets online. $25, the stated price, seemed fair.
But the following is what I ended up with:
Lucky Man added, for no reason I could see, a $6.50 “service fee” per ticket.
Then wanted to charge me $2.50 for printing out the tickets myself—that’s the “delivery fee.”
… And then charged me another $3 under the rubrick “order fee.”
The total, $34.25 per ticket, is a nearly 40 percent markup—for a show at the promoter’s own venue, using the promoter’s own online ticketing system.
2:09 AM
