Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets.
If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 to $55.70. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make roughly 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, band, and label take in combined. Robbery.
Word!
