Ryan McKern » live nation http://ryanmckern.com Linux system administration out of the Boston area; loud music, sharp knives, and a slightly disturbing obsession with food. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:59:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Scalped! http://ryanmckern.com/2009/01/scalped/ http://ryanmckern.com/2009/01/scalped/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:15:33 +0000 Ryan http://ryanmckern.com/?p=375 At first I was all excited about Live Nation… someone was competing with Ticketmaster! This had to be a good thing! There was no way it could go horribly wrong!

Then I tried to buy some tickets to see Los Campesinos in February. $7.00 surcharge on $14.00 tickets. 50% markup.

50% markup!

Unbelievable.

UPDATE

I worked the math, and it was actually cheaper to drive into Boston, buy the tickets at the box office, and eat lunch at the Brown Sugar Cafe than it was to buy these tickets online. Which is why I did precisely that.

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