Ticketbastard smells
This morning, tickets for the Broken Social Scene charity show at Lee's Palace went on sale and quickly sold out. We got our tickets from Ticketbastard because with the freezing rain, it was more convenient than going down to Rotate This or Soundscapes. So much more convenient that Ticketbastard charges an extra $4.50/ticket in convenience charges. While surfing the net and making a couple of calls, I was pleased that both indie record stores selling tickets, are kindly donating their service charges to relief charities. And Ticketbastard? Certainly a huge company such as Ticketbastard who charges an additional $3.25 (or more) to mail the tickets to you on top of the convenience charge will do something to help will help the relief efforts in Asia.
But nooooo...
"Unfortunately, we don't do that here," says the customer service agent. It's just another business day.
I guess I can't be really angry with Ticketbastards. It's a business and no one is really obligated to help the thousands of natural disaster victims. But I find it disgusting that a large company can make so much money off of a charity event. Smells a little like exploitation to me.
I hate those fuckers. Next time I'm going downtown.
How fast would you estimate that Ticketmaster sold out of BSS tickets? I was at work but totally forgot about purchasing tickets at 10 am online, and by the time I realized that it was about noon, and tickets were gone. I'm hoping for tickets at the door.
Posted by:mike | January 06, 2005 at 07:06 AM
i hate ticketmaster and from now on will try to avoid it as much as possible. i shall write them a complaint.
Posted by:brian | January 06, 2005 at 08:56 AM
wow... you sure overdid that ticket"bastard" joke. It's true though eh? That is pretty evil considering what the smaller ticket companies are doing. And 100% of the concerts profits are going to relief aid and yet a corporation profits from the non-profit? You are quite clever for noticing it bringing it up. I'm not going to use ticketbastard anymore either.
Posted by:sarah | January 06, 2005 at 10:39 AM
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Posted by:... | January 07, 2005 at 12:52 PM
I just call it Ticketbastards, it's its new name.
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