tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoHow the fuck is this my problem, ticketmaster?!ibb.coexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1227arrow-down1external-linkHow the fuck is this my problem, ticketmaster?!ibb.cotigeruppercut@lemmy.zip to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
Apparently they won’t sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·11 months agoWon’t work. Livenation owns the majority of the major venues in the US.
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·11 months agoYou’re saying you can’t make a new ticketmaster because first you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first…? That doesn’t mean it won’t work. That just means you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first.
minus-squareSzymon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·11 months agoA competing service in the non-Livenation venues would be enough to take a chunk of a Ticketmaster’s bottom line and force them to compete again, something they haven’t had to do in a while.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoNot really. Big acts want big venues. Live Nation owns those or has exclusivity agreements with them. It is very much a monopoly.
minus-squareundercrust@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoSounds like a pretty clear cut antitrust issue
Won’t work. Livenation owns the majority of the major venues in the US.
You’re saying you can’t make a new ticketmaster because first you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first…?
That doesn’t mean it won’t work. That just means you’d need to make a new livenation and buy out the venues first.
A competing service in the non-Livenation venues would be enough to take a chunk of a Ticketmaster’s bottom line and force them to compete again, something they haven’t had to do in a while.
Not really. Big acts want big venues. Live Nation owns those or has exclusivity agreements with them. It is very much a monopoly.
Sounds like a pretty clear cut antitrust issue