100% agree.
Ticketmaster has PROVED themselves to be completely untrustworthy.
AFTER purchasing one (or two or more) of their incredibly expensive tickets the onus is on the customer to prove compliance.
Will the company provide FULL refunds if the buyer cannot show they meet their requirements?
If I buy four tickets will I have to prove all four people have fully complied?
What if one person can’t?
SO many ways for TM to screw people over AGAIN.
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I fear that’s a low bar. (But also wonder if it’s fully accurate. Anything any state government has proposed?)
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I recall reading that TM has the necessary processing power to handle the huge surges when tickets drop, and had it before anyone else. But with scalable cloud thingies like AWS, seems someone might come along and compete.
Maybe they should be looked into, anti-trust like.
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Flaming Lips have been trying some stuff out.
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Just remember there’s an entire industry behind live entertainment.
I have worked 9 days since my theatre was shut down in March. Realistically we’re not expecting to go back to work until Sept or Oct 2021.
There are a lot of skilled workers and artists who are having their livelihoods decimated by CV-19. Companies who are losing money hand over fist due to leases and contracts for equipment they can’t rent.
We need to beat this but it’s never going to be 100%. Once we can properly reduce the risk to a reasonable level through vaccines, masks and other techniques, we need to start reopening the event venues.
Or we need to find a way to support these workers, artists and companies until we can.
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Same! Big out of town bands’ shows cost way too much, even w/o ticketmaster’s extra fees n’ shit. Hell with that.
My BF & I prefer spending money at smaller joints which are owned/run by our friends, watching more friends perform. He really misses playing with the bands he’s in, altho he occasionally rehearses w/3 of them since lockdown was eased.
We’ve attended two shows since early March, both in October, at the same small place. It now has an outdoor stage and bar. Staff, musicians, and audience all behave themselves re: plague protocols. Shows end by 10 at the latest, and they close shortly afterwards.
We’ve gone out to dinner twice - I think in August and early October. Same place both times, and staff & customers behaved themselves re: plague protocols there, too. Not crowded, tables well spaced, easy to get past w/o getting too close to other people/tables. Most customers kept their masks on unless they were eating, and temp’ly pulled them down while sipping their drinks. I wouldn’t go there now, though! Not w/Michigan’s current plague numbers!
The plague is among several reasons which stopped us attending a couple of our dear friends’ Halloween party. We went to a party they threw in June, but everyone was outside most of the time, and fewer people were invited.
We’ve stayed in lockdown mode. We don’t go anywhere we don’t have to, besides going out together those five times.
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Several months ago I saw a tweet re: college students’ purchasing neg test results so they could attend school. WTAF, nanowits?!
I love theatre and have friends in the industry who are suffering like you are. My point is simply that relying on corporations – especially bad actors like TicketMaster – to bring things back is not the path we should be counting on. That’s especially true in a country where the pandemic will be far from 100% contained even six months from now.
There was a better path to providing relief and re-opening the economy safely that was available months ago. It wasn’t taken.
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Unfortunately it is corporations who can afford to bring things back (given a time and place within the pandemic) with appropriate distancing and staggered entrance and exit.
I’ve been thinking for a while that something like this is going to be necessary before too long. If a country (let’s say New Zealand) says you can only travel there if you’ve had a vaccine, how do you prove that? Something like a Covid passport perhaps?
Yes, fuck TicketBastard hard, but I kinda think something like this (but more open/universal) is inevitable and could have a lot of benefits.
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To state the blisteringly obvious: not hold concerts.
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Where I live, the county test sites have a 4-6 day turnaround for results. That’s business days, not counting weekends or holidays. I don’t see how this system will work to actually curb Covid-19 until we get fast reliable free tests without false negatives.
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I hadn’t heard they’re switching to testing 1 in 4. I guess it would be inevitable since they got overwhelmed the first weekend the quarantine requirement ended and sent people out before their tests were validated. We’re up in Waimea so the tourism aspect is a little less than in Kona. I hope you’re doing okay, it’s been a shit year.
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Can we be careful saying this?
No, there is no guarantee that any of the vaccines will work or be safe enough. (Although there is a lot of preliminary indications that there will be safe, effective vaccines with widespread availability within 6-12 months.)
But when I hear someone say this, normally, the next sentence is something- something- economy- something. Then they suggest a genocide and letting the weak die. (Interestingly enough, they often fall into that “weak” category themselves.)
If we can’t get a vaccine going, yes, at some point we are going to have to accept that we are going to lose a lot of people. But we aren’t there yet. We still have hope that we can handle this better- that we are fighting a delay battle until we can use our vaccine superweapon to destroy COVID, not that we are going to need to jam their guns with our corpses and build a barricade of our dead.
Please. Some of us really need that hope…
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I didn’t need to read past the headline. Whatever they have in mind, if it’s ticket master, they will fuck over the consumer every time.
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