I tell ya, I am getting soooo tired of this on going problem in my city, and probably a host of others as well concerning the buying or not being able to buy tickets to upcoming shows.
We have a brand new arena in downtown Kansas City called the Sprint Center. So far they have put tickets on sale for Elton John-sold out in less than 90 minutes. Then there is Miley Cirus-better known as "Hannah Montana" . Lets see, I dont recall to many Kansas Citians able to buy any tickets when they went on sale at the specified time. Well this has made news and people are just raising cain about not being able to buy these tickets, and they want City Hall to do something about the fact that ticket brokers are the ones buying up all the tickets. Then they turn around and sell them online for a marked up price.
I dont see any difference in what their doing as opposed to a ticket scalper except that the "brokers" if you will, have a business to hide behind, and they pay taxes, so I guess that makes everything legit.
I have to disagree if this is the case. I think this is totally wrong.
If your lucky enough to even score tickets, your going to pay more for them, as if they are not already expensive enough.
Next concert is Van Halen-now this concert sold ass backwards than most do. Even though the floor and lower level are already expensive, this group hasn't toured in 21 years with "Diamond Dave", so I knew those seats would sell no matter what the price, 149.00/seat. Well, guess what, every cheap, nose bleed seat was gone in a matter of hours. All of the floor seats were sold and most of the lower level seats. If you go online to these brokers sites, you'll find all the tickets you want, all marked up in price.
Billy Joel was announced to go on sale this last Saturday, and of course on the news was whether or not anyne would get tickets to this or would the same thing keep happening. I haven't heard one way or the other on this one.
The next big act to come will be Garth Brooks, and I guarantee those will be hard to come by.
The city is trying to see what if anything can be done to improve this situation. So many people are not getting to buy tickets. You have alot of disapointed people here, I am one of those, because I am not paying upwards of 200.00/a seat to see Van Halen. I simply cannot affort that kind of spending. Lucky for me, I have seen them two times before with David Lee Roth.
You have so many tickets set aside for radio promotions, which is understandable. What pisses me off though is that there are 1400 tickets put aside for city officials and city workers. That is not any more fair to the rest of us, than letting ticket brokers sell them at higher prices. Why shouldn't the city officials have to go thru the same avenues as the rest of us to obtain their tickets?
So while their trying to figure out how to fix this little problem, they should look at that issue as well. People want a solution to this, and if the city doesn't figure out one, the future of this brand new arena, which by the way in my opinion was a waste of money, and not necessary, could be in jeopardy.
We will see if anything is even done about it, and then will it really resolve it.
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