Ticketmaster not only buys arenas but they own live Nation, which facilitates tour ticket purchases for artists, so they can get a cut in multiple sections of the deal
About damn time, I hate ticketing sites. I just bought two three-day passes to a concert next month for myself and my friend, and the "service fee" was ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Like what fucking service are they providing that justifies that much fucking money? I could see maybe 20 bucks, but the tickets together were already over 300, so it's literally like buying a third three-day pass. It's fucking ridiculous. It was AXS and not Ticketmaster, but it was literally the only option to get the tickets. And the part that REALLY has me pissed off is the fact that they don't even give an option to get physical ticket stubs. The only physical option is a ticket that you can print out at home, which defeats the point of physical stubs for me since I get them to have a physical proof of the show that I can collect and hold on to. With the absurd service fee, I should be getting tickets plated in pure gold and a happy ending after the show, like Jesus fucking Christ.
Dude I bought tickets on AXS for $65 and it ended up being $125 BECAUSE OF _“SERVICE FEES”_ LIKE WHAT????? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CHARGE ME THE SAME PRICE AS THE FUCKING TICKET 😭
I hope they go after they parent company of Ticketmaster; Liberty Media (parent company of Livenation). They own Formula 1 and are refusing to let Andretti (Cadillac) join.
“everybody goes to concerts, shows, or things like that” yep I totally do that. I have definitely bought more than 0 tickets in my life and have gone to more than 0 concerts, shows, or things like that.
The sheer speed in which ticket prices go to quadrouple digits whenever Taylor Swift or The Weeknd tickets first go on sale is actually depressing. It went from $400 floor seats to $1200 within minutes for both.
Hey union stage hand here that has to work for live nation. They are some of my worst paying venues and they own every single step to the process. They book the artists to the venues, they take a slice of every ticket sale, merch sale, food sale, etc. Plus all the security at live nation venues are live nation employees as well. They literally own EVERYTHING at most concert venues
It feels like ticketmaster is working with the bots that insta buy all the tickets and resell them at like 2-5x the cost. Stuff that makes no sense is always sold out and you have to buy resold tickets. I just rarely go to things mostly because i really don't like how unfair ticketing feels.
Whenever Atrioc reads a twitch message it appears on screen, is that done with editing or with AI comparing what Atrioc is saying and looking for the corresponding message?
6:50 If the cinemas had come together and bought the company, they could have used the tickets as a loss leader and put coupons on the tickets for consesessions where they make the real money. The problem is the cinemas are not good with marketing, they're lazy, and their conessession pricing often doesn't even make sense for the local community. Every company MUST have 1 loss leader at ALL times. It's so obvious. Not the ticket? Ok, a TINY cup of popcorn and soda. Anything to get them to come up to the consession stand. So obvious. 1 in 4 customers buys a hamburger and you have paid for 10 loss leaders.
I never understood why theaters never made a better deal with Moviepass. I used it a lot in Summer '18 and I was pretty much limited to seeing movies on weeknights when the theaters were otherwise empty or already had a $5 ticket deal going. Since my tickets were free, I was buying concessions way more often. If they already have empty theaters, they might as well sell some marked up popcorn and soda
@@Abctuvo666We have it in the Netherlands for one of the big chains. You can sign up for unlimited movies for €23 a month and you get a slight discount on concessions.
I genuinely don’t understand showrooming, like “I came out here to this store and want this product, I guess I’ll home home empty handed and wait a week for it to arrive at my door”
I do seriously believe that eventually Amazon will buy retail space simply to have a showroom, it is crazy tho that amazon rules essentially prevent any other retailers from having competitive prices even though most companies make less when selling with them
8:00 normally I pay £35 to get 2 extra large pizzas delivered. But because I go there regularly I managed to get a discount and got it for £5.02 this weekend!
It's the new chairwoman of the FTC, Lina Khan, that's finally deciding to get stuff done. From what I hear companies hate her because she's actually doing what the FTC should have been doing this whole time
@@austinh1242 Yeah, Jon Stewart has a big talk show that used to be on Apple TV. He wanted to do an episode with Lina Khan on his show but Apple would not let him do it. So instead he left Apple TV and did the episode with her.
Complaining about the past lack of actions by the FTC is good you should hold the government accountable for their lack of action so that the same pattern doesn't repeat in the future
Respectfully i think your wrong about best buy. You have a good point however at best buy you can finance easily and get large appliances the same day. Something amazon cant do. Id say besy buy is a buy.
Can you imagine being such a greedy piece of shit monopolistic company that even the US GOVERNMENT says, "Ok, you're being too monopolistic even for our standards" lmao
on the best buy part. The CEO makes $16mil and they don't even pay a fair pay wage anymore. I left because of it along with other trickle down management squeezing issues. Best buy is fucked.
I worked at Best Buy for 5 years, and I saw first hand people doing exactly what Chat was saying, going to look at the stock then buying on Amazon. I had a prediction that Amazon was eventually going to buyout BBY and use them as showrooms and warehouses. Amazon's biggest thing is shipping times, and they want to lower the shipping times as low as possible. Best Buy has a store the size of a warehouse in nearly every major city in North America. I predicted they would buy BBY during a recession, but the recession ended up being Covid and Best Buy stock exploded because people were buying from the online side.
Now it’s all drying up all the dropping quarters are from post Covid. It’s going back to normal. But yea most stuff is going to be buy online and pick up or ship. Amazon already show rooms on their site they sell Best Buy brand tvs on Amazon.
They do the problem with price matching is the vendors basically made it to where everyone is the same price. I used to work in the store and it’s definitely gone down.The vendors can’t afford to lose them just yet. People haven’t caught on to being from the oem. What wasn’t talked about is the fact all those quarters are post covid. Last I checked Best Buy was actually quite cash rich and had overall fine balance sheets. If anything they will sell to another company say 5-10 years from now.
They got pwned by shiny hunters to kick off breach forums 3.0, but there's a lot of shady stuff going on, bc breach forums may be pwned by the FBI. They seemingly got the last admin, baphomet. I have a degree in computer science and work in cyber security. Not just some skid.
