All knowing, all seeing and omnipresent, Fee Free Friday is back with your weekly round-up of the worldwide ticket fee controversy. Join ThunderTix, one of the few ticket sites without fees! A late breaking follow-up to the legal wrangling in Baltimore as the ticket fee bill gets tossed around like a hot potato. Baseball’s beloved…
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Fee Free Friday, your weekly round-up of the ticket fee controversy, is hot off the press! This week, two executives from industry giant Ticketmaster sat down for candid interviews. Caroline Hutchinson has had enough with sneaky surcharges. And a $12 fee on a $26 ticket isn’t sitting well with the Wall of Woe! In The Hot Seat Being in the hot seat is…
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Fee Free Friday says “En garde!” to another week’s worth of high ticketing fees. News just broke that a court has ordered Ticketmaster to pay $23 million to atone for its maligned “rewards program.” The BBC reports on “legalised touting” in the UK. And will the Robin Hood Pact put an arrow through the heart of ticket fees…
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Fee Free Friday, your source for just how much people hate online ticket fees, is back! This week we find (yet another) investigative report on the ticketing industry. A financial report from an authoritative source on the role tickets fees play in making consumers miserable. And a humorous way to make venue owners empathize with the ticket buyer. Yet Another Investigation…
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Fee Free Friday, your weekly round-up of ticket fee and event industry news is back! Is it time to ditch face values from being printed on ticket? Are fees hampering the sale of Rolling Stones tickets? Are people really taking out a second mortgages to pay for tickets? You’ve got questions, Fee Free Friday has…
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Another week, another round-up of the worldwide controversy surrounding ticket fees – it must be Fee Free Friday! Canada asks 34 million people “what’s behind sky-high concert ticket prices?” Late-breaking news from California where new legislation is being voted on that could affect your venue. Will there be a $3,000 convenience fee in 2014? All that plus…
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Did Free Free Friday, your weekly summary of the controversy surrounding ticket fees and other ticketing industry news, predict future? Maybe, if new ticket fee legislation in Texas and California is passed into law. Clairvoyance aside, this week also had one of the most incendiary comments ever made about ticket fees. Plus, there’s a toehold of hope in…
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An angry tirade against ticket fees by a famous entertainer. Round three of the battle between two ticketing industry giants. And millions of frustrated consumers abandoning the ticket purchase process…it must be Fee Free Friday! If you thought Madea hated ticket fees, wait until you hear what Kid Rock has to say! “F*** Ticket Fees!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5d6PQK-Uhs…
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Fee Free Friday, your weekly summary of the controversy surrounding ticket fees, it hot off the press! The Minnesota state senate has voted on a highly charged ticketing bill. Lollapalooza tickets evaporate in minutes and someone is very unhappy about that. And the ticket scalping debate rages on in Houston, Texas. All that and the Divine Tragedy that…
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Fee Free Friday has returned chock full of angry consumers, news reports and radio broadcasts about the controversy surrounding ticket fees. This week includes some very bad news for high ticket fee-charging venues in Madison Wisconsin. Even worse news for ticketing software companies in Baltimore Maryland. Plus The Consumerist asks the public which is the…
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