Fee Free Friday is back with all the tumultuous ticket industry news about ticket fees. Customers want no fees tickets but seldom receive them. This week we find a recurring theme across all the line items is one of indifference to the plight of the ticket buying public. Be it ticket fees, nefarious distribution practices or outright mismanagement, the famous non-quote “Let them…
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Momentous news! #FeeFreeFriday is back with all the latest TMZ-style staccato of news on the end of ticket fees. This week we almost can’t believe our eyes as the homepage of the NFL’ Miami Dolphins touts they are not charging service fees on game tickets. Our morbid curiosity with scalping continues with a look at a new wrinkle that Mumford…
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Black Friday is the pinnacle of consumer power. That means it’s not just black Friday, it’s Fee Free (Black) Friday. This week we find far too many parallels exist between a recent behavioral economist’s study and ticket fees. We also see that a certain ticket industry giant has made the Consumer Reports “naughty list”. The Wall of Woe gets turned…
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Fee Free Friday, the TMZ of ticket fees, is back with a tale of two cities. In Nashville, Tennessee all hell is breaking loose with two simultaneous scandals, one for Lady Gaga tickets, the other for Eric Church tickets. In Minneapolis, Minnesota high…
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Oh dear. Outrageous tickets fees may have finally caught up with everyone involved. In this week’s Fee Free Friday Russel Brand fans get bitten by an extra $100.00 per ticket they weren’t expecting. A Google employee says “Don’t be evil”. Sports ticket holders are caught in the middle trying to re-coop their five figure seat…
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A $19.80 concert ticket fee? Ticketmaster to the Tower of London? Gut-wrenching tales of sorrow from music fans? That can only mean the special Halloween Horror edition of Fee Free Friday! This week is especially terrifying because Halloween gives us the excuse to pull out all the stops bringing you all the latest news on the omnipresent horror that…
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Fee Free Friday is a Yankee Doodle Dandy. A Yankee Doodle do or die in the war on unreasonably high per ticket fees and service charges that is! Fee Free Friday is dominated this week by comedian Louis C.K.’s widely reported “experiment” in selling tickets to his upcoming comedy tour directly to his fans. We…
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