Seattle Subsonic

Hell Hath No Fury

February 11th, 2009

… like a newly-unemployed, broke-ass student who is sick and tired of Ticketrapist.
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So I just completed my transaction with Ticketf**ker so’s I can go see the much-publicized and currently-discounted Gutter Twins show, and some little pop-up evaded my Safari settings and offered me a chance to provide feedback on my experience with the BowelMaster website.
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Heh heh. I couldn’t help myself. The words flowed like tequila into my mom’s orange juice glass….
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“Your “convenience” fees are a cockslap to the face of music lovers. I bet being an employee of Ticketmaster is a little like being a meter maid: you can’t tell anyone what you do because you’re universally despised.
Thanks for operating a monopoly. Charging 30-40+% surcharge on shows is a shame[ful atrocity, recession or not]. Do you have any idea how many shows I *don’t* go to simply because I don’t want my bank account to be violated by your obscene taxes? I’m just one person, I know, but I’m not alone in buying scalped tickets. Your business model is as out of touch or irrelevant as most of the shows/artists you promote: Fall Out Boy, Elton John, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Britney Spears, Ronnie Milsap, and Queensryche.
I wish you’d go away.
I want to see a show [Raphael Saadiq. -ed.] in Portland but you want NINE DOLLARS per ticket for “handling” or some such horseshit. For me and my girlfriend to attend the show, we basically pay a 45% tax on the price of the two tickets. And for what? All of your shit is handled through the goddamned interwebs. So I am basically paying for another person to go. Rad. Howsabout you send one of your flunkies down to the show with us, make it worth my while? I don’t care who it is, but s/he is going to carry my jacket, open my beers and politely laugh at all of my fucking jokes.
There. You wanted feedback through BizRate? You got it.
cc: seattlesubsonic.com”
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Damn, I am pretty wound up. I gotta go chill out.