Ticketmaster has packed my lunch three times in the last two weeks.
I bought tickets online to see Kate Nash, Minus the Bear and Lisa Lampanelli (dirtiest and funniest woman alive).
The most egregious offense, bar none, were the Lampanelli tickets, priced at $32.50 apiece. Ok, yeah, that's not horribly expensive, my seats are pretty good.
But Ticketmaster tacks on two "convenience charges" of $9.75 for each ticket, plus an "order processing charge" of $5.15.
The final bill: $89.65.
That's $24.65 in additional charges. Almost the cost of a third ticket.
What the shit? Why am I being charged extra money for paying money?
Go to any major search engine and type in "Ticketmaster rip-offs", or some variation on the general theme, and you can get stuff like this.
It's a monopoly, a scumbag con machine bent on pillage and rape. Short of swinging by the box offices of the Trocadero, The Fillmore at the TLA (ugh, I hate even linking to Live Nation, those stupid douchebags) and Tower Theatre, respectively, I'm screwed, I'm stuck.
I'm just going to start e-mailing the Fortune 500 list my social security and credit card numbers and get this stuff over with. Preemptive strike style yo.
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