finally!

Complaining about ticketmaster fees is akin to the whining about how bad the cafeteria food is or paying taxes. Nobody wants to hear another complaint, so I never published this post from September.

Someone in the federal government should call for an investigation of ticketmaster.

I recently paid $137.60 via ticketmaster for two concert tickets, $27.60 of which was in convenience charges. That's 20%, which is higher than any state sales tax in the nation.

I can't believe they are being considered for the national parks campground reservation concession. (It's now a done deal, ticketmaster under the name of Reserve America is in charge) The federal government couldn't get a few programmers together to write some code for a reservation system?

Well, it's not the federal government (ticketmaster must spend millions lobbying in Washington, especially in light of their National Park concession) but someone is finally taking a closer look.

From the Boston Globe:

Adding too much to ticket prices
"Legislator plans to take hard look at fees tacked for entertainment, sports events"

I hope Senator Morrissey has better luck than Pearl Jam did.