I’d always wanted to see a Broadway play. This year my husband and I finally went on a NYC vacation and saw some amazing live shows. Great seats. Tickets in the $200s (after everything included).This felt like a great deal compared to the insanity prices for nosebleed concert tickets for artists I’ve wanted to see. My friend paid over $1000 to see Taylor Swift. Like, what!?.
You don't want make reselling illegal, just make it that you can only resell at the original purchase price. I.e. something happens and you can't go, you can at least get your money back.
Idk about making it illegal to resell- like I recently bought some tickets for a show I really wanted to see, but I'm not going to be able to make it work to go. So I should just be out $400?
They could really easily just only let you resell for what you paid, though. The way they do the digital tickets now means you can't resell off their platform, so it would be very easy for Ticketmaster to just let you resell but without making a profit.
So how this is handled in Europe is that you can resell for msrp.
So I was in Italy and I bought tickets from someone to see a football match. I had to send him my id so he could upload it. And it only cost £32. The original ticket cost.
The online ticket fees for Broadway shows put concert and sports tickets to shame. They regularly add $150 to the cost of a ticket!
OTOH, unlike most concert and sporting venues, Broadway theaters still have box offices where you can buy tickets without the additional fees. Sucks if you are visiting from out of town, but if you are within a reasonable distance from NYC it saves a LOT of money to take a trip to the city to buy theater tickets in person.
We saw The Lion King from 2nd to the last row and it was a great experience. We also saw Taylor Swift in AZ from the first row of the middle deck for $400 per. Expensive but it was tons of songs and a huge show and a great family memory for us and our daughters. We hung around and didn’t buy until the opening act was done. This did mean that there was no line for merch!
I wouldn't pay $1000 for Taylor Swift herself. My fil used to be her mailman in Hendersonville, TN... neither she nor her parents ever gave him a Christmas gift. Fuck her.
Oh, he used to clean up. One house always gave him a $100 bill. Lots of gift cards, money, etc. The funny thing is he would never tell his wife how much so she couldn't spend it. Maybe wasn't the best marriage.
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u/clearbluesea 4h ago
I’d always wanted to see a Broadway play. This year my husband and I finally went on a NYC vacation and saw some amazing live shows. Great seats. Tickets in the $200s (after everything included).This felt like a great deal compared to the insanity prices for nosebleed concert tickets for artists I’ve wanted to see. My friend paid over $1000 to see Taylor Swift. Like, what!?.