Madonna Gets In Bed With Ticket Touts
IS Madonna’s hopping into bed with ticket touts an exercise in greed or research for Guy Ritchie’s next Mockney geyser flick?
The Wall Street Journal reports that Madonna’s upcoming concert tour is to feature an official ticket tout.
You know how it works: the touts buy up the tickets leaving the fans to scratch around for what they can get.
Dial the official ticket line and get tapped for a “booking fee” when you pay by one of those new fangled credit car, or buy online and on the point of sale find the site freezes like Anthea Turner at an orgy.
The deal means Madonna is tied up to StubHub, owned by eBay, via which ticket holders can “resell” (tout) tickets.
But it’s not only oiks who get the cut but Madonna, too, who takes a base fee plus a slice of the action.
So she gets money from the original sale of the ticket and more money when the ticket is resold.
Anyone else think tickets will be easy to come by?
May 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Well, it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it…
May 11th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Aye. where’s there’s muck, there’s a brassy blonde.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Actually, I prefer to think of it as a warm champagne shade, oh bugger, you’re talking about Madonna…
May 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
warm champagne??? Get an ice-bucket!
May 12th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Yea they will be easy to come by. Last time she played she charged $600 a pop for all the good seats sold all the best ones to brokers for $1200 each. That broker was lucky to get $500 when the show came around. Until she does a greatest hits tour anyone who buys the tickets to make money will get a nice economics lesson.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am
do the words “official” and “ticket tout” really go together in the same phrase…?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I dont blame madonna, she has no control over these greedy individuals ! I blame the sellers on ebay etc.. especially when they claim seats are VIP and they are not ! Not to mention the fact they sell tickets that they dont even have… how can you sell something that isnt in your posession ! I blame ebay for letting people sell stuff they dont even have ! Scandal !
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Blame the sellers for selling stuff they don’t have