Quote:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.

Break them up.

1:35 PM · Nov 15, 2022

But I wouldn't stop with just those two. We do need some anti-trust balance in a LOT of places. NOT governemnt takeovers, though, so repeal things like the ACA.

And their BS “secondary” market. You mean the tickets you held back and list for hundreds, sometimes thousands over face value. The artists are in on it too. At least the bigger ones.

so, one understands the crux, the other patronizes with their vote … I’m certain both understand ‘which is witch’…

#irony

Stop tweeting and bring me another beer you ugly horse toothed t-nuc.

All of the issues facing our nation right now and this moron is tweeting about concert ticket prices?

What a baffoon.

(11-16-2022 03:07 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  All of the issues facing our nation right now and this moron is tweeting about concert ticket prices?

What a baffoon.

Chuckle, chuckle...if one is going to call another person a moron I think that person should know how to spell "buffoon". It's a bad look.

(11-16-2022 03:17 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:07 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  All of the issues facing our nation right now and this moron is tweeting about concert ticket prices?

What a baffoon.

Chuckle, chuckle...if one is going to call another person a moron I think that person should know how to spell "buffoon". It's a bad look.

I used the Memphis Public Schools spelling.

Just like with elections, go back to in person ticket buying.

Get up early saturday a.m., find the music store in the hood that sells tickets and get good tickets.

Monopolies are bad. Anyone arguing otherwise is wrong. End of post.

(11-16-2022 03:36 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Monopolies are bad. Anyone arguing otherwise is wrong. End of post.

True. But, my point was that on a top 100 list of issues facing us right now, Ticketmaster shouldn't be on the list.

When I saw the title of the thread I thought you would be agreeing with something about making a proper Gin and Tonic.

(11-16-2022 03:40 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:36 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Monopolies are bad. Anyone arguing otherwise is wrong. End of post.

True. But, my point was that on a top 100 list of issues facing us right now, Ticketmaster shouldn't be on the list.

Maybe not that particular monopoly, but you probably wouldn't have to stretch very much to tie corporate monopiles to every single one of that top 100 list.

(11-16-2022 04:01 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:40 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:36 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Monopolies are bad. Anyone arguing otherwise is wrong. End of post.

True. But, my point was that on a top 100 list of issues facing us right now, Ticketmaster shouldn't be on the list.

Maybe not that particular monopoly, but you probably wouldn't have to stretch very much to tie corporate monopiles to every single one of that top 100 list.

Fair point. Maybe she should call her elected representatives and demand action?

(11-16-2022 04:04 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 04:01 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:40 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(11-16-2022 03:36 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Monopolies are bad. Anyone arguing otherwise is wrong. End of post.

True. But, my point was that on a top 100 list of issues facing us right now, Ticketmaster shouldn't be on the list.

Maybe not that particular monopoly, but you probably wouldn't have to stretch very much to tie corporate monopiles to every single one of that top 100 list.

Fair point. Maybe she should call her elected representatives and demand action?

She's too busy trying to pretend anyone actually wants "LatinX" to be a thing to fight for anything that actually matters.

Jolene Blalock's husband makes bank.

(11-16-2022 03:29 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  Just like with elections, go back to in person ticket buying.

Get up early saturday a.m., find the music store in the hood that sells tickets and get good tickets.

Growing up in the hood helped me get some great seats - I knew about the smaller ticketmaster outlets that others had no clue of. The tiny Piggly Wiggly (not the one at Frayser Blvd & Watkins) was awesome for that.