Mumfor and Son - Scalpers = Sucks

[Guest FiddleDog]

Went to buy Mumford and Son tickets this morning. they went on sale for $49 at 10am. All 3 shows were sold out by 10:00 and 30 sec AM. Buy 10:05am there were tickets on Stub hub for $200. Usury sucks to witness....

[patbax2]

I went through that with Jimmy buffett. Tickets a couple years ago. I was online the minute tickets went on sale and they were still sold out immediately. An hour later the ticket were all over craigslist for 3-4 times the original price. Needless to say, I didn't make it to that one

[Westwindmike]

I'm all for a free market economy, but when professional scalpers buy up all the tickets in the first 30 seconds, that's not right. What happened to the good old days when folks would stand in line for hours to get tickets? I think technology has hurt the concert ticket business.

[tennhome]

Right there with you. Gone before they went on sale. I also blame TicketMaster. The problem is someone will ante up and pay the asking price.

[hipower]

Right on all counts for all the preceding posts. It's a rare occasion I try for popular concert tickets any more, just for those reasons.

[pitt2magic]

I too was online at 10:00 placing an order without success. It is truly B.S. that Ticketmaster lets this happen. All they care is that the tickets are sold, they don't care that a $49 ticket is being resold for $300 just seconds after the sale starts. I really wanted to take my daughters to this show and they were pretty disappointed. I wish more bands were like Pearl Jam and would boycott Ticketmaster and sell tickets themselves. If I were Mumford and Sons I would be pretty pissed off.