Live Nation Profits Inspire More Service Fee Discounts
Oh, and they also acknowledge that “No Service Fee” does not necessarily mean that all the fees have vanished.
After the success of that first Wednesday sale – when ticket sales increased times six – the company can’t help but want to make more money.
Therefore the company decided to drop service fees on amphitheatres for the summer – now including regular seating and no longer restrained by a cap on the number of tickets on sale.
The fees still included are a $6 parking fee for select venues, and a possible $3-4 facility fee.
Tickets are going much faster than usual – though there are still about 4 million lawn tickets available for shows including those of Crosby, Stills & Nash; Toby Keith and Coldplay.
The absence of the ridiculous service fee cuts about a third of the entire cost of a ticket, and suits over at Live Nation are pretty impressed with themselves for figuring out that fans hate paying a fee that has never made any sense.
Live Nation is able to slash service fees because they are not subordinated by Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.; service fees generally help to pay the ticket-selling company.
Just another reason why no one should support the planned Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger scheduled to take place this year after an anti-trust review.
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