Slane

Ticketmaster are the only touts in town now arent they, its illegal to resell above face value for most events ?

Easy way around that just dynamically increase the face value.

I suspect we will see alot more of this rip off practice in Ireland.

Not a tout in a true sense of the word. TM takes a % commission but the money from ticket sales goes to the Artist/promoter.

illegal to resale tickets above face value for venues which have been designated as such. Slane was not designated as such a venue so reselling above face value is allowed ( not listed in any of the designated lists I could find)

Dynamically increasing the face value does go around the legislation as the face value is essentially the auction price. Dynamic pricing is comparable to auction so price agreed by both parties is the face value for all intent and purpose.

Which promoter line did i tow? That they will claim that they should be allowed using dynamic as other industries? I was just stating that it’s default line that they use to defend this practice.

And yes I’m aware that ultimately live nation is both the promoter and ticket service provider for this event and that’s TM is the excluding ticket provider for mcd/live nation.

but the use of dynamic pricing rests with the artist. It’s them and their management who decide whether and how to use it. Other popular artist like garth brooks don’t use it as an example.

I went to Marlay for Green day. It's not the most accessible place and taxis from town refused to go there.

Its market manipulation by a monopoly.

I dont think it would be tolerated in any other industry.

Artic monkeys wouldn’t sell 80k tickets, did two 3 arenas on last tour. Only a handful of acts touring who could sell those numbers and Styles is one of them.

Honestly don’t know why he went with that strategy.

his manager said it was because other acts are doing it.

In a statement to the New York Times, he defended the pricing strategy as being in line with what peers are doing: “We chose prices that are lower than some and on par with others […] Regardless of the commentary about a modest number of tickets costing $1,000 or more, our true average ticket price has been in the mid-$200 range,” he continued. Less than 2% of tickets were sold for over $1000, while just under 12% were sold above face value.

Irresponsible - I guess this sort of thing is outside of regulation.

But with the demographic that Harry Styles gets - the idea of 30'000 fifteen year olds trying to find their bus at 1am on dark country roads, its stupid and they should have known better.

Robbie Williams from the boyband take that headlined Slane in 1999

Judging by pictures at some of Harry concerts it seems he has plenty of women in their twenties in the crowd so don't think it will be rammed with teenagers. He is a hot act at the moment so don't know how many acts that would have come even if asked . The concert should sell 70 k plus I suppose .

You could probably count number of acts who could do 80k tickets on one day, let alone ones touring next year.

to be Frank there is little to no “rock acts” who can do 80k tickets anymore.

so Slane will no longer be a rock venue

Anyone able to print off Harry Styles tickets from TM yet.

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