Name: How Ticketmaster is Stealing From Fans and Artists
Uploaded: 2024-04-02T13:00:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Ticketmaster is Stealing From Fans and Artists' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Ticketmaster is Stealing From Fans and Artists' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-02. Transcript available.

it says the volunteer state is just one of three states where name photographs
and likeness are
considered a property right rather than a right of publicity exactly oh i love
that that's why i
probably go back tennessee should be leading that fight you know with people
like marcia blackburn
and my friend senator bill haggerty and governor bill lee you know this they
should be leading this
charge i've actually talked to several about really taking a hard look at
ticket master like
they have a monopoly it's and even though i make a lot of money for them and i
love the people at
live nation we've done great business together i'm like this is fucked up like
i'll be the first
one to admit like i'm overpaid there's no reason to make this much money but i
can't control it
because the market dictated and ticket master they made over a billion dollars
in the secondary market
last year that means if you buy a ticket and go to a concert you're their worst
customer they want
that ticket to resell and resell and keep getting keep getting that money on it
and they they could
cut it out but the government will not hold them responsible to stop the bots
the government says
we're going to do it and they're not doing shit and these bots are out of hand
we have to like i
could charge so much less if i could get those tickets to people that want to
come see these fans
but like when we've done it in the past 20 tickets it's like we have to scalp
our own tickets just to
combat the real scalpers yeah and i know people that do this that used to work
at big banks like
goldman sachs they do this full-time and it's nothing illegal they go on you
know whatever night
of the week and they buy as many tickets as they can to like 10 15 of the
hottest shows in the world
and then they just resell them for markup and they're making more money than
they were being
at a huge bank yeah and the fees you'll you'll sell um two tickets for 120
dollars and the fees are
160 no they're 120 they're almost damn it's it's insanity it's and you're
telling me we can't get
this under control and i've told our senators here in tennessee the problem is
republicans too
this is one thing where i'm more you know leaning left on this because i'm a
capitalist and a lot of
conservatives we free market capitalism i'm like right this is out of hand this
is a place where
regulation makes sense you know i'm for deregulation on most things but i'm
like this is somewhere where it
makes sense and this is something maybe i can actually try and do because it's
something i know
something about and i've done the homework on it right so we'll see what is
something like that
include though you think it's like starting a site like because i'm sure people
have tried to start
different sites and different ways of doing it i'm i don't i wonder how you
would ticket master has
a monopoly yeah there's other places to do their own monopoly is illegal yes
yeah you can't just
control the whole market on anything you know people have to be able to compete
you know offer
a service because that's what keeps prices in check right and coming down if
you just if you're the
only guy that sells camel pants in town you can charge whatever you want yeah i
know zach bryan was
trying to he tried to have a new method where they reached out direct uh it was
like an a lottery system
it's a conundrum trust me i just saw eddie vetter recently at an event and they're
really pearl jack
was really the first people that really went down this rabbit hole of ticket
master yeah i remember
that right and i was you know just talked to him briefly i was like hey i'm
kind of going down that
rabbit hole again if you want to get on board like because this needs to be
like you know he's
obviously liberal and you know you know where my politics stand but i go this
is something where
i think we could get together on and because we're doing this for people for
fans to try to make
things better you know it's so sick so we'll see but all of us when we're
younger just like zach bryan's
doing it's like we all want to try and change it then you get down this deep
dark hole and you're like
fuck i can't do it you know we need these politicians to change it or they need
to straighten up you know
ticket master needs to do the right thing because they're claiming it's the
right thing this verified fan
and all this shit well guess what the artists don't get any of that yeah it's
fucking highway
unbelievable well to the fact that you would pay the same amount to for ticketing
fees which is online
that you would to the to an artist for their it's like and joe biden's out
there talking about
like oh we got it under control all he did was make them print what the fee is
right not like change
it no you just have to tell people where you're them all you gotta do is put
that on there
it's bananas yeah it makes me sad and you know what it makes me sit sometimes
it makes me sad even put
tickets on sale because i know that part of it is going to be that people are
going to have to pay
those fees you know it's crazy