@peterjbirks But of course this is all nonsense, TM almost never reduce prices for any show (saw a flash sale for KISS, once), it's all about opportunistic price gouging of innocent fans who were given the expectation of £74 tickets, and would have accepted if they just 'sold out'.
@peterjbirks This does not explain why it was possible for people at the front of the queue to purchase tickets at original face value - surely TM had info to prove significant demand at the outset and so to be a 'valid economic function' should have set higher price immediately?
BREAKING: The Department of Justice has officially filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and will seek to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
“We allege that Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans, artists, smaller promoters, and venue operators,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The result is that fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to play concerts, smaller promoters get squeezed out, and venues have fewer real choices for ticketing services. It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.”
NEW: All aboard the Bakerloop!
If I’m re-elected - a new Express bus will help Londoners get between Elephant & Castle, Old Kent Road, New Cross & Lewisham much more quickly.
The new Superloop has been a huge success - & this route will mirror the proposed tube extension.
BREAKING NEWS
Kate has cancer.
Has just been revealed by Kensington Palace.
William and Kate told their children today after they finished school. Now being made public.
They won’t say what cancer.
Kate is having chemotherapy.
It was discovered after her January abdominal surgery
@paul_winginit Is it not basically a tax on families, people with disabilities and those priced out of areas with good public transport networks? Most affordable flights also departing early morning/late evening when public transport is less reliable?
Asked if the BBC should sack the unnamed BBC presenter, Rishi Sunak tells reporters he was 'concerned by the allegations' and 'it's right they are investigated swiftly and vigorously'
https://t.co/EwtiFy6SMg
@danbarker@richardpbacon This is Vine videoing himself at that Springsteen concert without the baseball cap and with one of those really annoying video sticks that gets in the way of people behind having a clear view…