Live Nation and Ticketmaster to merge

I hate TM!

Of course ticket master will remain competive. With themselves. And hold back ticket for its scalping operation which they will be glad to connect you with right after they tell you the show you want is sold out. Read about the Springsteen shows if you want to see how ticketmast rolls. Then let them merge with Livenation to extend their domination to venues and excusive artist deals.

thank god, i hate going back and forth searching for which venue uses which ticket company for this or that artist

I don't see the monopoly. It's just a monopoly merging with a different company that does a different though related thing. It might lower ticket prices if the people that sell the tickets don't have to pay for another company to promote the concert.
Or they'll just take that difference for themselves and charge us the same.

Not cool.

ticketmaster wants all of our money!

its ridiculous, its almost cheaper to make a trip to the venue's box office just to buy the tickets for a concert or a show at a later date than to pay all the tm charges.

i guess tm is trying to reemploy local ticket agents by overcharging people using their services.

Thank god I don't go to concerts.

Fuck Ticketmaster. I refuse to attend any concert they touch... and if that means I never attend another concert again so be it.

well we can count on all concerts to really be bland...Live Nation is owned by Clear Channel, which in my opinion killed free radio by taking all the individuality out of the markets. Now the only concerts that Ticketmasters will sell are for major corporate bands like the ones on MTV and BET..
But on a good note alot of great bands will be selling more shows in smaller mom and pop type venues....

NOOO! now the convenience charge will be HUGE!

an even more continent charge.

shouldn't our antitrust laws prohibit a merger that would create such a monopoly of ticket sales?

o yea,,, silly me... i forgot, those haven't been enforced in decades.

LAME! I don't wanna have to get my Nightwish tickets from ticketmaster *sigh*

Don't just tell me how you feel. Stand up for yourselves. Ticketmaster is f**king evil. And if they combine with LiveNation it'll mean higher ticket prices and less choice. The petition will be passed on to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees as well as the FTC. So please do your part; sign and pass it on!

Gah, I hated TM before. Now I hate them even more.

I hate paying huge prices just to go to a concert. The prices are already unbelievable before this merger!

The people control everything not monopolies, think about it hard

Sign the petition! Representative Bill Pascrell (D. NJ) is pushing for an investigation into TM and Live Nation. In addition a probe is being set up by the CT Attorney General in conjunction with other AG's across the country. Please act now to stop this.

yay so they can rip us off even more! I guess this means even more concerts I'll have to miss out on because I refuse to pay "convenience fees" when they are more than the actual price of the ticket :/

Also I just tried to buy tickets thru ticketmaster last week...I went on right as tickets went on sale and couldnt get one. Within 10 minutes they were sold out and ticketmaster was linking to third party sites selling dozens of tickets for $100 to $300 over the actual ticket price! something seems very fishy there.

Who said monopolies don't exist? Ticketmaster is a monopoly already. By merging with Live Nation will make it even more visible.

YAY monopolies!