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Neil Young promised to do without high-priced “platinum” tickets on his future tours, as the singer announced on Saturday.
In a post on his NY archive website wrote Young that he was of The CureS Robert Smith inspired the Tickets “Dynamic pricing” and “Platinum” offers often criticized. And it referred to as “fraud”, which is “only driven by greed”. Smith tried to prevent this practice. Besides that he successfully set himself against excessive service fees when buying a ticket a.
For the upcoming “Love Earth”. Tour Ticketmaster uses the “Platinum” price design from Young. A method of stopping black market dealers, buying premium tickets and selling them for more money on the secondary market, to their (and not the advantage of the artist) profit. However, the singer wrote on Saturday that “Platinum” tickets are “a bad thing” that ticketmaster will no longer apply on his future tours.
“The money went to me. That didn’t feel right. “
“My management and my agent have always tried to support me on tour. And to make the best possible offers. They tried to protect me and the fans from black dealers who buy the best tickets and resell them with high serves for their own profit, ”wrote Young.
“Ticketmaster’s high-priced Platinum tickets were introduced in the areas in which black dealers bought most of the resale tickets. The money went to me. That didn’t feel right. Very soon platinum tickets will no longer be available for my shows. “
While Smith and The Cure ultimately fought scalping by they did not make their tickets transferableit doesn’t seem as if Young would take the same way. As with The Cure, Young’s tickets are resold to the nominal value via Ticketmaster. But could still be more expensive on the secondary pages.
“I decided to let people rules,” added Young. “Buy aggressively when the tickets come out. Otherwise they cost a lot more on the secondary market. “