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Ticketmaster sucks! I know this opinion is well documented all over the internet, but I wanted to add my own complaint.
Today, I was planning to purchase my ticket to see Cynic play at the House of Blues in Chicago. As I went through the checkout process, their ridiculous charges that nearly doubled the ticket price were more than I could take. Now, I know Ticketmaster has always been bad about these additional charges, but I didn’t realize they had gotten this bad:
| Ticket: | $20.00 |
| Building Facility Charge: | $2.00 |
| Convienence Charge: | $8.70 |
| Taxes: | $0.35 |
| Order Processing Charge: | $4.60 |
| TicketFast Delivery: | $2.50 |
| Total: | $38.15 |
How in the world can a $20 ticket end up costing $38? It’s ridiculous! Now, I could have avoided the $2.50 TicketFast Delivery fee by choosing the Will-Call option, but that is more trouble than I wanted to deal with. What makes me angry about this charge though, is that they are charging me $2.50 to print the ticket off on my own printer!
Anyway, due to Tickemaster’s exessive greed, they will be getting $0 from me today and probably in the future as well. The only possible exception may be for shows in town when we can purchase the tickets at the box office. That seems to be the only way to not get completely ripped-off by Ticketmaster.