LilDestructiveSheepAug 7, 2023

Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets

https://lemmy.world/post/2807587

Crosspost: Beyoncé selling "only listening" tickets - Lemmy.world

> Summary: “Beyoncé is selling “listening only” tickets > for her Renaissance tour. The seats are behind the > > stage, so you can’t see any of the set or dancing, but > they only cost $157 compared to the ~$900 fans have been paying for regular US tickets.” > > haha! > > fuuuuuuuck that.

Show threadDuchessAug 7, 2023
the thing that offends me most is the price. i remember thinking £80 was a lot for a concert ticket in about 2010
Show threadsunbytesAug 7, 2023
Well the thing is, she really needs the money.
Show threadJohnEdwaAug 7, 2023
She personally doesn't, but it is a rather simple case of supply and demand for everyone else involved - there are only so many that fit in the concert, as long you find enough people willing to pay $900 per ticket to sell them all, it doesn't make any financial sense to price them any lower. And if you do lower it while the market is still willing to pay significantly more, you quickly get swamped by scalpers grabbing the profit from you instead.
There is a Finnish saying that goes something like "The one that asks is not the stupid one, the one who agrees to pay is".
ei se ole tyhmä, joka pyytää, vaan se, joka maksaa - Wiktionary

Show threadsj_zero

It sucks but what you wrote is exactly correct.

We saw it with concert tickets before they started raising prices. We saw it with gpus in the last couple years, Nvidia had to raise prices because we were seeing scalpers and we were seeing shortages.

Sucks, but when you have something that there's a limited amount of and an unlimited number of dollars or what have you being printed, this is the final result.

(And I guess if we're being honest, if a lot of people like a certain artist, there's just going to be lots of demand for the thing.)

Aug 7, 2023 at 5:36pmWeb