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foobarchuyesterday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

I looked at buying tickets for a local hockey game last week, and the venue goes through Ticketmaster. The service fees were exactly the same as the actual ticket cost, maybe the total 200% of the list price.

I ended up going to the physical box office, where they still charged an extra 40% of the ticket cost in service fees.


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alexanderscotttoday at 4:14 AM

most large venues have a rev share agreement on these fees. they aren’t all going to the ticketing company.