Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure It showed itself annoying on their social networks due to the attitude of the ticket sales platform ticket master for their shows in the United States in the coming months. The musician’s claim was echoed by his fans, who complained on the networks about the rates and taxes applied to ticket prices that even reached double or triple.
Given the number of claims, the musician contacted the platform and after what he considered “a long conversation”, they reached an agreement: “ticket master accepted that the commissions they charged are too high, and therefore, in a gesture of goodwill, offered a $10 refund for each (low-priced) ticket purchased with a verified fan account,” Smith explained in his account.
The message was celebrated by his fans. Although, this was not the only achievement of the band’s vocalist. In addition to this refund, the platform promised to lower ticket costs in future shows.
Smith: “I’m just as disgusted as you are”
The historic British band “The Cure” announced a couple of days ago that it will start a tour of at least 30 concerts for USAwith presentations beginning next May 10 in New Orleans and end the July 1 in Florida.
The intention of The Cure was that their true fans could purchase their tickets without having to pay the high costs of resale. But, they realized that the situation turned out to be the same, because the platform, noticing the increase in interest, increase the values, reason why the followers of the band had to pay a higher cost, although “in an official way”. In the social networks they exploded before this unusual situation.
After this series of comments and complaints, robert smith He dedicated a series of messages through his social networks where he made public his disagreement with this situation: “I’m just as disgusted as you are about Ticketmaster’s ‘fees’ fiasco today. To be very clear: the artist has no way to limit them. I have been asking how they are justified. If I have something coherent by way of an answer, I’ll let everyone know. X“, he wrote on his Twitter account.
He added that: “We were convinced that Ticketmaster’s ideas could help us fight scalping. We didn’t agree with the ‘dynamic pricing’/’price hike’/’platinum tickets’ thing, because it’s in itself a bit of a scam… That’s a separate conversation!“.
Tickets for many of his recitals are already sold out and on resale, an audience for the concert is sold at 300 dollars.
