As an avid music fan, I am tired of having to shop on Ebay or StubHub for concert tickets.
I have always attempted to get them the correct way. I have stood in many lines at Ticketmaster locations and been online early to reserve tickets. But somehow, they sell out in the first 10 minutes, not allowing us “real” fans to get any.
I was online almost an hour beforehand to purchase Elton John tickets, but they sold out during my wait time. Please tell me how tickets sell out in a legitimate fashion in a few minutes.
I got on StubHub and other sites to find tickets, and good seats were already selling for $900. As a poor college student, that is not even conceivable.
Hearing about Web sites selling Garth Brooks tickets before they even went on sale makes me sick. These fools can predict they are going to steal our tickets.
I have to know when the artists are going to step in to find a way to stop these scalpers.
Why do they even set prices for the tickets? They might as well just give them to the scalpers, so we fans don’t get our hopes up that we may pay the original price.
Michelle Dean
Merriam
It is impossible for long-distance callers to get tickets, especially when you are 68 years old. Believe me, I have tried. Even calling radio stations. I don’t drive in Kansas City, so camping out at the Sprint Center isn’t an option. My fingers are raw from pushing redial.
Why do I want tickets for Garth Brooks? For my 12-year old grandson, Ross, who has Burkitt’s lymphoma, his mother who had skin cancer surgery this summer and my son, Chad, who would have to drive them.
You don’t know heartbreak until it’s your own child or grandchild.
Carolyn Lyon
Norborne, Mo.
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