I used to work at ticketmaster uk in the mid '90s and I'm surprised it's taken this long for them to begin to be usurped - shows the strength of their relationship managers with venues I guess.
Anyway. I always remember that cancelled tickets were a huge profit maker for ticketmaster, cancelled tickets were great. Why? Because not only did ticketmaster keep the original booking fee and re-sell the tickets with a new booking fee - there was a cancellation fee on some events too!
There was also a huge mark-up on expedited delivery, counting on the fact that fans are impatient to get the tickets into their hands.
The world of digital abundance will force Ticketmaster to become competitive - but not until it's relationship managers fail to get good ticket allocations.
I guess, good seats are the scarcity here (unless we're talking general admission)
... Microsoft Windows hasn't innovated a great deal in its history. Sure, it slaps a functional GUI onto concepts that UNIX was doing decades before, but is doing something prettier really an innovation? Labour saving, yes. Most innovative 3rd party apps can trace their way back to 8-bit computing (VisiCalc, Word Perfect, BBS, etc) so Windows did not allow this innovation, it merely allowed ports of existing concepts to more powerful platforms IMO.
The Cydia store seems to be a hotbed of innovation by those standards, a staging ground before submitting to "the man".
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I used to work at ticketmaster uk in the mid '90s and I'm surprised it's taken this long for them to begin to be usurped - shows the strength of their relationship managers with venues I guess.
Anyway. I always remember that cancelled tickets were a huge profit maker for ticketmaster, cancelled tickets were great. Why? Because not only did ticketmaster keep the original booking fee and re-sell the tickets with a new booking fee - there was a cancellation fee on some events too!
There was also a huge mark-up on expedited delivery, counting on the fact that fans are impatient to get the tickets into their hands.
The world of digital abundance will force Ticketmaster to become competitive - but not until it's relationship managers fail to get good ticket allocations.
I guess, good seats are the scarcity here (unless we're talking general admission)
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I find it highly amusing that the original lightsaber props were nothing more than '40s camera flash handles.
ummm ...
Real news is what someone somewhere wants supressed. Everything else is just advertising. I don't believe everyone knows this.
interesting "what if" but ultimately ...
... Microsoft Windows hasn't innovated a great deal in its history. Sure, it slaps a functional GUI onto concepts that UNIX was doing decades before, but is doing something prettier really an innovation? Labour saving, yes. Most innovative 3rd party apps can trace their way back to 8-bit computing (VisiCalc, Word Perfect, BBS, etc) so Windows did not allow this innovation, it merely allowed ports of existing concepts to more powerful platforms IMO.
The Cydia store seems to be a hotbed of innovation by those standards, a staging ground before submitting to "the man".