Reznor Blasts Ticket Websites

17 March 2009

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Nine Inch Nails rocker Trent Reznor has blasted bosses of concert ticket sales websites - accusing them of failing to stop fans from getting ripped off.

Reznor claims official websites like Ticketmaster allow touts (scalpers) to buy gig tickets in bulk, which are then sold on to genuine fans for heavily-inflated prices.

The rocker insists the practise would stop if sites limited sales and printed fans' names on tickets.

Ticketmaster has essentially been a monopoly for many years

He writes online, "As we approach on-sale dates for the upcoming tour, I've noticed lots of you are curious concerned outraged at the plethora of tickets that somehow appear on all these reseller sites at inflated prices - even before the pre-sale dates. "Ticketmaster has essentially been a monopoly for many years.

They could have (and can right now) stop the secondary market dead in its tracks by doing the following limit the amount of sales per customer, print names on the tickets and require ID ticket matches at the venue.

"We know this works because we do it for our pre-sales. Why don't They do it? It's obvious - they make a lot of money fuelling the secondary market. Ticketmaster even bought a re-seller site and often bounces you overto that site to buy tickets (TicketsNow.com)!"

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