I agree with you on this. What is a 'service' charge really supposed to cover after all? If you were buying it at a ticket counter then perhaps the service charge is to help to cover the persons wage that is selling you the ticket. That makes sense. Is our 20%+ of ticket price going towards the 'service' of promotion (more and more ads on the internet and so on and so forth) ?? Of course I could be totally off base here.

It's especially annoying as ticket prices rise. For big festivals the service charges can be game changers. The main issue to me is that tickets are advertised as costing x amount and then invariably cost x+y amount or even x+y+z amount.

Yeah, I went to the link for the Menno/W&W/Schossow tix and saw that too. I decided to empty the cart instead of getting them for this reason. The airlines got caught at their own game, perhaps ticket sellers will be next...

I remember buying a $70 ticket with a $3 service fee for Digweed NYE, that seemed reasonable to me, around 4%.

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tldr, I made a random vote.

Solution:
Don't buy tickets. Get on the comp list.

lol, just wait until you order from ticketmaster. no other ticketing service even comes close to their 30% "convenience" fee

Sure it costs them money to run the servers, mail tix, run the website, high salaries, phone service, will call, etc etc
But the amount they are skimming off the top is way too high to be paying these things alone. Let's just say they make $5 per ticket for EDC alone..... That's a lot of freakin money!!!

Ticket price should include all fees. Let the greedy companies fight over it from there.

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Originally posted by in2muzikk I remember buying a $70 ticket with a $3 service fee for Digweed NYE, that seemed reasonable to me, around 4%.

you could have picked it up via randy s for $55 no service fees!

avalon tickets used to start at $15, with service fee of $3(20%) so they just changed ticket prices and left service fee at the same amount...they werent doing you a favor...

if you check out tickets for avalon shows(still $15, but service charges are now $4.) at least its statys $4 as price continues to go up. Some promoters(eventvibe) start off at $10, and $1.20 service and then tack on $0.60 every time the price tier goes up $5. so a $30 ticket has a $3.60 service charge, still lower than avalon.

Seems service fees are too high only for Insomniac events.

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Originally posted by MelBeat Seems service fees are too high only for Insomniac events.

they doesn't seem too high. they are too high. How can insomniac charge a service fee when you are already paying for a ticket? either way, i dont attend this stuff so it doesn't matter much to me but it is ridiculous.

Yes, they are too high. My point is only Insomniac events have such high fees. Look at Judge Jules @ Circus. $20 with $2.50 fees. But W&W is $20 with $5.20 fees.