That happens here but only to the really huge acts (so far). Alice hasn't been effected (yet).cooperrocks wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:47 pmI don't know in the UK but here in the United States, ticketmaster will now change prices depending on the day and an hour. You may buy a set in the 15th row for 200 dollars and the person sitting next to you paid a 100. Unless a show is in danger of a quick sell-out, there really is not a lot of advantages to a Pre-sale these days.
What they do here is raise the price to any non-VIP tickets near the front and call them "premium tickets" or similar, selling them at double or more the advertised price, effectively scalping their own tickets to stop the scalpers... Then, if they don't sell at that price they will reduce them months later to the normal price to shift them.
So you do still get the situation of someone paying much more for a seat then the person next to them, even without having VIPs in the equation.
My views on BOTH practices are unprintable here...