I'm a Little Pissed About Ticket Fees

[Webster's Dictionary]

The flex pricing, that's fine. I'm ok with that. What kills me is all these fees. I bought a mini pack and now I just want a ticket to the preseason game at Memorial Collesium.

I go to order online:
$10.00 ticket
$3.50 convenience fee
$5.00 order charge.

I want them mailed to me, $3.00. Ok, I can live with that one.
How about will call? $5.00.
Ok, I'll just print them at home. That costs them nothing, right? Apparently they feel they need to charge me 1.50 to do that.

So my $10 ticket is actually $20 if I choose to print it out here at home. I know in the overall scheme, that's chump change, and it's not like I can't pay it, but I'm not going to. I already have to drive up from Eugene to go to the game, I'm not going to pay double what the ticket costs in fees.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Solution 1: go to the RG Box Office and buy your tix. No fees.

Solution 2: Don't buy the tix at all.

Solution 3: find a hot shot lawyer and file a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster. Good luck.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Those same fees apply for concert tix etc. also... not just Trail Blazer games.

 

[LOTBfan]

or pool with friends and buy 10 at once to break the cost down.

 

[BenDavis503]

Isn't a 'convenience fee' an oxy moron?!

 

[BalancedMan]

It pisses me off to no end that TicketMaster charges an extra couple of dollars to allow you to print your own tickets...instead of having them mail them to you. I find ticket processing/convenience/surcharge fees end up being more than 20% the cost of a concert/event ticket sometimes.