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Ticketmaster changes face on Springsteen ticket fiasco PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 18 February 2010

Now that the merger is complete here in the U.S. - looks like there are several skeletons jumping out of closets. We were present at the 2009 CIC Pollstar conference where attendees asked, then CEO of Ticketmaster Dave Butler - if Ticketmaster had directed tickets from the Primary market to their secondary ticketing site of TicketsNow.

     "Not on my mothers grave" - was about the response that Butler gave to the approximate crowd of 500 attendees. "Bullshit" could be heard from the crowd. Butler ensured the crowd that Ticketmaster has never and would never have done this. Today, we apparently know better.

We were there in person and heard it first hand. It's kind of funny that there were absolutely NO concessions in the secondary space within the merger. You can bet your ass we will be watching and reporting on this one often - especially given the new CEO of TicketsNow - industry veteran Ron Bension....

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