Your thoughts on "dynamic pricing"...

Add ons always are infuriating, lol...but does it bother you if, say, you dropped $500 for a ticket on the day it went on sale, then find out the guy sitting next to you bought his ticket 4 months later for only $125?

I go to a lot of concerts, and I am not sure that I have ever seen this...

How does it work? Is this the promoter/venue charging more, or does the extra money go to the artist and their team?

I am not a huge fan of "All tickets include a digital copy of XX forthcoming album!" Then they charge $20 more for the ticket than they would have before.

If it goes to the artist and their team, I am good with that. Dynamic pricing already happens in the after-market, why should a ticket service make money off of the popularity of an act?

Also, I try to buy tickets to the shows I want to go to the day they go on sale. I do that for the right to choose the seats that I want before they are taken. I will gladly pay a premium to not have to choose between back row section 305, or corner section 100 seats because that is all that is left. If dynamic pricing keeps the ticket services from buying the best seats because it lowers the profit margins; I am kind of good with it.

As for your neighbors paying a different price than you...it happens everytime you fly. You made the decision that the ticket you purchased was worth what you paid. What your neighbor has shouldn't matter.

Plus, as far as airlines go, you can shop around with a boatload of competitors if you're unhappy with the price at airline A. With concerts, the ticket seller is the only game in town. I suppose you can say ticket resellers count, but i say otherwise, because as far as I know, there are no airline ticket reseller sites, lol...

If the bots were paying market price...the price people are willing to buy it from from the people who control the bots...it lowers their incentive to have their bots buy the tickets.

For instance, George Strait is opening the new area they are building in Fort Worth. Face value is expensive for this show $250-1280 per ticket. I bought tickets the day they went on sale, and had $1280 front row seats in my cart. These same seats are on StubHub for $4500 right now. If the front row seats were priced at $4500 from the promoter, people would complain that the tickets are ridiculously expensive, however, if someone is willing to pay that, the tickets were priced correctly. Those tickets may not sell for $4500...but I am willing to bet they sell for $3500 plus.

I was not in the market for $1280 seats, I considered buying them simply to resell. I eventually bought different seats.

There is no easy answer, but I would rather the promoter be able to make the money more than the after market seller who is simply betting on scarcity. I have made decent money reselling plenty of tickets, but I still think the money should be made by the people putting on the show.