Are bands just greedy these days?

[Bustop20]

Presale for take that today. People bought the album in the belief they could get tickets this morning using the special code, many found the ticket site crashed or couldn’t cope with demand.

The tickets from the presale this morning are already being advertised in places online for three times their face value.

It’s the same story for every major band

Are bands like Take That just greedy and using the idea of a presale to boost album sales?

AIBU to wonder why we can’t ban the resale of concert tickets? Instead, introduce the concept of taking out insurance incase you miss the gig? You can’t resell your aeroplane tickets nor your train tickets, why can you sell on your concert tickets?! Obviously this wouldn’t work in the favour of big ticket resellers online or the bands getting extra publicity and album sales from fans going to any length to get tickets but it make sense to me.

Depends, obviously. But the big expensive tours - not true. Not by a long, long, way. Unless someone’s making some incredibly dumb decisions.

It’s usually a split somewhere between 80-95% to the artist and 20-5% to the promoter, depending on how the deal is negotiated.

management take around 10% of all income from the artist.

In the UK at least, it isn't legally for purchase to be required in order to gain a presale code. Websites will usually have a no purchase necessary option in the small print.

Cheapest here were £109.
General sale, and tickets bought within first few minutes of going on sale.

I still paid it though. Not as bad as some bands/artists I've looked at. And tbh everything costs more these days anyway. I'd been expecting much worse following the social media posts I'd seen after the presale happened