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| Posted by: aleck 04:37 am EST 02/16/25 | |
| In reply to: re: You are the person who is getting screwed here - den 04:35 pm EST 02/15/25 | |
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| The last few weeks after the end of the Christmas/New Year's break are usually the slowest theatre attendance weeks of the year. Yet, I've noticed that the number of TDF offerings seem to be at the lowest ever. Only three or four at any one time compared to a dozen or more last fall. How is this fitting into the other dynamics I've seen here? Since the official on-line source of retail-priced tickets (TeleCharge) has so few tickets available and a secondary ticket source (SeatGeek) has so many tickets at prices HIGHER than the official box office rates, it adds to my suspicion that SeatGeek is somehow coordinating higher-than official price tickets and yet able to unload those tickets and get them over to TKTS to sell at half price. Then, the tickets are sold at half the official retail price -- which is better than getting one-third the retail price via TDF. I saw with my own eyes that every single seat in the orchestra section of Maybe Happy Ending was filled at curtain time when just a few hours earlier about 20 percent of the section of the orchestra was still for sale at higher-than-retail price at SeatGeek. Those filled seats certainly were not available via TeleCharge or Today's Tix. Did ANY of those seats, unsold on SeatGeek at 3pm and 5pm, end up at TKTS at any time from the opening of the booth to curtain time? What is the relationship of SeatGeek to the box office? Is SeatGeek making an arm's length purchase of tickets beforehand as a ticket reseller -- which takes them off of the official ticket selling inventory via TeleCharge? Or is the box office somehow blocking off inventory for SeatGeek to be sold at higher-than-retail price yet with the provision that they could be returned to control by the box office to funnel through TKTS for half-price sale? If so, is it legal? And, if so, how widespred is this at other theatres? My guess is that it's become routine. There is simply too much availability at TKTS (and SeatGeek) and very little at TDF. |
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