Have You Been Priced Out?
How many people are being priced out?
When was the last time you went to a gig, to see someone performing your favourite songs?
What now seems to be happening, is that prices for concerts are being shaped; being shaped, or should we say manipulated?
A concert is promoted, a band or a solo artist puts on a show, tickets are made available for that show or those shows, and fans rush to buy them.
As if life isn’t expensive enough, tickets start at one price, a low price, and then within minutes, the tickets that were for sale initially, have shot up by 300 or 400%.
With modern-day computers and modern-day technology, they can write software, create algorithms, that monitor interest, monitor ticket sales. These pieces of software are now so clever that they can allegedly adjust the prices on the fly. In other words, as interest grows, the prices shift and people end up having to pay more.
To most people this goes unseen, coming to a ticket website, they may not have seen the cheaper prices that were made available for say the first 200 or 300 seats or spaces, all they get to see are the seats and spaces left available at hugely inflated prices. To a fan of a singer or a group; who has set his or her heart on seeing these pop stars, these rock stars; what choices are left open to them? What options do they have; turn away and forget about it, maybe next year it will be cheaper, or in desperation, use a credit card and spread the cost?
Concerts and famous people all need to be paid for, people have to be paid; but why do prices need to be so high, or is it that people are just being exploited, being priced out of the market?
Are the artists themselves involved in this? Is it their management teams? Is price rigging actually taking place? How many artists condone such practises? Why wouldn’t they, they earn more money?
But the question has to be asked; if people are being priced out of the market place, are not the organisers and the artists themselves, cutting off the hand that feeds them? Or is it that they know that people can be exploited, because the world we now live in, is just one gigantic exploitative experience?
Concert tickets, are just the tip of the iceberg.
How many people are being priced out of owning their own homes, because of the greed of others?
Have you been priced out? What have you experienced?
How many things are affecting your life?
Try just saying ‘NO’, and see what happens! It may be a liberating experience …