Ticketmaster Pricing
I’ve long cursed Ticketmaster for gouging customers with their service fees. They have exclusive contracts with almost every large performance venue in the US. Here is a good article that explains how this came to be.
This article written by Steve Knopper was in Rolling Stone Magazine July 2009 and was found on the author’s website. I’d summarize it by saying the business is complicated by it’s long history and it’s convoluted evolution.