{"id":6449,"date":"2013-07-05T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T01:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:31:53","slug":"ticketmaster-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/ticketmaster-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>This article written by <a href=\"http:\/\/knopps.com\/\">Steve Knopper<\/a> was in Rolling Stone Magazine July 2009 and was found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/knopps.com\/sarticles.html\">author&#8217;s website<\/a>. I&#8217;d summarize it by saying the business is complicated by it&#8217;s long history and it&#8217;s convoluted evolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RSTicketmaster2009.pdf'>RSTicketmaster2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}