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alternate headline: Bruce Springsteen fans more mad at Ticketmaster than Phish fans were at Live Nation ... You may have noticed that sometimes when you try to buy a ticket at Ticketmaster , you are instead redirected to TicketsNow which is a scalper site owned by Ticketmaster . In turn, TicketsNow will offer to sell you the same exact tickets for a higher price. Ticketmaster describes it like this... TicketsNow provides consumers access to live entertainment event tickets, no longer [...]

Live Nation drops the ball . It seems the issues with Phish's ticket sales are systemic. Search for my tweets and you'll see how I feel about it. I live 20 miles from Hampton and won't see a single show because of this mess about tickets. I would have been willing to pay the band and their orgs a market price, i.e., more than the current face value. Instead my choice is pay scalpers hundreds of dollars or don't go. Maybe we should look at an auction system…I [...]