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		criddell on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcod... From the Ticketmaster website: > ticket fees (which can include a service fee, order processing fee, and the occasional delivery fee) are determined by and shared between the parties who have a hand in making live events happen including venues, Ticketmaster, sports teams, leagues and promoters When the artist doesn't want their fans to be charged big fees - they have some say in it. Robert Smith of The Cure made a stand on this last year and got Ticketmaster to refund a bunch of money.

rty32 on July 8, 2024 [–]

> they have some say in it

That's a very carefully crafted sentence. How much, exactly, do artists have a say? Do artists equally have the same amount of "say"?

And why are we even discussing all these nonsense in the first place?

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