{"id":177963,"date":"2019-07-22T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/live-nation-admits-helping-bands-like-metallica-scalp-tickets"},"modified":"2019-07-22T23:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:25:36","slug":"live-nation-admits-helping-bands-like-metallica-scalp-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/live-nation-admits-helping-bands-like-metallica-scalp-tickets","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation Admits Helping Bands Like Metallica Scalp Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-104349\" class=\"post-104349 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-albums tag-live-nation tag-metallica tag-musicians tag-record-labels tag-scalp tag-stubhub tag-ticketmaster tag-worldwired-north-american\" readability=\"23.0495540139\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"28.9377990431\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.3719806763\">\n<section id=\"cb-8b89c63e9bfd13d09fe03120bbfaec3e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Albums\" alt=\"Albums\" class=\"img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Live-Nation-Admits-Helping-Bands-Like-Metallica-Scalp-Tickets.jpg\"\/><span class=\"media-credit image-block__media-credit\">TMZ\/Getty Composite<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5d8e38b9a8724632a09e237df25ea6c6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"35\">\n<p><strong>Live Nation<\/strong>\u2018s provoking the ire of concert lovers everywhere, because it\u2019s fessed up to the shady practice of putting tickets directly on resale sites \u2026 before the public even has a chance to buy them at face value.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-7416b8b09cf79bf62a47ed7ddecb53b0\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>The touring company\u2019s admission comes on the heels of a Billboard report detailing a secretly recorded phone call between a Live Nation honcho and an event promoter for <strong>Metallica<\/strong> in February 2017 \u2026 days before the band announced its WorldWired North American stadium tour.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-eb302ed7a995ac4884d4f6d907fc7293\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"39\">\n<p>During the call \u2026 the 2 parties agreed to put 88,000 tickets directly on secondary market sites like StubHub, so people never got a chance to buy them on sites like Ticketmaster, which is actually owned by Live Nation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-c8ff925a9d0c56eb26020bbaaf3dc80d\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>The company\u2019s admitted to facilitating this scalping practice for \u201cabout a dozen artists out of the thousands we work with\u201d \u2026 but other than Metallica, the bands remain unknown.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-cdff53ad0ac8abe93f1a1dc43e7f63cd\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31\">\n<p>Live Nation says it did it because bands know face value of its concert tickets are often lower than market value \u2026 so the tactic allows them to recapture a cut of that money.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-b81add275b3bf99ec387e59ad741e2a9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"35\">\n<p>According to the report \u2026 Live Nation used various covert methods to place tickets on resale sites immediately, including having employees transfer thousands of tickets into single accounts to be listed and sold on secondary market sites.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-98bdd4321782883f4c751c791c6534ef\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"31\">\n<p>So, the next time a show sells out immediately online \u2026 eyebrows shall be justifiably raised.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-8761471553aaccb5a6fde969f665e4f7\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/07\/22\/live-nation-admits-scalping-tickets-reselling-metallica\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is 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