The historic British band
The Cure
announced a couple of days ago that they will begin a tour of at least 30 concerts in the United States. Their presentations will begin on May 10 in New Orleans and end on July 1 in Florida.
To combat scalpers, the legendary Robert Smith, 63, decided to suggest affordable prices for his own concerts, with the intention that no one is left out.
And also to combat resale.
But it turns out that, according to the singer, the official Ticketmaster site itself modified the values of the tickets according to the demand.
That is, the tickets started with a value and went up from the highest demand.
In his attempt to weed out ticket scalpers for his upcoming tour, Smith described Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing policies as "a scam" as prices increased at a much higher cost than normal, upsetting fans of the band.
Robert Smith, the emblematic singer of The Cure is 63 years old.
The intention of The Cure was that their true fans could purchase their tickets without having to pay the high costs of resellers. However, they realized that the situation turned out to be the same, because now they will pay a higher cost but "officially ".
In the social networks they exploded before this unusual situation.
After this series of comments and complaints, Robert Smith dedicated a series of messages through his social networks where he made public his disagreement with this situation: "I am as disgusted as you are by the fiasco of Ticketmaster's 'fees' today. For be very clear: the artist has no way to limit them. I have been asking how they are justified. If I have something coherent by way of an answer I will let everyone know. X", he wrote on his Twitter account.
He added: "We were convinced that Ticketmaster's ideas could help us fight scalping. We didn't agree with the 'dynamic pricing'/'price hike'/'platinum tickets' thing, because it is itself a little bit of a scam.... That's a separate conversation!"
Tickets for many of their concerts are already sold out or are only for members or partners of the venues where The Cure will play.
At resale, a concert stall sells for $300.