£300 FOR A TICKET & NO FREDDIE OR JOHN IS THAT FAIR?

In today's "Daily Star" a Queen fan has a letter published under the name of Mr.coffee and he says he thinks it is unfair that Queen (May & Taylor ) are been unfair to charge £300 for a ticket.
Personally i agree it is disgusting considering that Queen are not a complete unit like they used to be.
May & Taylor are milking Queen for every single drop they can squeeze out of the dead carcass that is Queen.
What do think?
( NO ROWS ON THIS THREAD PLEASE, JUST STICK TO THE TOPIC)

The tickets in London were 69£ GA and 79£ for a seat. I don‘t know, where he got 300£ from.
Only VIP-packages were that expensive. But I don‘t need that.

On the whole, Q+AL tickets cost the same as other acts with similar productions. So nothing „disgusting“ there. And if you don‘t like it, stay at home - the tickets sell very well without you.

Besides: You‘re discussing Q+AL. Meaning, you‘re in the wrong section of this forum. ;-)

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

In today's "Daily Star" a Queen fan has a letter published under the name of Mr.coffee and he says he thinks it is unfair that Queen (May & Taylor ) are been unfair to charge £300 for a ticket.
Personally i agree it is disgusting considering that Queen are not a complete unit like they used to be.
May & Taylor are milking Queen for every single drop they can squeeze out of the dead carcass that is Queen.
What do think?
( NO ROWS ON THIS THREAD PLEASE, JUST STICK TO THE TOPIC)[/QUOTE]

As Sealion said this is in the wrong section, not sure if you can delete and start a new one in QAL.

If you don't want arguments maybe leave out the dead carcass type comments and stick to facts. The promoter's usually set the ticket prices along with the venue so not necessarily anything to do with Brian & Roger but as Sealion said the normal price for all their shows has been around £69 general admission and £79 seated, apart from the VIP packages. The problem is if you don't get a ticket straight away they get bought or passed on to secondary ticketing sites who then charge ridiculous prices like that. Ticketmaster were passing tickets onto their own secondary site the same day they went on sale last year. They've just closed it down after a lot of pressure but that won't stop touts unfortunately. The Vegas shows are probably worked out differently but the starting price was £79 and £99.

i thought all the Lambert shower would be on here first lol So you are saying Brian & Roger do not have a say in ticket prices? I am sure they have a little say in that somewhere?

Do you think 69-79£ is too much? I for one don‘t think they make much money by that. The whole production is too huge.

VIP-packages and merchandise must be their main income.

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

i thought all the Lambert shower would be on here first lol So you are saying Brian & Roger do not have a say in ticket prices? I am sure they have a little say in that somewhere?[/QUOTE]

This article shows how the touring industry and pricing works. Obviously we can't know exactly how QAL do things but it gives an idea and if they do the fixed price thing then you can see how it's in the interest of the Venue's, Managers and promoters to charge as much as they can.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/30/where-does-concert-ticket-money-go

This is a list of tours and how much is being made, Queen + are at No 33, think it's from last year's figures.

https://www.billboard.com/photos/8465835/highest-paid-musicians-money-makers?utm_source=twitter

Yes i think £69 is too much to pay for two old men and a effeminate goat lol

Nope. ^^^ it's regular ticket buyers per headcount. VIP as you can already discern is "only" the cost of about 3 tickets
*AND those quantities are limited. So it's not like they have a meet n greet for 2,000 people. It's more like 100 people.

(*if that)

Anyways. That's a lot less than i had to pay for their tickets at the forum in 2014.i could look it up, but i don't wanna remember.

2017's show was actually pretty good so i don't regret that one. And paid about $60 for a not so great seat at the last minute.

[QUOTE] [b]Sealion wrote:[/b]

Do you still think 69-79£ is too much? I for one don‘t think they make much money by that. The whole production is too huge.

VIP-packages and merchandise must be their main income.
[/QUOTE]

I agree, having seen the show. There's 22 trucks ferrying all the equipment around, that's a lot of stuff to be put together and pulled apart at each show aside from all the other staff they use anyway, it must be expensive to put together.

Queen always toured with many many trucks so that is not unusual in Queen terms.

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

Yes i think £69 is too much to pay for two old men and a effeminate goat lol[/QUOTE]

You want no rows. Then stop mocking Brian and Roger. And calling Lambert names is also unnecessary. It just shows your character.

Your only reason to open this topic in the Queen section must have been to find like-minded people to bash Q+. I hope nobody falls for that.

"duh...I happystar....I thick"

Thistleboy : You are the thick twat and your starting again, if we were in a pub id take you outside and sort this out.

Sealion what the hell do you know about music if you think an american idol looser is justified to replace a rock legend? Go get back to your Q+ hovel.

[QUOTE] [b]happystar wrote:[/b]

Thistleboy : You are the thick twat and your starting again, if we were in a pub id take you outside and sort this out.[/QUOTE]

How, would you bore me to death? Because that's about all you'd do.

I'm not the thicko here. Again, you've asked for no arguments, but then goaded people and made stupid insults straight away.

You're a bread-dead mutant. Too many drugs matey.

If you want a genuine reply, no, the prices aren't too much. You pay what you want to pay - and if you can afford it and it makes you happy, so what? The £300 was either a tout, a "get-me-in" type scheme or a VIP ticket. General tickets aren't too expensive.

There's always something we agree on. I don't like AL either. But I don't go bashing those who do.

For the umpteenth time here - if you want respect, you need to give it. If you don't want people arguing with you, be more tolerant of THEIR views too.

And yes, you're also on he wrong section of the forum, which is for AL, whether your idiotic brain can handle it or not.