Screw you Jon

It's all about business and maximising profits.

AEG is a business, Island Def Jam is a business, the venue operators are businesses and Bon Jovi is a business. They're all in it to make money and prices are set due to supply and demand. If the demand is there, which it is, and the supply is limited, then prices will be very high.

I imagine these shows will be testing the water for the tour to come next year. If the tickets sell at these majorly inflated prices, which they are, then we'll probably continue to see prices remain this high or go even higher. The only thing that could stop it is for Jon to step in and negotiate a deal that keeps ticket prices at reasonable rates. Sadly I doubt there's much chance of that happening. The only other thing that can be done is for fans to en masse refuse to buy tickets at these prices. Can see that happening.

People it is very simple. It all about availabilty tickets & how many people are interested.

If they can sell out with priceticket being $ 150 why would they sell it for $ 50,--?

If I can sell my car for 1000 why on earth should I sell it for 500?

If people are willing to pay those prices why should the recordCOMPANY (company = making as much profit as possible)?

next to being a monoply its also a retail things, if it was business to bussiness the customer (purchaser) would never accept it the high margins they are taking. Im sure its a few hundred 100% on gross

I doubt tickets will stay this high for a full tour.
Think about it:
They can get away with this because:
1. Bon Jovi can basically sell out anything in Jersey.
2. These are huge publicity shows, with the opening of the Pru.
3. Since it's not a full tour, the prices maximize profitability.

BTW.
Ticketmaster has the cheapest seat at $61.50 not $88.00

Haa...totally weird it's changed. Now it's $61.50 to $337.74.

I tend to agree with this. The ticket prices were way lower just this past summer for the 3 Giants shows.

A few years ago - the prices for the Borgata shows was $250.00. They were one off shows though and not part of a tour. This past tour, none of the prices were that high - except for on e-bay.

Kathleen

opening new venues = high prices. Always been that way. Simple as.

Expect a fall in price for the 2008 tour in full.

Again, it's not just the record company. Jon has plenty of say in ticket prices. As to why not to charge these assanine prices - Morality. The guy doesn't need the money. I'm not saying he should play for free, but as I said, even at $50 a ticket, the shows would make $10,000,000 over the 10 shows, plus merchandise.

It's greed.

Either that or a fall in fan support.

Same goes for Jon. I know am bitching sometimes but he is probably looking it as pure bussiness. Bussiness = making as much money as possible.
As it is retail, you can screw about everybody on prices.

But I was also thinking about pricetickets about 10 years ago. With inflation + the introduction of Euro (wich made everything about twice expensive over here) - lots of new technolicy, ie investments etc etc etc. Prices didnt' went up that much imo