Booking Fees
 

02 tickets - £200 seats on Backstage have a £48 BOOKING FEE!!!! £248 per ticket.

02 tickets - £100 seats on Backstage have a £25 BOOKING FEE!!!! £125 per ticket.

I think someone is having a laugh here!!!

And you don't get to see what block you are in!!

Its getting worse!!!!!

To be fair its not just these gigs, it happens with all tickets now.

Never known anything like this. For those of you saying Jon doesn't know how much AEG charge etc... of course he does.

Imagine... (and I'm not saying these figures are accurate but probably not too far out) - "we'll offer you 2 million pound to play to 80,000 people at Twickenham"... 2 years later, "we'll offer you 1.5 millound pound per night to play to 18,000 people at the O2".

It's obvious AEG then will charge a lot a) to justify Bon Jovi's price and b) to fill the whole that booking out the MJ tickets created.

And as you've said, the fanclub tickets are merely provided via See Tickets and don't actually seem to be priority. I can get row F for 200 pound tickets, row F for 75 tickets and row F for X,XXX tickets. That's all very well, but which block am I in!

One final thing, it's not like this is a special tour or comeback or appearance for the Band. They've played in London/UK now in 2000,2001,2002,2003,2006,2007,2008,2009. So it's not like they are a rare appearance.

I actually hope the band do 20 shows and it will be interesting to see how few people they play to each night!

As for bankers, bonuses and VIP tickets... even for half of them with their bonuses unguaranteed you'd be talking 1-2% of their base salary just for a ticket at the front. I genuinely don't know who will be buying those allocations.

It's true but the scale is somewhat different. There's just no reason you should go to purchase tickets and be faced with 25 different "products" for 5 shows, each of them with about 2-3 different price levels within them.

Actually, most bands that play the O2, even the really expensive ones (Stones, Madonna etc...) don't have the prices like this. They've had VIP packages with boats, parking, champagne etc, but they've been the type where you're just sat next to someone who pays 300 pounds less and foregoes the nibbles!

BON JOVI at The O2 Arena in London on FRI, 11/06/2010. Doors open at 18:30, show starts at 19:30

You have requested 2 tickets, priced at £125.52 each, located in the LOWER TIER

We have allocated row W seats 385 to 386

We will hold these seats for the next 5 minutes
To retain them, your order must be completed within that time

Click "Accept" to continue
If you wish to select a different location or a different number of seats, please click "Reject"

Accept | Reject


How the hell are you supposed to make a decision with this information????? I am so disheartened its untrue. How can they treat us like this???

Yeah those booking fees were the straw for me. No shows this year anyways.

You use common sense, realise you are being ripped off rotten and never spend another penny on the band again.

Just read on BS that someone bought tickets this morning and "only" had to pay £30 booking fee for 2 tickets.

If all this doesn't make the papers then i will be very surprised indeed.
Its outrageous !