Ticketmaster vs. Live Nation

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 7/21/2006, 9:05 pm

Do ticketmaster.com and livenation.com charge different prices for their service charges? I used to get all my tickets from ticketmaster because that was the only place I thought they were available. It used to be that, in Philadelphia, all the big concerts were sponsored by Electric Factory Concerts which just did Philadelphia and the Philly area. Not too long ago, Clear Channel bought out Electric Factory and now electricfactory.com links you to a site called livenation.com which, I learned, is now sponsoring all the big concerts in Philly. I'm assuming Live Nation is a division of Clear Channel, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, electricfactory.com never offered tickets for sale, they just linked you to ticketmaster.com. But now livenation.com offers tickets from their site, so my question is does livenation.com charge more or less than ticketmaster.com for their service charges? Do they both get the same quality tickets? I mean for seated venues, if you buy the same priced tickets at ticketmaster or livenation, will one get you closer? I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with both sites or if you've heard anything from anyone else comparing the two.

I'm planning on buying tickets tomorrow at 11 am (EST - US), so hopefully some of you can discuss this before like 10:30 so I can decide. Of course, feel free to discuss beyond that too, but if you can post before around 10:30 am EST, that would be great.

Joanne · Post by **Joanne** » 7/23/2006, 7:09 pm

well ive been purchasing tickets from ticketmaster, and been offered opportunities to win free season tickets and stuff from livenation. the email notice was from ticketmaster linking me to live nation... so i dont know