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Comment by pkteison

The quote in that article is fairly accurate, I don't see why you dismiss it. It's congressional testimony so you can get it from the source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg54048/pdf/CHRG-111s...

"...Ticketmaster’s service charge is, you know, Ticketmaster was set up as a system where they took the heat for everybody. Ticketmaster frequently gets a minority percentage of that service charge. In that service charge are the credit card fees, the rebates to the buildings, rebates sometimes to artists, some- times rebates to promoters. So Ticketmaster has been the—we are like the IRS. We deliver bad news."

parent pkteison 11 years ago

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