#James hype booking price download#

I bought two tickets, one for me and one for a friend who will pay me back later. The lack of transparency is really galling. Not one of the purposes of these fees is explained. The ticket price is listed up front as £34.45 (including service and facility charges) yet the ticket itself is still listed separately with a “full price” of £29.50.

#James hype booking price download#

Eticket free (assuming you download the ticket site’s own app).

Websites have replaced the real life box office in most cases too, and the everyday logic of music fans, based unfortunately more in hope than reality, suggests that this should make selling tickets cheaper. The backlash against fees for ‘print-at-home’ tickets is well documented, but with true e-tickets based on apps like Dice, this has become another historical charge that will not be missed. In our digital age we have of course said goodbye to postage and packing. In recent years however, the prevalence of more insidious and usually unexplained additional fees has grown and grown. I might take a stack of pound coins with me next time so I can enjoy the eye roll as they put the chip and pin away. I love the invariable bewilderment of staff at Band on the Wall every time I turn up during my lunch break asking to buy tickets in person. I still miss the incongruity of the Ticketline box office window inside what was once the Easy Internet Café above Manchester’s St Anne’s Square. The other additional cost you would commonly encounter once upon a time was postage and packing.Īs a cheapskate of some repute, I will still go out of my way to avoid one, if not both of the above, if possible.

Once or twice you might have noticed the initials ‘STBF’ on your gig ticket – Subject To Booking Fee.īooking fees have been around for years and are widely accepted as a necessary evil to cover costs.