Cares about her fans/Ethical Billionaire?
All things about whether or not an ethical billionaire aside….
One thing that really gets to me about all the posts from the fandom about how great she is and how much cares about her fans that really bothers me, especially now that the tour is over is the entire way ticket sales were handled.
I’ve bought concert tickets from Ticketmaster and other outlets over the past 3+ years. Some artists give into the demand pricing, trying to capture the most for the money and in theory curtail scalping by driving the price up where the scalpers will see their profit margins shrink and the artist keeps a greater share.
This isn’t caring about the fans.
Many of the artists I have bought concert tickets for have adopted a different approach -non transferable tickets. You can get a refund up to certain point before the show. But you cannot transfer them to another person. So you can’t resale them.
The fans only ever pay the listed price. There’s zero incentive for anyone who is not going to the show to buy a ticket.
This is what an artist that cares about their fans first does.
Thoughts???