Dirty little secret not mentioned in the piece: I suspect that the ticket brokers' ticket source is the promoter (and maybe even the artist).
"Fans have always blamed ticket brokers and Ticketmaster for not being able to get a good seat when in reality the blame lies with the artist and promoter for holding back the majority of the good seats," he said. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob in Jersey Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:30 PM To: TVorNotTV Subject: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Did Bruce withhold tickets illegally? New Jersey state law limits any individual entity to withhold 5 percent of the tickets for any given event from public sale... for one night at E. Rutherford this year, The Boss based on my calculations held back about 7.7 percent... the govt. body that runs the arena would be blameless, it looks like they held back only about 4 and change pct... http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/springsteen_withheld_best_tick. html -- BOB --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
