Scalping

Music Industry 

Ontario’s proposed concert ticket legislation is dumb and doomed to fail

May 11, 2018 Alan Cross 2 Comments Concert Tickets, Scalping, Secondary Market, StubHub, Ticketmaster

After a couple of years of consultations, the Ontario Government’s legislation regarding tickets for concerts, sporting events, and theatre productions

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018April 18, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Audiophiles, Bono, CBC, Drake, Facebook, KEXP, Prince, Record Store Day, Rolling Stones, Scalping, Sloan, Syria, Texture, Whistling

If you’re in Toronto, I’m holding another one of my Music Tech meetups TONIGHT at the Toronto Reference Library. There’s

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, March 8, 2018

March 8, 2018March 7, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Music, British Columbia, Concert Tickets, Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan, Drum Machine, Flaming Lips, Fred Durst, Fyre Festival, iPhone, John Travolta, Leonard Cohen, Limp Bizkit, Pussy Riot, Roland, Scalping, Tommy Lee, Wayne Coyne

Happy International Women’s Day! Remember that as you peruse the music news for March 8, 2018 There will be one

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Music History 

Ticket Scalping Won’t Ever Go Away. Here’s Why.

August 2, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bots, Scalping, Touts

The history of scalping tickets to events goes back more than hundred years and perhaps even longer. Can’t you imagine

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Music Industry 

Newport Folk Festival Still Rocking the (Ticket Selling) Boat

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017 Amber Healy 0 Comments Bots, Eventbrite, Lyte, Newport Folk Festival, Scalping, Secondary Market, Tickets

The Newport Folk Festival is legendary. Not only is the place where Bob Dylan plugged in and went electric, it’s

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Music Industry 

The UK Gets More Serious About Abuse in the Concert Ticket World

November 25, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bots, Scalping

The whole planet has a problem with concert tickets. How can we make sure that robots don’t elbow us meatbags

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Music News 

How Secondary Ticket Sellers Get Around Ticketmaster’s Credit Card Pickup Rule

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Scalping, Secondary Market

If you’ve ever bought tickets for a concert on Ticketmaster, you may have run across the following caution: All tickets

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Music News 

Tickets to Metallica’s Opera House Show are Going for HOW MUCH on Secondary Sites? You’re Kidding…

November 24, 2016 Alan Cross 8 Comments Metallica, Opera House, Scalping, Secondary Ticket Market

Mike really wanted tickets to Metallica’s Daily Bread Food Bank benefit show at the Opera House in Toronto this coming

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Music News 

Random Music News for Tuesday, November 22, 2016

November 22, 2016November 21, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC/DC, Adele, Black Sabbath, Bots, Brian Johnson, Iron Man, JFK, Kanye West, Presidents of the United States of America, Scalping, Soundgarden, Spotify, The Edge

JFK day. And now, the music news. Here’s a fun story on branding radio stations “The Edge.” Let’s review some

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Music News 

All the Tragically Hip Tickets are Gone. The Only Thing to Do Now is Move On–Or Pay Up.

June 3, 2016June 5, 2016 Alan Cross 5 Comments Bots, Scalpers, Scalping, StubHub, Tickets, Tragically Hip

Did you get Hip tickets? Did you even try? Or did you give up in disgust and frustration? Let’s be

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Podcast 

Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 137: Scooby Snacks

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment B.o.B., Coffee, David Bowie, El Macombo, Flat Earth Society, Lisa Oake, Lou Schizas, Making a Murder, Michael Wekerle, Michael Yurkovich, Passwords, Pearl Jam, Scalping, Singapore, Ticketmaster, web design, Will

I’m back home now, but the last two weeks’ worth of podcasts were done from hotel rooms, one in London

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