Another reason to hate Live Nation
Posted on April 10th, 2008 – 4:44 PMBy Chris Riemenschneider
This is a warning more than anything, in lieu of the once-again blooming concert calendar: If you’re buying tickets to any of the big gigs in town promoted by Live Nation, avoid their Nokia Ticket Rush scam like the plague. It’s actually a plague on your cell-phone. I signed up for the service to try to get pre-sale Van Halen tickets last fall, and now I get annoying text messages from those bozos every week, and never for any noteworthy shows. I’ve tried several different ways to unsubscribe to these alerts to no avail. It’s like the herpes of the concert world (not to discount the actual herpes of the concert world). Most annoying of all: I never did actually offer any Van Halen tickets!
Anybody else encounter this problem? Or any other warnings along these lines for concertgoers?
5 Responses to "Another reason to hate Live Nation"
How about the fact that Live Nation just struck a partnership/ownership deal with Myth?
Is the Kraftwerk show at Myth going to be worth going to?
[…] read this article yesterday by Chris Riemenschneider of the Star Tribune talking about the Live Nation Nokia Ticket Rush scam. On the bottom of the piece was a comment left by someone named Cody, “How about the fact […]
Myth is the worst venue in the Twin Cities. I am a long-standing Kraftwerk fan, and am passing due to the location. Rude staff, horrendous sightlines, and AWFUL sound. I saw Elvis Costello and will never go back. In fact, Elvis himself said as much.
Sounds eerily like the Strib’s ad scams, which consequently, I cannot unsubscribe from becuase it’s too difficult to navigate through the maelstrom that is your personal Strib page. WTF? Cry me a river Riemenschneider.
