So Kelly and I went to Cirque Du Soleil Thursday night. Absolutely blown away. Definitely go if you can afford it.
Anyway, the site has a nifty “print your own tickets” thing, which I did. I was thinking that CdS was doing this through the Raleigh-based Etix company, a TicketMaster competitor. Turns out it was TicketMaster itself, under the guise of Admission Network.
Which is cool, I guess, if they were doing electronic tickets right. In typical form, however, TicketMaster added a few bucks for their “handling fee.”
Uh, what handling? These are E-tickets! The only handling done was my picking up the paper from my printer. I think if anyone deserves a “handling fee” it should be me, dammit.
TicketMaster sucks. Any company that nickels and dimes you the way they do deserves to lose business. They are one reason why I steer clear of most big-ticket events. I won’t mention the other right now because it will soon have its own, lengthy entry.