Word: ticketbastard
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...Angeles Times in 1985 that his competitors were "asleep at the switch," was an aggressive businessman and proud of it. He was so good at dominating the ticket industry (and consequently became practically the only game in town) that Pearl Jam rebelled in 1994 with a campaign known as "TicketBastard." The band wanted to offer summer tour tickets to fans for under $20 and asked Ticketmaster to charge less than $2 in service fees. Ticketmaster refused, Pearl Jam canceled its tour and took its case to Congress. Ticketmaster prevailed, but not before the band accused the company of sending private...
...decade after Pearl Jam's failed "Ticketbastard" crusade against the ticketing giant, the Web is doing what lawsuits couldn't: raising the bar with a healthy dose of competition. While Ticketmaster, part of Barry Diller's Interactive Corp., still dominates the industry--it sold 128 million tickets last year, compared with Tickets.com's 76 million--it is fending off threats from every direction. Some of its biggest customers--concert promoters and professional sports leagues--are finding ways to sell their own tickets. Smaller ticketing outfits are attracting museums and concert halls with software that gives them closer fan connections. Worst...
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