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[QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5318449, member: 10"]
Or you can sit courtside for about $600 (with fees), which is way cheaper than those same seats for Celtics games. Value! Lol

Seems like a good time to complain again about the fees Ticketmaster charges. Just insane. How do they get away with this? I guess it's pretty much because they have a monopoly. Why the heck is their added value worth this much? Why do the event sellers use them? For my tickets they charged a fee of 24.5% of the face value of each ticket. In what industry on the planet does a "broker" in the middle of a transaction charge that kind of percentage? It can't cost anywhere near that amount to run their company. I would think it would be very easy for a big venue with lots of events (e.g. MSG), or a team who sells a lot of tickets (e.g. the Red Sox), to get their own on-line system up and running, charge a reasonable fee like 5%, still make lots of money on these transactions since it can't cost that much to have an on-line ticket selling system, and save their customers money. And on top of that give a big middle finger to Ticketmaster!
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