Are prices on Ticketmaster look much higher? You are not alone.

For years now, the Ticketmaster experience has been defined by hitting the exit button and seeing the ticket’s purchase price, and sometimes Almost weaknessThanks to the so -called “service fee”. Finally, this will change. No, Ticketmaster does not get rid of the service fee. But it will now offer the full cost of purchase, and includes fees, from the beginning of your treatment.

In a blog post, Ticketmaster Declare The so -called “all pricing”, which starts on Monday, May 12. “With all prices in prices, you will be able to find tickets in your budget immediately, with no surprises in the exit. This is because you will see the cost of your ticket-including the fees, before taxes-from the moment when you start shopping at any event in the United States,” He said.

Why does Ticketmaster offers its new prices that reflect in a transparency of the actual cost of tickets? To hear the Ticketmaster version of events, this is something he wanted all the time. “We are all on the status of the fans first. We have long supported the laws of pricing all around the world, and supporting the experience of buying fixed tickets for the masses,” the company claimed in a blog post.

There is something very funny about converting Ticketmaster into a type of new feature and putting it as a supporter of consumers, as if someone forced her to work with hidden drawings that appear only when going out throughout this time. Ticket fees were for a long time, as Ticketmaster was one of the largest guilty. 2018 Government Accountability Office report I found that the service fee struck the ticket buyers with the costs that add, on average, 27 % to 31 % of the price of tickets announced for the final purchase.

When the Biden administration began to follow up on the unwanted messages campaign, Ticketmaster promised to communicate with changes – but it has spent more efforts to roam and combat it. For every Washington PostThe ticket giant began to show the full purchase price on tickets only for offers in Live Nation Attives, Ticketmaster was merged in 2010 in 2010. The company also I raised the pressure on it Once the unwanted graphics rules begin. This does not seem exactly the type of thing that the company you want always wanted to transparently.

Instead, the interpretation of Ticketmaster “All in Assyion”, the pioneering concept of showing the cost of things, is much simpler. “The ruling of the Federal Trade Committee on unfair or deceptive fees”, which require companies “clearly and clearly” the total price of the fees listed from the jump, Go into effect On May 12. It is strange how this needed to become the Law of the Earth for Ticketmaster to actually do the thing that he claims to be supported for a long time.