Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Arcade Fraud?

?This is the kind of thing that is really making me want to swear off big venue concerts for good. Since the presale and sale of the Monday April 25th show at UIC they have added two shows (Friday and Saturday). Obviously it would be much more fun to go on Friday or Saturday instead of Monday.  I doubt Regina and Win were sitting around thinking of ways to screw their fans but this still sucks.

Wilco pulled this same stunt last year. At UIC too. It's just sleazy.

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Posted by BW at 10:06 AM

4 comments:

OB said...

"Arcade Fraud"?? Seems A BIT strong. I agree it sucks, but how are they to know if a show will sell out? I always thought they did this after analyzing how quickly the previously show sold out, and how much the tix for the initial shows were going for from sleazy scalpers. Then they know an additional show would be profitable. Horrible business move for them to just slate 3 shows and not sell any of them out...

February 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM
BW said...

I'm being dramatic but this was definitely intentional. I don’t buy that they didn’t know how well they would sell. All three shows were going to happen no matter what. If they announced all 3 the Monday show might have been slightly under sold. This seems to be business as usual now so I don’t like Arcade Fire any less for it. It’s just dishonest.

February 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM
OB said...

Its a good point....can we agree without any real knowledge of what went on behind the scenes, its only potentially dishonest? [and the band members are not the ones running the business, although I would agree that does not absolve them of any potential doucheyness].

I think the biggest hypocrisy here occurs when bands rail against Ticketmaster, scalpers, and Stubhub -- and then pull shit like what may have happened here with AF and previously with Wilco. If you want to avoid shenanigans and opportunists converging on your show, do commit them and don't be one.

February 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM
BW said...

I added a question mark. Anything is possible.

February 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM

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