Ticketmaster
High fees, poor transparency, and market concentration leave fans with a worse experience than a competitive market would deliver—junk for end users.
Junk Stage 4
The experience is broadly worse for users; the platform optimizes for extraction over quality.
Between fees, dynamic pricing, and integration with venues and artists’ incentives, buyers often feel nickel-and-dimed at the last step. Even when tickets “work,” the experience is widely perceived as hostile to fans relative to value delivered. Stage 4 junk for many users, whatever the business logic.
