Whether or not you like rap rocker Kid Rock‘s music, you’ve gotta admire the approach he’s taken on his current tour. Tickets only cost $20 and he’s made it difficult for scalpers by enlisting a “paperless ticket” policy for all dates of the tour, including the one coming up on Tuesday at Blossom Music Center.
One person who’s praising Kid Rock’s approach is Michael Marion (pictured). Four years ago, Marion worked together with other concert venue owners and promoters to form the Fans First Coalition in order to fight the legislation that would ban paperless tickets. Marion, who currently works as the General Manager of Verizon Arena in Little Rock, serves as president of Fans First.
This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2013.
The artist doesn’t benefit from tickets being scalped, and it really does just hurt the true fans. I’m all for letting people sell tickets for face value, but being able to mark it up 200% and sell it to someone else is lousy. Let the people that really care about the artist and want to see the show live get the tickets, and not have to overpay to get them either.
The paperless tickets I have bought are not refundable. If I can’t go then I am out the money or is there a way to sell back to the venue. I would love to know. TM is not giving out the correct info if it is true that it can be sold for face value.