The Cure’s Robert Smith spoke out about Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system for buying concert tickets.
. In a shot across the bow at re-sellers, when the tickets for the 30-date run of Shows of a Lost World Tour went on sale Wednesday morning to those who pre-registered using Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system, will beThe singer went on a tweet spree on Tuesday in which he explicitly described how and why the veteran goth rockers decided to go their own way on this outing.
Smith also revealed that the Cure were told that TM’s Verified Fan platform “has been used more than 400 times to qualify buyers and reduced the % of tickets on the secondary market” and that using VF has regularly reduced scalping by 80%, with less than 5% of tickets typically ending up on the secondary market.
“WE WERE CONVINCED THAT TICKETMASTER’S ‘Verified Fan Page’ AND ‘Face Value Ticket Exchange’ IDEAS COULD HELP US FIGHT THE SCALPERS,” Smith wrote. “.”
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