[tablarasa]

You can usually still go down to the venue during business hours and buy tickets without TM fees, right?

What's hilarious is when I get mad at ticketmaster for charging me convenience fees when I am actively choosing not to walk, bike, or drive down to the venue and circumvent those fees since doing so would be inconvenient. I still make that choice while shaking my fist, and bask in my irony.

[jandrese]

Nope. If the venue even has a box office any more, the person working is just filling out the Ticketmaster webpage for you and getting all of the fees added on.

[tablarasa]

Ooof yeah that's brutal. My friends and I held onto that for a long time though because we liked avoiding the fees but also having the hard copy classic tickets to put in scrap books and what not. I know you can still do it some places but I believe you that their numbers are dwindling.

[mixmastamyk]

Not really true. You can still avoid convenience fees at our local box office. But TM won’t allow anonymous or paper tickets any longer.