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Watch Those Service Fees!

April 6, 2011 •

I was on the verge of buy­ing 4 con­cert tick­ets today, but aban­doned my shop­ping cart when I saw how out­ra­geous the “con­ve­nience fee” is for this online trans­ac­tion.

For a sin­gle pur­chase trans­ac­tion of 4 tick­ets at $68.00 each, the ticket pro­cess­ing ser­vice will impose a $38 fee ($9.50 a ticket). Rel­a­tive to value deliv­ered, a 14% “tax” on each ticket is way out of pro­por­tion.

So the Early Music Guild and Seat­tle Baroque Orches­tra lost out on 4 con­cert patrons, because their ticket pro­cess­ing ser­vice is too greedy (STG).

Too bad: it might have been a great per­for­mance.

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