We asked readers what aspect of buying tickets for big Chicago events like concerts and sports frustrates them the most and how they deal with it. Here\u2019s what you told us, lightly edited for clarity:<\/p>\n
\u201cI get excited to go to a game or concert with my family, look it up, see the price, shut it down.\u201d
\u2014 Judy Marchi <\/p>\n
\u201cResellers.\u201d
\u2014 Ximena Arroyo<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople with clout get first dips at premium seats. I deal with it by being thankful I have enough money for the less expensive seats.\u201d
\u2014 Terrence Camodeca<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely ridiculous service charge based on the ticket face price. It takes no more effort to sell a $500 ticket than a $5 ticket.\u201d
\u2014 Bob Cbecker <\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully, I saw all the big legendary bands before ticket and parking prices went out control.\u201d
\u2014 Billy Gallegos<\/p>\n
\u201cThe obscene ticket price itself, the so-called convenience fees, all the taxes added in and only having the choice of upper level, back row now matter how quick you are on the website.\u201d
\u2014 Mark Lukas<\/p>\n
\u201cTicketmaster\u2019s monopoly prices.\u201d
\u2014 Dominic Anthony<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had no issues with Ticketmaster nor other event ticketing processes in Chicago. Ticketmaster online and box office staff are extremely helpful when an occasional Wi-Fi glitch prevents opening of QR ticket codes.\u201d
\u2014 Valerie E. Dudley<\/p>\n
\u201cAdded fees. When I am elected Supreme Leader of the United States, you will be able to charge whatever you like for things, but that price has to be it. Out the door. Nothing extra.\u201d
\u2014 Greg Kazzewits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked readers what aspect of buying tickets for big Chicago events like concerts and sports frustrates them…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-768675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506256244733696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}