The Seattle Sounders and Reign FC are parting ways with Ticketmaster after this season, announcing a partnership with ticketing platform Jump starting in 2027.

Ticketmaster is a hard no for me, so this mean I might be see a Sounders game. Woo-hoo!

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I went to a mariners game while visiting Seattle, bought tickets through stubhub. Oh goodie have to claim ticks on ticketmaster. Don’t want their fucking app on my phone, ok they’ll just email off right? No. Have to log in via mobile web, oh not ticketmaster.com of course, silly, you should obviously know to go to ticketmaster account manager and open your tix there. Want to add to your phone’s mobile wallet so you don’t have to do that on the fly at the gate? No problem, just add to iPhone/Google wallet…only you have to connect your Google account to Ticketmaster to do that, fuuuck that. Christ.

    So fucking ghetto.

    Big difference why Google, despite being a monopoly, has been tolerated longer, their shit actually works and has largely improved people’s lives (massive asterices) compared to ticketmaster who in addition to being a fucking gouger, makes seeing good artists harder, makes the process dicking worst than it was back with paper tickets in the 1980s and meanwhile owns a ton of venues.

    Good on the sounders from leaving, TM is always voted among the most hated companies in the US and with good reason.