Evil companies
Boingo used to be the evilest company I could think of, but that was before I recently tried to buy tickets to a Wilco concert on Ticketmaster. Not only do they charge exorbitant “handling” fees (such bogus - since when does emailing a ticket cost more than sending it through the mail?) but they also TIME you while you’re making your purchase.
You first find the event that you’re looking for (which isn’t as easy as it could be, but that’s the least of my complaints). Then you click this ridiculous “finding tickets” button and enter a captcha. You can’t even see if they’re sold out yet without this extra step.
They claim that they block the tickets for you, and that you have a (very) limited window in which to buy them. And they actually time you on each page. Filling out forms. 90 seconds per page, and there’s this huge obnoxious timer in the bottom-right corner of the page, ticking down the seconds.
Really awful. And the handling fees are crazy expensive. It’s a terrible experience but they’ve got a monopoly for most events somehow.
Also, it’s kind of hard to read long posts like this with all the text centered. Annoying at least.
