{"id":490370,"date":"2019-09-21T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=888127"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T18:38:19","slug":"black-keys-respond-after-third-party-ticket-buyers-denied-entry-to-fan-club-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/black-keys-respond-after-third-party-ticket-buyers-denied-entry-to-fan-club-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Keys Respond After Third-Party Ticket Buyers Denied Entry to Fan Club Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of fans who purchased tickets for the Black Keys<\/a>\u2019 fan club-only concert at Los Angeles\u2019 Wiltern Thursday were barred from entering the venue due to the gig\u2019s ticket policy.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that fans spent upwards of 800-percent over ticket price on third-party sites like StubHub and Seatgeek for tickets to the \u201cLet\u2019s Rock\u201d<\/em> tour warm-up gig, only to be prevented from entering the venue, even if their tickets were legitimate and not counterfeit.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Black Keys<\/a> defended the ticket policy. \u201cLast night\u2019s concert tickets were $25 and geared toward the fan club,\u201d the duo said. \u201cThis was our first show in over four years and the kickoff of the Let\u2019s Rock Tour<\/a>. Because we were playing a venue far smaller than the rest of the venues on the tour as a warmup show, we turned off ticket transferability to ensure that our fans got in the door at the low ticket prices we set for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, fans that purchased tickets on the third-party sites expressed disappointment that they were not told beforehand that their tickets would not be accepted; Ticketmaster<\/a> instituted a rotating barcode for tickets to the show, meaning that only tickets via their app would be accepted, while barcodes printed via third-party sites would no longer allow for admittance.<\/p>\n

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We were turned away. Apparently the rotating ticket policy was put into effect 40 min. Before showtime. And people were being treated like garbage by the staff. pic.twitter.com\/33QRcpWcbS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sherry Sabety (@SSabety) September 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe presenters of the concert directed that these tickets be made available only to fans and that they be strictly nontransferable,\u201d Ticketmaster said in a statement of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was messaged from the beginning with the announcement of the performance and throughout the sales process. Unfortunately, bad actors took advantage of this situation and posted screen shots of tickets that were not valid for entry onto the secondary market. We always recommend purchasing tickets from the official source.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times noted that three of the third-party vendors \u2013 SeatGeek, StubHub and Vivid Seats \u2013 pledged to refund the consumers who purchased tickets to the Black Keys\u2019 Los Angeles gig through them.<\/p>\n

The Black Keys\u2019 tour will kick off this weekend at Las Vegas\u2019 Life Is Beautiful Festival.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of fans who purchased tickets for the Black Keys\u2019 fan club-only concert at Los Angeles\u2019 Wiltern Thursday were barred from entering the venue due to the gig\u2019s ticket policy. The Los Angeles Times reported that fans spent upwards of 800-percent over ticket price on third-party sites like StubHub and Seatgeek for tickets to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 13:02:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}