Insuring your… concert tickets?
Ticketmaster, as if it wasn’t greedy enough yet with it’s fees, now wants you to buy insurance for those concert tickets you purchased. Looks like the fees are about $5-$20 depending on what you paid for your tickets.
The idea is simple - if you miss or can’t make a show for a “covered reason” you get a full refund, including fees (wow! Even cancelled shows don’t refund fees).
Some interesting text from the FAQ on Ticketmaster’s site: “Required to Work – if your employer requires you to work during the event” is listed as one of the covered events. In the actual writeup of the insurance it states that prior contractual obligations for work aren’t covered, but this seems like a pretty grey area. Does this mean you can just call in and say your boss had you work late and get a note from him saying so, and then get a full refund? Seems like that would take all the risk out of attending a show…
Interestingly you can also buy the insurance up until the day before the show.
Also interesting… This “insurance” does not cover cancellations by the promoter or venue! REALLY? That’s sort-of crazy, isn’t it? It’s really only if you, the attendee, can’t make it - not the venue. That’s certainly some limited coverage.
The insurance, btw, isn’t provided by Ticketmaster themselves - it’s through Access America. Read the fine print here.