Subject: NEWSFLASH: 60% Off Bon Jovi’s Vancouver Show, Tickets Now $6.75

From the Travelzoo Newsdesk:

VANCOUVER–MARCH 17, 2011– A limited number of tickets to see Bon Jovi’s "Live 2011" tour are now 60% off exclusively for Travelzoo subscribers. Prices have been reduced to as low as $6.75 to this month’s Vancouver show, which is the only stop in Western Canada.

The following seat levels and prices are only available for
Bon Jovi’s Saturday, March 26, performance at Rogers Arena
(formerly General Motors Place):

– Level 6 … $6.75 (reg. $16.75)
– Level 5 … $11.75 (reg. $26.75)
– Level 4 … $16.75 (reg. $36.75)

The Grammy-winning rockers will be the sole performers at this show. This sale ends March 23.

To purchase tickets, click below and select a level. Fees of
$7.50 per ticket and a $5.80 order processing fee are
additional.

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You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.

And it appears Bon Jovi is the former.

As he laments the passing of vinyl records and cover art, he’s overcharging and overtouring to the point where tickets have to be sold at a discount.  This is good for business how?

And the reason I’m picking on Bon Jovi is he’s number one, the biggest touring act.  And we depend on our leaders to lead, not to undermine the business.

We’ve got to stop discounting.  We’ve got to stop papering.  They may fill the hall for one show, but they hurt the business in general, they teach the public to wait for the deal.  So, instead of racing to buy tickets at 10 a.m. on Saturday, people hang back and wait for the discount offer, or the totally free offer.  And nobody’s out of the loop, everybody hears about the deal.

Hell, if we went to paperless we’d find out so many of these shows don’t sell out instantly, that demand is soft.  Instead, the acts create this mania to get you to overpay soon…  But you feel ripped off after, when you find out the guy next to you got a deal.

How about a fair price, how about transparency, how about being honest with the customer instead of employing subterfuge?

I love "Slippery When Wet".  When the record opens and they launch into "Let It Rock" my whole body is energized.  But Bon Jovi has convinced me that he cares not a whit about me, about the bond between artist and fan, about that special belief that the act is speaking to you and only cares about you, but money.

Bon Jovi needs to be the richest and the most lauded.

And we just can’t relate to people like that.

That’s closer to Lloyd Blankfein than John Lennon.