Letter to the Editor:

Garth Brooks ticket process was ‘just plain wrong’

Roger King, Henderson

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 | 2:03 a.m.

The Las Vegas Sun’s Saturday story on the Garth Brooks-Steve Wynn concert ticket fiasco expressed the feelings of thousands of us who were lucky enough (we thought) to get tickets by waiting hours on the phone or computer.

The way this was handled was just plain wrong.

The business of entertainment is entertaining and serving customers, not hunting down scalpers.

Are we supposed to make heroes of Brooks and Wynn for ensuring that they are the only ones making money on these concerts? So what if the customers and audience are made to feel like jerks?

Brooks should stick to singing and Wynn to selling tickets on normal terms. We can handle the rest ourselves!

Discussion: 3 comments so far…

By POWERPLAY

11/2/09 at 9:43 a.m.

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Hey Roger: I hate to tell you this but most tickets to his show will be comp-out to casino players they won't be sold for cash.
By Katja77

11/2/09 at 2:27 p.m.

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I'm with Wynn on this one. He doesn't make more money for himself by doing this, it is on principle. And sticking to this principle he will likely lose money. Part of the reason you had to stay on line for hours is because the "brokers" had snaked the system and jumped to the head of the line to snag the best tickets that people who actually wanted to attend the event could not purchase. What is wrong is that Scalping tickets was made legal. Money in the pockets of the "Brokers" isn't going to show up in Las Vegas with the ticket holders. I saw a ticket listed on eBay for this show, they were asking $4,000. How can you justify this sort of greed?

I applaud Wynn's efforts to put the tickets in the hands of people who want to see the concert at the reasonable price. I would have loved to spend my anniversary week in Las Vegas with my husband and attend the show on New Year's Day but I guess my tickets are in the pocket of a Scalper.
By teamster

11/2/09 at 11:49 p.m.

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Wynn is a heartless Republican who stole the
tips from his own workers.
I wouldn't step one foot in his place.