Prince appears to be taking a one-man stand against secondary ticketing. Tickets for his forthcoming Piano & a Microphone tour were due to go on sale Friday at 10am, but less than an hour beforehand, the ticket agency Ticketmaster announced a postponement.
Since then, Prince’s Twitter feed has been filled with references online ticket purchasing, and secondary ticketing, whereby tickets that have been bought can be officially resold.
The tweets began with a picture of a vulture, captioned: “A. Scavenger B. Vulture C. Tout D. All of the above.”
MULTIPLE CHOICE: A. SCAVENGER B. VULTURE C. TOUT D. ALL OF THE ABOVE pic.twitter.com/IL4J5mZRhM
— Prince3EG (@Prince3EG) November 13, 2015
That was followed by a tweet linking to this week’s report from Which?, the magazine of the Consumers’ Association, in which the secondary ticketing market was investigated. The report found that tickets were appearing on resale sites before they were officially released, as well as simultaneously on primary and secondary sites. It also noted that resale restrictions were ignored by secondary sites.
Regarding the price tickets could rise to on resale sites, Prince – or his representative – tweeted: “Cheaper to fly to MPLS [Minneapolis] get accommodation & go to a Paisley Park show. Better overall experience, too.”
Prince is scheduled to play two shows each at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 27 November, Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London on 29 November and Birmingham Symphony Hall on 1 December.
