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Massachusetts
1 review
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Tried to buy tickets 3 times for a show on this site. None of these attempts work, it suggests you to sign up and have payment information entered before the ticket sale so you can get it faster. Well, nowhere in the account can you actually add payment information. Was trying to get tickets and had a screen saying "Tickets are about to become available, hold tight" and as soon as that loading ended there were no tickets left. Not only this, I had friends refreshing the page constantly to make sure they don't sell out. Well, refreshing the page seems to also knock you back in the queue at one stage of loading tickets, but not the next. Very confusing, terrible website design, at no point in my 3 tries did I ever see a ticket for sale when trying to get in demand tickets.

Date of experience: October 8, 2021
Missouri
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Where's my refund
June 19, 2020

I purchased tickets for Ozzie Osborn in dec 2019. By Jan 2020 the tour was cancelled. Your website says you will refund in 30 days for cancellations. I have emailed and called for six months and no refund. I am waiting for over 300.00 dollars. The automated phone service refuses to give me customer service and disconnects me. It keeps saying I will receive refund 30 days after cancellation. This is false after 6 months I have no refund. I am contacting the attorney general and BBB about this matter

Date of experience: June 19, 2020
Poland
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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August 10, 2018

I have a rather bad experience ordering tickets for an Ed Sheeran concert. The delivery took over a month, and no way to return the tickets in case of an emergency. It is also not allowed to sell them. Would not recommend

Date of experience: August 10, 2018
District of Columbia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Of late, every time I purchase tickets on the first day of on sale I find better tickets released within a month. And I am not just talking the last minute releases. Why even try to get them on the first day? Such a game. Today they released better isle seats all the way up the sections which they obviously held back on to later entice those who really were not as into going. If and if you called to get those better seats, they charge you for the change. Not cool.

Date of experience: April 4, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had rain delay. Started concert without notifying us all who sat in our car for 90 minutes, Don Henley was great but only played for one hour. No encore. Felt like he took our money and ran.

Date of experience: June 18, 2017
Florida
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Alrihht
August 6, 2017

Service was easy to get through had some difficulty with payment had to try multiple times before it would let me submit my payment. But overall was ok.

Date of experience: August 6, 2017
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The worst and unfriendly website in America. Make sure you dont hit the wrong button because not only will you be totally out of luck but you will receive several Sorry-Too $#*!ing bad email replies. Purchased tickets for the wrong night and was not allowed to switch to the correct night... 6 weeks in advance of the event. Live Nation is organized crime and bookies... marking up tickets to which they acquire in large quantity. Along with Ticketmaster... Will never go to a concert again where I have to use their service

Date of experience: July 3, 2022
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The worst
November 16, 2019

I've never had a bad experience until I started using ticketmaster. First off the fact you buy your tickets but can't look at them until often like half an hour before the event is idiotic. Second the app was terrible and barely functioning so I deleted it and was told I can use their website with my mobile internet, well their terrible amateur website doesn't work on my mobile internet either. Just let us download and view out tickets right away without using your terrible app or website anymore.

Date of experience: November 16, 2019
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My contact with Live Nation has been a most satisfying experience. I am sorry to hear that there has been some unpleasant reports but trust me, they were so professional with me I am almost lost for words in todays todays climate of companies taking people's money and not providing the services at professional level. The employee let's just call them (M) treated me with respect first and foremost. Neither of us played the blame game got right down to the business at hand. After a short conversation as they verified things I explained I was told my tickets were valid and although not the normal policy I would get them in the mail in a few days but they were actually expressed to me. Thank you for your courtesy and professionalism. No more pins and needles about the Show I'm to attend.

Date of experience: August 10, 2022
Arizona
1 review
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Live Nation supposedly offered "all in" $20 concert tickets for the nation going back to live shows. Turns out it's just a big scam. When you go to their site on the day sales allegedly start, there's nothing available. Avoid them like the plague!

Date of experience: July 28, 2021
South Carolina
1 review
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Get sick and pay twice
November 26, 2022

If there was a lower rating I would have chosen it.
We purchased several tickets, then 3 days before the event 2 people in the group got covid so we tried to get refunds for those two. Spent several hours trying to find the correct way to make the request. After getting through and making the request we were informed a day later we had made the request less than 24 hours before the event. Had they been smart enough they would have looked at the time stamp, where it was 48 hours before. We tried for hours, greed is alive and well with these people

#41-*******/CAR

Date of experience: November 26, 2022
Missouri
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Customer set
June 6, 2019

This is the worst company I've ever had to deal with! Unfortunately they are the only ones that sell the concert tickets I'm looking for or else I would never use them. Rude customer service and not willing to help (probably bc they know they don't have due to no competition with ticket sales) website is slow and unresponsive and wait times for representatives are long.

Date of experience: June 6, 2019
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No refund received
May 27, 2021

Its been a month a have never received my refund. The concert was cancelled. You can not talk to a live person. I've chatted twice and they will say nothing except its being processed. After asking who else I could speak to they ended the chat.

Date of experience: May 27, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer Service?
June 11, 2021

I'm 63 years old, and they won't give Me more than 8 minutes to fill out a form to apply to their services! I'm sorry, but old also means slower sometimes! Timing out on someone trying to purchase something from You is ridiculous! 0 STARS

Date of experience: June 11, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Horrible.
November 19, 2022

I purchased 2 tickets and reserved 2 seats to see Rod Stewart at PNC Art. They overbooked! There were no seats left. It was totally insane. 100's of people standing no where to go. I had no choice except to leave. What a hugh disappointment. I purchased my tickets 6 months in advance for my sister's birthday. I can't express enough how much we were disappointment. NEVER AGAIN!

Date of experience: November 19, 2022
Massachusetts
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Absolutely The Worst!
August 2, 2022

Insane service fees and a purse size limit that requires your date to check it for a $10 fee with a disclaimer that they are not responsible for lost and stolen items. 4 bucks for a 12 ounce can of sods. This company is a borderline criminal enterprise. I will never see a performer that uses them ever again. They are not even worthy of one star.

Date of experience: August 2, 2022
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never will I ever purchase any ticket from live nation. The fact that I paid over $450 for a vip merch package ticket for the smashing pumpkins concert that was held 08/24/203 to then not receive any of what was promised on my ticket is completely outrageous. I literally missed most of the show trying to ask employees at the venue which was the PNC arts center in NJ to be directed to many different merch stands that had nothing to do with my ticket to then finally be told to email the company and see if they can do something. So I get to emailing them about my situation to then be told we can't mail you your merchandise after the show n pretty much just told me to eff off to now I will forever not purchase a ticket from their let alone an expensive package because you like to cheat your customers

Date of experience: August 25, 2023
West Virginia
1 review
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It was an awesome show, it was our first time seeing Ghost & Iron Maiden. Very nice venue, second time we've been there. Went last year to the Black Sabbath show. Will definitely be back for another show.

Date of experience: June 5, 2017
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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This company must be loved by the artists it serves. They've taken virtually every venue and turned it into an obnoxious money maker. However, its the customers worst nightmare. Service is shoddy, nothing against the carnival folks out there but that's probably where they hired most of their staff from. The lawn seating at venues has been reduced to next to nothing and the former lawn space turned into "cabanas", "reserved lawn", and seats set up into boxes. You can't even bring your own lawn seats anymore, you have to rent them from Live Nation. They've taken what once was an awesome experience and turned it into an expensive and uncomfortable experience. This makes capitalism look like charity. Their concession prices are ridiculous and the quality is poor. Concerts used to be so much fun. Now I feel like a walking wallet. If you're wealthy, good on ya. If not, concerts now suck. Thanks Live Nation, you suck.

Date of experience: August 20, 2022
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My partner and I travelled from the U. K. for WWWY festival, it got cancelled an hour before start time, we'd already spent £5,000+ on tickets, hotels and flights so tried looking for tickets for the next day, but the prices were £1,000 a ticket (3x the original cost). I contacted the customer service who sent me a rinse and repeat statement with no help or resolution. The lack of advice or options is miserable and the company has put their own bottom line and they do not care about their customers at all. It would be great to understand why nothing was put in place to protect ticket holders, especially those travelling a long distance like we have (11 hours).

Date of experience: October 22, 2022

Overview

LiveNation has a rating of 1.2 stars from 150 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with LiveNation most frequently mention customer service, credit card and ticket master. LiveNation ranks 217th among Concert Tickets sites.

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value
67
shipping
34
returns
52
quality
58
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