Ticketmaster's Non-Refundable March Madness Application Fee Is Infuriating

Outrage

As you might expect, fans are not at all happy with the situation and are raking them over the coals for even trying a scheme like this.

"Everything is a grift in this piece of (expletive) country," one user angrily remarked.

"That’s how monopolies operate. Ain’t it grand?" another mocked.

"We need to collectively stop paying for sports things. Maybe even just pick one month a year and truly organize things. They need to stop screwing fans at every chance," a third wrote.

"Anybody who pays that is a sucker. They didn't sell out in Philly this year and the resale tickets were well below face value. March Madness is not the All Star Game. You'll have no difficulty buying tickets last minute if you want to go."

Unfortunately for fans, Ticketmaster does - in fact - have a de facto monopoly that basically gives them carte blanche to sell their tickets how they want to. Short of the government forcing them to change the way they operate (unlikely), there's no incentive for Ticketmaster not to try and gouge every price they can.

The only way to respond to practices like this is to just not buy the tickets. If enough people muster the nerve to not overpay for something, prices have to go down.