A fan recently came forward with detailed claims of ticket manipulation surrounding Bon Jovi’s summer tour. The fan, who goes by the Ticketshelp1 has alleged that Ticketmaster and concert promoters deliberately labeled shows as sold out. They then gradually released additional tickets at inflated prices.
Ticketshelp1 dropped a series of posts on X outlining what they described as a coordinated strategy to mislead fans. The strategy relied on dynamic pricing and artificial scarcity to drive up costs.
“Here is some typical daily corrupt things done by promoters and artists,” Ticketshelp1 wrote. “These Bon Jovi shows were ‘sold out.’ What they really do is hold back these tickets to inflate all of the shows prices, then they slowly release new tickets after dynamically raising the price much higher.”
“This is done to manipulate fans who are uninformed and make them pay higher prices. This is all done by the promoters and artists team, this greed can only be blamed on them and one of the root causes of why ticket prices are so damn high.”
To support the claims, Ticketshelp1 pointed to a specific example involving a July 14th Bon Jovi show. The fan detailed how ticket prices shifted dramatically over a short period.
“Let’s take a look at the July 14th show for Bon Jovi,” they continued.
“Posted 2 days ago they released more tickets after pretending it was sold out and forcing you to buy crazy expensive resale. They were $561.70 for lower level in section 106 row 19. Now after two days of no one buying those insane prices, they have already dynamically lowered to $502.70. The real scalpers are the promoters using dynamic pricing. Except this is supposed to be the primary ticket sales people trust. Instead they hold back numerous amounts of tickets with zero disclosure of it to drive prices higher.”
Ticketshelp1 also documented the full pricing progression for the same section, illustrating how prices dropped significantly over time.
“Following more Bon Jovi ticket manipulation,” they wrote.
“The show was originally labeled as sold out. Then Ticketmaster working with the promoter gradually released more tickets in Section 106 Row 19. First release: $561.70. Later reduced to $502.79. Then reduced again to $413.00. Finally, they released Row 7 seats for $322.95.”
