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by Anonymous User on Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 12:52:35 PM PDT

This column has really struck a nerve with me. I used Ticketmaster several times this summer. I am appalled at the fees they are allowed to charge. They should be paying me if I print my own ticket, not vice versa. In any case, I used them because it was the ONLY way to get tickets for the events I was interested in - buying tickets at the box office on the day of the event would not have worked since the event eventually sold out. But, sometimes you have to live with the economics of the situation. That would be fine, except that soon after using Ticketmaster I started receiving SPAM. LOTS of SPAM. And I'm not talking about the ads that Ticketmaster and their "partners" generate. I'm talking about SPAM from the dark corners of the internet. Up to this point, this kind of SPAM was a once in a while occurrance. Since that time, half my incoming email is SPAM. When this started occurring, the only thing I could trace back to, i.e., the only time in the recent past that I had given out my email address, was to Ticketmaster (and I had to give a legitimate email message so that I'd get the email giving me the link to print my tickets). I complained to Ticketmaster using the posted email address on the privacy policy. I received no response. I will no longer do business with Ticketmaster unless I absolutely have to. Unfortunately, that can't undo all the SPAM I'm receiving.

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