A Ticket Or A Refund?

This Michael Jackson 'This Is It' concert fiasco is laughable because the organisers are coming across - to me - like wrestling promoters.

Let me explain.

The fans paid their money and are not getting what they wanted. The fifty events at the O2 in London sold out and, by law, each person should be refunded.

And so they will.

Unless they would like a souvenir ticket instead.

But, it's not just a souvenir ticket. It has a hologram on it which Michael Jackson designed himself.

Please.

There are a lot of fans out there who will now be clamouring for these tickets and decide to take these holographic pieces of paper instead of the monetary kind.

The promoters know exactly where to bargain with the marks. By making them believe that they are getting something special.

Let's be realistic here. These tickets may only cost a few pence to make. They're mass produced and to charge between fifty and seventy-five pounds for them is daylight robbery. Speaking of daylight robbery - I'm not even taking into account the fans that paid up to and possibly over a thousand pounds on the black market.

It's a shame that everyone will miss out on going to the concerts. It's even more of a shame that a lot of people will be conned into accepting this ridiculous offer so AEG manage to keep some of the money they had made from the events.