Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen performs his final show Sunday night at Floores Country Store in Helotes. A sold out crowd of aboout 3000 people were on hand., he’d planned on tickets to sell for about $100. Instead, on resale markets, prices ballooned to about $1,000, and Keen heard about it from fans.
In addition to Keen and Cornyn, the other panel members included the president of Austin FC from Major League Soccer, the president of the Round Rock Express minor league baseball team, a concert promoter and a Taylor Swift fan who tried, and failed, to get tickets.when Ticketmaster crashed during the ticket drop for Taylor Swift’s intensely anticipated “Eras” tour. Some tickets for the shows have hit resale markets for thousands, angering fans.
“It just wasn't possible and I wasn't I wasn't able to buy tickets,” Testone said. “I wasn't able to go and I'm so incredibly disappointed. I looked at it as like a lifelong memory that I missed and an opportunity that I just wasn't able to make.” The reforms are not yet finalized in a bill, but Cornyn said they will be bipartisan. They will include measures requiring more transparency from ticket resellers, giving artists more power over ticket prices and providing more protections for people buying resold tickets, so they know they won’t get stuck with frauds. Cornyn said a ban on reselling tickets altogether is not being considered, and he doesn’t object to the resale companies charging service fees.