Taylor Swift tickets sold for $1468 per ticket in Pittsburgh. They dropped as the concert got near.

[debm55]

What was the most you paid for a concert ticket. The most I paid was $25 to see Eric Clapton. I don't know if it's the artist or the ticket agencies that are setting these prices. Local stations interviewed parents who bought their 10 year
olds tickets. That Clapton ticket was back in 1973, but still, who sets these prices?

[brewens]

1. $85 to see Page and Plant at The Gorge in ''95. Before that, $50 for the Stones Voodoo

Lounge show at Seattle in '94, I think. Before that. $35 for The Police in the Tacoma Dome around '85.

[debm55]

2. The venue was at the baseball stadium. You can't let a kid go by themselves. So you would have to

add another $1468 for the adult.Seems to be like a heck of a lot of money.

[brewens]

3. Yup. Some people have too much money if they can do that. People need to wise up. Those

$200 dollar crap seats because of the greed can't be worth it either.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

4. $300 face value for a pair of Genesis tickets in 2007

It was their (then) final show and my wife and my first anniversary - so it was a special occasion.
Comparable tickets would’ve been about $300 apiece during last year’s reunion.
$100 is about my top end now, and that has to be something special (paid that to take my wife to Lizzo, and would’ve paid that for the Cure had we been able to get tickets).
Peter Gabriel is about the only act I can see paying that for now.

[debm55]

6. I would love to see Peter Gabriel. Do you know who sets the prices?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

7. I think it's a combination of venue/promoter/artist

I don’t know how exactly it’s figured, but Ticketmaster and Live Nation have virtual monopolies on a lot of the venues, and they can gouge as a result.
That said, in some cases they are high because of high demand/limited availability. Artist doesn’t want to play 5 shows in each city, so they price them higher to limit the demand.

In Gabriel’s case, he hasn’t toured for years so there’s high demand, and it’s a big production so that raises the cost as well

On the opposite end I saw a couple U2 shows for $5 because they were filming and wanted to make sure the venue was full.

[Walleye]

5. I paid $50 for a ticket to see Bob Dylan in 2004

It was very small venue in Wilmington,DE. the big kahuna bar and nightclub. About 2000 people stood at the bar and at the tables. Some people walking by on the Riverwalk got to hear him for nothing. He knew the owner of the nightclub and was warming up for the lollapalooza tour. I just walked into the bar and bought a ticket about three days before the concert. I think that not that many people knew about it. There had been just one ad in the local paper a few weeks before.It was great. Audiences all ages everybody sang along and knew his songs. He played keyboards as he sang.

[TheRealNorth]

8. A lot of ticket scalpers looking to make money....

With online sales it's a lot easier for someone to buy a bunch of tickers for a high-demand event and resell them then what it used to be.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. $220 to see Iron Maiden a few years ago.

I had ok seats.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. $60 Each: Bowie "Glass Spider"

August '87. We had 4 seats, 10th row, just left of center.
$60 a ticket was pricey 36 years ago, but it seemed worth it.
I may have paid more than sixty bucks for a ticket, but this was the highest adjusted for when it was.
We saw Clapton with Santana in July 1975 at the Chicago Theater. Decent (not awesome) seats, but we probably only paid $15.
I remember the first concert I drove to was ELO at the Auditorium Theater. Early '73, I think. Good seats were probably $10.
So, $60 in '87 was a lot.

[Ocelot II]

11. I paid about $50 to see the Rolling Stones in 1989,

$65 to see a live performance of Don Giovanni a couple of months ago. I can't imagine paying $1468 to see anybody, but evidently plenty of people will.

[Mosby]

12. Dynamic pricing should be illegal. nt

[DURHAM D]

13. Last week I was in line at my local Walgreens

and there were two female teenagers right behind me. They were discussing a magazine that had Taylor on the front. I asked them how much they would pay to see her in concert. One said $500. The other said $10. We all laughed as they were surprised at their disagreement. Then they started to argue. I was finished with my business and moved on off while they argued.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

14. Not me, and not a concert

But when I was working at the AZ Republic I was on the team covering the Super Bowl. One of my fellow reporters at the game went down to the first row/50 yard line and waited for the ticket holder to show up. It was some random dude in town for the Phoenix Open who decided to drop 20K on a whim and didn’t tell his wife.
I can’t imagine a) dropping that much on a game, and b) still being married after doing that.
The people I met at the game were mostly season ticket holders who got the tickets via lottery for face value and made a vacation out of it. No idea what the face value was, but at the time I’d guess $400-$500.

[yonder]

15. Don't know about the most but the least were less than $5.00.

Stones and Zeppelin, a week apart, June '72, Denver Collesium.
Great concerts, fair venue but awful concrete echoing sound and literal nosebleed seats. The cops were goons.

Iron Butterfly, '69-70?, small, unremembered sports arena in Las Vegas.
OK but too loud, seating was the concrete floor, left with aching butts.

$1468 bucks is totally out of my concept zone for any show.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

16. My first shows were around 82-83

Genesis, Journey, Rush, Def Leppard, The Who. Didn't pay more than $15 for any of them. The Who had the Clash, Santana and Hooters on the bill, and it was only like $8. Hell, the Amnesty International show w/ Sting, Springsteen and Peter Gabriel mentioned in another thread was only $25!

[LudwigPastorius]

17. That seems like an awful lot of money to...

watch somebody sing and dance around on a 6 inch screen.

[Tracyjo]

18. I paid $400 something

for 4 Bruce tickets back in the early 2000's. In Charlottesville. Worth it. I paid $17 something the first time I saw him.