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Neil Young rejects dynamic pricing for concert tickets, credits the Cure’s Robert Smith for decision


Young’s forthcoming Love Earth tour will not use Ticketmaster’s ‘platinum’ ticketing scheme – described by Smith as ‘a greedy scam’

Neil Young has credited the Cure’s frontman Robert Smith with inspiring his decision not to allow Ticketmaster to use dynamic pricing for his forthcoming tour. Young, 79, is preparing for his Love Earth tour with his band the Chrome Hearts, with performances across Europe and north America between April and August. The most notorious recent example of dynamic pricing was for Oasis’s UK tour: the huge demand meant that tickets that were originally £148.50 rose to £355.20.

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