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Neil Young to Stop Selling ‘Platinum’ Tickets on Future Tours, Thanks to the Cure’s Robert Smith

Neil Young has pledged to eliminate high-priced "platinum" tickets from his future tours, adding that he was inspired by the Cure's Robert Smith.

Neil Young has pledged to eliminate high-priced “platinum” tickets from his future tours, the singer announced Saturday. Writing on his NY Archives site, Young said he was inspired by the Cure ’s Robert Smith, a frequent critic of Ticketmaster ’s “dynamic pricing” and “Platinum” offers — calling it “a “scam” that is “just driven by greed” — and sought to prevent the practice on the band’s Songs of a Lost World; Smith also successfully lobbied against exorbitant service fees on ticket purchases. Young’s upcoming Love Earth Tour employed “Platinum” pricing — a method to dissuade scalpers from buying up premium tickets and selling them for more money on the secondary market, for their (and not the artists’) gain — but the singer wrote Saturday that “Platinum” tickets are “a bad thing” that won’t be in place on his future treks.

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