I recently bought tickets to a Blink-182 concert in July. Tickets were advertised as about $90/ticket, so I got one for me and my wife, so the bill was $180. Then there was an extra $32 "service charge", which I didn't enjoy but also kind of expected.
The thing that really pissed me off was that there was another $3 "transaction fee" on top of the rest. I have no idea what the hell that was. I don't know why that couldn't be rolled into the "service charge", and for that matter I do not know why they couldn't just roll this into the price of the tickets.
It just feels like Ticketmaster survives primarily on false advertising and upcharges. I have no idea if there's going to be another charge later for this concert.
I guess the solution is to not go to concerts but that seems kind of depressing.