President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aiming to break down on solution rates.
Standing beside the leader in the Oval Office was Kid Rock, who performed at several of his demonstrations last year and explained what the purchase aims to accomplish.
Kid Rock, whose given name is Robert James Ritchie, said he has been pushing for the move for decades because he wants to sell cards at an affordable price but cannot because of extreme procedures in the resale market.
” Anyone who has bought a musical seat in the last decade, even 20 years, no matter your politicians, knows it’s a conundrum”, Kid Rock said. ” You buy a ticket for$ 100, by the time you check out it’s$ 170, you don’t know what you’re getting charged for”.
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But what really irks the actor is “bots” that he said find cards en masse and then purchase them online at a considerable premium.
” Sometimes it’s for a 400 % or 500 % markup”, Kid Rock said. ” I would rather be a warrior to working-class folks and have them be able to travel enter my shows and give them a good ticket price. I can’t handle that right now, but maybe this is a primary step to be able to make that happen”.
Kid Rock said he’d like to see policy passed to seal the resale market but thanked Trump for making the executive order happen at “lightning rate” in the meantime.
Trump joked that he calls Kid Rock” Bob”, referencing his constitutional first title, but agreed that it’s time to break down on cost cutting at concerts.
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” I think Bob is more interested in the viewers and the people that are having to pay outrageous costs than he is the musicians”, Trump said. ” Even the artists a little bit, but the viewers a lot. I’ve spoken to him over the ages about it and it bothers him. It bothers a lot of other designers to”.
The professional get charges the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to step up enforcement of existing rules against price gouging.
