Robert Smith is Looking Out For Your Wallet

Robert Smith of The Cure continues to push back against ticket scalpers and the concert industry powers-that-be.

He tweeted on Friday that the band has canceled 7000 scalped tickets from the upcoming Lost World tour, and plans to resell them and donate the original purchase fees to Amnesty International. Smith says, “These are tickets acquired with fake accounts [and] listed on secondary resale sites.”

Smith had issued a warning to would-be buyers the evening before that this would happen, then followed through on his threat. It comes in the wake of his getting Ticketmaster to refund $10 to ticket buyers who were hit with high fees on lowest price ticket purchases and $5 to those who bought higher price seats (where the fees were a smaller percentage of their purchase).

In a follow-up tweet, Smith offered two places that people who believe they’ve been wrongly canceled can contact to plead their cases. Finally, he offered “a weekend thought”: “This ongoing [Ticketmaster] ‘conversation’ is not taking place in a vacuum… The system that values profit over people is really what needs to be changed.”

The Lost World tour starts May 10th in New Orleans and runs through July 1st in Miami. It lands at Pine Knob on June 13th.