Day 45 - Regarding Afton Ticketing/Big Time Entertianment

Afton ticketing, formally known as Big Time Entertainment is not a scam. However they will take close to 80% of your profit.
You have to be careful with companies like these because they are only half clear about pay. READ EVERYTHING THEY SEND YOU. Unfortunately they are not doing anything illegal but they are unprofessional. You will not know any details about your show until last minute. Its impossible to get a hold of anyone live and they rely on bands doing all the footwork for their shows. If your a band playing in one of their shows, your basically paying to produce the show. If your ok with doing all the work, not being compensated properly, and you don't mind playing for next to nothing, go for it. Some bands don't mind playing for free, others look at the entertainment industry as a business and expect compensation.

This was an expensive lesson on our part. When I spoke with a lawyer about this whole thing, he was very sympathetic to our situation. Many bands go through this kind of thing. I'm mostly upset with our bassist who got us into this whole mess. I, of course, am the only one dealing with it now. We worked our butts off to sell the necessary 29 tickets to keep the show and we did it in two days. That was $290 we planned on using for the rest of our copyrights, or a monitor for me. The positive side is, we know we can sell 30 tickets at $10 each and get people to drive an hour and half out of their way to see us. That's good. Only getting paid $58.00? Bad. I called my bank and reported the company. What else can I do? I could rent out my own venue and do what they did myself. Hmmmm.....interesting