Ticket Arsenal Company overcharges. I bought 5 concert tickets totaling over $500 and found out later they should have cost $250.. San Francisco, California

It sounds like you may not have looked at additional fees that you were getting charged for buying through this vendor.  Convenience fees are often pretty high and on top of those there are often venue use fees.

If you buy from the box office at the location that the concert is being held (if possible) you usually save close to 50% in fees.

For instance the last concert i went to cost $35 per ticket before any fees.  On top of that i had a $15 fee for ordering through a third party ticket vendor, and a $10 vendor fee bringing the total to $60 a ticket.  If i had gotten the tickets at the box office my ticket price would have been $13 less, the convenience fee being only $2 there instead of $15.

Pretty much you just have to realize that any time you look at ticket prices you are going to have a decent sum tacked on in fees.