They are the undisputed king of tickets, selling more than $5 billion worth of tickets last year alone.

The average price for a top concert tour last year was $52.39 -- twice what you were paying in 1995. The add-on fees for tickets are multiplying too.

Those convenience fees are Ticketmaster's profit base. Other add-ons include an order processing fee, a tax on those fees and a facility fee. ...

Even if you want to print tickets yourself, on your own computer, with your own ink, they want $2.50 per ticket.

Depending on the base price, it's been reported that Ticketmaster fees can add up to 50% to the price of a ticket -- 20-30% is more common. It's still a lot. ...

Ticketmaster makes that money, by getting bigger and charging you more. Their combined fees for convenience and processing are up an average of 10% annually since 1999. ...

Ticketworks is a local ticket company serving smaller often non-profit venues like the Basilica Block Party. He says it used to be that a venue would hire someone to sell tickets for them, but he claims Ticketmaster turned that around by paying the venue and making its money off of concert-goers.