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Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Paul67, Feb 20, 2014.

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  1. Paul67 Administrator Administrator

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    Not sure how they can be stopped, but these people need to be smacked with a sock full of snooker baws.

    My wife managed to get a ticket for a Prince gig in Manchester on Saturday night. The tickets were sold out within seconds of them going on sale according to the venue and Manchester press. Price is £70.

    Minutes after them selling out, touts had them online for as much as £1500 each.

    * disgraceful.

    Now the venue, Manchester Academy, have issued statements saying that every person entering the gig must have ID of the person who purchased the tickets. Apparently this is to stop touts?????

    The touts who have already sold any tickets above face value won't be giving a flying *, but the folk trying to get into the gig without the ID will suffer. The very least the venue will accept is the last 4 numbers of the purchasing bank card.

    There needs to be a law against this touting tickets online.

    Ticketmaster, a major ticket sales company, has a sister company selling them for up to £350. Shocking.


    Anyone had any experience of touts?
     
    Paul67, Feb 20, 2014
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  2. Mr. Slippyfist

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    As far as I'm concerned, if you pay stupid money for a ticket, then you deserve to get * over.
     
    Mr. Slippyfist, Feb 20, 2014
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  3. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    Supply and demand if someone is prepared to pay that let them.
     
    Tim-Time 1888, Feb 20, 2014
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    Kinda agree on this one, its supply and demand. Not saying touts are right but if there wasnt a market for it then these people wouldnt be able to sell them at astronomical prices.
     
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  5. Mr. Slippyfist

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    End o' the day, touts are only doing what venue/clubs etx are doing and setting their own value on a ticket.

    Most of them are bumping * but if you decide to part with the cash, then hey ho.
     
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    If yir willing to spend £1500 on a ticket to go see Prince, well...you'd have to be a bit saft.
     
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    Was a very interesting thing on the telly last year, ticketmaster (and one of the other big ticket agencies) were buying their own tickets and touting themselves.
     
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    I agree that people are stupid if they pay that sort of price compared to the face value, but surely there should be some sort of law where a limit is set in % of the sale price online.

    You can't stop people selling for whatever price they want on the street, but you could hammer the online ticket companies for it.

    £70 tickets selling legally for £1500 is disgraceful.

    Still, if they are stupid enough to do it, then the companies will continue to rob them.
     
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    Just a wee heads up to people, if yir interested in going to see a band or artist in concert, join their mailing list in advance of tickets going on sale, most artists nowadays will give people on their mailing list atleast a 24hr headstart to buy tickets before they go on general sale, that way you get yir tickets before the touts do :50:
     
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  10. Mr. Slippyfist

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    Morally? Absolutely.

    But then again payin £100 to see Beyoncé miming for an hour+ tonight is * despicable also.............
     
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    Big problem is with sites like viagogo, seatwave etc being given a cut of tickets and using systems to book tickets which doesn't give normal fans a fair chance. I'm doing my dissertation about ticket touts just now
     
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    There * scum I go to every dublin game and when the final comes around they come out of the woodwork and buy all the tickets I have missed 3 games in 4 years all because I couldn't get a ticket
     
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  13. Sean Daleer Ten Thirty Gold Member

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    Sounds like a money spinner, I'll need to get involved in this.
     
    Sean Daleer, Feb 21, 2014
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    I actually made money of a tout.
    Years ago i had 2 tickets to see Rainbow (The band NOT the TV show):icon_mrgreen: at the Hammersmith Apollo.
    My friend couldn't go after we had bought our tickets. Couldn't get refund so went with intention of selling spare ticket. I had paid my friend his £25 back.
    I heard a guy want to buy a ticket from a tout. Tout asked for £600 and guy thought about it.
    He walked away so i approached him and said "Gimme £400 and you can have it." He gave me the cash. Tout heard me and started complaining. I just started laughing at the * and went and enjoyed a brilliant gig £375 richer.
     
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    I agree ......scum of the earth.Of course there is a market for tickets.......people are desperate to see their heroes!
    Doesnt mean it is right to jump in and buy a ticket you have no interest in to just abuse someones passion.

    Scum!
     
    mygirlmaria, Feb 21, 2014
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    If someone's willing to spend that money on a ticket then the likelihood is that they can afford to and its no real major hassle for them.
     
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    I think government made a lot of forms of touting illegal a while back, and venues such as Twickenham come down very heavily on people they catch trying to sell tickets on. But, and it is a very big but, larger companies like Ticketmaster,Seatwave, Viagogo have the market sticthed right up. Ticketmaster even have their own 'official' secondary seller company FFS, so if you cant get a ticket for a particular event, their website suggests trying their sister company where you can buy the same ticket for 3 times the price!
    Twickenham are just as bad, while they do punish 'ordinary' people for touting, they do allow their 'official' partners to but tickets from rugby clubs and then sell them as hospitalilty packages at hugely inflated prices, a bit like Celtic did with Thomas Cook really!

    I would imagine companies like Ticketmaster have good lobbyists, and make regular donations to political parties.
     
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    Yes but touts arent buying what's left. They are buying maximum numbers at the front of the que. So if they get their hands on say 30% of tickets it forces people to pay more who want to go. They are scumbags
     
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    bring back pay at the gate :50:
     
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    Got a ticket for Seville through a tout in the States. Cost me $400 and it was worth every cent to me.
     
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