Ticketmaster ******s again.....
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Just got in and tried various sites for FM tickets x2. Eventim from £137 - sold out. Ticketmaster - sold out but they advertise a company called getmein as having tickets for resale (!!!!) from £149 (too far away to even see the band) to £898. Per ticket. How is this allowed when tickets only went on sale this morning?
goldblum said:
Just got in and tried various sites for FM tickets x2. Eventim from £137 - sold out. Ticketmaster - sold out but they advertise a company called getmein as having tickets for resale (!!!!) from £149 (too far away to even see the band) to £898. Per ticket. How is this allowed when tickets only went on sale this morning?
They were on sale to o2 customers on weds and ticketmaster are in with get me in and hold back tickets for them.egor110 said:
They were on sale to o2 customers on weds and ticketmaster are in with get me in and hold back tickets for them.
Manchester ones only went on general sale today, yet have been up for hugely exaggerated prices for a number of days. How is a normal person supposed to buy a face value ticket for a gig at one of these big shows?goldblum said:
egor110 said:
They were on sale to o2 customers on weds and ticketmaster are in with get me in and hold back tickets for them.
Manchester ones only went on general sale today, yet have been up for hugely exaggerated prices for a number of days. How is a normal person supposed to buy a face value ticket for a gig at one of these big shows?It's a bummer but i don't think normal people are supposed to be able to buy them at face value, the big ticket companies want you to buy them from the resale sites that they also own.
Last few tickets i tried to get were hard work, royal blood at bristol i was unlucky but managed to get tickets for biffy clyro's small london date by phoning rather over the net, i think you have to be online 8.50am to have any chance also.
egor110 said:
General sale went on sale today yes but o2 customers had a pre sale that went on sale weds.
It's a bummer but i don't think normal people are supposed to be able to buy them at face value, the big ticket companies want you to buy them from the resale sites that they also own.
Last few tickets i tried to get were hard work, royal blood at bristol i was unlucky but managed to get tickets for biffy clyro's small london date by phoning rather over the net, i think you have to be online 8.50am to have any chance also.
Right. Surely to God that can't be legal? Has a member of the public ever been able to purchase tickets presale or is that just a scam designed to make the actions of a cabal (nearly - as far as I can see there are two main players) seem legit? Should be laws stating resale tickets can only go within a certain % (say 5) of face value.It's a bummer but i don't think normal people are supposed to be able to buy them at face value, the big ticket companies want you to buy them from the resale sites that they also own.
Last few tickets i tried to get were hard work, royal blood at bristol i was unlucky but managed to get tickets for biffy clyro's small london date by phoning rather over the net, i think you have to be online 8.50am to have any chance also.
Anyway McVie et al will now have to do without my company in June next year.Their loss, lol.
goldblum said:
egor110 said:
General sale went on sale today yes but o2 customers had a pre sale that went on sale weds.
It's a bummer but i don't think normal people are supposed to be able to buy them at face value, the big ticket companies want you to buy them from the resale sites that they also own.
Last few tickets i tried to get were hard work, royal blood at bristol i was unlucky but managed to get tickets for biffy clyro's small london date by phoning rather over the net, i think you have to be online 8.50am to have any chance also.
Right. Surely to God that can't be legal? Has a member of the public ever been able to purchase tickets presale or is that just a scam designed to make the actions of a cabal (nearly - as far as I can see there are two main players) seem legit? Should be laws stating resale tickets can only go within a certain % (say 5) of face value.It's a bummer but i don't think normal people are supposed to be able to buy them at face value, the big ticket companies want you to buy them from the resale sites that they also own.
Last few tickets i tried to get were hard work, royal blood at bristol i was unlucky but managed to get tickets for biffy clyro's small london date by phoning rather over the net, i think you have to be online 8.50am to have any chance also.
Anyway McVie et al will now have to do without my company in June next year.Their loss, lol.
I am and got thru to buy tickets but no way i'm paying £60 for tickets at the back plus extra £9 processing charge.
Just get a pay as you go o2 simcard and you can register for the presales, however your still not guaranteed to get a ticket because they only put a certain amount up for pre sale.
I'm spoilt 
t). If I can't get ticket I stay at home. I'm with you on the big stadium type events Willy Nilly: We went to the Diana concert a few years back now, which was at Wembley. The sound was awful, very echoey as we were sat high up in the middle so stage to the left and massive echoes from the right. We actually enjoyed it more at home afterwards as I'd recorded it and we watched it again on the projector.
Willy Nilly said:
I have also given up with Ticketmaster, if there is a band I want to see I get on the venue website and buy tickets
Good call this, I've had this work quite a few times and if a band adds an extra night it will generally flag up on the venue site first. I've also found it cheaper in the past to fly to Europe (as long as one of the cheap airlines goes there) rather than pay through the nose from the secondary ticket agencies. Strangely they don't seem to have this problem abroad and often tickets have each individuals details printed on them, you have to show some photo ID to cross reference before you get in. The various tactics people employ to circumvent this in the UK just don't seem to work or be tolerated, the chatting and morons with camera phones seem a whole lot less common as well.
I've bought through all of the foreign subsidiaries of the usual agencies (Eventim, Ticketmaster and See) and they have been a breeze compared to the scrum that is often the case when buying tickets for UK venues, wonder what's different................
hairyben said:
it starts with the promoter, who realises he has a asset worth far more than it's face value. the face value can't reflect the asset value as the artist doesn't want to be seen as ripping off the fans so most tickets are passed straight to reseller and never see general sale.
I remember reading an article describing how the Stones were insisting ticket sellers had to add £75 IIRC as a booking/admin/rape fee, which would then be paid back to Mick et alStubhub is selling tickets on presale for The Who at Hyde Park. Presale starts tomorrow and the site states "all prices are in GBP and set by sellers. Prices may also vary from face value.." Can someone educate me please? - If this is the first time these tickets have gone on sale how can sellers already possess them to sell at 9 a.m. tomorrow?
OldSkoolRS said:
I'm with you on the big stadium type events Willy Nilly: We went to the Diana concert a few years back now, which was at Wembley. The sound was awful, very echoey as we were sat high up in the middle so stage to the left and massive echoes from the right. We actually enjoyed it more at home afterwards as I'd recorded it and we watched it again on the projector.
Went to see Foo Fighters at Wem-ber-ly. It's crap for music, nothing like loud enough. Also there were loads of people there a I'm not convinced had heard any of their songs before, because they didn't know where the woaaa woaaa woaa's were in My Hero. Some cretins behind me moaned at me for standing up. You're at a rock concert not the opera. When they did that, I put my hands on the shoulders of the little lad in front of me and told him to stand up and rock.To hell with big venues.
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