Ticket agents,touts and thieves.

[bazjude2998]

It was a bold statement.Elton John slags the ticket agents for charging exorbitant prices for events tickets.He said he would sooner see empty seats than people paying over inflated prices enabling these unscrupulous wheeler dealers making huge profits.It,s nieve to think these ticket agents can survive without a reasonable margin.However I was fortunate to purchase a block of tickets on the issue day for Elts Colwynbay Gig.I had two spare tickets due to one of our party having problems,I tried selling these at face value on the day of the concert only to receive a caution I could be arrested.What p-----es me off not only do some of these crooks charge two,three ,four,five times the face value they also charge £40/£50/£60 for the privilege of doing the dirty deal.Surely these ticket agents are no better than Touts.If more of our Super Stars adopted Eltons way of thinking the gates to these musical and other sporting events would be open to the genuine followers at affordable prices.Make this practice illegal.Regards Baz

[Turn7]

If youp are talking about secondary ticketing, then I fully agree - they only way to stop it not use the service.

Sadly, it seems like more and more people at gigs want to be seen "at" the gig, rather than enjoy it as a show - hence really annoying selfie taking with the band in the back ground.

Yet another reason I avoid the big venue high profile events.

[jmorgan]

Problem not helped by many "entrepreneurs" who use these systems. These systems being the ones that seem superbly set up to exploit this. A pox on the lot of them.

[SpikeBmth]

Ticket touting is legal for all event except football. Glastonbury seem to be the only event to have fully beaten the touts.

I certainly agree secondary ticket agents are a right scam, especially those ran by the primary ticket agent!

[Willy Nilly]

I only buy tickets from the venue now, if it's sold out I don't go.

[anonymous-user]

I'm sure there are many other examples of 'businessmen' using their capital to buy up a commodity in order to exploit the law of supply and demand - what's the difference here?

[popeyewhite]

280E said:

I'm sure there are many other examples of 'businessmen' using their capital to buy up a commodity in order to exploit the law of supply and demand - what's the difference here?

The difference is that companies like Ticketmaster need lining up against a wall and shooting.

Live music is not a commodity.

[anonymous-user]

Almost purchased a ticket for ELO from what I thought was ticketmaster. However I was directed to their sister site that allows poor souls who cant make the concert to sell their ticket. Half an hour after the show sold out...
So that £50 ticket was £100 + £35 handling charge!
No chance
Looks like I'll be sticking to small venues with their own box office from now on..