ebay/ticket touts/ticketmaster
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xchristonabike
Elm Park Bencher
foo, does your tout friend sell tickets to friends at face value?
themonkeyman
WHOOO HOOOO !!!
yeah exactly, but I am not sure they would do it, would they ?
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
That's not fair you got to see a legend and i paid twice that (albeit 20 yrs later) to see Manchesters answer to the Rutles
Thing is there's always people with spare tickets at big gigs, the touts wont pay much for them on the night so you can usually get one off a punter for face.
Would of liked to have seen that Dylan gig
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
mmm, that depends,ime. immediately after tickets have gone on sale and sold out, they will be very expensive on ebay. As the excitement builds and proximity of the gig gets closer, they'll be expensive again (tho probly not in the very last couple of days). If it's possible to get them at least a month after original sale, and a month before the gig itself, that's when you'll get them at their cheapest.
Your right it does depend. If you are dead set on going then you want to make sure you have them. If your not that arsed pick up a couple the day before the gig, but there's a risk you might not get them.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
The problem that we have and that ebay has created is for the odd chancer and pro tout alike to buy up large chunks of tickets to an event that he knows is a banker long before the event and then sell them at at a profit without even leaving their house. By reducing the number of tickets available they artificially inflate the price of the ticket so for them its a win win situation.
The act they have bought the tickets to, cannot be insulated from that. It must be very frustrating to see their life's work being profited from by people who have never lifted a finger and are not fans.
The only people to take them on and win are Glastonbury festivals and at a severe cost to people who break their leg on the week of the event. It also cost them a fair sum to do this, the pictures tickets are not cheap to produce, neither is the registration technology cheap to set up.
For people who think its their ticket though, you are mistaken, its the Acts ticket and its up to them what they let you do with it. I also think that if you are complaining that you can't get tickets at reasonable prices your going to have to accept no transfers with uniquely ID tickets or be resigned to the end of face value tickets for good.
The act they have bought the tickets to, cannot be insulated from that. It must be very frustrating to see their life's work being profited from by people who have never lifted a finger and are not fans.
The only people to take them on and win are Glastonbury festivals and at a severe cost to people who break their leg on the week of the event. It also cost them a fair sum to do this, the pictures tickets are not cheap to produce, neither is the registration technology cheap to set up.
For people who think its their ticket though, you are mistaken, its the Acts ticket and its up to them what they let you do with it. I also think that if you are complaining that you can't get tickets at reasonable prices your going to have to accept no transfers with uniquely ID tickets or be resigned to the end of face value tickets for good.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
That is the record industry's way of telling you, tactfully, that your taste in music is lacking.
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
play.com are in on it too now, cunts.
themonkeyman
WHOOO HOOOO !!!
why awhat are play doing ? re-selling tickets ?
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Ban tickets?
If you want to see a gig you bloody well get there. If it's all sold out then you just go to the pub
If you want to see a gig you bloody well get there. If it's all sold out then you just go to the pub
themonkeyman
WHOOO HOOOO !!!
what about a concert TV channel ?
cliche guevara
Well-Known Member
themonkeyman
WHOOO HOOOO !!!
crikey, that is shit house
5t3IIa
Registered User
I just bought a ticket off a tout for £2.50 over face-value but £4.50 less than it cost to buy online from ticketmaster
Quoting myself.
Is the face-value price only available in person from the box office, which as someone pointed out is often impossible to buy from?
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
i don't see what's wrong with touts. they're just providing a service. same as anyone else in retail. you don't get folk posting threads up here about folk who run chip shops being 'scum' because they're selling potatos for a 900% mark up? i don't see the difference.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Chip shops don't generally have the last potatoes left in the world though....
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Oooh, denied, and in a much more eloquent way 
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
yea, but arguably potatoes are a more intrinsically valuable commodity than morrisey tickets because potatos can sustain life, alleviate famine etc where-as the best you could do with morrisey tickets if you were in a famine-stricken land would be to rip them up to fashion a rudimentary jigsaw to momentarily entertain the starving.
quid pro quo, chip shop owners are more 'exploitative' and deserving of wrath than cheeky chappies in Stone Island jackets who stand outside tube stations going "Tickets...buy or sell...tonight's tickets"
anyway, noone's forcing anyone to buy the tickets. A Morrissey gig is not like China during the cultural revolution when folk were coerced into going to listen to the words of Mao. So i don't see what the problem is?
Also, Morrissey is shit.
but... if you feel that the chip shop owners are ripping you off, there will be plenty of other outlets to choose from, or you could make your own chips if the fancy takes you (being careful with the deep fat fryer, of course). you can't make your own morrissey tickets. well, you *could*, but you wouldn't be admitted to the gig.
if touts in Mao's china snapped up all the tickets to a Mao speech and prevented other people from going, they would be shot. probably. the same does not happen here with touts. the fact that ticketmaster and play.com allow people to tout through them means that the act is practically encouraged.
your last point is not even worthy of debate for it is so very, very wrong.
if touts in Mao's china snapped up all the tickets to a Mao speech and prevented other people from going, they would be shot. probably. the same does not happen here with touts. the fact that ticketmaster and play.com allow people to tout through them means that the act is practically encouraged.
your last point is not even worthy of debate for it is so very, very wrong.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
BUT
Mozza will tour again and if you are on the ball you can get tickets
Mozza will tour again and if you are on the ball you can get tickets
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
When The Smiths reform we can do this all over again, lifelong Smiths fans crying that they didn't get tickets for their favourite band
Did you get your ticket from the box office?
Did you get your ticket from the box office?
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