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fudgie1980_2
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I am pretty sure I have been ripped off. Ordered 5 tickets for next year's V Festival. Got order confirmation through for £689.30. Looked at credit card statement this morning - £709.34 has been debited from my account to a company called "Ticket Budapest". Sounds WELL dodgy!
Luckily though I have also ordered tickets from an official vendor so I am at least going - I think I'm just going to have to wait until next August to prove to my bank that www.vfestival.net have breached my contract by not delivering the tickets so I can claim the money back on my credit card.
The blimin' annoying thing is that I have never and would never buy tickets from an unauthorised vendor, I just got confused by the website address (I meant to go to the official one (www.vfestival.com) but went to the .net one via google.
DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE!!
Luckily though I have also ordered tickets from an official vendor so I am at least going - I think I'm just going to have to wait until next August to prove to my bank that www.vfestival.net have breached my contract by not delivering the tickets so I can claim the money back on my credit card.
The blimin' annoying thing is that I have never and would never buy tickets from an unauthorised vendor, I just got confused by the website address (I meant to go to the official one (www.vfestival.com) but went to the .net one via google.
DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE!!
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It seems too good to be true, however they must be fake.
Please note, i did receive an email back from them at least 1 month after I sent mine. They are now trading under LONDON TICKET EXPRESS which was on watchdog and was previously shut down? Please do not use this site or any other than officials.
Michael Rangos (below).
He’s linked to a string of sites – leedsfestival.net, vfestival.net and readingfestivaltickets.co.uk – that have failed to deliver the tickets they promised.
Promoter Melvin Benn blames Rangos for disappointing many of the 5,000 fans who paid £200-plus for non-existent tickets to his Reading and Leeds festivals.
Next up there’s londonticketsexpress.com. It’s an identical site registered to the same address and it’s already selling tickets for next year’s festivals.
As is bookmetickets.com, which sounds horribly like getmetickets.com, the Rangos operation shut down in the High Court in 2006.
It’s registered using the same private domain company in California used by londonticketsexpress it claims to be based in New York but takes payments in British and Hungarian currencies. They don't respond to emails you send and the site does look official. Why can this site not be removed to stop confusing innocent festival lovers, we don't all see watchdog or read forums.
It seems that they take your money and arrange to meet you on the day of the festival to give you the tickets with mobile numbers to call. However you will show, but guess what, they may not. Until the actual day you may not find out the truth, but why risk your money on this. Wait for the next ticket sales date and remember to pay by credit card, not debit.
You would think with all his money he could afford a hair transplant.0 -
They're selling tickets they haven't got, hoping they can source them for less than what you've paid for them - online ticket touts."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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Urgh, doesn't he look scummy? Although you'd have thought that with all the money he's pocketed he could afford a decent jacket, let alone a hair transplant!0
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I booked 2 tickets with Londonticketsexpress for oasis sheffield tonight. They rang me on thursday telling me to collect the tickets from their agent on the night giving me a mobile number. I have to drive for 1 and a half hours to get there - will they or won't they turn up? I had no idea this lot were not ligit when booking and I have just read a number of health warning about them and my heart sinks. where do these snakes come from? Will they turn up? anybodies guess we will go anyway. Thankfully a Credit card purchase. Why are these guys allowed to trade?
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Has anyone successfully bought tickets from Londonticketsexpress.com recently? I have just bought some tickets for Bruce Springsteen in June and have just discovered from your forum and others that this is a very dodgy company,which was previously closed down but now-re-trading.
I am not too hopeful of getting these tickets now, but at least I know I should get refunded from the credit card company as I also bought tickets from tickettout last year. You would think I'd learned my lesson! But I honestly thought these were a legitimate company.0
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