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Ideal Home Show 2 for £10 offer
Hi All just noticed that the Ideal Home Show discount offer is working again. I tried yesterday but thought i'd missed out. Now it seems to be working again - hooray! Offer gets you two tickets for £10 and kids go free Code is IDEAL10 and you can book on the main ideal home show website. Happy Easter - i'll be heading down…
Festival tickets on GetMeIn?
I’ve just bought tickets for myself and a few mates to this new festival called “Neighbourhood Weekender” which is in Warrington on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May. The legit tickets sold out in seconds months ago but are trading on the ticketmaster resale site for around 1.3 times face value which we were…
Event cancelled by provider
I booked karting for my grandchildren on a weekend away. The venue cancelled my booking 5 hours before stating bad weather. I drove over 200 miles that day so it wasn't that bad. They refused to refund and said I can rebook but we were only there for the weekend and it would be over 400 mile round trip to go do it another…
Aladdin - Cheap?
Hi - I've left something very very late, and wonder if anyone can help or advise. Not essential, but I'd love to take my girlfriend to see aladdin in the west end this weekend, on the saturday evening performance. There are still a fair few seats left, but they are very highly priced. does anyone have experience of waiting…
Sports tickets - please vote!
I'm doing a bit of research and intrigued to hear opinions. Having done a bit of reading and viewing recently, there are so many sports team (football mainly) turning out with only a third of their home stadium full. I read the other day that Sunderland were closing their whole top tier next season in order to try and…
Ticket Bis - Second hand football tickets
I bought 2 football tickets on Ticket Bis for £382.22. When they arrived it was printed on the ticket that they cost £40 each. Surely this isn’t legal? I’ve contacted Ticket Bis and they said they are just providing a safe platform between buyers and sellers and don’t get involved in pricing. I would’ve thought they…
Cancelled concert so need to cancel flights
Hello, i have flights booked for next weekend as we were going to watch Flight of the Concords at the 3 arena in Dublin but unfortunately it has been cancelled. One of the lead artists has broken his arm so is unable to play and they have cancelled all european dates, they say all dates will be rescheduled but have no firm…
Advice on Viagogo purchase
I feel that my son was ripped off, yet I do not know whether it is worth pursuing, as he made the mistake. My son is 16 (and autistic) and wanted to see the Courteeners (£30). I work shifts and was unavailble to help at 9am when they were released. It was half-term, so I guessed he would manage. He failed to get a ticket…
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre Parking
Hi, Can anyone recommend the best place to park for the AECC. It usually takes up to an hour to get out of the official car park, and as we have baby sitters we would like to get away sharp. I've parked on the street up beside the homebase in the past but that was many years ago (not been to a concert in many years due to…
Stubhub refusing refund
I’m wondering if anyone can help? I bought some football tickets last Monday for a football match for Saturday, just gone. I turned up at the venue to be told the match had been rescheduled 2 weeks ago and is being held next week. So I came home and emailed Stub Hub. The emailed me back on Monday to tell me the match had…
MMD Should I share my discount?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... I recently used an app to buy theatre tickets for me and my friend. I later realised the app had given me a £10 discount for buying a second ticket, but my friend’s already paid me full price for her ticket. Unfortunately the MSE team can't always answer money moral dilemma…
25% off London Spring Fair 26/29 April 18
Country Living's London Spring Fair at Alexandra Palace 26- 29 April 2018 25% off tickets ( not valid for VIP tickets) Only available on Advance Subscriber tickets. Offer closes 28 Feb £1.75 booking fee applies per booking Promo code: 25GH https://www.countrylivingfair.com
Festival Refund
Hi I bought tickets for The Flashback Festival (Thorsby Hall Nottinghamshire) in April that was supposed to be happening on 20th August. I received an email in mid July saying the festival was cancelled due to lack of interest and they would be issuing refunds. However I still haven't received my refund. It was just under…
Peter Kays cancelled tour
Hi, does anyone know if it's legal or right that axs from the O2 is not refunding the ticket plan booking refund insurance charge for the cancelled Peter Kay tour??
Money Moral Dilemma: Should I share my discount with my friends?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... I often book theatre tickets for myself and friends, who then pay me back. However, I recently bought a discount card (which cost £40) that gets me money off tickets. Should I continue to charge my friends full-price until the cost of the card has been covered, or just ask…
Daily Mail Breakfree Codes for Both Events
Hi, Daily Mail is doing 2 events, 10pp for uk breaks, 20pp for europe breaks. all codes i will have i do have a fb group - breakfree holidays with erica do join
Advice on misselling by ticketmaster
i was sent this email after purchasing vip tickets mr brightside package for the killers at Swansea. I was disgusted to then receive the email below saying they’d missold this and I could cancel or pay even more! I’ve since asked for clarification of the seats, they can’t tell me until all seats are sold! I’m so let down…
New competition – win a country house weekend and wild food foraging
Looks easy to enter. Weekend for two at Gartmore House in the Trossachs/Loch Lomond and wild food foraging. Accommodation and meals included. Campfire Magazine foraging competition
Tickets for Disabled People
Hi to the people of Moneysavingexpert with disabilities I thought I’d write this handy guide, and hopefully the mods can approve it as a sticky; This guide is about the Access and getting discounted tickets for Disabled People & Carers into arena’s [the phone number needed] and the arena name. When you phone the direct…
Viagogo dud tickets
Can anyone help with an issue I'm having with Viagogo issue please? Bought 3 tickets on 10th for gig at O2 on 11th March. Emailed to me and printed. Turned up, had great meal. Tried to then enter the venue and was told tickets void, they had also been sold by Viagogo on Stub-hub :eek::eek: Contacted their helpline who…

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