Stop The Ticket Touts Petition

Former_MSE_Archna

If you feel you're being unfairly charged sky high ticket prices due to greedy touts have a look at the website Stop Ticket Touts.

It's a website designed to put pressure on the auction sites and if you agree you can show your support by signing the petition.

shellsuit

Can I just say, so long as there are buyers out there willing to pay OTT prices for tickets, then there will always be sellers trying to make a fast buck.

Nobody forces anyone (for example) to pay £200 for a £30 (face value) ticket, buyers themselves choose what they want to pay.

I don't think the sellers/touts of these tickets are doing anything wrong, it's just some people have more money than sense.

The only thing I don't agree with are sellers/touts who bulk buy tickets just to resell.

Tickets should be limited per buyer, so in reality it is the companies selling the actual tickets in the first place who are in the wrong IMO.

nightswimmer

MSE_Archna wrote:

If you feel you're being unfairly charged sky high ticket prices due to greedy touts have a look at the website Stop Ticket Touts.

Just curious, but why is it that ticket touts get singled out for this? I mean, whats the difference between a ticket tout buying a load of tickets and selling them for a high price on eBay and therefor preventing people from buying them at normal prices from ligitimate places, and someone doing the same thing with any other limited quantity product?

(Not trying to be clever or argumentitive, just genuinely wondering why ticket touts are singled out as being 'bad')

shellsuit

nightswimmer wrote:

Just curious, but why is it that ticket touts get singled out for this? I mean, whats the difference between a ticket tout buying a load of tickets and selling them for a high price on eBay and therefor preventing people from buying them at normal prices from ligitimate places, and someone doing the same thing with any other limited quantity product?

(Not trying to be clever or argumentitive, just genuinely wondering why ticket touts are singled out as being 'bad')

From what I gather from reading the e-Bay forums, the life long fans of bands/singers/football clubs feel angry because they can't get a ticket for whichever gig because all the tickets have gone to touts.

That's not true, if you are a die hard fan of whoever, you make sure you get a ticker ASAP as they come out to make sure this doesn't happen, and well, if they have all gone, a die hard fan would pay any price to see their hero/s wouldn't they?

Every Christmas, look at e-Bay. The top selling toys that sell faster than anything in stores will be listed on e-Bay for stupid prices. (Barbie pegasus horse thingymajig this Xmas just gone. £20 in shops, selling for upto £100 on e-Bay for example)

If you want one, you'll have to pay it, simple.

That's life!

bleugh

erm.,...............personally, if they're prepared to pay that much, i'd be happy to take that much money off them

just have to figure out how to get tickets cheap now :-)

leona71

I don't see what the deal is here! I'm not against people selling tickets on Ebay at all. I personally wouldn't buy any tickets at those prices thou.

I sold tickets not that long ago for well over the price i paid, i couldn't make the concert but hey it was a good feeling to make well over £100.

People buy stuff from that £1 shop and sell on Ebay all the time at over inflated prices, at the end of the day these folk are just trying to make a living! Isn't everyone really.

Leona

shellsuit

I've just looked at the site and some of the comments and IMO they are out of order.

How can a seller/tout, be a thief?

Do they steal money from peoples pockets and purses for the tickets?? No, so it is not thieving.

The rip off comments, if you haven't bought the tickets then you haven't been ripped off.

If you have bought tickets well over face value, tough luck! It's not being ripped off, it's having more money than sense but to whinge about it afterwards is just stupid.

greytroot

I must admit i sell tickets on ebay, but no-one offered to pay me more money when i was selling £85 Elton John tickets for £16 each, that was starting as all my auctions do at 99p. What if ebayers offered a mars bar and a can of coke and call it a hospitality package............

By the way I have a 100% feedback rating and never even had one person complain about my service or the tickets they bought.

folkestonelisa

Ive been luckily enough to get some tickets for the robbie williams concert at wembley (if its built in time)

And i joined his fan club and queued all day on the internet (nine hours in total) to get them for my sons birthday. But if i couldnt make it then i would sell them on ebay.

greytroot

Maybe you want to stop people selling houses in Scotland whereby the price is offers over, sometimes of course they go for well over what they are actually valued at.

Adults are able to make decisions for themselves and ultimately put a price on what they want.

What about shares, what about ebay in total, what about our government, what about council tax, what about car auctions, what about the tv licence, what about road tax, there is so much to get humpty about that we forget it is still supply and demand, it is still dog eat dog, life just isn't fair and if you spend all your time thinking like that.......well I pity you....

rdwarr

The "ticket tout" issue merely exposes eBay's facilitation of the "everything has a price" ethic. eBay has given everybody the chance to make a fast buck on a deal, something that was previously the realm of a select few.
Things that previously would have been given away are now sold, whilst bargain products are often snapped up purely to be resold by amateur traders.
Underpriced tickets are one of these "bargains". No point selling at a low price if fans still have to buy for five times that from eBay touts. So are Tesco misprices, Dell specials and other similar deals.
eBay has given us all the opportunity to replace compassion with profit. Many of us have tried it and like it. Fortunately there are also many who still prefer to give than receive or that food you have worked hard to buy tastes better than that which was obtained immorally.