So angry! Lady gaga @ glasgow

paulabear

http://gigantic.com/gigantic/home_lady_gaga.html

might be helpful, I got my Alice Cooper tickets from them after everywhere else had doubled the price : )

omen666

It is against the law for touts to sell tickets in a public place but as we always see at venues the police or stewards dont do anything anyway, so bloody pointless. You will also always see the same ones, especially in London, whether it be outside the theatre for Mamma Mia or Wembley for a concert.

I also cannot see why sites that sell tickets do not use a membership card scheme where you have to pay for the card at a reasonable nominal fee and this is to be used by the scanners at venues to gain entry. The caveat is you can only get one replacement card in a year, therefore stops touts giving them to prospective buyers. This though wont really deter them though as like at Arsenal where I go week in week out, you will find a lot of the touts have registered their membership details for all of themselves and family and friends members paying the fee and buy tickets for each game .

One thing that deffo concerns me about ticketmaster which I find a bit of a conflict of interest is their new site - http://www.getmein.com/ticketmaster-uk.html this site is for tickets you have purchased via ticketmaster but want to sell them. You list them and they send the tickets directly to you and not the original buyer.

What is then stopping ticket master from when selling 80,000 tickets for U2 at Wembley holding back 10,000 tickets to sell on their own tout site and making triple the money for each ticket? There is no regulations for this so what is to stop them?

RobertoMoir

omen666 wrote: »

I also cannot see why sites that sell tickets do not use a membership card scheme where you have to pay for the card at a reasonable nominal fee and this is to be used by the scanners at venues to gain entry. The caveat is you can only get one replacement card in a year, therefore stops touts giving them to prospective buyers. This though wont really deter them though as like at Arsenal where I go week in week out, you will find a lot of the touts have registered their membership details for all of themselves and family and friends members paying the fee and buy tickets for each game .

So the net effect of this idea would be to make it more difficult for honest people to buy concert tickets as a present for someone, all while doing little to stop touts who are even vaguely organised?

Mankysteve

A Photograph on the ticket like Glastonbury one have would be a big deterrent.

omen666

RobertoMoir wrote: »

So the net effect of this idea would be to make it more difficult for honest people to buy concert tickets as a present for someone, all while doing little to stop touts who are even vaguely organised?

You can buy voichers as presents to get tickets

RobertoMoir

omen666 wrote: »

You can buy voichers as presents to get tickets

You mean like gift vouchers? So if I wanted to go to a particular show, as opposed to "a show, whatever" and someone decided to get a voucher for me as a Christmas present, there would be no guarantee tickets would still be available?

qw3rt7

Touts don't damage ticket vendors, issuing personalized tickets certainly would do, printing cost alone would be massive.
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