Is it right to do this?

Blacksheep1979

clairibel wrote: »

I'm with skintdragon on this one....those extra tickets that you resell for £100 could have been left with ticketmaster and potentially bought by people who actually want to see the show.

We had this with WWE tickets as my son is mad on them couldn't get tickets and had to pay over the odds, but if they all didn't get swooped up by sellers we might have had a chance and not be skint :eek:

Sore subject for me, but feel free to do as you please...

It's the world we live in though and you see it everywhere people buy more than they need to make money from tickets to houses.

Serenity

skintdragon wrote: »

:eek:

here's my 2p worth...

as a regular gig- goer i'd be miffed if people bought tickets solely for touting interests. you've got people trying to obtain tickets for the retail price and touts bump the prices up and that to me is grossly unfair. we can't all afford to pay overly- inflated tout prices.

i have on the odd occasion had to sell tix on ebay because of work commitments but i always sell it for the price i paid (ticket price, admin/ booking fee, postage), so i don't gain any profit. that's fair, and it gives someone else an opportunity to go and enjoy themselves without paying over the odds.

How, exactly, do you sell tickets on ebay for the price you paid?

If you put them on as a normal auction and demand is high they will naturally go well above the asking price.

If you put them on as a "buy it now" at face value this is way more likely to be snapped up by a tout who spends time on ebay looking for bargains than a genuine fan. And then sells it on at a higher price.

I sold tickets this week for my sister, they went at around 60% of face value, I have sold before and got more than face value. It evens out. I have also bought tickets above face value. If you are willing to pay it then the seller isn't really ripping you off imo. It is annoying but you still have a choice.

To the OP - as people have said it will not make you popular and I also doubt you would be declaring your earnings so it is very morally dodgy. But it's up to you to weigh up the pros and cons.

I know this is off topic but I think ticket sites should have some king of refund thing where if there is a demand you can return tickets for face value (minus an admin fee) and they can sell them on for face value (perhaps have a waiting list). I was just thinking this last week when T in the Park tickets went on sale. I wanted to go but couldn't guarantee I could get the time off work. If I couldn't I would end up with a very expensive dud piece of paper. So I didn't buy tickets.

hermum

I can't see the difference between buying tickets & selling them on for a profit then people buying the ltd ed items from top shop etc & selling them for a profit. Everything that is bought to sell is done with the intentions of making a profit.

custardy

hermum wrote: »

I can't see the difference between buying tickets & selling them on for a profit then people buying the ltd ed items from top shop etc & selling them for a profit. Everything that is bought to sell is done with the intentions of making a profit.

and if you buy to sell it is a business transaction
in the op's case it is earning while being in receipt of benefits

saygoodbyetothese

geordie_joe wrote: »

What makes you think that? Serious question, what proof do you have that it is illegal?



What about the ones that are not included in "nearly all"? If it's illegal to resell tickets then it's illegal to resell them all, not "most of them"

Also, who says they are not allowed to be resold, the people who sell them or the law makers of the UK?

There's a big difference between a ticket seller/venue saying "we will not let you in if we think you are not the original ticket purchaser" and the legal system saying "You will be punished if you resell a ticket".



Not the ones who buy the ticket, those who would not have got one any other way.

The way I see it, it's no different to buying a house then selling it when the price goes up.

"Generally, the reselling of tickets by consumers is not illegal and consumers have the right to buy and sell to each other. There are some exceptions to this, such as the Games in 2012 and football. In addition local laws may prohibit the selling of tickets on the street; and event promoters’ terms and conditions may prohibit the unauthorised resale of a ticket by a business."
(Source: Department for Culture, Media & Sport consultation paper "Ticketing and Ticket Touting").

It's not fair for those of us who work full time and have to buy tickets at over-inflated prices on ebay if we don't want to miss out...
Legalities aside I think it's acceptable if you're just making a small profit, i.e. 10%.

geordie_joe

saygoodbyetothese wrote: »

"Generally, the reselling of tickets by consumers is not illegal and consumers have the right to buy and sell to each other. There are some exceptions to this, such as the Games in 2012 and football. In addition local laws may prohibit the selling of tickets on the street; and event promoters’ terms and conditions may prohibit the unauthorised resale of a ticket by a business."
(Source: Department for Culture, Media & Sport consultation paper "Ticketing and Ticket Touting").

Thank for clearing that point up.

saygoodbyetothese wrote: »

It's not fair for those of us who work full time and have to buy tickets at over-inflated prices on ebay if we don't want to miss out...

It's not fair, I agree, but if it wasn't for people reselling tickets you wouldn't get any, would you.

There's always the point that if people didn't buy from touts, the touts would soon stop selling tickets.

The biggest thing you can do to encourage ticket touting is buy tickets from touts.

f1re_cr4cker

actually ticketmaster now do offer an *insurance policy* for a bit extra so you can get a refund if you need or want too.

custardy

saygoodbyetothese wrote: »

"Generally, the reselling of tickets by consumers is not illegal and consumers have the right to buy and sell to each other. There are some exceptions to this, such as the Games in 2012 and football. In addition local laws may prohibit the selling of tickets on the street; and event promoters’ terms and conditions may prohibit the unauthorised resale of a ticket by a business."
(Source: Department for Culture, Media & Sport consultation paper "Ticketing and Ticket Touting").

It's not fair for those of us who work full time and have to buy tickets at over-inflated prices on ebay if we don't want to miss out...
Legalities aside I think it's acceptable if you're just making a small profit, i.e. 10%.

this phrase does my head in,what you mean is you work hours that dont allow you to buy when they go on sale
i know its off topic but its often used as if not working 9-5ish isnt a real job