Take That Tour Tickets - what a nightmare for the fans

katkim

There a quite a few Take That fans who didn't manage to get tickets in tears on the official forum, turning into anger with the touts on ebay. That's over 6,000 listings for TT tickets at the moment. I don't really mind people re-selling if things change and they can't go for one reason or another, but since these have been listed almost immediately I'm guessing that's not the case with these listings...there's also a lot of frustration with the general chaos and stress with the vendors today. They should have been better prepared or at least been better at giving out info. And lots of frustration about the fact that TT didn't allow for a pre-sale for genuine fans.

moneypooh

I'm also very frustarted with the 6000+ almost immediate llistings on ebay, how can this continue to go on?? Some wanting 100's of £s more than face value. I hope this is stopped someday soon. I can't afford that to take my children
I have sold tickets on ebay because we couldn't go, BUT at face value...

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I am one of the lucky ones who managed to get tickets today after putting my Mum on the job from 9am then taking over when I got in from work at 230pm.
Thankfully my Mum and Dad are paying for my ticket for my Christmas.

I think its sickening that touts and others who can afford the initial outlay of the cost of the tickets can then start selling their "extra" tickets on via ebay for not just hundreds BUT thousands of pounds. Maybe they should either limit the sale to 2 per address/card/person OR start thinking along the lines of some sort of ID on the tickets similar to Glastonbury either a photo on them or the person's name who bought them and proof of ID at the venue.

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Ms-Money-Penny

willwba wrote: »

has anyone ever heard of ticketline uk? they are based in cardiff, i brought some tickets for the g/f off them and now im worried that they are a scam... can anyone help?

They are genuine, people have been queuing outside there since the early hours. Genuine business been around for a long time in Cardiff

Ms-Money-Penny

A million tickets were sold today. The organisers should have staggered the roll out of the tickets over a two day period thus avoiding the overload on the system.

I range ticketline over 160 times before 10 am this morning, i got tickets in the end through a work colleague whose friend queued outside the stadium.

PolishBigSpender

For all the complaining about ticket touts - I bet every single one of you would sell something for a profit if you could!

The secondary ticketing business is perfectly legal.

moneypooh

I agree that these one day releases are just so unfair. I couldn'tget access via any method today so completely missed out - so unjust! Maybe I should get a second job selling tickets on ebay; because my 1st didn't help today!!

Lucy-Jane

From 9am I was watching See and Ticketmaster online and repeatedly dialling Ticketmaster. By some miraculous fluke I got 4 Wembley tickets through See at 2.30pm - it did take hours but my friends (the 3 who are joining me) are utterly beside themselves with joy...

ayrforce1

Touting of tickets for professional football tickets is illegal. If this can be applied to football then why not for any or all events.
Too many people are making money from ticket sales and resales be it booking fees or inflated prices for reselling an item which is probably not even in your possesion.
I tried to get 4 tickets for a friend yesterday trying several official agencies online and 2 phone lines, but best that came up was 2 together or single seats in different parts, so I didn`t buy any.
In response to the poster who thinks we are all out to make easy money at someones expense neither I nor any of my friends have ever taken more than face value for a ticket for any event, your assumption of greed shocks me.
I also noted that you could buy 8 tickets at a time if you were lucky enough to get through , something that needs to be addresed, and why were all venues put on sale at the same time , a recipe for disaster as anyone who has tried to buy football tickets for a big match will tell you Ticketmaster and asssociated never do cope.
Indeed for a recent Scotland match tickets appeared on Ebay at inflated prices so some of the fans entered hyper inflated bids to thwart the seller, this was covered in the national press.

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PolishBigSpender wrote: »

For all the complaining about ticket touts - I bet every single one of you would sell something for a profit if you could!

The secondary ticketing business is perfectly legal.

Not a chance.
I only ever buy for myself for music events I am wanting to go to.
The only way I would sell my ticket would be if I was ill on the day and even then it would be for the value of the ticket.