8 tickets per customer is too many

richardw

Promoters should change this, just creates secondary markets.

mjm3346

More profitable/quicker for them to have eight in one go instead of spreading the eight across several.

kpwll

richardw wrote: »

Promoters should change this, just creates secondary markets.

Totally agree with you, this is why there are so many, at vastly inflated prices, being advertised now. I was trying all day yesterday to get them for my son but no luck :mad:

webdesigncomapny

I am totally agree with you

vikingaero

If the ticket companies/promoters really gave a monkeys, they would print names and addresses and insist on ID.

moneypooh

Whilst I sort of agree, I also see that as a disadvantage too. I've bought JLS tickets for my daughter and friends at the O2, if they were named and needed ID how could she go without me? Besides the friend group that are going have changed a few times since the tickets were bought - teenagers!!

ellay864

It's illegal to sell tickets for football matches so although touting does happen, they cant block sell on ebay. So at least honest fans get a decent chance to get tickets. While I can understand that sometimes people genuinely buy tickets but then can't go (my mate was praying for her baby to arrive 2 weeks early like his sister had so she could be 'recovered' enough to see Bon Jovi - instead while Jon was belting out Living on a Prayer she was on her knees in labour!!) and they might use ebay then, if they banned tickets being sold up to a month before the gig then the touts wouldnt have the immediate outlet to recoup the money they spent on them

7891368

richardw wrote: »

Promoters should change this, just creates secondary markets.

It's not always 8.
The promoter sets the number of tickets per event.
Some events are only as few as 4, others can be limitless

vikingaero

moneypooh wrote: »

Whilst I sort of agree, I also see that as a disadvantage too. I've bought JLS tickets for my daughter and friends at the O2, if they were named and needed ID how could she go without me? Besides the friend group that are going have changed a few times since the tickets were bought - teenagers!!

If you buy them for her then there should be a mechanism to put individual names and addresses on the tickets. Most teenagers have some form of ID, bank statement or official correspondence.

sb65

Good idea. But not practical. May work for Glastonbury and some events like Miley Cyrus at the O2 but the promoters know

(a) this costs additional money, resources and technology. Tickets get printed by multiple agents so each would have to re-invest in new technology. Additional costs going back into YOUR tickets
(b) having 20,000 people being checked by security staff at the O2 (people forgetting cards used, not bringing them etc) means you would need to get to the venue twice as early to get in.
(c) Apologies but having your address on the ticket is one of the most ridiculous ideas I've heard. So if I buy a ticket for an event like Peter Kay in Oct 2011 and move address after they are printing.what then?? There are other security issues I could mention here and more importantly
(d) The promoters really don't care about the touting. Seriously. Getmein is owned by Ticketmaster. Viagogo has exclusive arrangements with other sellers. They know that the touts are an integral part of making even poor events possibly profitable though at the same time not condoning this practice.

bylromarha

I'd have been gutted if I couldn't have got 8 seats for Take That - I'm going to celebrate my birthday and 7 friends are joining me. Would only have been 3 friends if I wasn't allowed to buy 8 in one go.

3 would have been good, 7 friends to celebrate with is far better.

I do think though it'd be easy enough to stop - you pay a £6 booking fee anyway + postage. Why not make that include special delivery of the tickets so that they arrive the day before the concert - no time to send on to secondary buyers, so nothing in it for touts. Tickets only get released to ticket agencies and box office collections in advance.