Ticket Master - are they a rip off?

muras

So just how do you get a Bryan Adams concert ticket for the Bournemouth International Centre gig these days?


I tried Live Nation (already registered with them) pre-sales from 08:00 on Thursday; nada.


Tried from 09:00 this morning for general sales tickets through Ticket Master; sweet f.a.


At the BIC site at 09:30 this morning the only available tickets were standing but I'm afraid that at only 5 feet and a fag-end my wife, Tina, just wouldn't see anything of Canada's hunky monkey

But now I can see that within less than 36 hours of going on sale tickets sold at £45 face value are now being officially touted on GetMeIn for between £87 and £110.

Get Me In is owned by Ticket Master!



Sod it. Bryan might be good but not good enough to be ripped off for.

(What's the smiley for 'Really !!!!!!! !!!!ed Off With Ticketmaster')

Neil

sb65

muras wrote: »

So just how do you get a Bryan Adams concert ticket for the Bournemouth International Centre gig these days?


I tried Live Nation (already registered with them) pre-sales from 08:00 on Thursday; nada.


Tried from 09:00 this morning for general sales tickets through Ticket Master; sweet f.a.


At the BIC site at 09:30 this morning the only available tickets were standing but I'm afraid that at only 5 feet and a fag-end my wife, Tina, just wouldn't see anything of Canada's hunky monkey

But now I can see that within less than 36 hours of going on sale tickets sold at £45 face value are now being officially touted on GetMeIn for between £87 and £110.

Get Me In is owned by Ticket Master!



Sod it. Bryan might be good but not good enough to be ripped off for.

(What's the smiley for 'Really !!!!!!! !!!!ed Off With Ticketmaster')

Neil

They still operate as separate entities, seperate operating statements, etc. GMI only gets seeded money when GMI requests it. They only share limited information between them.

Its easy to see 2 and 2 and think its 4 but it doesn't always work like that. The tickets went on sale days before in the presale. The general sales unfortunately are always poor nowadays and limited. Thats what happened here I suspect.