Take That Ticket Touts

Amanda65

I totally agree lalca - I posted about this a few threads back and am delighted that your queuing paid off for you and your daughter. Sadly I'm not near a selling venue and so had to rely on the internet and phone but wasn't lucky.

I posted on hear as it is a consumer vent board and I felt that it was a good place to 'vent' my frustrations. As for the way I'm moneysaving - well I won't be giving the touts the pleasure of my business!

lacla1966

Thanks Amanda65. Thought I was being helpful here but obviously not in some peoples eyes, so it's nice to know you agree with me re touts!!

Hope you have luck and I would keep trying all the phone numbers and websites. While I was queing in Glasgow we were told that credit card bookings were being refused and tickets were becoming available all the time, so good luck.


AMANDA YOU HAVE A PM

iduncan

lacla1966 wrote:

Get a grip on myself?? What's your problem?? Are you one of the touts everyone is up in arms about??

yes i have 200 tickets to sell all front row....i got them from a mate who works at SECC. He sold me them for £1 each and we're splitting the profits.
BTW that was sarcasm.

everyone??? i think it is you and a few other misguided individuals who dont understand market forces and capitalism, most sane stable individuals accept that its always happened and always will.

I tell you what ill go buy a lottery ticket for a pound tonight and if it wins ill sell it you at the price i paid £1...NOT!


Money saving aspect? Bringing the publics attention to the extortionate amounts of money being made by touts on eBay will save everyone who enjoys concerts money.

yep and wheres the money saving, you dont appear to be offering any place to buy tickets at face value but feel happy to criticise others who may have also queued for hours/all night for their tickets who want to sell them on to those who basically couldnt be bothered, the profit is in control of those buying. It is always a buyers market.

Worth more than face value? Are the promoters undercharging??

arguably id say yes, i dont remember george michael or madonna having any problems shifting £100 tickets last year, yet TT choose to sell at £25 and do a very limited number of dates. Promoter/Take That are at fault.


Nothing to do with eBay or the internet? It's eBay who are selling them.

ebay dont sell anything, they only host individuals sales.

no different than blaming ITV for advertising overpriced Cars.


Funny how they withdrew all tickets being touted on their site for the Diana concerts and Live8 due to public demand!!

confused again i fear, they were withdrawn as they were "charity" concerts, and admittedly Gbarlows solo career wasnt up to much, but i think classing him alongside starving children is a bit OTT, delaware manor didnt buy itself.


Many of us queued for hours for tickets in the 80's but at least we had a very good chance of actually getting them at face value from the venue.

Similarly now..no change

Yes they are selling for ridiculous amounts and eBay are encouraging this

no they are not ebay have nothing to do with it. if they werent sold on ebay theyd be sold elsewhere they ares imply a peice of merchandise

to the detriment of genuine fans who are forced to pay up to 10 times the face value of the ticket to line some greedy lowlifes pocket

no one is forcing anyone, personally i would never pay more than face value but can appreciate that others cant be bothered to queue, call etc and dont mind paying a bit extra for the privilidge of "choice"

And I DID get tickets. I queued for over 3 hours to get them for my daughters and only took the amount I needed and NOT what I was entitled to buy, meaning some genuine fan behind me in the queue had a chance of getting to see Take That at the price on the ticket. So please explain why others deserve tickets more than I do???

Apologies I was so infuriated by your rant that I missed that bit out.
Good for you not buying any more I applaud you. But you cannot get on a high horse and complain about others who perhaps bought an extra couple of tickets hoping to for example fund their own tickets, cos they couldnt afford it otherwise. the "deserve tickets" thing related to the fact that others are obviously so devoted that they will pay ridiculous prices for tickets.
whereas you obviously (like myself) wont.

I in no way condone professional touts etc but where there is a demand there will always be someone selling, thats the way it is and no matter how many letters/post you do you will not change human nature or a market economy.

Sammz

lacla1966 wrote:

I have contacted the national newspapers asking them to look into this and publish the story in the papers and I would urge others to do the same. Until it is highlighted, they will continue to get away with it. A

The exact same thing happened when I bought tickets for Take That back in 1992 except they were getting sold through the local papers. There is no way of stopping it.

I have 6 spare tickets to due lack of communication with friends. I was loathe to sell them on for a profit but the cost of the concert for me is going to be in excess of £120. Money that I and the others will struggle to get together. I still haven't decided what I will do with them but they may yet appear online somewhere for more than face value.

AmyGroovy3

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Take-That-Tickets-Saturday-1st-December-07-x2_W0QQitemZ200084777498QQihZ010QQcategoryZ1306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

OMG £9,100.00:mad: :mad: :mad:

Sammz

There is no way that tickets are going to sell for that amount. It's peed off real fans messing up the auctions.

georgina_fenwick

AmyGroovy3 wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Take-That-Tickets-Saturday-1st-December-07-x2_W0QQitemZ200084777498QQihZ010QQcategoryZ1306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

OMG £9,100.00:mad: :mad: :mad:

This is now upto £12,100.00 Absolutely ridiculous in my opinion NO band is worth that.

rdwarr

georgina_fenwick wrote:

This is now upto £12,100.00 Absolutely ridiculous in my opinion NO band is worth that.

It is extremely unlikely that any tout will successfully sell tickets on eBay.Please calm down

lacla1966

in reply to iduncan

200 tickets, very funny.....NOT

I take it you are insinuating that I am mentally unstable? Just because "its always happened and always will" doesn't make it right and mean we all have to accept it.

Anyone over 15 can purchase a lottery ticket at £1 and sales are NOT limited, therefore I would NOT expect you to sell me a winning ticket for £1. Everyone who buys a ticket has the same chance of winning.

I HAVE posted a link on another thread with a site selling tickets to all venues. Not everyone who couldn't get tickets "couldn't be bothered" Many don't live near outlets that sell tickets and rely on the web and phones which were both in meltdown.

Madonna and George Michael shifted their £100 tickets, but they also appeared on eBay within minutes of going on sale. And if memory serves me right, Kylie forced eBay to withdraw ALL tickets being touted on their site for her comeback British tour which sold out within 1 hour.

Fair shout, eBay don't sell anything, but they are encouraging this as they make money from every sale, and the higher the selling price, they more they make. There are enough cars on the road for everyone and plenty of competition. Unfortunately the same can't be said for concert tickets. Not enough of them and unscrupulous touts buying them up in their thousands to sell for huge profits drives the price up as there is no competition to eBay.

Irrespective of whether they were charity concerts or not, eBay withdrew the tickets because of public outrage, if enough people went to the press they could demand the same again with all concert tickets.

Difference now to the 80's is the internet. Then you couldn't buy or sell tickets worldwide on the net.

eBay are encouraging it for their own gain. If this worldwide know institution banned this ticket selling for HUGE gain, what other site is there they could peddle their wares for such profits?

I agree no-one is forcing anyone to pay these amounts, but as I stated earlier, not everyone could get to a genuine outlet. If the touts weren't encouraged by the likes of eBay allowing this to go on, then thousands more genuine fans would have got tickets. True many would still have missed out as demand outsrips supply, but they would get them at face value.

People buying a few extra tickets to fund their own DOES NOT justify selling the extras for £200 each. The face value of the tickets was £25 and £45.

Rant? All I was doing was replying to your post. If that constitutes a rant to you then so be it, we'll leave it at that then and agree to disagree. But when people fail to condemn it, it just encourages them.

itsarichmansworld

I need 2 tix any venue if anyone has spares!

PLEEEEEAAAAASSSEEE!