I can't believe my Police tickets only reached face value on ebay

Tout_or_Businesswoman_?

smashed wrote: »

I think you just proved with your comments that even people without brains can still make a good living as a tout

Good point ! Wish I'd made that myself

Willsnarf1983

put my hat in the ring here

i bought a Chelsea v Norwich ticket for the FA cup but decided in the end i couldn't be arsed to go an watch Norwich lose so deicded to flog my ticket

on the local Norwich board i put best offer wins and i got two offers

1) for £80
2) an offer to beat my previous best offer

i decided to sell to a friend of a friend for face value of £25 as he wanted to watch the team and i didn't so why make a profit on it!

Will

General_Accident

Willsnarf1983 wrote: »

put my hat in the ring here
i decided to sell to a friend of a friend for face value of £25 as he wanted to watch the team and i didn't so why make a profit on it!

Will

Good to know there are still some people with scruples about.

motorguy

razorbladekisses wrote: »

Anyone buying anything in excess (tickets, Elmos. Nintendo Wii e.t.c) to then sell on at a much higher price on eBay should be ashamed of themselves. Just buy the amount you need and let others have the chance of buying them at their RRP.

is that now how business works? buy a lot of one thing and then sell them on to individuals for profit?

i made quite nicely on xbox 360s. Not ashamed of it.

Tout_or_Businesswoman_?

I really am scum of the earth ! I made profit on a load of Elmos and half a dozen Wiis prior to Christmas !

Tout_or_Businesswoman_?

So how about this then....

My kids needed 2 new bikes for Christmas. Boots had an offer of 3 for 2 on Universal Bikes, total cost for 3 bikes was £198 ( or there abouts ). I bought 2 lots of 3 bikes. Put 4 of which onto Ebay and sold for £85 each, therefore the 2 bikes for the kids cost me £28 each.

Now I call that good moneysaving business sense ! Or was I unfair because I initially bought up way more bikes than I originally needed ( leaving all those poor kids without no doubt ) and I didn't state on my listing 'if you bother to look, you will find these bikes on the Boots website, or better still, if you go down to your local Woolworths you can find them for only £55' ?!?!?!

Oh and how ashamed my kids would feel about me if only they new how I got hold of their pressies !!

arushofblood

My kids school PTA recently ran an auction to boost funds. One of the items was a pair of tickets for a home Man United game. The final price offered was way over the price of the face value.

Are the PTA members and school staff scummy touts for offing the tickets and accepting such a high winning price for them ?!? Wouldn't they be upsetting all the 'genuine' Man United fans that can never get hold of tickets for games or can't afford them ?!

pennylane99

ah, but that was for a worthy cause...the school, not going into a touts pocket....;)

arushofblood

pennylane99 wrote: »

ah, but that was for a worthy cause...the school, not going into a touts pocket....;)

Yes, but others on here would compare it to concert tickets in that 'the genuine fans couldn't get hold of tickets at face value 'cause all the school PTA groups were buying them for charity.'

I know, not a very strong point, but mine nethertheless

smashed

What kind of analogy is that?
Its about people buying to make a personal gain, not a community gain.
Nobody would moan about charity auctions over RRP. Thats the whole point of them, paying excess for charity. Its the thing to do.

Just the same as I wouldnt pay £1 to vote for Come Dancing, or Big Brother etc etc...what a rip off. But if its Children In Need its a different matter

I can see where you are going with it arushofblood, but you can always turn anything around if you really want to.

Its principles / morals at the end of the day. And plenty of people have different standards.

Just the same as you get muggers, rapists, shoplifters, conmen. Prisons are full, which says a lot about our society