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

judderman62

ticket touts of whatever "flavour" are scum ..end of :mad:

General_Accident

Zagu wrote: »

Dont worry, its coming, soon.

"And in amongst all that are some critical improvements to the anti-ticket touting provisions in section 166 of the CJPOA, which are due to come into force during the first half of 2007."

This unfortunately only applies to football tickets, where there are serious crime and disorder motivations for banning ticket sales.

Having said DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) have been looking at the ticket touting issue for some time now with a working party formed from members of the industry.

Touts were represented on this working party until their representative was removed due to the unconstructive nature of the contributions. Consensus is moving towards the banning of the resale of tickets which is what the CPA (Concert Promoters Association) and NAA (National Arenas Association) - two of the biggest players want. Despite Tessa Jowell having stated that she is reluctant to push forward primary legislation (although this doesn't of course rule out the use of secondary legislation) it seems increasingly likely that the problem of touting will require a legislative solution, particularly in light of the recent insolvency of Ticket Tout.com.

Legislation will almost certainly be passed to prevent the touting of ticket sales for the Olympics and it may be that extra provisions to cover touting of tickets for cultural events are included particularly as there will be an 'Olympics of Culture' running alongside the games.

Tout_or_Businesswoman_?

judderman62 wrote: »

ticket touts of whatever "flavour" are scum ..end of :mad:

You callin' me a scummy wet smelly fish ? Oh well in that case, I'll stop selling tickets right now

:rotfl:

Tout_or_Businesswoman_?

General_Accident wrote: »

This unfortunately only applies to football tickets, where there are serious crime and disorder motivations for banning ticket sales.

Having said DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) have been looking at the ticket touting issue for some time now with a working party formed from members of the industry.

Touts were represented on this working party until their representative was removed due to the unconstructive nature of the contributions. Consensus is moving towards the banning of the resale of tickets which is what the CPA (Concert Promoters Association) and NAA (National Arenas Association) - two of the biggest players want. Despite Tessa Jowell having stated that she is reluctant to push forward primary legislation (although this doesn't of course rule out the use of secondary legislation) it seems increasingly likely that the problem of touting will require a legislative solution, particularly in light of the recent insolvency of Ticket Tout.com.

Legislation will almost certainly be passed to prevent the touting of ticket sales for the Olympics and it may be that extra provisions to cover touting of tickets for cultural events are included particularly as there will be an 'Olympics of Culture' running alongside the games.

It's only a matter of time before there's a ban on selling tickets. I'm building up sales in other areas to prepare for that day. Meanwhile though, whilst there's nothing illegal in what I'm doing, I will carry on selling 'em....end of ( as judderman62 would say )

marky_p

with all these people moaning about someone making a profit on eBay..it makes you wonder how capitalism has survived this long...

everso908

if you were selling for a reason you couldnt make it, you would have accepted face value, but you were looking to ripp off a real fan. glad you didnt get the money you wanted, your touting

brazilianwax

Tout_or_Businesswoman_? wrote: »

I don't have to flatter myself, others do that for me. I earned £1500 this month ( yes, AFTER tax ), have over 1500 sales and 100% feedback. Having worked up from selling the odd item from my loft to become a self emplyed businesswoman ( yes, that's bus-ness-woman ) , I think I've done rather well thank you ! :beer:

In what part of the country does that pass as a lot of money then??

General_Accident

Tout_or_Businesswoman_? wrote: »

It's only a matter of time before there's a ban on selling tickets. I'm building up sales in other areas to prepare for that day. Meanwhile though, whilst there's nothing illegal in what I'm doing, I will carry on selling 'em....end of ( as judderman62 would say )

Well it's the touts that have shot themselves in the foot. If you hadn't got so greedy, the government would never have had to start looking at the issue seriously.

I'm all for a ban on touting - it's a distortion of the market and has very little to do with capitalism at all. If it did have anything to do with market forces then it would be tolerated.

Ultimately it's also about power and influence. The touts have none while the live entertainment and culture industries has lots. The fact that no one likes the touts will count against you as well because no one is going to fight your corner when it comes to the crunch.

Contains_Mild_Peril

miss_bargainmad wrote: »

I just don't believe it! My tickets are really good seats (£71 each) and they only reached just under face value (but I had put a reserve of £100 each on them which would mean I made a profit of just under £30 each. I thought I would try this as they were reaching ridiculous prices on Friday.

Then half an hour later 2 x £45 tickets sold for £134!!

Maybe I should wait until 2 weeks before and try and sell then?

There are some ticket agencies on the internet selling my tickets for at least double.

Though I don't approve of touting, it would be a terrible waste for your tickets to be unsold and empty seats to be left at the gig, so I'll offer my tuppenceworth. As others have mentioned, you're not allowed to sell items you don't have in hand on eBay unless you can guarantee delivery within 30 days, so if that doesn't apply, maybe that's part of your problem. If you have a low feedback score, buyers might not trust you, whereas they tend to be more trusting of big ticket agencies for some reason.
Also, you said you put a reserve of £100 each - do you mean you were trying to sell them separately? In general, tickets on eBay sell much better in pairs. I got a single ticket for an A-ha concert (from a fan who had planned to go but couldn't make it) for less than face value, whereas pairs of tickets were selling for close to twice their face value.

General_Accident

brazilianwax wrote: »

In what part of the country does that pass as a lot of money then??

Indeed...it's £18000 a year, assuming that income is steady over a period of a year.

I wouldn't consider this particularly good earnings at all...pretty pitiful in fact.