Selling tickets on Ebay for more money

esuhl

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Its called robbery.

You are taking advantage of 'supply and demand'

You might be surprised to learn that many towns and villages have buildings called "shops" which conduct this kind of "robbery" on a perpetual basis.

In fact, it's part of their business model to take advantage of "supply and demand".

There's a TV programme called "Dragons' Den" where people openly discuss this kind of "robbery" and how to exploit others. You would be aghast if you'd seen it!

Rather than pick on poor individuals trying to make a few quid on tickets, why not go after the "organised criminals" who set up High Street shops?

silkyuk9

esuhl wrote: »

You might be surprised to learn that many towns and villages have buildings called "shops" which conduct this kind of "robbery" on a perpetual basis.

In fact, it's part of their business model to take advantage of "supply and demand".

There's a TV programme called "Dragons' Den" where people openly discuss this kind of "robbery" and how to exploit others. You would be aghast if you'd seen it!

Rather than pick on poor individuals trying to make a few quid on tickets, why not go after the "organised criminals" who set up High Street shops?

Who are the criminals that set up high street shops.

I have never been into a shop and bought something that was 200% more expensive than any where else. Maybe there ar elaws that govern prices in shops, I dont know but I cannot imagine the fair trade people allowing shops to sell items at way over priced costs.

Maybe im all wrong.

All I know is that im !!!!ed off because you have a person who genuinely wanted to go to a gig and on the other hand a person who genuinely doesnt.

googler

silkyuk9 wrote: »

I have never been into a shop and bought something that was 200% more expensive than any where else.

If there was a shop selling items of which there were only 600 available anywhere, it wouldn't surprise me if they were able to sell them at whatever they could get for them, and it also wouldn't surprise me if they tried to sell them at a considerable mark-up on what they paid for them. We're not talking about tins of beans here.

googler

silkyuk9 wrote: »

I dont think that its wrong to sell things I think its wrong to sell tickets for events at infalted prices

Tickets are 'things', aren't they?


A pair of jeans is different you buy em to wear, but you are not going to buy a pair of jeans and try to sell it 15 minutes later in hope you are going to make 200% profit that wouldnt happen and we all know that.

A pair of jeans is a commodity in ample supply. There's more than 600 pairs of jeans in the world, so no incentive to pay over regular prices.

Find a place in the world where they're not in ample supply, though (Russia before the reforms?), and all of a sudden they do sell at a 200% mark-up

silkyuk9

Im not going to win here.

So why doesnt the venue or promotor sell the tickets at £200 a throw instead of £50 knowing that they could shift over 600 when there is a massive queue outside the Futurist this morning.

baza52

why not ring them and ask?
Do you think a shop sells its goods for the same price they get them from the wholesalers for?
Of course not, they sell the goods on for a profit.

If you dont like the price dont pay it.

Think of it this way, If the poor sole selling the tickets doesnt get any buyers they are going to lose the price they paid for the ticket or worse still have to watch Gary Barlow.......

AdamKels

People see the opportunity to make money, I don't blame them, but it's not nice for the consumer either. I bought Gaga tickets for over their face value on eBay, only to find that I couldn't go myself! So, I actually sold the tickets for half the price that I paid once all the hype had died down. If you wait until nearer the time the tickets might drop in value. With such a limited amount of tickets I doubt it though.

googler

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Im not going to win here.

So why doesnt the venue or promotor sell the tickets at £200 a throw instead of £50 knowing that they could shift over 600 when there is a massive queue outside the Futurist this morning.

I have no idea what the Futurist is, but yes - you're not going to 'win' because you seem to be the only one with that point of view. If you expressed the same view in any social context where you were the only one to hold it, you wouldn't 'win' there, either....

greenface

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Im not going to win here.

So why doesnt the venue or promotor sell the tickets at £200 a throw instead of £50 knowing that they could shift over 600 when there is a massive queue outside the Futurist this morning.

You still would be lucky to get one if only 600 tickets available, so you will have to look on ebay for about £500 each instead. I was offered well over the odds for take that ticks by people who really wanted to go.

johnmcga

No, it's not illegal. Yes, it's wrong. It damages live music and by and large the bands themselves don't see a penny of the additional profits.

The whole thing is an unregulated mess. You've got secondary ticket agents (Viagogo etc) who charge huge service fees. You've got con-merchants who sell fake or non-existent tickets.

Promoters and venues don't seem to care - they mark their tickets as being non-transferable and not for resale, but don't do anything to enforce these terms. (The one exception I can think of is Glastonbury, which has proved it's possible to virtually eliminate touting.)

And for big gigs like Take That and the like, you've often got hordes of anxious punters who rarely buy gig tickets and therefore don't understand how it all works.

Scarlet Mist is my tip, but it still relies on honesty to work effectively.