UK Foo Fighters

JReacher1

OP you've made a mistake which is annoying but still you could have a good night. They may be good.

I've been to see tribute bands before and some of them are of a high standard. Fingers crossed these could be good as well.

robatwork

I have to say I am sympathetic to the OP on this one. The real FF logo appears next to the first link I clicked:
UK Foo Fighters Tickets at O2 Academy Oxford

I have no idea how big this venue is without googling it - could easily be a 2000 seater that the real !!!!!! may use.

The name also smacks of passing off. Most tribute bands have a name like "Drink Flloyd" or the Bootleg Beatles. A reasonable person who doesn't know that UK Foo Fighters existed, which I didn't until today (and I have seen the real !!!!!! live), may well think the "UK" is part of the seetickets website as the location of the gig. That combined with the genuine logo is misleading.

OP good luck with your claim.

GwylimT

Just had a quick look myself, at each link given to tickets on their various dates it is very clear that it is a tribute act, as the site says exactly this, thats before you consider that the band has a different name.

prowla

From the Oxford venue details on the site:

Designed to the highest specification, O2 Academy Oxford attracts a strong calibre of international touring artists due to its larger capacity in the City and technical capabilities. The venue has three, flexible performance spaces for live music and club events with a total building capacity of 1,350.

There is a clue in the booking process that it doesn't give you a map of the venue to choose your seat, and the tickets are just general admission; you'd hardly have a stadium with 20,000 people just turn up in a free-for-all.

timbstoke

I'm looking at the page right now and it's a mistake I could easily see myself making. In the list here (http://www.seetickets.com/artist/uk-foo-fighters/962722) there's only one entry that makes it clear that they're a tribute band. They're doing a full tour, all over the UK - most tribute bands are far more local than that. I have no idea how big any of those venues are. I also haven't got a clue how much Foo Fighters tickets are, but I paid £15 to see Airbourne a couple of years ago, and I've never paid more than a fiver to see a tribute band, so I'd say the price is certainly at the right level for a well known band.

A consumer shouldn't have to rely on "clues" or "any real fan would know". They have a right to be given clear information about exactly what it is that they're buying.

System

Seems fairly clear that when you search for Foo Fighters you see items for Foo Fighters and UK Foo Fighters. 2 different bands

timbstoke

Not to me. Frankly, if you go to the Seetickets main page and search Foo Fighters I can understand even more why OP was taken in. You end up here: http://www.seetickets.com/search?q=foo+fighters

The top of the page has a link to Foo Fighters, "an american alternative rock band", but no link to "UK Foo Fighters" so you'd be forgiven for thinking the listings below relate to that band.

All the links visible on the page start "UK Foo Fighters", apart from one which is clearly labelled as a tribute act. That one's also UK Foo Fighters. Frankly, it looks like that one's been put there deliberately so punters will think "That's a tribute, these others must be the real thing".

To get to the actual Foo Fighters gigs, you have to scroll about 2/3rds of the way down the page, and they're easily missed, surrounded as they are by UK Foo Fighters links.

The fact that it's being debated here so much shows that it's clearly misleading - if it wasn't, there wouldn't be a discussion about it.

JReacher1

timbstoke wrote: »

The fact that it's being debated here so much shows that it's clearly misleading - if it wasn't, there wouldn't be a discussion about it.

I think this is more because posters on this site are deliberately obtuse and like to have arguments, as opposed to genuinely thinking that the advert is misleading.....

unholyangel

JReacher1 wrote: »

I think this is more because posters on this site are deliberately obtuse and like to have arguments, as opposed to genuinely thinking that the advert is misleading.....

And you of course know our minds better than us?

If you prefer, there are people on the seetickets pages commenting via facebook who seem to have been mislead also. Or are they also being deliberately obtuse and like to have arguments as opposed to genuinely being mislead?

JReacher1

unholyangel wrote: »

And you of course know our minds better than us?

If you prefer, there are people on the seetickets pages commenting via facebook who seem to have been mislead also. Or are they also being deliberately obtuse and like to have arguments as opposed to genuinely being mislead?

Yeah you are one of the posters I was referring to