Concert significantly cut. Refund?

Pollycat

medway29 wrote: »

What’s very telling? Other than your judgemental snobbery?

"What's very telling?"

The fact that you yourself have admitted that you don't even remember all of the first show as you were a "bit drunk and nipped to bar and toilet couple of times."


No judgemental snobbery from me.
Just querying your powers of memory.

mattyprice4004

With all due respect, you asked a question and just don’t like the answers you’ve been given.
If you’re determined to take it further it’d be Small
Claims - there isn’t an ombudsman for everything unfortunately.

p00hsticks

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

Who is this "artist" that's ripped you off for something like £1500? Madonna's on tour at the moment. Was it her, by any chance?

For general info;
Although the OP seems to be being quite coy about it, I strongly suspect we're talking about Madonna here. She's cut several of her Palladium shows short because it appears she can't cope with doing two full shows on consecutive nights .....

You can see the comparative setlists here'
https://www.setlist.fm/search?artist=bd6bdbe&query=tour:%28Madame+X+Tour%29

On January 29th and February 1st the set consisted on 19 songs
On January 30th and February 2nd there were only 15 songs, as the show missed out the first 'act'

There's a note against the February 2nd show to say that 'The gig started at 9:10pm, and the first act was omitted (like the January 30th show), presumably to make the show easier on her injury, as it was a second show in a row without a break.'

medway29 wrote: »

The second had at least half hour cut out of the bits I noticed. Don’t remember all of first one as was a bit drunk and nipped to bar and toilet couple of times. didn’t mind missing bits because I was intending to watch it all again the next time from a much better position

I'm afraid I've lost any sympathy with you here, OP. I used to really enjoy going to seated live concerts, until they became both extortionately expensive and full of p*ssed people like you who keep getting up and down during the show to go to the bar and/or toilets. You weren't filming it on your phone too by any chance ? (another of my bugbears)

davidmcn

p00hsticks wrote: »

Although the OP seems to be being quite coy about it, I strongly suspect we're talking about Madonna here.

The OP appears to have a long history of being disappointed by Madge's concerts:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/13952467#Comment_13952467

Aylesbury_Duck

medway29 wrote: »

I paid it because I’ve seen the artist all through their career and this is most probably the last one they will do. I’m not on about whether I can afford it or not which is none of yr business or anything to do with my question!

Why mention it then?

these tickets were over £1000 and it’s not something I can easily afford and was put on the credit card!

As for going on about principles being irrelevant so is yr point! This post is about whether I can make the organisers and artist take responsibility and be penalised for not giving their fans an equal experience one being very below par!

And you've been told several times, you can't. Perhaps this artist you've spent years and thousands of pounds following doesn't particularly care about your concerns? Or maybe they're bored by performing the same setlist for consecutive nights and want to mix things up. Maybe they think fans wouldn't want to see the same setlist if they attend consecutive nights?

You need to get off your high horse. Your attitude doesn’t come across well and nothing you said was at all relative just pompous!

You mean you didn't get the answer you wanted.

gettingtheresometime

Surely it would be the promoters that the OP should have an issue with rather than the ticket sellers.

ToxicWomble

Unless the tickets very specially stated that the artist would perform for a set amount of time and perform a set amount of content (which I doubt) then you have no case at all.
Often artists will vary the le goth and content of their shows for no reason.
Often a first show of a tour will be very different to the last show.

born_again

Maddona by any chance?

Was she not ill?

TBH. Any refunds would need to come from the promoter, not the ticket agent.

elsien

The guardian likes it:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/30/madonna-review-london-palladium-madame-x-tour

As do all the other reviews I've seen, banter and all. OP seems to be in a minority here.

Undervalued

medway29 wrote: »

This is a world wide tour which no doubt would end up on dvd. Just don’t see why anyone should pay a premium price for an edited cut down version of the actual concert.

If I hadn’t seen the first show and then later found out what I missed I’d be even more p’d off!

There must some form of compensation for this? It’s the principle more than anything!😩😡

Why?

Was there a detailed listing of the program on the ad that enticed you to buy a ticket?

Was there any guarantee that the program would be the same each night?

Was there a quoted finishing time?

If something specific was promised, but not delivered, then you might (just possibly) have a case.

I doubt you will get very far with this......