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| As massive fans of Phoenix Nights, we had a look into getting tickets for one of the live shows in Manchester. Looking on Ticketmaster suggested tickets were available in 3 price bands so we did a search to see what we could come up with... Nothing, the night we wanted had clearly sold out but there was no indication of this, just a link to Ticketmaster's sister site GETMEIN. GETMEIN is an online 'ticket marketplace' for people to buy and sell tickets. On the GETMEIN site there were loads of tickets available but at a premium price. Premium meaning rip off in this case. There was also a processing fee added to each ticket despite us wanting to buy 3 in one transaction.
On clicking the BUY button, the breakdown was as follows:
3x tickets - £99.00 each
Processing fee total - £53.68 (what does this actually cover and who gets it?)
Order total - £350.68
Then in small print at the bottom it read 'The original face value of each ticket is £55.00 each as indicated by the seller.'
Surely this is immoral, needs investigating and regulating. I know it's been going on for years but that doesn't make it right. Remember the Rolling Stones tickets reappearing at £15,000 after their initial purchase? How can Ticketmaster be allowed to sell tickets, then take a cut from their customers on the resale of the same ticket through a sister site at a massively inflated price? Some of the tickets were going for well over £100 each. Bearing in mind the Phoenix Nights Live events are for charity, it just adds to the immorality and highlights just what a brazen racket the ticket industry has become.
I know this will keep happening for as long as there are idiots out there willing to pay well over the odds for tickets, but it needs to stop.
We decided not to go, we're big fans but we're not suckers.
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There was a high profile issue in the USA a few years ago where Ticketmaster redirected buyers, for Bruce Springsteen tickets, straight to a resale site despite tickets being still available at face value.
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... o-20100218
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There was a high profile issue in the USA a few years ago where Ticketmaster redirected buyers, for Bruce Springsteen tickets, straight to a resale site despite tickets being still available at face value.
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... o-20100218
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| Quote: King Street Cat "Interesting article from late November. Let's hope they go through with it.
It won't change a thing in fact it will push more sellers to totally unregulated sites like the eBay owned Gumtree, and craigslist.
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| Quote: Big Graeme "It won't change a thing in fact it will push more sellers to totally unregulated sites like the eBay owned Gumtree, and craigslist.'"
Good old craigslist - ebay for burglars
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| Quote: cod'ead "Good old craigslist - ebay for burglars'"
Yeah, I'm sure people will be queueing up to buy tickets from Craigslist. The only stories I've seen in the news about Craigslist are of 'meet ups' gone wrong that have ended in attacks and murders!
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