Buying & selling tickets

Diddums

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Colleague of mine bought two tickets to the Champions League final. Think he paid £100 or something but reckons he can sell them for £1k a pop later on. Anyone else done this? Personally I think denying others what could be a once in a lifetime experience for a bit of profit is very scumbaggy but shirley if there are crap teams in the final nobody will pay that? I'm sure £200 would work perhaps, but £1k each is a bit optimistic no?

There are always these touts at Brixton buying and selling. I always see them yelling but never actually buying or selling, I wonder how much they actually rake in.
 
I think selling for more than say 25% markup should be banned. It really annoys me when I miss out on tickets and suddenly a load are available on resale sites for silly money.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a crackdown on this yet.
 
I dunno. Think it was Chamions League. What other footy events are coming up? Maybe it was Premier League, I dunno. Let's call it "football event X final tickets" for lack of a better description :D
 
Diddums said:
I dunno. Think it was Chamions League. What other footy events are coming up? Maybe it was Premier League, I dunno. Let's call it "football event X final tickets" for lack of a better description :D
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I've had tickets to numerous football finals but never wanted to sell as the experience outweighs any profit for me. People will certainly pay £1k or more but it depends on the final/teams/seats. I've had some silly offers for my Chelsea tickets but they've been rejected as I consider them to be priceless.
 
Diddums said:
I agree 100%. It's pure greed and nothing else.
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It's all only made possible and lucrative because stupid people are willing to pay such stupid high amounts in the first place which attracts the profit gainers.

Had to laugh at a friend of mine earlier in the year who paid £550 each for 2x tickets to the Europa league final + flights, hotels, food and beverage which ended up costing om over £2k for one night away.

This same friend complained last week because his Netflix subscription which he uses every single day is going up by the cost of half a beer, the mindset ridiculous.
 
not ridiculous at all, the first is going off on a possible once-in-a-lifetime adventure, the other is an ongoing incidental expense. i've spent a lot of money on one-day things myself, things like multi-hour drives each way, ticket costs, hotel costs etc etc, but it's a once-ever thing and it's worth it to me to do so.

regards tickets, i don't really have an issue people selling tickets they buy but end up not being able to use, but i do have an issue w/ people buying tickets for every date on a pre-sale and hoying them straight on ebay etc. i also have a massive issue w/ ticketbast and the like, who monopolise the market and add all sorts of idiot charges on, etc. How they are allowed to get away w/ saying tickets are "sold out" w/in minutes of release but casually announcing there are tons available at huge mark-ups on sites that just happen to be owned by them, is beyond me.
 
To me, whilst it's annoying, it's going to happen regardless.

Unless you go down the route of printing names on tickets and have /everyone/ provide ID to get it, you'll have touts regardless.
 
Kuros said:
Unless you go down the route of printing names on tickets and have /everyone/ provide ID to get it, you'll have touts regardless.
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A lot of Premier League clubs have official reseller partners. Fans have asked for a cap on prices through these official channels but the clubs generally aren't interested. :(
 
I have a major issue with people buying tickets to make money on them, it's selfish and denying real fans the opportunity to attend an event because prices get driven sky high.

Individuals doing it is bad, as are the scum companies like Ticketmaster, who have sister companies like GetMeIn - you'll go to buy a ticket on Ticketmaster just as it released only to find them all sold out, and then within seconds the GetMeIn site will have them all with a 25-100% markup on them (or more). There's no way Ticketmaster aren't just holding some back to put straight on these resale sites.
 
Narj said:
I think selling for more than say 25% markup should be banned. It really annoys me when I miss out on tickets and suddenly a load are available on resale sites for silly money.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a crackdown on this yet.
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Especially when they're using software to buy the tickets quicker than a human could!
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Oh, so maybe I was wrong with my post above, it's not actually Ticketmaster, it's just people using bots to buy and relist tickets immediately?
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I don't know but it always amazes me that when buying tickets the anti-bot check is just "check this box to say you're human".

Yeah, whatever.
 
Diddums said:
I don't know but it always amazes me that when buying tickets the anti-bot check is just "check this box to say you're human".

Yeah, whatever.
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That's quite often based off the IP address of the user. So when you click it from a residential or ISP IP address then you'll be fine most times.

If I click that whilst on an IP from an IP range that is typically assigned to a dedicated server then I will almost always have to "pick 3 pictures that show waterfalls" etc.
 
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ScarySquirrel said:
I have a major issue with people buying tickets to make money on them, it's selfish and denying real fans the opportunity to attend an event because prices get driven sky high.

Individuals doing it is bad, as are the scum companies like Ticketmaster, who have sister companies like GetMeIn - you'll go to buy a ticket on Ticketmaster just as it released only to find them all sold out, and then within seconds the GetMeIn site will have them all with a 25-100% markup on them (or more). There's no way Ticketmaster aren't just holding some back to put straight on these resale sites.
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This. Touts are subhuman scum and it should be made illegal. The sort of bands I like to see are ones that play over here rarely, perhaps once every two years or so.. The amount of gigs I've missed out on, only to see tickets on ebay literally 5mins afterwards is just ridiculous. I hate it.

Anyway, isn't touting football tickets illegal? :confused:

Oh and before people say "supply and demand" which is the usual drivel-filled argument against it, it's not. Creating false demand by buying up scores of tickets to deny real customers is not supply and demand.
 
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Scam said:
... Creating false demand by buying up scores of tickets to deny real customers is not supply and demand.
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This is the very definition of supply and demand. What you mean to say is that it's (somehow) "unfair" that the supply is being artificially constrained, such that the demand pushes up the prices to a stratospheric level.
 
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