My friend is a lucky git

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 15:02

He got a tip off from a forum about Download music festival 2006 camping passes that they were sold out, but got the train up to London and bought 5 of them from HMV, who apparently had no recieved the memo to restrict sales of them.

He bought 5 of them at £20 each and now they're going up to £195 each on Ebay. Lucky git :eek:

Edit: Camping passes, not as in the whole weekend ticket

They're currently sold out, and have gone up in value, guess lots of people want them

Trojan · 22 May 2006 at 15:03

jidh007 said:
He got a tip off from a forum about Download music festival 2006 camping tickets that they were sold out, but got the train up to London and bought 5 of them from HMV, who apparently had no recieved the memo to restrict sales of them.

He bought 5 of them at £20 each and now they're going up to £195 each on Ebay. Lucky git

Won't be so lucky if Ebay pull them for the auctions being illegal.

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 15:05

Ah, what would make the auction illegal?

BigBoy · 22 May 2006 at 15:05

Sic · 22 May 2006 at 15:07

jidh007 said:
Ah, what would make the auction illegal?

it's against the T's and C's of buying the ticket to resell it.

DailyGeek · 22 May 2006 at 15:07

Since when are download camping tickets only 20 quid?

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 15:08

I mean the camping passes, they've gone up in value for some reason. Not the actual ticket itself, as they're like £128.

Loki · 22 May 2006 at 15:10

Sic said:
it's against the T's and C's of buying the ticket to resell it.

Thought that only applied to Football tickets. You can sell concert tickets as long as you can prove that you have them in your posession.

Sic · 22 May 2006 at 15:16

Loki said:
Thought that only applied to Football tickets. You can sell concert tickets as long as you can prove that you have them in your posession.

if you check most online vendor's T's and C's now, they reserve the right to invalidate the tickets should they be resold. ticketmaster actually has a popup saying so before you complete the order. i believe aloud and gigsandtours also have something similar in place, but i don't use them so i couldn't say

Loki · 22 May 2006 at 15:18

Ticketshafter are the evil anyways

Mr Spew · 22 May 2006 at 15:19

But they're hardly going to check each and every ticket of thousands (tens of thousands in fact) for a select few numbers, or even find out what those numbers are.

Alchemy · 22 May 2006 at 15:19

Pure evil.

Johnny Girth · 22 May 2006 at 15:32

It makes you a nob, and tickets are almost always non-transferable hence void but people will buy them and usually get away with it. Only Glastonbury seem to have really cracked down on it. Ebay don't mind people selling tickets that breach civil law so long as there's no criminal offence!

Sic · 22 May 2006 at 15:40

Mr Spew said:
But they're hardly going to check each and every ticket of thousands (tens of thousands in fact) for a select few numbers, or even find out what those numbers are.

oh right, well in that case it's all perfectly above board then.

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 15:43

Aye, he got the tip off at 2 in the morning and got the train first thing in the morning to buy them :S Insane, he's just hoping that he either breaks even or gets stinking rich.

Al Vallario · 22 May 2006 at 16:43

Edit: Argh, someone can't use the edit button!

So, basically the whole point of this thread is to tell everyone that your mate rushed to an HMV store in London to buy five camping tickets for download (which have been on sale for ages now) at face value? And you're now saying he's lucky because he can flog them on the bay (possibly against the T&Cs) for just above face value, causing a lot of hassle, to the tiny mintory of people who bought a ticket then realised they needed a camping pass too, or people who just generally want camping passes to a gig they don't have tickets for?

Well I'm going green with envy

Blackstar · 22 May 2006 at 16:46

I'm trying to sell my download ticket since i broke up with my ex and i was ment to be going with him

don't really fancy it now

Cookie-Monster · 22 May 2006 at 16:58

Al Vallario said:
Five weekend tickets with camping and parking for £20 each? Rubbish.

They retail for £130 each and there's no chance HMV would have been selling them for £20, whether they got a mysterious memo or not. Are you sure, if he bought any tickets at all, that he didn't buy "camping only" tickets, which retail for £20 and are currently up for sale on the bay at about £70?

jidh007 said:
I mean the camping passes, they've gone up in value for some reason. Not the actual ticket itself, as they're like £128.

Lagz · 22 May 2006 at 17:09

jidh007 said:
I mean the camping passes, they've gone up in value for some reason. Not the actual ticket itself, as they're like £128.

Probably because weekend & camping tickets are sold out, but weekend without camping tickets are not, so people want the camping only ticket to go with their weekend only ticket?

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 17:11

Guess so, just seems like an administrative flaw that camping passes wouldn't equal the number of weekend tickets. Oh well, Download is a rip off anyway.