Q Awards sponsored by Stub Hub?

Scam · 3 Nov 2016 at 10:51

Bit of a non-thread I suppose, but glad to see the artists giving out some stick to Stub Hub. Why on earth were they allowed to sponsor the Q Awards :mad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...s-for-having-to-use-secondary-ticketing-sites

Secondary ticketing needs to be outlawed, not promoted..

Atari · 4 Nov 2016 at 11:44

I don't see how TicketMaster are allowed to do it. I wanted tickets to see the Weeknd, they went on sale at 10am today. Just before 10am, I went onto the site and refreshed like crazy and at 10.01 they were gone just leaving the stupidly expensive VIP/hospitality type tickets at £205 each.

At 10.01, Ticketmaster were already showing the '2nd chance' tickets at a massively inflated price.

It's the third time its happened now and it's really damned annoying.

MissChief · 4 Nov 2016 at 11:51

There's no way anyone can do that in less than one minute without a bot or the ticket companies doing it themselves. I wonder why some of the bigger bands and groups don't just set up their own site for their tour? Too much money going their way I suspect.

tom_e · 4 Nov 2016 at 11:55

MissChief said:
There's no way anyone can do that in less than one minute without a bot or the ticket companies doing it themselves. I wonder why some of the bigger bands and groups don't just set up their own site for their tour? Too much money going their way I suspect.

Even the dedicated ticket sites can't handle the load a lot of the time so I can't see it being worth the cost and hassle of trying to set up their own ticket system.
Also they get paid either way so probably don't really care.