Ticket touting... Do or Dont?

Kristoph

Kristoph

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Ok, there's an event coming up that shall remain nameless.

I'll have the opportunity to buy as many tickets as I like (no limit per person).

This event sells out v. quickly, and the tickets are transferable.

Purchase price = £30
Last couple of years on ebay they've reached £60-£85.

I have around £150 I'd be happy spending on tickets.

Thats either £300 - £425. Between £150/£275 profit.

Between purchasing them and selling them there will be around a month and a half wait.

Worth it?

(I've never touted before, it's just this is so tempting as I'm trying to save some cash. The way I see it is, if you really want to go, you get your tickets as soon as you can...).
 
Go for it I just bought a bunch of extra tickets for Reading to make some cash off of.

The whole argument about ticket touting being wrong is stupid I think. You have the right to buy some thing that is in demand and then resell for profit.

Ive bought high priced resales and sold them and I have no problem either way. When i saw the cream re union in '03 i paid £450 each for £50 face value tickets and thats ok because I deemed the event valuable enough to pay that and the guy who sold me them had the forsight and put the effort in to accuire the tickets knowing the future demand.
 
Well I'll be starting the auction with the tickets at face value. If people see the event as being good enough to pay more than that then fair enough. It's up to them!

(of course I'll do this at a time when the other tickets on ebay are £60-70 each)
 
if the tickets are transferable then I don't see the problem

yes some people who wanted to buy a ticket from the event organisers would have missed out but conversely it there exists a secondary market for tickets then this helps people who decide to go at the last minute and are prepared to pay a premium

I wouldn't feel guilty about it - if what you are doing isn't breaking any rules then its just business tbh...*

*you're going to estimate the demand, decide how much you want to risk and it will be you absorbing the loss if the event doesn't sell out - if the event consistently sells out then the organisers have under priced the tickets in the first place tbh...
 
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Things like Reading are sorted, you're pretty much guaranteed to shift the things, it's up to you to determine the demand that will be there for the event you want to try it with and how likely you think you'll be to get rid of the tickets.
 
I have no problem with making a quick buck or two, infact i'm always on the look for things that I can re-sell for a profit.

However that said tickets is not one of them, I have a great dislike for ticket touts and hate the way they operate. I would not do this.
 
I'm selling tickets on ebay for Reading. I want to go but I can't afford to go to it AND download.

I'm watching tickets sell on ebay and they are going for about £440. Now take off ebay fees which is about £30 + paypal fees. IMO it's not worth it. Not with the 2 tickets costing around £360.

I have no problem with people selling tickets even if its for gain. It's when I see sellers have 50+ tickets and are selling them.
 
It's a scummy and horrible thing to do. What if someone really wants to go but cant get the tickets bang on 9am the day they go on sale? Some people simply cant do that at work etc. There's a million reasons why people cant always get tickets before they sell out. One of them being because morons like yourself want to make a quick buck and buy them up. What happens if you get through first and buy up the last 10 tickets? Whoever comes should have got their 2 tickets, but because of you making your money, they cant.

The argument is that if people are willing to pay, then you may as well. That's a fairly crappy argument. What gives you the right to make a quick buck out of the artist? If the people that buy your tickets are willing to pay £50 on top of the face-value, who the hell are you and what the hell gives you the right to pocket that £50? It should go straight to the artist and you bloody-well know it.

If your second argument is 'everyone does it', then i've heard plenty of people are jumping off cliffs nowadays. Go for it :rolleyes:
 
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It's a scummy and horrible thing to do. What if someone really wants to go but cant get the tickets bang on 9am the day they go on sale? Some people simply cant do that at work etc.
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Turn that on it's head. If that really is the case, chances are the tickets would still get bought up anyway if they're even remotely worth trying to tout, so such people are more likely to get a ticket seeing as they now have opportunity to buy some, rather than not at all.
 
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