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iSleepDiagonal

Yay: screw you eBay touts; Boo: ticket agency fees

Posted by iSleepDiagonal about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 0 responses

One way I’ve seen recently that is scuppering the profits of “ticket resellers” (ie touts) on eBay is that venues/promoters will often release extra tickets for gigs closer to showtime. Whether this is genuinely an attempt to piss off touts, or that they’ve realised they can squeeze in a few ...

Phil_LTRC

Ticket agencies want to make reselling all tickets illegal

Posted by Phil_LTRC about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 8 responses

Hi All, Whilst watching Breakfast TV yesterday morning, Business with Declan had an interview with one of the major concert promoters about how the ticket industry want to make the reselling of all tickets illegal. At the moment, only the selling of football matches and Olympic tickets is illegal but ticket ag...

ellie

Is it worth buying football tickets from touts?

Asked by ellie 7 months ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by My_Left_Foot
Last active 6 months ago 4 responses

I’m trying to get tickets for the Hull City vs Bristol premier play-off this Saturday at Wembley. The sites stupidly said they were going on sale at 9am, it wasn’t, it was 8am so missed them. Anyone ever bought tickets outside the ground for something like this? Would I be looking at a few hundred quid? ...