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No one's annoyed?
Just wondering why no one seems all that annoyed at the complete fiasco that was trying to get tickets to the Bible tour.
I mean, I knew it was going to sell out, but to be stranded at 09:03 with no tickets on gigwise (after putting card details in, which is why I wasn't on other sites) and then no tickets anywhere else apart from scalper sites selling them at nearly four times the price... it's not exactly the mantra they've pushed about themselves. Maybe I'm the only lurker/member/occasional poster/irritated poster that didn't get tickets but still, bad show as far as I'm concerned. People who've bought every record, lots of singles, seen them on their various tours, survived Lifeblood etc... are basically being cut out becuase touts bought up huge amouts of tickets. How is that a celebration of a record that means so much to so many people? It almost makes me want to hope that the venues are more than half empty because the touts couldn't sell the tickets. Just me I guess... Also, to keep advertising a sold out tour is taking the piss. There is no excuse for it.
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Lots of people are annoyed about the touts/scalpers, just read the thread about the tour announcement. Yeah, it sucks.
I guess if touts are hanging on to tickets then advertising of the tour is still sort of relevant though! I'm not sure the band have much power over such matters on their own, but I guess if all artists got together to demand better control over tickets something would change.
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Sadly, for shows like this, the touts won't struggle to sell the tickets. As much as it would be a proper kick in the teeth for the touts for the venues to be empty, it just won't happen. As long as people go to touts, and legalised touting things like getmein, stubhub and viagogo, there is always going to be the need for them.
Can't remember how I came to know of it, but I discovered a few years back that ticketmaster keep a portion of tickets back to sell on getmein without them going on public sale first. This isn't a secondary market, this is touting, pure and simple. Apparently, the government said it was classed as 'free enterprise', and won't do anything about it. |
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It's a pain, isn't it? Experience has taught me that sites on which you can register/log-in tend to work better. I just got tickets for Nick Cave at the Royal Albert Hall but that required memorising card details and some excessive F5ing.
You have my sympathies.
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Yeah the Ticketmaster and Get Me In thing absolutely fucking reeks and I think there needs to be legislation about that but beyond that there's no way any ticket sellers can ensure that no tickets go to touts. I went to see Kate Bush last month, ticketing was strict, the four tickets I bought had my name on and neither of us would've been slowed in unless I had my passport - but even then the place was surrounded by touts. It's shit but it's not the band's fault, they're a band not businessmen, they're responsible for what they say and record, they're not responsible for what other people do.
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I've seen plenty of people angry about this but I guess most of it was on facebook or twitter so you might not have seen.
I had to go through a security thing on ticketmaster to make sure I wasn't a computer programme trying to get tickets and I don't really know how else they can stop touts getting tickets. You'd have to make it illegal like it is for reselling football tickets and stand out venues arresting people. Also, I know it's a bit late for this but it's always worth creating an account on ticketmaster or wherever in advanced and saving your card details on there. It saves so much time.
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see tickets and gigs and tours are the best sites I think.. register your details and credit card then you just select your ticket click buy and confirm.. wish they had a basket tho so you could pay for them all at the end. The only thing they tend to send the tickets out quite late
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I managed to get most of the tickets I wanted, but I know a lot of people who missed out, despite being there as ready as possible at 9am. I was very unimpressed with how I apparently managed to get a single Manchester ticket on Seetickets, yet as I clicked 'buy' at 9.03am (my credit card details already on the account), it told me it was no longer available! I thought that was really unfair, getting my hopes up for nothing. I know some sites do it, but they should all have the thing where once you select a ticket, it reserves it for 10-15 minutes so you can't lose out whilst you're actually paying - it's the only way I got tickets through the Roundhouse site eventually.
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My last was the Rewind the Film tour. Same thing happened on the "fans' presale".
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Plenty of people were annoyed here, thankfully there hasn't been the kind of nasty stuff I saw in other places. It's a fact of the industry at the moment, it seems.
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I think the touters are alright really. I may even sell my ticket for £200 because I don't know if I can be bothered going.
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