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Ticketmaster Employees/Agents

  • 04-07-2005 9:51pm
    #1
    Neuro
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭


    I was just wondering, do Ticketmaster Employees or their Agents (i.e. highstreet music stores) know how many tickets remain for an event from their computer systems? Or is it a case of tickets available/sold out?


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  • #2
    me and the biz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭me and the biz


    there is numbers on the tickets, near the right of the ticket in the white box. i'm fairly sure this is the number sold so far. ie you're the 100th person to buy a ticket, so its ticket 100. so i assume they know how many have been sold and how many are left


  • #3
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    More importantly they know when they're going on sale. For example when tickets for the strokes at the olympia went on sale on st steven's day (FFS) you can be damn sure all the MCD people got tickets. Unlike me :L


  • #4
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    A guy I was working with this time last year had a friend who worked for ticketmaster who (allegedly) printed out a load of his own weekend tickets (or allegedly syphoned off a batch) to Oxygen and was (allegedly) selling them on for 100% personal profit.

    Ticketbastard.


  • #5
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Ticketmaster + MCD + Phantom + Music = Product

    You = Consumer.

    Citizen Smith was right....


  • #6
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,816 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    me and the biz wrote:
    there is numbers on the tickets, near the right of the ticket in the white box. i'm fairly sure this is the number sold so far. ie you're the 100th person to buy a ticket, so its ticket 100. so i assume they know how many have been sold and how many are left
    Are you sure? I think I'm looking at the right number on a ticket I have, and it's above 30000. For a gig in Whelan's.

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  • #7
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    magpie wrote:
    Ticketmaster + MCD + Phantom + Music = Product

    You = Consumer.

    Citizen Smith was right....

    But magpie was completely wrong, again.


  • #8
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    Doctor J wrote:
    A guy I was working with this time last year had a friend who worked for ticketmaster who (allegedly) printed out a load of his own weekend tickets (or allegedly syphoned off a batch) to Oxygen and was (allegedly) selling them on for 100% personal profit.

    Ticketbastard.

    Surely his employer i.e the person who owns/controls the franchise would have been charged? Once the ticket is printed its a sale. As the system is computerised it must be relatively straightforward to both find out where tickets were printed and then to carry out an audit.


  • #9
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    I was under that impression too, but the guy had a seemingly endless supply of tickets at half the official price (allegedly).


  • #10
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    mmmm...photoshop and some stiff cardboard for his printer?

    Given that ticketmaster is basically a big computer spewing out tickets and sucking in money (or maybe its the other way around) all of these tickets muct be accountable...so someday it will catch up with him.


  • #11
    Spicy Lauren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Spicy Lauren


    Doctor J wrote:
    A guy I was working with this time last year had a friend who worked for ticketmaster who (allegedly) printed out a load of his own weekend tickets (or allegedly syphoned off a batch) to Oxygen and was (allegedly) selling them on for 100% personal profit.

    Ticketbastard.

    Hold on a minute, you wanna hear MY story?

    A few months back, I saw an add advertised in town for U2 tickets at Croker on sale and called the guy. The fellow said he had 6 to sell. He couldnt attend the gig cos he won tickets for some Lyons tournament in New Zealand. We met up the following day, I bought 3 tickets of him, at 120EUR a piece.

    Went off to the gig, all excited to go to the gig of the year, only to be stopped at the last security check and being told that our tickets were forged!! The security guy asked us to wait on the side with some other people who got ripped off the same way, for the gardai to take our statements.

    Apparently, some fecker from TicketMaster stole sh*tloads of blank tickets and used a very good printing machine or photocopier to reprint one of an original U2 ticket.

    We were told by the security at Croker that we might be allowed to get in around 9PM... so we waited and waited... As the day grew longer, the more people got stopped at the security for the same reason...

    By 5 o'clock, they told us to go home as we were at least 70 people waiting there for the same reason...

    I can tell you that your man made A FORTUNE out of it. By 9PM the Guards have refused at least 200 people. We were all been sold fake tickets by the same fecker!!!

    I'll tell ya if I ever get to meet him, he's gonna have a very bad time!

    So now! What ya think of that eh?


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  • #12
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    I'd have wondered if he couldn't go why was he selling six tickets instead of one?


  • #13
    Spicy Lauren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Spicy Lauren


    he said it was himself and all the lads. I dont know I didnt pay much attention ya know. I was so excited over getting u2 tickets I even gave yer man a hug and told him he made my day!!


  • #14
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Bastard. Well let's hope what goes around comes around.


  • #15
    Neuro
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭Neuro


    Spicy Lauren wrote:
    So now! What ya think of that eh?

    I think next time you should ask to see the receipt and use a traceable form of payment.


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