How much would a tout charge for a €40 face value ticket?

Magenta

I want to go to a sold-out concert, can't find any tickets for sale on any of the classifieds sites so thinking of showing up and seeing if there's any touts selling... how much can I expect to pay for a ticket with €40 face value?

Gone Drinking

How long is a piece of string?

Liam Byrne

I'd expect to pay €40 and would tell them to f**k off if they wanted more.

You might miss out on this concert, but if everyone did this then the touts wouldn't bother and you'd get tickets for the next one.

Alessandra

Sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less than face value. If they are really desperate they will take what you offer them.

Borneo Fnctn

If there's one thing I hate, it's a tout. If there's two things i hate, it's touts and child molesters.

brummytom

Whatever they feel like, you'd probably be looking at a fair bit more

ColmDawson

http://www.toutless.com/

irish_goat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

smellslikeshoes

Liam Byrne wrote: »

I'd expect to pay €40 and would tell them to f**k off if they wanted more.

You might miss out on this concert, but if everyone did this then the touts wouldn't bother and you'd get tickets for the next one.

Yea that's really helpful :rolleyes:
Ticket touts have been around for a long time and are not going anywhere.


To OP- I'd expect anything up to 80 quid to be honest, but don't be afraid to bargain with them, if they sell it for anything above face value they are still making a profit.

Magenta

I might just show up so...

Sea Sharp

It depends how well the tickets sold
If it was sold out then they'll charge more. If tickets are stil available on the day they'll sell less.

hidinginthebush

they will rape you as much as possible. Touts are the scum of the earth

cloneslad

what concert are you looking to go to? this might give us more of an idea of the price.

Sleepy

Really depends on the concert and the level of demand for it

Lux23

I was bringing my brother and his mate to a concert in the ambassador a couple of years ago and they weren't allowing kids under 18 in so they wouldn't admit us. It left us with 3 tickets that were useless, there was a tout standing outside so I asked him how much he would give me for them. They were 28 and he said he would give me 15, we had been standing in the quene a while and I had witnessed several people pay him double the face value for tickets. So if said F**k you.

Anyway we waited a few minutes to see if other people would turn up looking for tickets and low and behold 3 people turned up and he pounced on them. He knew I had the tickets but he still tried to sell them at 10 quid more then were worth, I just lost it and marched over and said I would sell mine at face value. They were delighted and on they went into the gig leaving the smelly, greedy tout with his tickets. It was a proud moment.

Heisenberg.

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stovelid

Just spend the money on a good aluminum baseball bat and liberate some tickets from a tout instead.

The Pontiac

Like everything else price is determined by supply and demand.

m@cc@

Magenta wrote: »

How much would a tout charge for a €40 face value ticket?

As much as he thinks you're willing to pay.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

$TEXAS

Jim

hidinginthebush wrote: »

they will rape you as much as possible. Touts are the scum of the earth

^this, they'll get all they can

If you go up to them early they could charge up to €100, depending on the demand, as people said. If you wait till just before the main band go on you might get it near face value if the tout is just trying to get rid of the ticket. But as was said, if demand is high it's likely people will have bought all the tout tickets before the main band come on.

Also, they are scum.

biko

Wait until after the show, you can get it for €10 then.

Fighting Irish

hidinginthebush wrote: »

they will rape you as much as possible. Touts are the scum of the earth

No different than shop keepers buying something to sell it on to other people at a higher price

The Pontiac

Jim wrote: »

If you wait till just before the main band go on you might get it near face value if the tout is just trying to get rid of the ticket. .

I saw this happening a few years ago in Dublin at a Van Morrison gig. The touts bought too many tickets and they were selling them below face value as the gig was about to start.

datk

I went to a concert in the point - one of the group was sick on the day and couldn't go, it was bad enough she was missing the show, I decided to try sell the ticket and get some of her money back. The tout offered half face value so I took it, better half than nothing. We went in to the concert and nobody showed up to take the seat so the tout lost out.

Trashbat

Interesting that the Rage Against The Machine gig (to thank fans for making them Xmas no.1) has a strict security policy. Will are printed with names and addresses and you have to produce photographic ID to prove its you.

Hopefully that'll stop the touts.

What i hate is that touting has become legitimised now, with companies becoming ticket agents and being allowed charge a 75% booking fee, or even higher. Scummy.

Magenta

It would be a crock of **** if I went to the effort of getting to the O2 and there were no tickets, or they were ridiculously overpriced.

AnonoBoy

Lux23 wrote: »

I was bringing my brother and his mate to a concert in the ambassador a couple of years ago and they weren't allowing kids under 18 in so they wouldn't admit us. It left us with 3 tickets that were useless, there was a tout standing outside so I asked him how much he would give me for them. They were 28 and he said he would give me 15, we had been standing in the quene a while and I had witnessed several people pay him double the face value for tickets. So if said F**k you.

Anyway we waited a few minutes to see if other people would turn up looking for tickets and low and behold 3 people turned up and he pounced on them. He knew I had the tickets but he still tried to sell them at 10 quid more then were worth, I just lost it and marched over and said I would sell mine at face value. They were delighted and on they went into the gig leaving the smelly, greedy tout with his tickets. It was a proud moment.

Well done Sir/Madam.

Scien wrote: »

Although the idea is nice, the practicality of that site is useless.

I've sold and bought tickets for in demand gigs off that site and would thoroughly encourage everyone to do so and say 'f*ck the touts'. If people are genuinely selling tickets on and we all stick to sites like toutless then scummy touts will be reduced and god forbid have to go and get a real job instead of being leeches.

Ro: maaan!

Fighting Irish wrote: »

No different than shop keepers buying something to sell it on to other people at a higher price

If there was a limited quantity of the thing available and the one he was selling may be the last in existence and the shopkeeper hadn't labeled it with a price but instead waited to see how much you wanted it. Then, maybe.

will1977

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Yea that's really helpful :rolleyes:
Ticket touts have been around for a long time and are not going anywhere.


To OP- I'd expect anything up to 80 quid to be honest, but don't be afraid to bargain with them, if they sell it for anything above face value they are still making a profit.

Not necessarily, They often buy them themselves above face value hoping to sell on for more

Messi 10

How much you pay will depend on a few variables.

Firstly how many tickets are available around the venue on the day. The more tickets, the less you can expect to pay.

Secondly how close it is to the event starting. The less time there is, the less you should expect to pay.

I remember I was at a rugby match in Cardiff a couple of years ago and at about 20 minutes before kick off there was touts outside the ground selling tickets for half of face value. This was because tickets were readily available outside the ground and because it was very close to kick off.

The tout has to get rid of the tickets at some price because the tickets are totally worthless after the event. So if there's a lot of tickets available or if it's close to the event starting then you should try to take adavntage of the tout. Because at that stage he's as desperate to sell as you are to buy.

Liam Byrne

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Yea that's really helpful :rolleyes:
Ticket touts have been around for a long time and are not going anywhere.

They're only "around for a long time" because people are stupid enough to give in to their demands.

If they bought 10,000 tickets for something and everyone decided not to buy, it would teach them a lesson.

brightkane

about 10 years ago me and a few mates went to a gig in the olmypia, My mate got us the tickets and i ended up with the last one with the receipt attached.

It was a dark winters night, Loads of touts outside and loads of people, i ended up selling a tout the receit that looked like a ticket, but had price ect on it for face value.

It paid for my beer for the night, good times.

Magenta

As it turns out one of my sisters's friends can't go to the concert and has offered me her ticket!
Trouble is it's an e-ticket off the internet i.e. a print-out.
Will I be asked for I.D. for it? Obviously my name isn't going to match the one on the ticket!