Ticket Trout

fryup

With the current controversy over the U2 concert i'm just wondering have any of you ever done it??

I did it once and i got my fingers burn't (you'll be glad to hear)

It was a few years back.. i bought tickets for Barbra Streisand's Castletown House concert, i was convinced they'd be a huge demand so i got online early in the morning on to the ticketmaster website..delighted with myself for getting a few tickets thinking i'll make a tidy profit.....BUT the concert wasn't a sell out come the day of the concert there was still plenty of tickets available...so i had to go to the venue and stand outside with a sign saying tickets for sale and then eventually sell below face value..felt like a right numpty..learn't my lesson that day never again.

frozenfrozen

you should have called in a bomb threat, concert cancelled, full refund of ticket price

ScouseMouse

Ticket touting is just unfair and I hate it. Hopefully they make it illegal

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

No but I can't stand all this whinging about not getting a ticket like someone's life depended on it. Yes it's annoying but if people didn't buy tickets from touts then it wouldn't exist. It's a concert at the end of the day, watch them on YouTube if it means that much to you

enzo roco

fryup wrote: »

i bought tickets for Barbra Streisand's Castletown House concert,

You stupid fcking cnut*




* In Al Pacino's voice from Glengary Glenross.

Turtyturd

ScouseMouse wrote: »

Hopefully they make it illegal

It is...seatwave, from the same scumbags that brought you Ticketmaster.

Hector Bellend

Shove your U2 ticket up your dirty touting hole

Badly Drunk Boy

I've often bought an extra ticket or two for things like the Electric Picnic but usually sell to friends for face value (or maybe face value and a lift to the event).

The Seatwave situation is ridiculous and I'd prefer to miss an event than make a profit for a tout.

KERSPLAT!

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No but I can't stand all this whinging about not getting a ticket like someone's life depended on it. Yes it's annoying but if people didn't buy tickets from touts then it wouldn't exist. It's a concert at the end of the day, watch them on YouTube if it means that much to you

Watching someone on YouTube is definitely the same as seeing them live at a gig...

Turtyturd

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Watching someone on YouTube is definitely the same as seeing them live at a gig...

Just get a few mates around the record the screen, and a couple with no interest in the gig to talk amongst themselves for the full authentic experience.

KERSPLAT!

Turtyturd wrote: »

Just get a few mates around the record the screen, and a couple with no interest in the gig to talk amongst themselves for the full authentic experience.

I can sell shyte overpriced pints to make it really authentic

I was at Bruce Springsteen during the the summer and one thing is for sure, nothing will compare to seeing that live. Unreal!

dresden8

It's the capitalist system. How come everybody's a communist when it comes to concerts and sport?

namloc1980

How would ticket touting legislation in Ireland deal with the Seatwave situation? Maybe a cap on how much above face value they can be sold for? Again dunno how you enforce it.

andekwarhola

Touters are scummy but people seem to loath to point the finger at the real culprits, namely the promoters and, implicitly, the artists.

One single half decent boycott would sort the matter out but too many mugs will pay Seat Wave or some spiv a fortune rather than miss their totally unique 10th time watching the same artist.

namloc1980

andekwarhola wrote: »

Touters are scummy but people seem to loath to point the finger at the real culprits, namely the promoters and, implicitly, the artists.

One single half decent boycott would sort the matter out but too many mugs will pay Seat Wave or some spiv a fortune rather than miss their totally unique 10th time watching the same artist.

That means there's a market for them. If people didn't pay for tickets on the secondary market, there wouldn't be touts.

griffin100

I had two tickets for the first Ireland - England ruby match in Croke Park. I paid about €120 for the pair. A fiend of a friend offered me €2,500 for them. I sold them and brought the family on holiday.

razorblunt

No, I've often had someone pull out or not end up making a gig / game myself but I've always sold them on for face value.
Biggest kick in the stones at the moment is the Scottish Rugby Union, openly encourage you to go to viagogo to get tickets. It's an absolute racket.

donkeykong5

griffin100 wrote: »

I had two tickets for the first Ireland - England ruby match in Croke Park. I paid about €120 for the pair. A fiend of a friend offered me €2,500 for them. I sold them and brought the family on holiday.

Some friend. !

liz lemoncello

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No but I can't stand all this whinging about not getting a ticket like someone's life depended on it. Yes it's annoying but if people didn't buy tickets from touts then it wouldn't exist. It's a concert at the end of the day, watch them on YouTube if it means that much to you

Or, see if there is a good Periscope link.

awec

Touts are scum.

namloc1980

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Some friend. !

It was only a fiend so it's alright.

Donal55

In 1990 I bought a ticket from an Italian cop for the Ireland v Romania game in Genoa for face value.
The police had confiscated the tickets from touts and were just passing them on whilst checking bags, passports etc.

endacl

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Some friend. !

S'OK. Not a friend. A fiend.

PTH2009

Go too gig's on my own most of the time as I don't want to buy extra tickets and then can't get rid off. If I didn't become a loner I would of not seen as many great gig's as I have (some people are afraid to go to the bathroom in a pub on there own lol)

Not a fan of touts, some are dodgy as **** and are not nice people. Never bought a touted ticket but at almost every gig/match i go too there are fellas there shouting 'anyone buying or selling tickets'.

I wonder are touts and people who sell the knock off merchandise affialied ???

The touts must sell the tickets eventually as there's never any empty seats in the arenas/stadiums ???

Commotion Ocean

ScouseMouse wrote: »

Ticket touting is just unfair and I hate it. Hopefully they make it illegal

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Shove your U2 ticket up your dirty touting hole

andekwarhola wrote: »

Touters are scummy but people seem to loath to point the finger at the real culprits, namely the promoters and, implicitly, the artists.

One single half decent boycott would sort the matter out but too many mugs will pay Seat Wave or some spiv a fortune rather than miss their totally unique 10th time watching the same artist.

awec wrote: »

Touts are scum.

Should get up earlier and buy the tickets !! N'est pas ?? It's capitalism. Someone has a commodity that you want, swap money for the item. Win win.

SkinnyBuddha

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No but I can't stand all this whinging about not getting a ticket like someone's life depended on it. Yes it's annoying but if people didn't buy tickets from touts then it wouldn't exist. It's a concert at the end of the day, watch them on YouTube if it means that much to you

or show the same iniative as the touts in getting tickets.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Watching someone on YouTube is definitely the same as seeing them live at a gig...

It solves the problem of "missing out" more than being outraged U2 won't release more dates.

KERSPLAT!

LexieOnRale wrote: »

It solves the problem of "missing out" more than being outraged U2 won't release more dates.

What? It doesn't solve anything. People missed out on tickets and want to see the band, of course they'd love another date if it meant getting to see them. This is hardly rocket science.

Herb Powell

dfeo wrote: »

Should get up earlier and buy the tickets !! N'est pas ?? It's capitalism. Someone has a commodity that you want, swap money for the item. Win win.

You're leaving out the part where they have teams/bots buying out tickets giving actual fans no chance. I'm talking about stadiums selling out in seconds. Not exactly this fair utopian solution you seem to be hinting at.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

What? It doesn't solve anything. People missed out on tickets and want to see the band, of course they'd love another date if it meant getting to see them. This is hardly rocket science.

? I realise that but it's hardly a national catastrophe that someone else got the tickets you wanted and are selling for a higher price

suicide_circus

****ing trouts

KERSPLAT!

LexieOnRale wrote: »

? I realise that but it's hardly a national catastrophe that someone else got the tickets you wanted and are selling for a higher price

Not a catastrophe at all, telling people to watch them on YouTube is however, ridiculous.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Not a catastrophe at all, telling people to watch them on YouTube is however, ridiculous.

It's a better alternative than writing disgruntled Facebook comments under an article on Facebook, or acting like people are incapable of thinking for themselves and expensive tickets should be made illegal. If there was no demand or profit being made, touts wouldn't have a business. I'm merely suggesting an alternative way to listen to your fav band when you don't have tickets, instead of calling for the act to be criminalised

Dravokivich

LexieOnRale wrote: »

It's a better alternative than writing disgruntled Facebook comments under an article on Facebook, or acting like people are incapable of thinking for themselves and expensive tickets should be made illegal. If there was no demand or profit being made, touts wouldn't have a business. I'm merely suggesting an alternative way to listen to your fav band when you don't have tickets, instead of calling for the act to be criminalised

You're just being contentious for the sake of it really.

Berserker

Never touted a ticket myself and I have sold tickets at face value for some massive football games. U2 will release another date, we all know they will and there will be plenty of tickets go to round. As for touting, nobody is going to stop it. The papers will be gloating about the fact that people are buying all ireland tickets for hundreds of euro later this year. Touting seems to be ok when that happens.

awec

dfeo wrote: »

Should get up earlier and buy the tickets !! N'est pas ?? It's capitalism. Someone has a commodity that you want, swap money for the item. Win win.

Nothing to do with getting up early and it's not capitalism either. It's exploitation.

It's just scumbags being scumbags.

awec

PTH2009 wrote: »

Go too gig's on my own most of the time as I don't want to buy extra tickets and then can't get rid off. If I didn't become a loner I would of not seen as many great gig's as I have (some people are afraid to go to the bathroom in a pub on there own lol)

Not a fan of touts, some are dodgy as **** and are not nice people. Never bought a touted ticket but at almost every gig/match i go too there are fellas there shouting 'anyone buying or selling tickets'.

I wonder are touts and people who sell the knock off merchandise affialied ???

The touts must sell the tickets eventually as there's never any empty seats in the arenas/stadiums ???

These lads are not always touts (though I'm sure some are), they're just trading tickets.

Say you have a spare ticket at face value of 50 quid. They might buy it off you for 30 quid and you may be happy to take that rather than stand around trying to get rid of it yourself. They'll then sell it on later to someone arriving late for 40 quid or face value.

James Bond Junior

I'd buy and sell my granny to make a few bob but I won't do the tout thing. Had two tickets for U2 but herself text to say she got them so cancelled the sale. Could surely have made a nice few bob on them but it's scummy. Only thing I would not try and make money on.

everlast75

Think Lennie Cohen had it right.

Max purchase? Two tickets. Names printed on them. Identify proof required on the night.

If you can't go, you send them back and get a full refund. They then go to the next people in the queue.

Simple. And very effective.

slavetothegrind

sadly it only happens because it brings extra profit to the artists and promotors.
Otherwise they would all use one of the many systems which negate this ****.
Ticketmaster provide the best revenue to the promotor/band. No fecks are given by these two after that.

PTH2009

no concert or match is worth paying over the odds for (and thats from an avid event goer like myself)

donkeykong5

Td noel rock going to bring in a law to stop the touts. Yeah right..........

Berserker

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Td noel rock going to bring in a law to stop the touts. Yeah right..........

It's up for discussion pretty soon, this week, if I remember correctly. He can only enforce it within the RoI, so it is going to be limited. Fair play to him for actually trying but he won't stop it.

namloc1980

Berserker wrote: »

It's up for discussion pretty soon, this week, if I remember correctly. He can only enforce it within the RoI, so it is going to be limited. Fair play to him for actually trying but he won't stop it.

Next to useless when most touting happens online so virtually unenforceable.

donkeykong5

Berserker wrote: »

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Td noel rock going to bring in a law to stop the touts. Yeah right..........

It's up for discussion pretty soon, this week, if I remember correctly. He can only enforce it within the RoI, so it is going to be limited. Fair play to him for actually trying but he won't stop it.

Yeah forget about the people in ambulances outside overcrowded hospitals. This really is a major priority. !

howiya

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Yeah forget about the people in ambulances outside overcrowded hospitals. This really is a major priority. !

It's probably high on his list of priorities now that he has a nice TD salary and can afford to get to a few extra gigs but can't get tickets online...

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

stuck my €150 early bird electric picnic ticket from 2013 on eBay with a buy it now price of €600 to judge demand and it was gone in a few hours! i was flat broke so that was great, though ebay/paypal took about €70 in fees.

fryup

georgiecasey wrote: »

though ebay/paypal took about €70 in fees.

b@stards !

Hockney

enzo roco wrote: »

You stupid fcking cnut*




* In Al Pacino's voice from Glengary Glenross.

Who eva told ya you could work with men?

Ya fkcing child



*Also in Al Pacino's voice from Glengary Glenross

Chain Smoker

fryup wrote: »

It was a few years back.. i bought tickets for Barbra Streisand's Castletown House concert

Ten years back, would you believe

Yeah though, what possessed you to think that would be one that'd have huge demand? That one even being held there on that scale utterly baffled me at the time, couldn't see where the market was for it it in Ireland at all.

Richard Hillman

I don't mind individual touts, it's the corporate and ticket suppliers touting that bother me.


We all know what Ticketmaster are up to with Seatwave. The FAI do the same thing with Abbeytravel.