Friend wont hand over concert tickets

lulu1

Hi MY 19 tear old daughter and her friend bought tickets online for a weekend concert a few months costing in the region of 170euro each. Daughter gave friend the money and friend bought the tickets.

About a month ago something came up and they decided they would sell both tickets together. A guy that the friend knew said he would buy the tickets and would have the money the following week. Friend still has tickets.

Daughter tell friend about meeting guy and friend again loses it saying I dont think we should sell it to him now he is going to sell them on and make a profit.

I am coming to the conclusion that friend didn't buy tickets at all and used the money for something else. Don't know whether to get involved or leave it to them to sort out

racso1975

She's 19 let her sort it out!! If nothing else it will be a life lesson and she really needs to stand up for herself

LegacyUser

Hard to decide what you should do when she's 19, technically an 'adult'. Maybe your daughter could put stress on the fact her mam is 'losing the head' with her over it all, etc. Not saying you are, just might put a fire under the friend??

170e to realise she's a bad friend is a steep steep price for your daughter, it really is a shame but your daughter is better off without her ultimately.

Tokyo

This is my personal opinion - your mileage may vary.

At 19, she was 'adult' enough to plan a weekend away with her friend, and to come up with the money by herself, so presumably she's also at an age where she needs to start learning life's lessons for herself, rather than having a parent deal with it for her. By all means, be there in an advisory capacity for her if she asks you for it, but otherwise I'd suggest staying out of it and letting her handle it herself.

At the end of the day, if €170 is all it costs her to learn who her friends are, and be more careful about who she trusts with her money, she's getting a good deal in my opinion.

Seth Brundle

Tell her to call around to the friends house for the ticket/money and for her to wait there until she gets it.

Ghekko

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Tell her to call around to the friends house for the ticket/money and for her to wait there until she gets it.

Even offer to drive her to friends house and wait while she gets the ticket, telling said friend that your niece/nephew/whoever is now buying your daughters ticket from her instead and it's needed as they are calling for it tomorrow. While your daughter will be (hopefully) left with the ticket, she can then sell it on herself.

lulu1

Update on tickets

Friend bought tickets on line so daughter is waiting for her to phone with the email and password she used to buy them .Daughter is then going to print them out on our printer. So maybe all is not lost yet

Caranica

lulu1 wrote: »

Update on tickets

Friend bought tickets on line so daughter is waiting for her to phone with the email and password she used to buy them .Daughter is then going to print them out on our printer. So maybe all is not lost yet

Beware she may have already printed and sold on the tickets

lulu1

Caranica wrote: »

Beware she may have already printed and sold on the tickets

Panic over we are after printing the tickets because she has no printer

Caranica

lulu1 wrote: »

Panic over we are after printing the tickets because she has no printer

No access to a library, Internet café? I really wouldn't trust that girl

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lulu1 wrote: »

Panic over we are after printing the tickets because she has no printer

She could have just emailed them to 100's of people who print them out, no way of knowing till they get scanned at the concert, first to arrive gets in, all others turned away.

Does sound like your daughter was just being melodramatic now though

lulu1

Vaughn Defeated Ballet wrote: »

She could have just emailed them to 100's of people who print them out, no way of knowing till they get scanned at the concert, first to arrive gets in, all others turned away.

Does sound like your daughter was just being melodramatic now though

No she was cool calm and collected i was the one who was panicking. No you have to log into the site and print them you can't email them

Pelvis

lulu1 wrote: »

No she was cool calm and collected i was the one who was panicking. No you have to log into the site and print them you can't email them

This is ticketmaster we're talking about? Yes you can email the tickets.

lulu1

All ends well both tickets printed and sold to other friends

Addle

lulu1 wrote: »

All ends well both tickets printed and sold to other friends

So it was all drama over nothing?

Ghekko

That's good. Lesson learned to buy own tickets in future :-)

qwerty13

Pelvis wrote: »

lulu1 wrote: »

No she was cool calm and collected i was the one who was panicking. No you have to log into the site and print them you can't email them

This is ticketmaster we're talking about? Yes you can email the tickets.

You can email them, and you can print multiple copies. Like someone else said, it’s first come first served with those tickets - if her friend sold them on, and that person turns up first and has them scanned, anyone else who printed them won’t be allowed in.

This is why most people buying tickets sold by the original buyer won’t buy the ‘print them yourself’ version. They’ll only buy the ‘posted out by ticketmaster’ ones.

Friend of mine had a completely genuine mix up about selling on printed tickets one night (not trying to pull a fast one at all), and the guy who bought wasn’t let in and understandably was furious. He rang my friend and it it all got sorted in 2 minutes - but printed tickets can definitely be emailed, and can definitely have multiple copies printed.

Flippyfloppy

Likewise, the hard copies sent out by Ticketmaster can be replaced by Ticketmaster, apparently! So they could be sold on, and the owner could claim they were lost, new ones could be issued and so on.

JeffKenna

lulu1 wrote: »

Daughter tell friend about meeting guy and friend again loses it saying I dont think we should sell it to him now he is going to sell them on and make a profit.

I am coming to the conclusion that friend didn't buy tickets at all and used the money for something else. Don't know whether to get involved or leave it to them to sort out

That was a big conclusion to jump to. The other side is that perhaps your daughter's friend didn't want to sell to a scalper and wanted to sell to someone who would actually go to the concert. Your daughter doesn't seem to have respected her wishes.

Paddy Cow

JeffKenna wrote: »

That was a big conclusion to jump to. The other side is that perhaps your daughter's friend didn't want to sell to a scalper and wanted to sell to someone who would actually go to the concert. Your daughter doesn't seem to have respected her wishes.

The daughter's friend can do whatever she wants with her own ticket. She has no business withholding the daughter's ticket or dictating who she should sell it to.

Katgurl

Eh I think this is all a bit of a leap on your part. Do you have doubts abut the friend's moral code in general?

She probably assumed they'd sell better as a pair and possibly wanted to wait until demand / price increases. I sold an EP ticket one year at cost. The next day the event sold out and I was inundated with people offering twice the price for it.

lulu1

JeffKenna wrote: »

That was a big conclusion to jump to. The other side is that perhaps your daughter's friend didn't want to sell to a scalper and wanted to sell to someone who would actually go to the concert. Your daughter doesn't seem to have respected her wishes.

Respected her wishes my daughter paid her almost 200e to but the ticket why should the friend dictate who she sells it too

lulu1

Katgurl wrote: »

Eh I think this is all a bit of a leap on your part. Do you have doubts abut the friend's moral code in general?

She probably assumed they'd sell better as a pair and possibly wanted to wait until demand / price increases. I sold an EP ticket one year at cost. The next day the event sold out and I was inundated with people offering twice the price for it.

everything ended ok yes she did assume that but that was still no reason to with hold the ticket in the first place my daughter was happy to get what she paid for it

Big Bag of Chips

This isn't exactly a "personal issue", and as it is now resolved I'll lock the thread.