Electric Picnic 2016 // **Discussion Only / NO Ticket Sales / Requests** //

nocoverart wrote: »

Give it a couple of years and this festival will be headlined by the likes of David Guetta, Avicii or any other manufactured sh1t "Artist"

Guetta is no more "manufactured" than past headliner Fatboy Slim tbf.

Mr.S wrote: »

You are always going to have people willing to pay over the odds for tickets just because its sold out.

Every year I know people that shell out 400+ for EP tickets and they don't bat an eyelid.

Imo, proper anti-tout measures which are fairly easy to enforce need to be introduced to reduce how many tickets are snapped up by touts. A little bit of effort will go a long way.

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Synode wrote: »

Was it €300 for both or 2 x €300 = €600? Because if it's the latter former I'd run a mile. No way anyone is selling them that cheap

Sorry,it was €600 for 2 tickets

nocoverart wrote: »

LOL! Very good, but you're a Richard D man at heart. What you think of the new Aphex Twin EP? Fookin loving it myself.

Heard bits of it, yeah very good stuff.

Sh1tload of tickets available last year the week before the event. Anyone paying silly over the odds money now is a fúcking idiot.

bodhrandude wrote: »

I would actually prefer Guetta to Calvin Harris, his set at the Euros kicked a bit of ass compared to the sh1te that Harris churns out.

Personally I thought it was the most godawful piece on cringeworthy nonsense imaginable.

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Easy Rod wrote: »

Not really. Value is a relative term, if someone thinks it's worth paying and can afford it, I don't think that makes them 'a fúcking idiot'. I'm all for the whole 'no touting' thing but people can do what they want with their money.

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish fúcking idiots"

The Nal wrote: »

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish fúcking idiots"

I think you've touts but there's also a serious lack of tickets with no big gig like oxygen happening, even with 70,000 tickets it would have probably sold out.

There was plenty of time for people to get tickets and instalment plans as well, what's happening now is capatilism not necessarly touts driving up the prices. If anything people are idiots for not buying when they were on sale, now they got to pay what ever the market asks.

Even at 350 it's less than 1 night in the Europe hotel, not a major amount for 3 days&nights of fun.

I don't think adverts should be trying to exert control over the market rate, there a capitalists enterprise, all that happens is it goes to done deal and puts people in a more dodgy position, at least with adverts users have feedback and you've some sense of trust. It's not like they cap the prices on other products.

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

The Nal wrote: »

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish f cking idiots"

But you forget that only a minority of people actually care..

This of course is the sad and very relevant point.

MJohnston wrote: »

I'm really surprised Oxygen has never returned

With the 30,000 scumbags, the fights in the campsites, the stabbings, the sexual assaults, the aggressive security, the draconian rules and zero late night entertainment people didn't seem to keen to cough up 250 quid.

Do you think there might be an announcement on Friday, they don't seem to be doing the 'announcement coming' thing anymore these days and just announce a bunch of names whenever. Wouldn't mind a few more acts to chew over.