Ticket Trout

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.

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.

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

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 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...

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I don't have a problem with ticket touts. How is it different from any other business - buy something, stick a mark up on it and sell it at a profit.
How is that different from Tesco, or your local car dealer, clothes shop - or any other business?

Yes it's a bit shítty if you can't get to see your favourite band, but lets remember - it's a fúcking band. Tesco make their money on the stuff you actually need to stay alive, not just pass an evening, or get from a to b!

It's an absolutely imaginary distinction to say touts are evil scum, but every other middle man is just trying to make a living. If you think the price they ask is too high, then don't pay it, problem solved.

Don't believe that analogy holds up.

Touts are dealing with a finite number of items - there is a strict and limited supply.

If Tescos bought the only detergent you liked, you could not get it anywhere else and then charged a multiple of what is the RRP then that would be sh*tty behaviour too.

It is pure opportunism and a lazy and immoral way of making money.

Bring in the same measures that I mentioned above and do away with touts and the like.

everlast75 wrote: »

It is pure opportunism and a lazy and immoral way of making money.

It's this that doesn't hold up.

If you buy something, you own that thing - you should be entirely free to sell it or give it away if you see fit. People sell stuff all the time, sometimes for what they paid, sometimes less and sometimes more - what is so special about an event ticket that the normal rules should not apply?

Why should you not be able to profit on your ownership of a commodity that someone else is willing to pay you for? That is the very basis of capitalism and commerce.

People make enormous profits (sometimes) on selling houses for example - what do you need more, a place to live or to see bono pontificate? No one suggests you shouldn't be able to profit on selling your house. Chemists will gladly make a profit on medicines that their customers could die without, yet no one claims it's evil or a scummy thing to do.

It just makes no sense to apply this life and death attitude to something as mundane and trivial as a ticket for a concert or a football match, when we don't apply it to things that are actually life and death!

Ive done it, but only for concerts that i was going to.

Say i needed 2 tickets, i might buy 2 more and sell for a bit more than face value to try and offset the cost of the tickets.