Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

Lads to be clear, you do not, in fact, have to hand it to Ticketmaster.

I don't see the problem with forfeiting the ticket and not having previous installments returned. The schedule of payments is well known in advance and they give plenty of leeway on missed payments where people can make up the payment late. The fact that they even offer installments is probably a concession anyway seeing as they could have all the cash 12 months in advance anyway.

Also, it wouldn't set a good precedent to allow people to just skip the final payment as an opt out with only the €10 penalty. It would be a kind of moral hazard situation. The logical thing to do for anyone not wanting or able to attend anymore is to make the final payment and then sell the ticket onwards.

Much of my training and part of my work was in contract law. The fact you’ve signed a contract is irrelevant. Once the contract is examined and found to be against the spirit of what is intended it falls down. As is the case with most housing rental contracts.

In this case the court would almost certainly deem the holding of monies to be punitive and restore the cash to the claimant. To prevent that TM would avoid going to court and return the money when challenged whilst admitting no wrongdoing and put it down as a goodwill gesture. Thus it would not set a precedent in which they’d be required to return the monies to all those who had forfeited. TM can resell the ticket and the court would question why they’d made a double profit on the same ticket.

What is required is a class action where hundreds of people would take them on. In this instance TM may be forced to do a volte face. If unconvinced please chat to a litigation lawyer/contract specialist. Not to a shill for TM who protect their own interests.

I studied law as well for years. There is no law in ireland that makes deposits/instalments legally refundable. the agreement of the terms and conditions is totally relevant and underpins the purchase of the concert or festival ticket. The contract says no refunds when customer falls to make all scheduled payments.
court won’t entertain a case with no legal or contractual basis. Ticketmaster much like any hotel offering non refundable bookings set out in terms that it’s non refundable.
They can off course on a discretionary basis change that but they aren’t legally required to give deposits/instalments back.

again I’m not a shill but again your pretend something is against the law when it’s not.
is it ethically dubious of ticketmaster, sure. But it’s not contractually or legally wrong for them to keep the money.
same if you cancel a wedding band and they keep the deposit and they end up playing another wedding on the day you booked them for.

Why would "everyone be at it"? Post makes no sense. As seath said, circumstances can change for people. Easy to say just transfer the tickets but tick master are such fcuk nuggets they don't want to offer resale or transfer until closer to the gig, yet they do on full priced ones. Would love to know how much they make for nothing on missed payments on ticket installment plans.

I come for Calvin Harris hate, I stay for the contract law talk

Nothing like dreams of Kylie to make grown men loose the run of themselves.

In non-legalese developments I’ve just noticed that The Blades are playing Dolans the Saturday of EP. Could they be on the way to Jerry Fish or The Salty Dog?

Did indeed, was always hoping they’d do the guitars and drums again but always a DJ set.

Anyone at 2004 and stayed in the carpark will remember some guy with a transit and speakers attached to the doors, I couldn’t keep count but must have been close to 200bpm. It was tough.

Resale tickets going in minutes. All of those instalment plan returned tickets would be gone in a morning. It seems our cohort may not be reflective of the national taste.

I thought the same, the scene in Austin powers comes to mind

Speaking of instalment tickets, are they transferable/resellable? one of my friends is likely no longer coming and her ticket is sitting on my ticketmaster account currently