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How to stop touting

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  • #32
    HelterSkelter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭HelterSkelter


    okidoki987 wrote:
    (A) Only 2 tickets per person allowed no matter what the concert/gig/event.
    If your mates want them, let them queue like others do or use the Internet
    or get someone to queue with you.

    And what happens if a group of 4 want to go and you want to sit together? If you book on the internet as 2 seperate transactions you will be allocated different seats.

    To be honest I have no problem with touting. If there is a demand for any other product there seems to be no problem with people upping the price. Yet everyone gets all moralistic when it comes to concert tickets. Air flight tickets are one example I can think of. If the plane is nearly full they up the last few ticket prices to crazy prices because they know there is a demand. I remember looking at a Dublin to Stansted flight on the Ryanair site for the following day and they wanted €199 each way NOT including taxes!!

    So what's wrong with someone buying something and selling it on for a higher price if there is enough demand.

    In saying that I also don't have any problem with ticketmaster putting in measures to try to make sure the tickets go to the real fans.


  • #33
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    The problem with touting is that the touts buy up so many of the tickets that a lot of people who want to go along cannot buy them. The only option left to anyone who really wants to go is to pay over inflated prices to the touts. If people refused to pay though then the touts would be out of pocket and would soon stop.
    Air flight tickets are one example I can think of. If the plane is nearly full they up the last few ticket prices to crazy prices because they know there is a demand.
    That analogy has no relationship to touting. The concert promoters/artists/ticket seller do not put up the cost of the tickets when they are running low, they sell them all at the same price. It's a totally separate third part that is hiking up the price.

    Your analogy would work if say I bought 20 tickets for a particular flight I knew would be popular (Paris or Rome on Valentines maybe) and then when the airline have no seats left I sell on the tickets at an over-inflated cost to desperate romantics trying to impress the girlfriend.


  • #34
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    jor el wrote:
    The problem with touting is that the touts buy up so many of the tickets that a lot of people who want to go along cannot buy them.

    yes, and if there were tickets available to buy, then you wouldnt get touts, so it would become poitless for them to exist.

    however, i would see ticket prices going up a lot for that to happen. which is fine for me, but its not fine for students etc.


  • #35
    TheBigLebowski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭TheBigLebowski


    I don't see a problem with touts at all. They have something that other people want. Obviously the price goes up. It goes back to the very basics of trade. Supply and demand. Do we ban property developers who buy up hundreds of houses and sell them on for huge profits? No. I have bought tickets from touts plenty of times and would do it again.


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