Tickets for sale in signature?

cormie · 12-06-2008 06:53AM #1

Hi,
Not sure what the scéal is with this, but I've tickets for sale for Leonard Cohen this weekend, face value of course and I know adverts.ie doesn't allow concert ticket sales, even for non MCD events (which this is), so I'm just wondering is it ok to have a little "5 Great Tickets to Leonard Cohen For Sale, PM For details" snippet in my sig, or is this still prohibited?

Any feedback appreciated

Overheal · 12-06-2008 07:55AM

Look up to the sky lads: I see a thunderstorm brewin'.

GoneShootin · 12-06-2008 08:30AM

One of the main reasons the lads whent with a seperate site to sales was to take it out of boards.ie.

So I think "no" is what the admins will be saying. Having a link to adverts.ie/ebay.ie whatever in your sig is different as all bids will be publicly seen, whereas PM's is all too private.

whiskeyman · 12-06-2008 08:32AM

sell them at www.toutless.com

cormie · 12-06-2008 09:25AM

Thanks Whiskeyman, put them there already, but kind of extra worried because 5 tickets cost me €600 for this gig:eek::eek:

12-06-2008 10:15AM

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whiskeyman · 12-06-2008 10:38AM

cormie wrote: »

Thanks Whiskeyman, put them there already, but kind of extra worried because 5 tickets cost me €600 for this gig:eek::eek:

I doubt you'll get much exposure tbh with a sig.

Is it a sell out?
You might need to split them 3 & 2?
Do you know anyone working in large companies (AIB etc..?) Many have online noticeboards, or employees often send emails to all staff offering tickets for sale.

Sure is a lot of money. Hope you sell them off ok.
You'd think ticket agents would adopt a policy similar to hotels - that they'd take cancellations up to a period before the time you arrive. I've been left with many tickets for events I couldn't go to for personal reasons (non sell out so couldn't sell on).

RoundyMooney · 12-06-2008 11:01AM

At a guess, I'd say no, but take it from an admin rather than me.

cormie · 12-06-2008 11:01AM

They'll be split anyway as I've 3 for the Friday night and 2 for the Saturday night;)

Bit of confusion with buying the tickets, wanted to get a few for the Saturday so I'd have enough if friends wanted to come too. Was online at 8:50 in my van on the road with 3 broadband ready to buy, my friend was on MSN too so I asked him could he buy some incase my connection drops. 9am comes and I add 5 to my cart, get on the page with the payment details and crappy three broadband disconnects, I lose the tickets. My friend didn't have all my details so he couldn't buy them, took me about 30 mins to get back online, unbeknownst to the public, a Sunday gig went on sale at 9:10, so I bought 4 for that and then managed to get 2 for the Saturday.

I then found out a Friday gig was being announced, so managed to get on a decent connection that morning and bought 6. Then found out I couldn't make the Sunday because a family thing so went to sell the 4 at face value in the buyandsell, got a buyer, went to get my tickets out and then realised, the 2 I had bought for Saturday, were actually for Sunday aswell:eek: Don't know how that happened, perhaps something to do with cookies because I had the two windows open for both dates when I bought the Sunday 4 originally, so maybe the Saturday window picked up the Sunday thingy or something, or maybe I just made a mistake myself

So I was able to sell the 2 extra Sunday tickets for face value too on toutless

But that meant I had no Saturday tickets, and only 6 for the Friday. Then I saw more Saturday tickets go on sale and got some great seats off ticketmaster. So Now I have 6 friday and 2 Saturday, but I don't think I can make the Saturday either and only 3 people are definite about the Friday (it is a very expensive gig). So that's 14 tickets I bought altogether at a sum of €1,700 :eek: and I have to shift 3 for the Friday and 2 for the Saturday or I'm down €600.

So a lot of confusion and annoyances with this and yep, a returns policy would be great but I don't see ticketmaster ever offering that

trishw78 · 12-06-2008 03:44PM

You can sell your tickets on ticketmaster but only at face value I think. If you have a ticketmaster A/C you can create a seller profile.

axer · 12-06-2008 03:50PM

trishw78 wrote: »

You can sell your tickets on ticketmaster but only at face value I think. If you have a ticketmaster A/C you can create a seller profile.

Cant see anything about this on their website. I dont suppose you have a link?

pvt.joker · 12-06-2008 03:54PM

cormie wrote: »

They'll be split anyway as I've 3 for the Friday night and 2 for the Saturday night;)

Bit of confusion with buying the tickets, wanted to get a few for the Saturday so I'd have enough if friends wanted to come too. Was online at 8:50 in my van on the road with 3 broadband ready to buy, my friend was on MSN too so I asked him could he buy some incase my connection drops. 9am comes and I add 5 to my cart, get on the page with the payment details and crappy three broadband disconnects, I lose the tickets. My friend didn't have all my details so he couldn't buy them, took me about 30 mins to get back online, unbeknownst to the public, a Sunday gig went on sale at 9:10, so I bought 4 for that and then managed to get 2 for the Saturday.

I then found out a Friday gig was being announced, so managed to get on a decent connection that morning and bought 6. Then found out I couldn't make the Sunday because a family thing so went to sell the 4 at face value in the buyandsell, got a buyer, went to get my tickets out and then realised, the 2 I had bought for Saturday, were actually for Sunday aswell:eek: Don't know how that happened, perhaps something to do with cookies because I had the two windows open for both dates when I bought the Sunday 4 originally, so maybe the Saturday window picked up the Sunday thingy or something, or maybe I just made a mistake myself So I was able to sell the 2 extra Sunday tickets for face value too on toutless But that meant I had no Saturday tickets, and only 6 for the Friday. Then I saw more Saturday tickets go on sale and got some great seats off ticketmaster. So Now I have 6 friday and 2 Saturday, but I don't think I can make the Saturday either and only 3 people are definite about the Friday (it is a very expensive gig). So that's 14 tickets I bought altogether at a sum of €1,700 :eek: and I have to shift 3 for the Friday and 2 for the Saturday or I'm down €600.

So a lot of confusion and annoyances with this and yep, a returns policy would be great but I don't see ticketmaster ever offering that

:eek::eek::eek:

A typical cormie story :pac::D

trishw78 · 12-06-2008 03:59PM

I could find the link either but when I opened my user account the link is in it. So I'm guessing you'd have to have an account. you also need to set up a 'sellers' account inside your users account.

CuLT · 12-06-2008 04:10PM

Nope, not at the moment, sorry.

Esel · 12-06-2008 07:53PM

Looks like few months of sleeping in the van and eating roadkill ahead for you, cormie. And for Dog's sake shorten your sentences a bit!

Hope the t****** sell btw.

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