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Know somebody who would burn a ticket for a sport/ stage event if they could not sell

  • 19-01-2014 09:39PM
    #1
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭


    The famous one that comes to mind is for me the Ticket tout who gets himself filmed burning the world cup match ticket. No doubt, many tickets for pop concerts snapped up by skangers are wasted when they can't be sold on eBay. Do you know anybody like this? Here's your chance to do the dirt on 'em!


Comments

  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Why just not use the ticket if one could not sell it?


  • #3
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    In before the Pat Kenny toy show tickets video.


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    What?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    How often does this come up?


  • #6
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Touts get burned quite often these days. I remember at the Heineken Cup final in Edinburgh a few years back seeing a tout stuck with a fistful of tickets, it made me feel both happy (at him presumably having his investment going down instead of up) and annoyed (for the people who wanted to go to it but couldn't thanks to touts) at the same time.

    Burning the ticket sounds just a tad dickish though


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  • #7
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Not a ticket but looking on adverts.ie and seeing people with two/three PS4's being greedy selling them for over 500 euros each.


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