Ticket touts are bottom feeding scum

I can imagine that all the idiots who purchased tickets from touts for a certain 'Mr/Miss' Jackson's performances at the O2 are kicking themselves. The touts will have disappeared with their ill-gotten gains and the tickets will not be refundable without proof that they were bought from legitimate sources.

Just more reason to despise and shun ticket touts.

"People who queue or pay touts ......are completely nuts. when you get there, there will really be nothing to enjoy. Think of all the filthy sweating bodies.
Scrummage 21-Jun-2009 15:37"
Exactly!

i have 4 seated and 1 standing tickets for acdc at hampden for sale at fair price if interested email me at c.cpreston@tiscali.co.uk

All

I do have 4 tickets for this - really and truly a genuine reason for not being able to go! My partner is still going (boo).

Alos, I was at Take That on Sat - they were only selling drinks at the bar if you q'd up to get tokens 1st and then went to the bar - and it closed at 10pm!!! and NO REFUNDS!!! I was in the Q when it closed - TOUGH.... be warned

They were £55 each = booking fee so if anyone wants one mail me
helent@vebnet.com

People who queue or pay touts for ridiculously expensive events are completely nuts. Why bother at all to attend with legal or overpaid tickets? These bands their organisers are all simply there to rip you off. The touts finish you off. You are bankrupt after going to one of these stupid events. Whay bother at all: when you get there, there will really be nothing to enjoy. Think of all the filthy sweating bodies. No thank you!

Yeah, but there's two other factors to this whole argument:

Firstly, we should pressure bands to insist that their tickets are not sold on the internet. In the 'old days', tickets were sold AT THE VENUE for some time before the gig or by postal application for those who lived further away. For the big gigs, we all queued - for hours sometimes - to secure our 'gold dust' tickets. This had two happy effects - generally, only those that really wanted to see the act would put in the effort, and also, anyone presenting themselves in front of the HUMAN box office attendant asking for 20 or 50 tickets would be refused. In those days, I don't remember anyone not getting to see their favourite artists and the big gigs were all still full.

Secondly, TicketMaster THEMSELVES now participate in what I consider 'touting'. Just a few minutes after the start time for the sale of tickets for the biggest acts, tickets are 'unavailable' and you are redirected to 'our partner company who may be able to help'. Said 'partner company' will miraculous have large numbers of tickets for sale at a huge mark-up. This is obviously legal or they wouldn't be doing it in such an open way, but it's an appallingly blatant exploitation of people who can't simply stop work to sit on their company's phone for an hour to get tickets, which let's face it, is a lot of us.

AC/DC make a great deal out of being 'a fan's band'. It's about time that they and other similarly popular acts start acting like it and not simply taking the easiest route to monstrous ticket sales. Just because they don't make money from the touting mark-up doesn't mean they shouldn't take action for the fans they profess to care so much about.

"people are entitled to buy and sell whatever they wish, as long as its legal"

Of course, that's the basis of capitalism. Is 'ticket touting' legal? I suspect not, I'm pretty sure that when I've bought tickets on line for major events, one of the terms states that they may not be resold,

so what? people are entitled to buy and sell whatever they wish, as long as its legal. if you have a problem don't buy them! and if it is really so important to you to attend a concert, then you would find a way of buying those tickets yourself at the right time. 3.30pm on the day of release for ac/dc?? cloud cuckoo land my friend. as for the whole 'music lovers miss out' argument, please, just because I love something more than the next man, doesn't entitle me to it more than he/she. money talks

What really winds me up is when they make up lies about how it's a reluctant sale and how they really wanted to go in the first place!

On the two occasions I have been unable to attend a gig/concert I've bought tickets for, I've either sold my tickets at the original price I paid, or some cases given them away because I don't agree with ripping people off.

There should be a law which prevents tickets being sold through Ebay and other sites. If people genuinely can't attend a gig the ticket retailer should give a refund and the tickets go back into the system. The refunds should be given right up to the day before the gig. This would stop people profiteering from genuine fans.

Well isnt that how life works. You buy something and sell it on at a profit. Even a child knows this.

So this will be one of the reasons why I couldn't buy any tickets for the April gig in Birmingham!! http://coventry.gumtree.com/coventry/44/37071544.html I've just had a quick peak on eBay and someone has actually put in a bid for a pair of tickets starting at £250!! I can't believe people are actually willing to pay over the odds to these scumbags!

Getmein owned by touts, is this for real? I suppose if a company can have enough credit cards they can probably order lots of tickets. They're scum the lot of them and it's ruining music for real fans.

This article is BANG ON! Concerts now sell out in roughly 30mins... for the whole tour!! Thats because touts get there first, buy up all the tickets and then we have to pay double, treble or worse! Someone in these comments said Ticketmaster own Getmein so they will have 1000 tickets easily before the bloody things go on sale anyway! I understand touts outside a gig can help desperate fans get in or buy an unwanted ticket but thats not what this is about at all. Next time you want to see a band tour then expect to pay £200 each ticket at least cos this is just going to get worse.