Fed up not getting tickets to see your favourite band play? Or your favourite comedian live, or maybe even the next big boxing match?
If there's a demand for an event ticket touts will always get away with finding a way to making an easy buck. Ticket touting has been going on forever but it's been made much easier these days by big companies like Ticketmaster allowing touts to sell via their site whilst taking a profit on a sell on fee for themselves, on a ticket they have already made money on. The higher the ticket goes for the higher the fee ticketmaster make.
For most big events these days there is normally a pre-sale,(o2 priority etc) in most cases these tickets don't reach normal hard working fans but are whipped up fast by touts to be sold on for, on average four to five times the original ticket price!
On a recent attempt to get tickets for a Ufc event in the UK I was disappointed not to get a ticket despite taking part in the presale and the general sale. It was eye opening to see tickets during the presale on the website Getmein, (run by ticketmaster) the minute the tickets went on sale. It seems impossible for tickets to purchased then added to a site one minute after they've been released in a process that would take about ten minutes...... Something fishy seems to be going on, it's it possible companies like Ticketmaster are allowed to purchase their own tickets to be sold on???
This type of money making will never end if we don't say we had enough and don't purchase tickets from these companies and especially the touts via sites like getmein! Glastonbury have managed to stop touting at gigs with ticket photo id, it's time ticketmaster follow suit and shut down their site getmein. Presale's need to be better regulated too'!! It's time real fans weren't ripped off and the ticket found there ways into the right hands.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for signing.
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September 17, 2016
Seeing this grow has been a heavy experience because it confirms I am not the only one exhausted by this cycle. It is draining to be ignored by these companies but your persistence keeps me moving forward.
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I can't believe this is even allowed! It should be illegal! Please end it now! It is not fair on the real, genuine fans! Sincerely, a very disappointed and angry music fan.
Its a total scam. Tried getting tickets for ed sheeran and they were gone in seconds only to pop up on resale sites for 400 quid. Absolute joke.
Fed up of being priced out by bots. How is letting them resell on their own site not a conflict of interest?? Fix this now.
SO tired of this. How is this even allowed anymore? It should be against the law.
Several times unable to get tickets even in presales... It's a joke. When you finally do get a set of tickets they are the most expensive tickets available..
True mma fans miss out too much.
I miss out on so many concerts because of this! I gave up. It's ridiculous.
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Fed up not getting tickets to see your favourite band play? Or your favourite comedian live, or maybe even the next big boxing match?
If there's a demand for an event ticket touts will always get away with finding a way to making an easy buck. Ticket touting has been going on forever but it's been made much easier these days by big companies like Ticketmaster allowing touts to sell via their site whilst taking a profit on a sell on fee for themselves, on a ticket they have already made money on. The higher the ticket goes for the higher the fee ticketmaster make.
For most big events these days there is normally a pre-sale,(o2 priority etc) in most cases these tickets don't reach normal hard working fans but are whipped up fast by touts to be sold on for, on average four to five times the original ticket price!
On a recent attempt to get tickets for a Ufc event in the UK I was disappointed not to get a ticket despite taking part in the presale and the general sale. It was eye opening to see tickets during the presale on the website Getmein, (run by ticketmaster) the minute the tickets went on sale. It seems impossible for tickets to purchased then added to a site one minute after they've been released in a process that would take about ten minutes...... Something fishy seems to be going on, it's it possible companies like Ticketmaster are allowed to purchase their own tickets to be sold on???
This type of money making will never end if we don't say we had enough and don't purchase tickets from these companies and especially the touts via sites like getmein! Glastonbury have managed to stop touting at gigs with ticket photo id, it's time ticketmaster follow suit and shut down their site getmein. Presale's need to be better regulated too'!! It's time real fans weren't ripped off and the ticket found there ways into the right hands.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and thank you in advance for signing.
Updates
September 17, 2016
Seeing this grow has been a heavy experience because it confirms I am not the only one exhausted by this cycle. It is draining to be ignored by these companies but your persistence keeps me moving forward.
22 Comments
I didn't miss out on tickets but I know a lot of people that missed out on tickets that can't afford too pay the ridiculous price on the ticketmaster site. My tickets cost £137.00 each but on ticket masters sister site they are more than double the price.
I can't believe this is even allowed! It should be illegal! Please end it now! It is not fair on the real, genuine fans! Sincerely, a very disappointed and angry music fan.
Its a total scam. Tried getting tickets for ed sheeran and they were gone in seconds only to pop up on resale sites for 400 quid. Absolute joke.
Fed up of being priced out by bots. How is letting them resell on their own site not a conflict of interest?? Fix this now.
SO tired of this. How is this even allowed anymore? It should be against the law.
Several times unable to get tickets even in presales... It's a joke. When you finally do get a set of tickets they are the most expensive tickets available..
True mma fans miss out too much.
I miss out on so many concerts because of this! I gave up. It's ridiculous.
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I didn't miss out on tickets but I know a lot of people that missed out on tickets that can't afford too pay the ridiculous price on the ticketmaster site. My tickets cost £137.00 each but on ticket masters sister site they are more than double the price.