StuRomseySaint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 What are your views on them? Intelligent business people imo..... I started doing it this year and have made a packet! Doubling my money on most occasions for simply a few minutes work! With some big gigs this year, seems it is a profitable business!
Hatch Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 We use them here at work, quite often , to get really good tickets for gigs and sports events. Although they call themselves 'agents' rather than 'touts'. Don't have a problem with them myself. I like capitalism.
stevegrant Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 I generally take the really hypocritical approach to ticket touts, i.e. I've got no real problem with them as if people weren't willing to pay through the nose for an event the tout makes no money, but if they get tickets to an event I want to go to and as a result get priced out of it, I'll be pretty ****ed off
bridge too far Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Parasites IMO - not wishing to mince my words
StuRomseySaint Posted 11 March, 2009 Author Posted 11 March, 2009 Parasites IMO - not wishing to mince my words Let me know when you next need some tickets to an event. xx
JohnnyFartPants Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Parasites IMO - not wishing to mince my words They are doing a very good job to be honest. By buying up the tickets early they give the market stability and the confidence for the group (or act) to book further venues. For this thankless risk taking that they are willing to take for your benefit, they are entitled to make some money on it. Thank you Stu and to others you may know.
Sheaf Saint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 ****s of the highest order IMO. Preying on the obsessions of fans to make some quick money for nothing. W***ers the lot of them. Artists and venues should do much more to clamp down on it and websites like seatwave etc... should be outlawed. It should be made illegal for anybody to sell event tickets at higher than face value.
StuRomseySaint Posted 11 March, 2009 Author Posted 11 March, 2009 Let me know if you want to buy or sell any gig / event tickets Bexy
Sheaf Saint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Let me know if you want to buy or sell any gig / event tickets Bexy I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes and have a bath in my own urine than do business with you Stu. Thanks anyway.
tombletomble Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 ****s of the highest order IMO. Preying on the obsessions of fans to make some quick money for nothing. W***ers the lot of them. Artists and venues should do much more to clamp down on it and websites like seatwave etc... should be outlawed. It should be made illegal for anybody to sell event tickets at higher than face value. Very well said. I cant stand touts. I would rather not go to an event that pay over the odds to some **** that has brought up loads of tickets before I had the chance to get one.
prideofthesouth Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 It's not hard to get tickets, never used a tout and never will as I can get tickets for anything at face value.
Ponty Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 (edited) It's not hard to get tickets, never used a tout and never will as I can get tickets for anything at face value. Cool, can you get me 2 tickets for Metallica at the O2 on the 28th, please? Edit: Scratch that, just got some Edited 11 March, 2009 by Ponty Unbelievable coincidences do exist!
Weston Super Saint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 ****s of the highest order IMO. Preying on the obsessions of fans to make some quick money for nothing. W***ers the lot of them. Artists and venues should do much more to clamp down on it and websites like seatwave etc... should be outlawed. It should be made illegal for anybody to sell event tickets at higher than face value. To be fair, if the fans were that obsessed, they'd get tickets at the same time and at the same price as the touts wouldn't they?
Sheaf Saint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 To be fair, if the fans were that obsessed, they'd get tickets at the same time and at the same price as the touts wouldn't they? Well most would certainly try I imagine. But Touting is big business to some people and they make a point of knowing exactly when tickets to certain events go on sale, so they will do their best to get in before the fans. That's the whole point. Doesn't make it right.
Bourno Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Cool, can you get me 2 tickets for Metallica at the O2 on the 28th, please? Edit: Scratch that, just got some I need 2 for that night.
prideofthesouth Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Cool, can you get me 2 tickets for Metallica at the O2 on the 28th, please? Edit: Scratch that, just got some I do have 2 tickets for that but you cannot have them:D
OldNick Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 What are your views on them? Intelligent business people imo..... I started doing it this year and have made a packet! Doubling my money on most occasions for simply a few minutes work! With some big gigs this year, seems it is a profitable business!nicking mobile phones off schoolkids is just as profitable both just as legal as well.Or do you do that as a sideline
hamster Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 So, who are touts stealing from? The performers, the venues or is it the customers?
Rory Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Christ knows why you'd want to see Metallica in the first place. Sick, sick, sick.
Ponty Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Christ knows why you'd want to see Metallica in the first place. Sick, sick, sick. I saw them in Sheffield, expecting "so so" but they were pretty bloody special. Some bands can do it live and you have to respect that, even if you don't like their particular brand of music. I do, which helps.
Spudders Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes and have a bath in my own urine than do business with you Stu. Thanks anyway. Stu, if you get any tickets for this event count me in
warsash saint Posted 11 March, 2009 Posted 11 March, 2009 Absolute vermin the lot of them.:snipe: Why cant this Governement do something useful for a change & only allow tickets to be sold on at face value ?? Simple ? Fans that have missed out are not ripped off & would kill the 2nd hand market stone dead.
Al de Man Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 To be fair, if the fans were that obsessed, they'd get tickets at the same time and at the same price as the touts wouldn't they? When 10,000 tickets go on sale at once, it's hard to ensure that every single one of them will be bought by genuine fans.
Al de Man Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 Absolute vermin the lot of them.:snipe: Why cant this Governement do something useful for a change & only allow tickets to be sold on at face value ?? Simple ? I fully agree with the sentiment but just how "simple" would it be to police? I'm sure there are plenty of other causes that are far more worthy of the Government's time. Laws don't get changed in this country with a snap of the PM's fingers.
Weston Super Saint Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 When 10,000 tickets go on sale at once, it's hard to ensure that every single one of them will be bought by genuine fans. There's a difference between genuine fans and obsessed fans though surely? Wouldn't obsessed fans be members of fans clubs? Surely tickets could go on sale to fans club members?
JohnnyFartPants Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 Nothing wrong them, If people are prepared to pay stupid money to go and worship some celeb than that's their problem. Some might think the same about spending huge money getting a bloke with "celeb" status to come in to a venue and "lay some toons down."
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I'm thinking these tickets will make good birthday pressies for people who I don't know who to buy for.
Hatch Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I've got half a dozen tickets for Arsenal Blackburn tomorrow. I can't even give them away. No-one wants to go.
View From The Top Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 What are your views on them? Intelligent business people imo..... I started doing it this year and have made a packet! Doubling my money on most occasions for simply a few minutes work! With some big gigs this year, seems it is a profitable business! I suppose unemployed tele sales people have to make a few quid as well.
Pancake Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I've got half a dozen tickets for Arsenal Blackburn tomorrow. I can't even give them away. No-one wants to go. Have you got any for Saturday?
St Landrew Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 A middle-man with no need for there to be one. If there were no ticket touts, there would be just tickets available at face value until they ran out. Nobody would be paying over the odds, and nobody would get ripped off. I see absolutely no point in a ticket tout, other than to make money for him or herself. I'd make it an offence with a custodial sentence. Sorry Stu.
Draino76 Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I got 2 tickets for the IOW festival goin here. 1 billion pounds each. PM me if you are interested.
JohnnyFartPants Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I got 2 tickets for the IOW festival goin here. 1 billion pounds each. PM me if you are interested. Can I have one on Saturday and one on Sunday? I will pay up in advance without any proof if that helps?
Draino76 Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 Yep fine with that. They are actually last years tickets but you should be alright.
hamster Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 ... I'd make it an offence with a custodial sentence. Sorry Stu. SRS banged up! I'd pay to see that.
Ponty Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 SRS banged up! I'd pay to see that. I've got some tickets you can have at double face value.
hamster Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I've got some tickets you can have at double face value. Maybe, what value would you put on Stu's face though?
Denzil Posted 12 March, 2009 Posted 12 March, 2009 I respect and admire ticket touts, apart from StuRomseySaint.
spyinthesky Posted 13 March, 2009 Posted 13 March, 2009 Denzil Surely SRS must live near you. Good neighbours and all that.
Mole Posted 13 March, 2009 Posted 13 March, 2009 If some mugs are prepared to pay £2000 to see the pedo then fair play to those who take their money.
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