Channel 4/Dispatches - concert ticket pricing scandal

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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Channel 4's excellent Dispatches programme promised to lift the lid on the shady world of ticket reselling.

http://claptonia.blogspot.com/2012/02/e ... eated.html

i missed the tv program they're referring to, but this covers all the main points :o

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I would love to meet the person who would/could stump up this....
(£539 was quoted for a Coldplay ticket, for instance)
they would have to be very weary of life!!
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I would like to say I'm shocked, but not a lot surprises me these days.
I didn't see the program & will see if it's around to watch online somewhere.

I'd prolly shell out for the Coldplay ticket if only to protect some poor sod from having to endure that shower of s**t.
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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od
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Why, thankyou mr.
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no probs----just don't be going and buying Coldplay tickets as an act of mercy!!
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Why, thankyou mr.
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no probs----just don't be going and buying Coldplay tickets as an act of mercy!!
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going off topic once again....

http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/06/news-m ... -silences/
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sam1 wrote:going off topic once again....

http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/06/news-m ... -silences/
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"news manc" is ace ;D
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Quiff Boy wrote:Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Channel 4's excellent Dispatches programme promised to lift the lid on the shady world of ticket reselling.

http://claptonia.blogspot.com/2012/02/e ... eated.html

i missed the tv program they're referring to, but this covers all the main points :o

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Good, there's eventually at least report on TV about this ... :evil: ...
It was not easy to find a ticket for The Sisters' gig in London at a half-way normal price ...

However, most British TV programmes are not available in "my" idiot country ... :urff: :cry: ...

sam1 wrote:going off topic once again....

http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/06/news-m ... -silences/
:lol: :lol: ... incredible, a thing like that were impossible over here ... :lol: :notworthy: ...
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sam1 wrote:going off topic once again....

http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/06/news-m ... -silences/
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Being645 wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote: It was not easy to find a ticket for The Sisters' gig in London at a half-way normal price ...
...and some of us had issues selling at face value even.. :roll:


Nah, my advice if looking for london concert tickets would be to check Gumtree to see if anyone wants to offload any urgently because of life events etc..

I ended up getting a pair of Simple Minds tickets for last Friday's gig for less than face value (and no sarky comments please..)
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Doktor Gott wrote:
Being645 wrote: It was not easy to find a ticket for The Sisters' gig in London at a half-way normal price ...
...and some of us had issues selling at face value even.. :roll:
... like those sellers in front of the venue ... they didn't have much chance, just like the day before with The Damned ...
Doktor Gott wrote: Nah, my advice if looking for london concert tickets would be to check Gumtree to see if anyone wants to offload any urgently because of life events etc..
Gumtree, aha. Never heard of that, so thanks for the hint... :)

Fortunately I had got a ticket on Ebay for not soo high a price ...
still more expensive than normal, though nothing compares to missing one's plane at Gatwick ... *sigh
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