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Post by freewilly on Mar 21, 2016 22:11:49 GMT
Gee 55 pounds ............. 104 aussie dollars for a ticket ............ lucky you lot don't live in Oz because its been that price here for the past several tours. The prices for this tour are 114 Australian dollars, when converted.... Just saying....
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Post by OzPaul on Mar 21, 2016 22:31:13 GMT
Gee 55 pounds ............. 104 aussie dollars for a ticket ............ lucky you lot don't live in Oz because its been that price here for the past several tours. The prices for this tour are 114 Australian dollars, when converted.... Just saying....
Which is about the prices for us, plus flights because its basically impossible to drive given the distances.
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Post by freewilly on Mar 21, 2016 22:42:51 GMT
The prices for this tour are 114 Australian dollars, when converted.... Just saying....
Which is about the prices for us, plus flights because its basically impossible to drive given the distances.
Ha what I'm saying is, why are you giving out about people complaining about the 60 quid for a ticket, when they would be 114 dollars, ten dollars more than the last time, if they were in Oz? Point is, it's a rip off either way
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Post by OzPaul on Mar 21, 2016 22:51:29 GMT
The point is, that we are accustomed to paying those prices and we don't think its a rip off.
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Post by madtom on Mar 21, 2016 23:33:10 GMT
[img src="http://www.screendaily.com/pictures/618x394fitpad[0]/9/8/8/1166988_Francis_Rossi_Rick_Parfitt_Max_Vaccro_Simon_Porter.jpg" alt="" style="max-width:100%;"] Cheers. Is it just me or is Porter's fat orange face crying out to be punched so hard that his unnaturally white teeth disappear down his throat?
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2016 11:56:52 GMT
Really, how does all this work? I used to be able to afford to see Quo at Hammy on more than one night a tour back in the 70's to early 80's (when I started full time work). But until then, just a basic regular Saturday job while at college during the week, plus some errand money from my parents sometimes was still enough to save up for tickets in advance. On top of that I could still manage to go to things like college student discos as another part of social life. So depressing that a rock band that was such a blast for so little money in return in real terms, is now an impressionist one now that greedily claws profits through back hand gimmicks. There are plenty of long standing fans who for whatever reason are not well off people. Is this the equivalent we see in our political world of pandering to the well off at the expense of those who simply cannot afford the extortion measures? That made me think. But the £48 tickets are a bit over x3 what I started paying at Hammy in 1982. If I had stayed in an office environment, by annual pay might have kept pace with that (not resulting in riches). It's unlikely it would have kept pace with £60 unless I became management. So not out of order, but yes beyond many fans for various reasons. Only sensible advice, "find new bands to follow". But it's not that simple, is it? I'm just grateful I am not an Adele fan
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2016 12:01:25 GMT
Excuse my ignorance (I don't go to many gigs these days and the ones I do go to are normally sold-out), but do they flog tickets off cheap as the date nears if large quantities are unsold? Never, in most cases they will pull the gig before they do that, or everyone will be waiting for "standbys". OTOH, outside of the big promoter circles, I got a £20 ticket to the Kew Gardens gig a few years back via an Evening Standard offer someone flagged up on the old message board. That halved the ticket price and made the train journey and the rain worthwhile. But it was a one-off outdoor, and you won't find that with most venues.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2016 12:02:33 GMT
Excuse my ignorance (I don't go to many gigs these days and the ones I do go to are normally sold-out), but do they flog tickets off cheap as the date nears if large quantities are unsold? This tour will be one of them ! Interesting proposition - no doubt it will be discussed again over the Christmas hols!
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Post by curiousgirl on Mar 22, 2016 12:22:17 GMT
Excuse my ignorance (I don't go to many gigs these days and the ones I do go to are normally sold-out), but do they flog tickets off cheap as the date nears if large quantities are unsold? Never, in most cases they will pull the gig before they do that, or everyone will be waiting for "standbys". OTOH, outside of the big promoter circles, I got a £20 ticket to the Kew Gardens gig a few years back via an Evening Standard offer someone flagged up on the old message board. That halved the ticket price and made the train journey and the rain worthwhile. But it was a one-off outdoor, and you won't find that with most venues. Ah, so that's why only some gigs sell of reduced tickets but not all gigs. Thanks for that. I've often wondered. Theatre OTOH regularly do cheap tickets when shows have slowed in popularity.
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Post by tramper on Mar 22, 2016 12:57:29 GMT
They can stick that right up their arse. and i'm only going for the songs before 1982 doh and there ain't many of them in the set any more !
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Post by kevtic on Mar 22, 2016 14:38:42 GMT
and i'm only going for the songs before 1982 doh and there ain't many of them in the set any more ! Usually works out about half and half. Although the medley can skew the numbers .
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Post by granny on Mar 22, 2016 14:58:45 GMT
I don't often complain about Quo and their practices but I feel royally ripped off this morning. Ticket prices. £55 for a front row seat or £48 for a seat elsewhere. not including the £6.50 booking fee and £1.75 postage. Even the postage is a rip off. It costs 63p to send it first class. I could have said no but I've been going to see the band for over 30 years and I don't want to be stuck miles back in a shitty arena. You don't even have the option of choosing your seat although that's not unique to Quo and the hydro. The selling of front row seats for extra is a really sharp practice. You're effectively ripping off your most loyal fans as as it is the fan club members who have first shot at these seats. Although I'll admit for public record I'm no longer a fan club member but did mange to get the ticket link. If anything you should offer the front seats at a discount to your most loyal fans seeing as it is the last tour. Have some kind of ballot among fan club members and offer the winners the front row tickets. I haven't bought a ticket yet and I don't know whether I will bother. Last year at the Birmingham Barclaycard arena I had a seat on the lower side tier, row E, which cost a total of £46.20. This year that same seat costs £62.20, an increase of 34.6%. I missed the start of the Fan Club pre-sale due to a medical appointment and by the time I logged on I was being offered a spot 25 seats further from the stage at the same inflated price. The arena wasn't completely full last year and I doubt it will be this year.
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Post by tramper on Mar 22, 2016 17:09:56 GMT
and there ain't many of them in the set any more ! Usually works out about half and half. Although the medley can skew the numbers . Yeah you're right. Last year's set was the worst I've ever known imo, and i said i wouldn't go again !! But it is the last tour, so I've booked a couple of gigs !!!
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2016 17:11:05 GMT
Whereas by 10am I was shutting down and putting my seating guide away and fuming that I was waiting for the Open Sale on Wednesday.
Then I logged on again at lunchtime (thanks for accidentally causing me to do so, Derry - I should have remembered, but I got busy) and found they had opened up 3 new tiers nearer the stage than the far rear which was all they opened in the morning. So I got something I reckon we will be happy with. (Nearer the bogs, further from the bar too - at least I will be happy with it :-))
If you are still thinking of better seats, try and hit the site at 9am tomorrow, because they are bound to open new A blocks and you could get lucky.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 22, 2016 17:15:15 GMT
Never, in most cases they will pull the gig before they do that, or everyone will be waiting for "standbys". OTOH, outside of the big promoter circles, I got a £20 ticket to the Kew Gardens gig a few years back via an Evening Standard offer someone flagged up on the old message board. That halved the ticket price and made the train journey and the rain worthwhile. But it was a one-off outdoor, and you won't find that with most venues. Ah, so that's why only some gigs sell of reduced tickets but not all gigs. Thanks for that. I've often wondered. Theatre OTOH regularly do cheap tickets when shows have slowed in popularity. Yes they do - that puzzled me too, I think it's because it's less of a mass market and (paradoxically) the competition is massive, there are always people wandering about thinking what might they go to tonight? You don't really get that at arenas. Also theatres often keep some cheap seats for sale on the night, though I doubt they will do that if it's "slow". London theatre seats are overpriced in my view, but I guess that is because it is London and everything except food costs a packet.
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