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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 23, 2016 14:59:41 GMT
This is what's going on on Ticketmaster. I haven't seen this before. Look at the words About Ticketmaster Platinum What are Platinum Tickets? Platinum Tickets are some of the best available tickets to concerts and other events made available by artists and event organisers though Ticketmaster. They give fans fair and safe access to some of the best seats in the house at market driven prices. [That is code for "someone has inflated the price of tickets that are in blocks normally offered at the advertised prices.]
Are Platinum Tickets resale tickets? No these are not resale tickets. Platinum Tickets are being sold for the very first time through Ticketmaster. The prices are adjusted according to supply and demand, similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold. The goal is to give the most passionate fans fair and safe access to the best tickets, while allowing the artists and everyone involved in staging live events to price tickets closer to their true value. ARE the band and their management responsible for putting tickets in areas that were on sale yesterday and this morning at normal prices on sale at £150 a ticket? Or is this someone else? We won't be told. Follow the link and fight your way in. www.ticketmaster.co.uk/artist/747939/?dcc&dma_id=601&wt.mc_id=EML_NTF251256_4[PA_ArtName_747939I know reselling is legal, I don't object to it, but putting out tickets that have not even been offered to the public at the budgeted price ... this REALLY stinks. All those weasel words about "fair and safe", it sounds like Tony Blair talking about "schools and hospitals." These tickets were supposed to be on sale on the open market tomorrow via Ticketmaster among others, and this is what is happening ...
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Post by granny on Mar 23, 2016 15:20:51 GMT
I find it strange that people are moaning about this. The answer is staring you in the face: DON'T FECKIN GO!!!!! That's how I'm dealing with it. I felt like that yesterday, but as I have been unable to get to any of the outdoor gigs this year, I gave in last night and bought an inflated price ticket through the fan club. Not particularly happy.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 23, 2016 15:32:25 GMT
"Not going" is never going to work, because overall the industry, not enough people will Not Go.
The only option is to whinge!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 15:36:28 GMT
Thankfully its an easy choice to make in the first place, so never any danger of me feeling ripped off in any way
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Post by markquo on Mar 23, 2016 16:26:30 GMT
Yes its a lot of money but at least I can now watch the gig without having to stare through someone's fkin mobile phone. Of course they are ripping us off but it's my choice to pay that much. Just waiting to see what acdc do about a new singer coz that really will be taking the piss Cheers
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 23, 2016 17:39:13 GMT
Yes its a lot of money but at least I can now watch the gig without having to stare through someone's fkin mobile phone. Of course they are ripping us off but it's my choice to pay that much. Just waiting to see what acdc do about a new singer coz that really will be taking the piss Cheers You're paying £150 for Row L Block 101??
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 17:40:35 GMT
I find it strange that people are moaning about this. The answer is staring you in the face: DON'T FECKIN GO!!!!! That's how I'm dealing with it. Radical but ultimately sound.
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 17:41:27 GMT
Yes its a lot of money but at least I can now watch the gig without having to stare through someone's fkin mobile phone. Of course they are ripping us off but it's my choice to pay that much. Just waiting to see what acdc do about a new singer coz that really will be taking the piss Cheers You're paying £150 for Row L Block 101?? Stand down the front at BIC for 50 notes.
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 17:45:24 GMT
Too late,all gone. Plenty of £600 tickets for seats within VIP Parfitt thrown plectrum range though.
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 17:46:55 GMT
Yes its a lot of money but at least I can now watch the gig without having to stare through someone's fkin mobile phone. Of course they are ripping us off but it's my choice to pay that much. Just waiting to see what acdc do about a new singer coz that really will be taking the piss Cheers Word around the campfire is that it's gonna be that fanny Axl Rose. Fanny Axl Rose? Sure she did the cucumber and golf ball trick at my mate Dan's stag do.
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 17:50:35 GMT
I find it strange that people are moaning about this. The answer is staring you in the face: DON'T FECKIN GO!!!!! That's how I'm dealing with it. and miss out on a 'Commemorative Ticket Wallet' takes a strong will to pass on that Davy.
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Post by Railroad17 on Mar 23, 2016 18:00:20 GMT
I know time doesn't stand still and things must change....but..... this was fcuking Quo.2 hours plus in arenas the fans liked.Music the fans liked. £199 to see Status Quo.They should have come back as The Rossi/Parfitt group in 86 because Status Quo they fcuking well ain't!
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Post by curiousgirl on Mar 23, 2016 21:21:57 GMT
Blimey! All the front rows 1.99 seats have sold out. I must have got me decimal point in the right place after all.
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