the dangers of buying secondary market festival tickets
always buy from only from official ticket outlets
Friday 14th March 2008
The BBC News website (here) has a story about six people who have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the Isle of Wight Festival by trying to sell fake tickets and wristbands. The story highlights the dangers of buying tickets or wristbands from unofficial websites, ticket touts or people outside festivals.
It's another reminder to festival fans of the importance of buying only from official ticket outlets and the risk from buying secondary sellers. Even many of the well known secondary ticket selling sites offer tickets that they don't actually have. Getting a refund (which usually is in the form of vouchers to re-purchase from their site) is no consolation for spending the money for a festival that you can't go to.
Worse still is the fact that sometimes unwary internet users are duped by swindlers on unknown ticket website while they desperately search for sold out festival tickets online.
Their search often takes them to spurious sites where they are asked to feed in their credit card details along with their personal information with the result often being that they are not just short of a ticket but also the subject of ID fraud through inputting their personal credit card information and contact details.
Festival goers are best advised to treat offers of tickets for sold out events with great suspicion, and only make online purchases from trusted sites, and not part with their money once a festival has sold out. If you can't get tickets to one festival then why not consider buying tickets to another festival instead?
eFestivals t-shirts, vests, hoodies, fleeces, mugs, tickets
As well as being the UK's most popular festivals website, eFestivals sells its own range of clothing and other goodies. There's a range of t-shirts and vest-tops, and hoodies and fleeces, all featuring the eFestivals 'dancing man'.
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