2 x Glasto tickets on eBay

[ThomThomDrum]

Touts are total scum.

[russycarps]

That's your opinion and your welcome to it.

My opinion is that you're talking a load of horseshit, as usual.

[Kaybee]

but if you cant make it and can make a few quid out it, i don't see why anyone wouldn't do it.

[llcoolphil]

That's your opinion and your welcome to it.

My opinion is that you're talking a load of horseshit, as usual.

[sjhopewell]

So has no-one else entered the Spot The Bull competition knowing they already have tickets...I know I have.

And if I won?

I'd probably go down the eBay route...whilst I would love to sell them at face value, I would have got them by chance not by a purposeful attempt to buy them with the intention of touting and I'm afraid at the moment the pound notes count for more than the eternal damnation I would receive.

We don't know the whole story behind the tickets, so why assume?

[llcoolphil]

So has no-one else entered the Spot The Bull competition knowing they already have tickets...I know I have.

And if I won?

I'd probably go down the eBay route...whilst I would love to sell them at face value, I would have got them by chance not by a purposeful attempt to buy them with the intention of touting and I'm afraid at the moment the pound notes count for more than the eternal damnation I would receive.

We don't know the whole story behind the tickets, so why assume?

[musky]

So if selling a ticket you dont want for over face value isn't touting - as you suggest here - what is it? And what is touting if it's something different?

[sjhopewell]

Mealy mouthed nonsense. You've even said you dont need a ticket so you'll tout it if you win. You;ve made a very purposeful attempt to win a ticket you dont need so you can put it on e bay. Yeah well I hope you win the ticket, sell it on e bay and then lose your own. Then you can join all those other people not going to Glasto cos they didnt win the ticket cos you're selfish and just interested in your own coin.

[sjhopewell]

Noun 1. tout - someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit.

[Walter Sobchak]

According the Seetickets website, they still are.

[llcoolphil]

If they really wanted a ticket, they were available for over 3 months, so no excuse really!

[Walter Sobchak]

If they really wanted a ticket, they were available for over 3 months, so no excuse really!

[Rhyscot]

i've been doing the "spot the bull" competition quite alot over the past week and havnt had any luck : /, makes it harder for those who dont have a ticket to win if there is people entering who already have tickets.

[llcoolphil]

Noun 1. tout - someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit.

[sjhopewell]

The crucial point being 'resells at a profit'. Doesn't matter how you got them, reselling at a profit is touting and c*ntish behaviour

[Rhyscot]

Would you say selling at £400 (£200 a ticket) is touting ? Because its more than face price, but due to ebay and paypal commision, is 10% take off, which means they will be £360, so techinqually they arnt making a profit.

[TaylorT]

Can someone no just phone Eavis and say "There`s someone touting tickets to your fest on ebay trying to make a profit!!!" i mean i thought thats what he wanted to totaly stop and here we are with c**ts selling tickets on ebay trying to make extra money of it. This sorta shit could happen more often so it needs to be nipped in the bud pronto !!!!

[musky]

does this mean that the person in the OP isn't touting because he didn't buy the ticket?

[llcoolphil]

For someone who is so righteous and honourable, you sure like the c*nt word

[llcoolphil]

In my (humble) opinion that's exactly what it means.

I don't like touts any more than others, but selling on a ticket won in a competition is a world away from using multiple cards to acquire as many tickets as possible with the express intention of reaping silly profits.

Maybe the person selling is a cynical tout, or maybe the entered the competition in good faith and are just selling for a whole host of reasons.

Personally I think it's about the persons intent at the outset.

[LusciousLucy]

Surely the ebay seller has mates he could have given them to...that would be much nicer.

[sjhopewell]

Honourable certainly, but not righteous. What you have said is 'It is more important that I win this competition to win a Glastonbury ticket because i want to make some money off it than it is for someone who doesn't have a ticket who is desperate to go'. Tell me how that's a good, pleasant or helpful attitude? You know it's not, it's c*ntish behaviour.

[freehugs!]

the point here is competition's like spot the bull are open to everyone, whether you have a ticket or not. anyone can enter it and win, regardless. i see no harm in someone with a ticket entering a competition they are entitled to. if they win and they already have a ticket, more power to them! they won, and they can do as they please with their prize

Edited June 2, 2009 by freehugs!

[llcoolphil]

I don't enter the competition primarily to win a ticket, I do it because it is good fun. I just said what I would do if I won the ticket.

But in the unlikely event that I do win, I'm going to give Rhyscot one of the tickets if he hasn't managed to get one by then. As for the other one, I'll probably be a c*nt, sorry!

[musky]

So if a tout only bought two tickets to sell on that would be ok? Why does it matter where the ticket came from if you sell it reaping silly profits? What you are saying is that it is ok to sell a ticket for a silly profit as long as that wasn't your original intention. To the person who either misses out or has to pay a vastly inflated price, the original intention counts for f*ck all!

Edited June 2, 2009 by musky