Pre-VAT Tickets

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Anybody here tempted by them or is the uncertainty of the line-up next year a turn-off?

[kev1664]

Anybody here tempted by them or is the uncertainty of the line-up next year a turn-off?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Me and the missus will be waiting until March as well now. We talked about it last night but because of the rumours and uncertainty we figured we'd rather go with a festival where we could guarantee the bands were to our taste.

We're probably going for Latitude tickets in the pre-sale though, just because we're curious about that place adn we'd like to save a bit of money before the prices go up. If the headliners are really shit next year we won't be going and we might check out another festival instead of Leeds - maybe ATP. I've considered Download too because it is pretty much 15 minutes walking distance up the road but I doubt she'd enjoy it.

To be fair, last year I remember it being roughly the same sort of thing on here. Nobody on here really had a clue - in fact, the same bands being chucked around now are the same bands being chucked around last year in March whenever I joined up. The only band I think anybody on here nailed was Blink 182.

[Yellow_Fellow]

I'm buying presale, if I don't like the lineup (unlikely) I'll just sell them on...

[Dan R]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get one festival ticket but it mainly depends on the Download announcement on the 29th

If Download looks good ill get my ticket for that then wait til march to save up cash for leeds

[lharris92]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get one festival ticket but it mainly depends on the Download announcement on the 29th

If Download looks good ill get my ticket for that then wait til march to save up cash for leeds

Edited November 23, 2010 by lharris92

[Benj]

Anybody here tempted by them or is the uncertainty of the line-up next year a turn-off?

[RichieParf]

VAT will only add 2.5%, less than a fiver to the price, anyone with any reservations should not buy early, simply to save 5 pounds.

Is this how theyre selling it, that they're doing us all a favour?! What utter balls, its imply an excuse for them to get cash in the bank far earlier than usual.

[luckysalt]

VAT will only add 2.5%, less than a fiver to the price, anyone with any reservations should not buy early, simply to save 5 pounds.

Is this how theyre selling it, that they're doing us all a favour?! What utter balls, its imply an excuse for them to get cash in the bank far earlier than usual.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I brought earlybird for 2009 and it was like £135, then last year I had to pay like £175!

[jump]

And its last years prices so it'll be more like a saving of £15. Cus they'll probably be a price hike

Download have said we should be pleasently surprised with the prices when they're announced on Monday, can't see them being cheaper than last year, the hike last year was crazy. I brought earlybird for 2009 and it was like £135, then last year I had to pay like £175!

[purplehaze81]

You cna bet your life that they'll use the VAT rise as an excuse to raise the price more than JUST the VAT amount though.

[jump]

Of course they will. Everywhere will do it. Just like when they reduced VAT to 15% no prices changed, but when it went back up to 17.5% everything went up. It's a con. My local put prices up by 10p a pint (and I bet they'll do it again) even though it should only be about 5p.

Edited November 24, 2010 by jump

[Dave The Hedgehog]

With a lot of pubs the breweries are the once dictating the prices and you have to consider even the though the vat has gone up on the beer the costs of transporting it, labourers who brew it etc. have gone up to.

[loscfestivals]

Reading/Leeds and T are doing this because the take up of the presale tickets immediately after the festival are not what they once were.

With the capacity increases at both Reading and Leeds next year and tickets hardly being gold dust the last couple of years I don't think I'll be rushing to buy mine.

[rexclark]

I'm pretty sure I'll be going to Leeds next year but I won't be buying a ticket until March. I would be tempted to get a ticket just now but I've already got Rockness and Glastonbury deposits booked so can't really afford any more festival tickets before Christmas.

[saskofreak]

I'm buying presale, if I don't like the lineup (unlikely) I'll just sell them on...

[Yellow_Fellow]

Yeah but as of recent my inside person has become less and less reliable, so we're just bypassing her this year and buying. Though her failure this year was because of GNR, aha. If she can get us in I'll sell them on anyway, no biggy.

[Sparticus]

I don't understand why people buy tickets now or in march anyway? Last two years running it's been the same, far too many people think they can tout, flood the market, two days before the festival in excess of 500 tickets on ebay, pick them up cheap. Only tickets that were expensive this year were blink day tickets due to the reunion factor.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Yeah but as of recent my inside person has become less and less reliable

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Yeah but as of recent my inside person has become less and less reliable

[Yellow_Fellow]

Haha! But at least mine's an actual person, who I can actually name ;D

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Haha! But at least mine's an actual person, who I can actually name ;D

[Yellow_Fellow]

True, true. Do my 07, 08 & 09 guest passes count for anything?

[OKB]

True, true. Do my 07, 08 & 09 guest passes count for anything?