How cheap could I get a ticket?

[**shandy**]

As the festival hasn't sold out yet, I'm getting more tempted to attend this year, as the line up really isn't THAT bad, and I think I will feel rather disheartened come bank holiday weekend and I'm not smelling that mixture of fire, stale beer and the toilets!

But as I've spent my festival budget on TITP, another £200 quid on a ticket plus all the expenses that goes with my need for food and love for alcohol, I doubt this is really going to happen. But hearing how people have got tickets of touts for £100 quid before interests me. There has to be some touts there who thought they pulled a fast one by buying these tickets and now have 4 tickets they can't sell for over retail price as A) there not in demand and B ) if you can still get them from an official website, what's the point?

So my question, how low will the touts go?

Edited May 23, 2011 by **shandy**

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Weekend tickets are going on ebay for just over 100. Don't know about touts... Maybe much nearer the time you could get them near 100.

[timonweels]

careful who you buy from on ebay though...

if you wait til a week before, there could be some mad deals, a friend of mine got a ticket with early entry for 115 delivered a couple of days before last year.

[harderfaster]

Depends if (or when) the tickets sell out. My thoughts are that if they haven't sold out now then they won't, but then if there aren't many tout tickets left (many may have panic sold already?) then supply for tout tickets will go down, demand for tout tickets will go up, and you won't make a huge saving on regular prices anyway.

Or you could get one for £100. Who knows?

[likelyladtom]

Well I'm one of the unlucky ones who has been lumbered with a spare thanks to friends being useless.

You think you have a dilemma, try being in my situation.

[mrtourette]

Make him/her cover the cost of it, or pay the difference when you sell it for less than face value.

[**shandy**]

I've just looked at the new payment plan, half now, half later, it must be getting bad if there planning on doing this! Though it does make my situation interesting as I could possibly afford this

[Bisque]

I've always got my tickets off eBay about a month before the festival as I was usually skint when the tickets came out (& sold out). Never had a problem as I make sure I have a good rapport with the seller & if you pay for the ticket within 3 months by PayPal you will be covered & should get your money back if it doesn't arrive but you will have to wait a while for it to arrive. I just made sure I had some emergency money to buy a last minute ticket if the won I had won didn't turn up!

Wasn't going to bother this year but I won a ticket for £115 so am happy to attend (with the line up as it is) for that price. Good luck.

[Nialldotcom]

i payed full price & i couldn't care less about saving money, i think it will be completely worth it

[efcfanwirral]

I'm after Sunday reading tickets so might do he eBay thing nearer the time! Done it for big gigs that haven't sold put before and got some great deals - green day at LCCC in Manchester last year I got £45 tickets for £18 each on eBay 2 weeks before!

[Bestykid]

I got a Download ticket last year for £105 the week before it started. As long as it doesn't sell out then prices are guaranteed to keep going down, the trick is to know whether it is going to sell out and if so when.

This won't apply to Early Birds mind you.