Dispatches- The Great Ticket Scandal, C4 Thursday 9pm

[kaosmark2]

I don't necessarily see it as spunking stupid money away. For example I'd much rather go to Glastonbury than go on holiday somewhere. Don't get me wrong, there would be a cut off point at which I'd say no festival is worth that amount. I'll not burst into tears if I don't get a 2013 ticket though.

[Katster]

I only see it as screwing someone over if you mark up the price of the ticket. I'm not sure I would be so nice as to give away an £80 ticket to complete strangers for free, I'm not made of money. I would be happy to get my money back or sell it at a knock down price though. A £15-20 ticket, then yeah I might give it away for free, in exchange for a pint or two.

maybe I'm just a c**t

[eFestivals]

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/12/120223c.shtml

[t8yman]

as a slight aside, and i dont think its been mentioned so far - twitter is a great way of getting genuine spares from people for face. I tweeted about a spare I had for the mastodon gig a coupla weeks ago, and the hashtag #twickets retweeted it, I met a guy in a bar at 5:30 and sold him it for face. give it a try peeps.

[Dirty Boots]

It's high time for a campaign to make all touting illegal.

If it can be done with football - why can't we do it with gigs/festivals?

[jump]

It's high time for a campaign to make all touting illegal.

If it can be done with football - why can't we do it with gigs/festivals?

[eFestivals]

there's rumours that viagogo are trying again right now to get an injunction.

Running scared are the words that come to mind.

[Paul ™]

there's rumours that viagogo are trying again right now to get an injunction.

Running scared are the words that come to mind.

[Ed209]

Under what grounds can Viagogo get an injunction? I only thought that injunctions are allowed if the Judge doesn't feel as though its in the public interest. This is surely 100% very much in the public interest. Seems like a total waste of money on Viagogo's part, and the act of a very desperate company.

Feed them to the lions.

Edited February 23, 2012 by Ed209

[eFestivals]

Under what grounds can Viagogo get an injunction?

the injunction they tried for yesterday was for "breech of confidentiality".

I'm not sure if that's from the job contract that the employees that c4 placed in there would have signed, or customer data.

I've certainly seen something from Viagogo which has suggested that c4 will leak customer data, tho I suspect that anything like that that might be revealed is customers who happen to be promoters who have been saying one thing while doing another, rather than joe blogs who is selling a ticket or two.

[windy_miller]

The fact that viagogo have tried to stop this programme being aired just makes me want to watch it all the more.

[dondo]

Blimey- in all my years of posting mostly inane drivel on efests a post I've started has 4 pages and even made a news piece on the main site

[Paul ™]

Interesting so far...

[jamiejc]

Quote "Highly, Highly Immoral!" What scumbags...

[zero000]

Good so far. This must surely be in breach of some OFT guidelines.

I hope they come down on them like a tonne of bricks. Bastards!

[zero000]

Sellers with a ticket machine in their office! Wow.

EDIT: I'm not quite sure if I heard that right...

Edited February 23, 2012 by zero000

[5co77ie]

This year Madonna tickets are only sold on Viagogo making it a primary market and that's the way it'll go now, all this is much too late to stop anything. The defence tomorrow will be that at least 'every ticket was genuine' and people didn't turn up the venue to find they had fake tickets.

[Smally]

We think that it’s important to have employees participate on Seatwave in both buying and selling roles – frankly, if we don’t use our service, why should anyone else use it? Their experiences help us to understand the ticket market better and how it needs to change. This knowledge is extremely valuable in helping us make Seatwave even better for our customers.

From seatwave hahahaha.

Errr maybe people should use your service if they genuinely can't go to the gig? Even then its imoral to use seatwave. This program has wound me up.

[kaosmark2]

Was it worth watching as a show, or just worth 4 releasing the information?

I missed it, but I'll find a way to catch it if it's best to watch the program itself.

[Smally]

Personally I already knew everything in the program but its good to see its finally been put into public.

[kaosmark2]

Thought that might be the case. Anyone expect them to suffer a backlash as a result of their twattishness being publicised and proven? Ideally legally, but hopefully at least on a customer/associates scale.

Edited February 23, 2012 by kaosmark2

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Not trying to get anyone's back up but isn't this (didn't watch the programme) just a case of free market economics. The supermarkets made billions of pounds each last year by selling stuff to punters at a price which was greater than what they bought the product for from a supplier. Same as the vast majority of 'markets' within this country. Apart from people who subscribe to Socialist Worker who else lashes out and maintains an air of indignant rage at such practises across the board.

[kaosmark2]

Not trying to get anyone's back up but isn't this (didn't watch the programme) just a case of free market economics. The supermarkets made billions of pounds each last year by selling stuff to punters at a price which was greater than what they bought the product for from a supplier. Same as the vast majority of 'markets' within this country. Apart from people who subscribe to Socialist Worker who else lashes out and maintains an air of indignant rage at such practises across the board.

[windy_miller]

Very interesting, however it could have been about 20 minutes shorter as it just started to repeat itself towards the end.

I think more fuss should have been made about the promoters though. They are the ones making the most profit here, and without the knowledge of the artists by the sounds of it.

[t8yman]

why is someone who can afford it an idiot?