Buying a ticket last minute on the cheap

[fools_gold]

Does anyone else do this? I always wait until the very last minute (Wednesday or Thursday of Reading) to try and swoop a cheap last minute ticket as I can't really afford to pay £200+ on a ticket anymore. Managed to pick up a weekend one for £90 in 2011 and £120 last year.

Reckon it's gonna be more difficult this year? Demand seems higher than the last few years.

[she bangs the drums]

I think you will have to be lucky to pick one up for less than face value at Reading this year, people haven't bought them to sell like they did in previous years and demand will out weigh the supply.

You may get lucky if someone has a last minute change of plans but even then I doubt you will get one for the prices you have quoted above.

I bought one for Leeds in 2011 for £130 off ebay but had to pay face value last year and this year as there just isn't the same amount of spare tickets for sale these days.

Good luck

[Dan R]

Im in the process of buying one for £130 so there are some bargain to be found. But There's a lot of people after second hand tickets so people don't seem to be getting as desperate. This time next week though Im sure they'll drop again.

[dip]

I'm struggling to get one for face value atm

[Yellow_Fellow]

Gumtree.

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

Scarlet Mist is still going. Cheapest Leeds weekend tickets at the moment is £180, should come down closer to the event. Quite a few at face value though.

[Bisque]

Are their touts outside Leeds what with it being out of the way?

[W!NNER]

Yeah they stand just near the car park usually

[Bisque]

Is it worth risking going all the way there to get my ticket? I've never used touts before but the OH wants to get a ticket as cheap as possible, I'd prefer to get our tickets before we get there.

[Mariner]

I think you'd be doing very well to get a ticket under face value. It sold out quite a while ago so demand is high. Last year I decided not to go but watched tickets on ebay right up until the Friday morning and the cheapest I saw a single ticket go for was £150. Everybody else had the same idea.

Edited August 16, 2013 by Mariner

[Bisque]

Just won two tickets! Chuffed as they are for Reading & not Leeds!

[fools_gold]

Two mates haev won free tickets. Grr.

On the hunt, but I'm not very optimistic.

[joelovesleeds!]

I picked up two weekend tickets with early bird for £300, happy with £140 saving!

[JBarbour]

I swore I wasn't going to succumb to leeds fest this year but i got a ticket from scarlet mist for £150 including early entry (can't go while friday though)

[thelionsmouth]

cheapest i've seen was £160 for leeds on scarlet mist