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Funnily enough i got talking to a guy in the SE corner who was one of the first 50 to get through on this method before it got exposed. So i have some info on this! The guy was charging £500 per spin in with guaranteed entry or your money back. He sold 300 places! He provided you with a fake ticket that looked passable (but nowhere near perfect) and he had two paid off ticket checkers / security. You had to go to Gate A, and only to ticket checker 1 with the yellow bucket hat. They would take your ticket but would not give you a wristband (for obvious reasons) You'd then proceed to the final check and you'd have to go to security guy with the red hat. He'd obviously be paid off and would let you through without a wristband. Where it all fell apart (Turns out the guy i was talking to was best mates with the guys dad who was running the whole operation) is that two guys got through the first check but decided they wanted wristbands for peace of mind. So they walked off towards the second bent security / ticket checker, but turned round and went back to a different original checker (a straight one) and said something along the lines of "oh, we didn't get our wristbands, but gave our tickets in to that person over there, he can confirm". I suspect they were imagining the dodgy checker would vouch for them and they'd then get a legit band from a legit ticket checker. What happened though, is that the legit checker went to go and get their tickets to just double check. Pulled them out of the dodgy checkers ticket pile and immediately noticed something was wrong. It all kicked off and they were immediately swarmed with security. It was very quickly worked out and both dodgy / corrupt staff were arrested. Pictures of the dodgy tickets were circulated to all workers and everyone then became extra vigilant. Guy i was speaking to said the "fixer" was £120k in a hole for refunds when the scam got exposed. He'd made £25k on the 50 people who got in but the whole thing cost him £30k to set up in paying people off etc. So he still made £20k!
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By Tartan_Glasto · Posted
I hadn't actually realised the ticket had gone up quiet as much as £100 since I last went in 2019. Quite a jump in a short space of time but still incredible value for what you get. I've said in the past that £400 would be my top end due to all the other costs involved in going but that may come quicker than I expected! I didn't try for 2024 because we were going to be on honeymoon so never noticed the price of them. -
The positive, I suppose, is that they did such a terrible job of trying to get in that it took them 2 days and apparently they paid to get in at the end of day 4 out of 5. If anything this probably acts as a deterrent, showing what a ballache it is to get in these days.
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