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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 13:57:18 GMT
Was just about to post that too! Really enjoyed that article and found it very interesting as I didn't think that sort of thing happened often. I've never been a victim of ticket touting before (touch wood!) but I find it nice that the box office clerk upgraded them to premium seats considering they had paid £105 for upper circle seats |
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Post by Backdrifter on Dec 19, 2018 13:56:09 GMT
^ Hahaha!
That said, I've been in entry queues many times when touts have patrolled it, offering to buy unused tickets.
I've been to a lot of "sold out" concerts and never via buying from touts or resale sites. I've simply played the long game, kept checking the venue and agency sites, and on one or two occasions just showed up on the day to buy day tickets. On one of those occasions, I got into a set-to with a bloke who might as well have worn a sandwich board saying I AM A TOUT, who'd pushed into the queue. Greasy hair, bad skin, grubby windcheater, truculent disposition. He clearly made the mistake of thinking Radiohead fans were all thin, pale, sorrowful weeds. I've seen them, at the merest hint of queue-jumping, turn into the screaming monster from that Aphex Twin video. Heaven help anyone who might bump them one barrier spot further away from Saint Thom.
Anyway, we dispatched him and left the Shepherds Bush pigeons to pick over the scraps.
On that tour, when they were playing small venues for the first time in a long while, they cancelled any tickets for sale on ebay and resold them just before the gigs and on the day which is how I got to see them.
For sold-out plays I've either dayseated or again, checked the venue website for returns in the week or so prior.
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